Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies

The paper models how corals regulate algal populations under temperature changes to understand symbiont dynamics and bleaching mechanisms.

This study assesses how thermal preconditioning affects thermal tolerance and baseline physiology across six coral species, finding species-specific responses and trade-offs in physiological baselines.

The paper presents the genome and DNA methylome assembly of Acropora pulchra from Moorea, French Polynesia, achieving high completeness and providing insights into its genetic and epigenetic features.

The paper introduces CoralSoundExplorer, an open-source software tool for analyzing coral reef soundscapes using deep learning, demonstrating its ability to visualize and quantify acoustic changes in different reef environments.

This study develops a 3D reef-scale dispersal model to predict larval dispersal patterns and optimize coral restoration efforts by identifying optimal collection and deployment times and locations.

This paper develops a menthol-DCMU bleaching method to generate aposymbiotic foraminifera for symbiosis research, showing effectiveness in removing symbionts from two species.

This paper reviews lab studies of coral bleaching and finds they use unrealistic heating conditions, leading to inaccurate predictions of coral responses to marine heatwaves.

This study investigates how molecular hydrogen affects heat stress in corals, finding it improves photosynthetic efficiency in Acropora spp. under elevated temperatures.

The paper shows that coral halo patterns align with the landscape of fear hypothesis, influenced by coral spatial distribution and herbivore behavior.

This study identifies molecular biomarkers of coral resilience to thermal bleaching by comparing proteomic, microbiome, and physiological traits of surviving and dying corals.

This study reconstructs past Symbiodiniaceae communities in Porites lobata corals using ancient DNA, revealing stable core microbiota and changes during extreme heat events.

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

This study examines how a marine heatwave and local human disturbance affect juvenile coral densities, finding both stressors reduce densities, with competitive corals declining more than stress-tolerant ones.

This study compares the genome of the temperate coral Astrangia poculata with the tropical coral Acropora millepora to identify gene family expansions related to winter quiescence, innate immunity, and sexual reproduction.

The paper presents the first genome assemblies for three Caribbean reef-building corals and explores genomic novelties, finding abundant gene duplications and a large genome size in Siderastrea siderea.

This study links microbiome stability to coral thermotolerance by comparing microbial communities in thermotolerant and thermosensitive corals under thermal stress.

This study uses a clustering pipeline to identify global benthic habitat states from citizen science data, revealing biogeographic patterns and temporal changes in reef ecosystems.

The paper introduces a global dataset and tool to project coral bleaching risk from 1985 to 2100 under different climate scenarios.

This study examines the effects of hypoxia on early life stages of three cnidarian species, finding decreased larval performance and impaired settlement in corals, with species-specific responses to heat stress.

The paper identifies cryptic coral lineages with functional differences in thermal tolerance and growth, highlighting their role in coral reef resilience to climate change.

This study investigates immune regulation in symbiotic and aposymbiotic coral tissue using multiomic approaches, revealing compartmentalized immune suppression in specific cell types during symbiosis.

This study compares the population genetics of two sympatric coral species on Guam, finding differences in genetic diversity and structure linked to habitat and morphology.

This study examines the spatial distribution of Endozoicomonas bacterial aggregates in Acropora loripes coral tissues, revealing distinct aggregation patterns between two phylogenetic clades.

This study reviews 23 years of coral bleaching events in Indian reefs to identify species susceptibility patterns and highlight the need for repeated surveys to accurately assess bleaching impacts.

This study examines the impact of the 2023 marine heatwave on Florida Keys corals, finding that most corals survived but some species and sites experienced significant mortality and unusual lesions.

The paper compares transcriptome responses of four coral species to acute heat stress, finding differences in stress response gene abundance and activation patterns that correlate with thermal tolerance.

The paper identifies universal spatial patterns in coral reefs using global data, revealing fractal geometries and power-law distributions across different reef provinces.

The paper analyzes metabolomic profiles of four stony coral species to identify inter- and intraspecies variation in host and endosymbiont-derived pathways related to disease resistance.

This study shows coral larvae maintain carbon provisioning from algal symbionts under heat stress by sequestering nitrogen into dipeptides, reducing symbiont growth but preserving photosynthesis and carbon transfer.

This paper demonstrates how the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems can guide national action on coral reef conservation under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework using Kenya as a case study.