Extending the natural adaptive capacity of coral holobionts

CR Voolstra, DJ Suggett, RS Peixoto… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Anthropogenic climate change and environmental degradation destroy coral reefs, the
ecosystem services they provide, and the livelihoods of close to a billion people who …

Rapid adaptive responses to climate change in corals

G Torda, JM Donelson, M Aranda, DJ Barshis… - Nature Climate …, 2017 - nature.com
Pivotal to projecting the fate of coral reefs is the capacity of reef-building corals to
acclimatize and adapt to climate change. Transgenerational plasticity may enable some …

Building coral reef resilience through assisted evolution

MJH Van Oppen, JK Oliver… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
The genetic enhancement of wild animals and plants for characteristics that benefit human
populations has been practiced for thousands of years, resulting in impressive …

Considerations for maximizing the adaptive potential of restored coral populations in the western Atlantic

IB Baums, AC Baker, SW Davies… - Ecological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Active coral restoration typically involves two interventions: crossing gametes to facilitate
sexual larval propagation; and fragmenting, growing, and outplanting adult colonies to …

Coral—the world's most diverse symbiotic ecosystem

LL Blackall, B Wilson, MJH Van Oppen - Molecular ecology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Zooxanthellate corals (ie those harbouring Symbiodinium) are the main builders of the
world's shallow‐water marine coral reefs. They represent intimate diverse symbioses …

Avoiding coral reef functional collapse requires local and global action

EV Kennedy, CT Perry, PR Halloran, R Iglesias-Prieto… - Current Biology, 2013 - cell.com
Coral reefs face multiple anthropogenic threats, from pollution and overfishing to the dual
effects of greenhouse gas emissions: rising sea temperature and ocean acidification [1] …

Adaptation to global change: a transposable element–epigenetics perspective

O Rey, E Danchin, M Mirouze, C Loot… - Trends in ecology & …, 2016 - cell.com
Understanding how organisms cope with global change is a major scientific challenge. The
molecular pathways underlying rapid adaptive phenotypic responses to global change …

Rapid thermal adaptation in photosymbionts of reef‐building corals

LJ Chakravarti, VH Beltran… - Global change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Climate warming is occurring at a rate not experienced by life on Earth for 10 s of millions of
years, and it is unknown whether the coral‐dinoflagellate (Symbiodinium spp.) symbiosis …

Corals in the hottest reefs in the world exhibit symbiont fidelity not flexibility

EJ Howells, AG Bauman, GO Vaughan… - Molecular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Reef‐building corals are at risk of extinction from ocean warming. While some corals can
enhance their thermal limits by associating with dinoflagellate photosymbionts of superior …

Somatic genetic drift and multilevel selection in a clonal seagrass

L Yu, C Boström, S Franzenburg, T Bayer… - Nature Ecology & …, 2020 - nature.com
All multicellular organisms are genetic mosaics owing to somatic mutations. The
accumulation of somatic genetic variation in clonal species undergoing asexual (or clonal) …