Coral-associated micro-organisms and their roles in promoting coral health and thwarting diseases

Corals Form Characteristic Associations with Symbiotic Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria

(2012) Kimberley A. Lema et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Bacterial Associates of Two Caribbean Coral Species Reveal Species-Specific Distribution and Geographic Variability

(2012) Kathleen M. Morrow et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Phage therapy of the white plague-like disease of Favia favus in the Red Sea

(2012) I. Atad et al.   CORAL REEFS

O-antigen and Core Carbohydrate ofVibrio fischeriLipopolysaccharide

(2012) Deborah M. B. Post et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Autotrophic carbon budget in coral tissue: a new 13C-based model of photosynthate translocation

(2012) P. Tremblay et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

N-acyl homoserine lactone production by bacteria within the sponge Suberites domuncula (Olivi, 1792) (Porifera, Demospongiae)

(2012) Johan Gardères et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Cell Biology of Cnidarian-Dinoflagellate Symbiosis

(2012) S. K. Davy et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Macroalgal Extracts Induce Bacterial Assemblage Shifts and Sublethal Tissue Stress in Caribbean Corals

(2012) Kathleen M. Morrow et al.   PLoS One

Environmental Factors Influencing Gene Transfer Agent (GTA) Mediated Transduction in the Subtropical Ocean

(2012) Lauren D. McDaniel et al.   PLoS One

Macroalgae Decrease Growth and Alter Microbial Community Structure of the Reef-Building Coral, Porites astreoides

(2012) Rebecca Vega Thurber et al.   PLoS One

The Repertoire of Chemical Defense Genes in the CoralAcropora digitiferaGenome

(2012) Chuya Shinzato et al.   ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE

The Human Microbiome Project: A Community Resource for the Healthy Human Microbiome

(2012) Dirk Gevers et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The Rules of Engagement in the Legume-Rhizobial Symbiosis

(2011) Giles E.D. Oldroyd et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Inhibition of marine biofouling by bacterial quorum sensing inhibitors

(2011) Sergey Dobretsov et al.   BIOFOULING

Glycan Profiling of Gel Forming Mucus Layer from the Scleractinian Symbiotic Coral Oculina arbuscula

(2011) Bernadette Coddeville et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Symbiosis and development: The hologenome concept

(2011) Eugene Rosenberg et al.   BIRTH DEFECTS RESEARCH PART C-EMBRYO TODAY-REVIEWS

The presence of multiple phenoloxidases in Caribbean reef-building corals

(2011) Laura D. Mydlarz et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Allelochemicals produced by Caribbean macroalgae and cyanobacteria have species-specific effects on reef coral microorganisms

(2011) K. M. Morrow et al.   CORAL REEFS

Diversity and dynamics of bacterial communities in early life stages of the Caribbean coral Porites astreoides

(2011) Koty H Sharp et al.   ISME Journal

Signaling-mediated cross-talk modulates swarming and biofilm formation in a coral pathogen Serratia marcescens

(2011) Ali Alagely et al.   ISME Journal

Coral-mucus-associated Vibrio integrons in the Great Barrier Reef: genomic hotspots for environmental adaptation

(2011) Jeremy E Koenig et al.   ISME Journal

Innate Immune Responses of a Scleractinian Coral to Vibriosis

(2011) Jeremie Vidal-Dupiol et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Physiological responses of the scleractinian coral Pocillopora damicornis to bacterial stress from Vibrio coralliilyticus

(2011) J. Vidal-Dupiol et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Patterns of coral ecological immunology: variation in the responses of Caribbean corals to elevated temperature and a pathogen elicitor

(2011) C. V. Palmer et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Antibacterial Activity of Marine and Black Band Disease Cyanobacteria against Coral-Associated Bacteria

(2011) Miroslav Gantar et al.   Marine Drugs

Characterization of Quorum Sensing Signals in Coral-Associated Bacteria

(2011) Karina Golberg et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Regulation of Bacterial Communities Through Antimicrobial Activity by the Coral Holobiont

(2011) E. Charlotte E. Kvennefors et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Using the Acropora digitifera genome to understand coral responses to environmental change

(2011) Chuya Shinzato et al.   NATURE

Fecal microbiota transplantation and emerging applications

(2011) Thomas J. Borody et al.   Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Identification of Fast-Evolving Genes in the Scleractinian Coral Acropora Using Comparative EST Analysis

(2011) Akira Iguchi et al.   PLoS One

Human Pathogen Shown to Cause Disease in the Threatened Eklhorn Coral Acropora palmata

