Christian Robert Voolstra

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

This paper describes the isolation and characterization of Ruegeria persistens sp. nov., a coral-associated bacterium that persists in a coral holobiont over eight months.

The paper presents a high-quality genome assembly of the sea anemone Aiptasia strain F003, enhancing its use as a model for studying symbiosis, microbiomes, and thermal stress in cnidarians.

The paper quantifies species-specific coral bleaching and mortality trajectories during the 4th global coral bleaching event in northeastern Peninsular Malaysia, revealing varied responses and challenging previous assumptions about heat tolerance.

The paper characterizes the eukaryotic diversity in coral reef environments, revealing high diversity and identifying environmental drivers shaping these communities.

The paper investigates the diversity and distribution of Apicomplexa across marine environments using metabarcoding data, revealing previously unknown diversity and biogeographic patterns.

The paper analyzes corallicolid parasites in Pocillopora corals across the Pacific Ocean, finding their widespread presence and linking their abundance to environmental factors and host immune responses.

The paper assesses whether acute heat stress assays predict coral bleaching and mortality under severe heat stress, finding limited predictive power and context-dependent outcomes.

This paper presents the genome assembly of the coral Porites harrisoni from the southern Persian/Arabian Gulf, providing insights into its genomic architecture and thermal resilience.

This study assesses the microbial biosynthetic potential of reef-building corals using genome-resolved metagenomics, revealing host-specific microbiomes with high biotechnological value.

The paper identifies a coral probiotic strain with enhanced thermal tolerance and characterizes its genomic and functional traits associated with long-term host association.

This study shows that coral immune priming through pathogen exposure improves resilience to heat stress and infection, mediated by microbiome changes and gene expression modulation.

This study investigates how heat stress activates viral and antiviral immune responses in Hexacorallia species, revealing a complex interaction between environmental stress, viruses, and immune pathways.

This paper identifies a probiotic bacterium with persistent colonization in corals using evolutionary genomic markers, showing improved thermal tolerance and survival during bleaching.

The paper compares Symbiodiniaceae communities across coral microhabitats and environmental niches using ITS2 sequencing, revealing distinct community structures and shared variants between habitats.

The paper investigates heat-induced alternative splicing changes in the coral Acropora cervicornis under different thermal stress conditions and finds that 40% of genes undergo alternative splicing, with intron retention dominating responses.

This study shows that the reverse dissimilatory sulfite reductase (rDsr) pathway can independently oxidize thiosulfate under low oxygen conditions, supporting its ecological role in marine sediments.

The paper shows that glucose from symbiotic algae supports nitrogen assimilation in Aiptasia, enabling survival in nutrient-poor environments.

The paper analyzes genetic divergence in three coral species across a Pacific environmental gradient, showing species-specific evolutionary patterns despite similar environments.

The paper reports higher gene counts in two coral genomes due to tandem duplications, suggesting a role in immune system and disease resistance.

This paper develops a field-friendly framework for characterizing coral holobionts using nanopore sequencing and bioinformatics pipelines, revealing reef-scale bacterial networks and host-specific associations.

The paper assembles the genome of Symbiodinium microadriaticum using Hi-C and describes its unique chromosomal structure and organization.

This study compares the genomes of two coral species, Stylophora pistillata and Acropora digitifera, revealing significant differences in gene expansion and function related to symbiosis and stress response.

The paper presents draft genomes of two Symbiodinium species and identifies genes under positive selection related to symbiosis functions.