Helena Villela

Bacterial inoculation elicits changes to the coral epigenome

This study shows that bacterial inoculation induces DNA methylation changes in corals, which correlate with gene expression and affect stress resilience.

Warming exacerbates fungal pathogenicity to drive physiological collapse and microbiome reorganization in octocorals

This study shows that ocean warming increases fungal pathogenicity in octocorals, leading to physiological collapse and microbiome reorganization.

Modular metagenomic analysis of pan-domain symbioses with MAGUS

The paper introduces MAGUS, a toolkit for analyzing metagenomic data from eukaryote-dominated symbiotic communities, and demonstrates its ability to resolve multiple genomes and gene catalogs from coral and hydrozoan samples.