(2011) Kathryn Patterson Sutherland et al.   PLoS One

Effects of Coral Reef Benthic Primary Producers on Dissolved Organic Carbon and Microbial Activity

(2011) Andreas F. Haas et al.   PLoS One

Microbial to reef scale interactions between the reef-building coral Montastraea annularis and benthic algae

(2011) K. L. Barott et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The secret languages of coevolved symbioses: Insights from the Euprymna scolopes–Vibrio fischeri symbiosis

(2011) Margaret McFall-Ngai et al.   SEMINARS IN IMMUNOLOGY

New Method for Counting Bacteria Associated with Coral Mucus

(2010) M. Garren et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Genomic Survey of Candidate Stress-Response Genes in the Estuarine Anemone Nematostella vectensis

(2010) Adam M. Reitzel et al.   BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN

Coral Mucus: The Properties of Its Constituent Mucins

(2010) Amita A. Jatkar et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Perception and Degradation ofN-Acyl Homoserine Lactone Quorum Sensing Signals by Mammalian and Plant Cells

(2010) Max Teplitski et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Effects of temperature, nutrients, organic matter and coral mucus on the survival of the coral pathogen, Serratia marcescens PDL100

(2010) Erin E. Looney et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Mucus composition and bacterial communities associated with the tissue and skeleton of three scleractinian corals maintained under culture conditions

(2010) Pascale Tremblay et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

Chemically rich seaweeds poison corals when not controlled by herbivores

(2010) D. B. Rasher et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

High Frequency of Horizontal Gene Transfer in the Oceans

(2010) L. D. McDaniel et al.   SCIENCE

Do the organic sulfur compounds DMSP and DMS drive coral microbial associations?

(2010) Jean-Baptiste Raina et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Quorum sensing signal production and inhibition by coral-associated vibrios

(2010) Karen Tait et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Malyngolide from the cyanobacterium Lyngbya majuscula interferes with quorum sensing circuitry

(2010) Sergey Dobretsov et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

How Microbial Community Composition Regulates Coral Disease Development

(2010) Justin Mao-Jones et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Coral Reefs

(2009) Bernhard Riegl et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Utilization of Mucus from the Coral Acropora palmata by the Pathogen Serratia marcescens and by Environmental and Coral Commensal Bacteria

(2009) C. J. Krediet et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Mini-review: quorum sensing in the marine environment and its relationship to biofouling

(2009) Sergey Dobretsov et al.   BIOFOULING

Generation and analysis of transcriptomic resources for a model system on the rise: the sea anemone Aiptasia pallida and its dinoflagellate endosymbiont

(2009) Shinichi Sunagawa et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Catabolite regulation of enzymatic activities in a white pox pathogen and commensal bacteria during growth on mucus polymers from the coral Acropora palmata

(2009) CJ Krediet et al.   DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS

Coral mucus-associated bacteria: a possible first line of defense

(2009) Maya Shnit-Orland et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

The opportunistic coral pathogen Aspergillus sydowii contains dddP and makes dimethyl sulfide from dimethylsulfoniopropionate

(2009) Mark Kirkwood et al.   ISME Journal

Bacterial diversity and White Plague Disease-associated community changes in the Caribbean coral Montastraea faveolata

(2009) Shinichi Sunagawa et al.   ISME Journal

How Hydra senses and destroys microbes

(2009) René Augustin et al.   SEMINARS IN IMMUNOLOGY

How feasible is the biological control of coral diseases?

(2009) Max Teplitski et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Microbial disease and the coral holobiont

(2009) David G. Bourne et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Genome analysis of the coral bleaching pathogen Vibrio shiloi

(2008) Leah Reshef et al.   ARCHIVES OF MICROBIOLOGY

Phage Therapy of Coral White Plague Disease: Properties of Phage BA3

(2008) Rotem Efrony et al.   CURRENT MICROBIOLOGY

Bacterial Growth on Coral Mucus

(2008) Gil Sharon et al.   CURRENT MICROBIOLOGY

An ancient and variable mannose-binding lectin from the coral Acropora millepora binds both pathogens and symbionts

(2008) E. Charlotte E. Kvennefors et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

Antibacterial chemical defenses in Hawaiian corals provide possible protection from disease

(2008) DJ Gochfeld et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Natural Disease Resistance in Threatened Staghorn Corals

(2008) Steven V. Vollmer et al.   PLoS One

Vibrios dominate as culturable nitrogen-fixing bacteria of the Brazilian coral Mussismilia hispida

(2008) Luciane A. Chimetto et al.   SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Cell biology in model systems as the key to understanding corals

(2008) Virginia M. Weis et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION