Consensus Guidelines for Advancing Coral Holobiont Genome and Specimen Voucher Deposition

Application of phylogenomic tools to unravel anthozoan evolution

(2021) Z. B. Randolph Quek et al.   CORAL REEFS

Comparison of 15 dinoflagellate genomes reveals extensive sequence and structural divergence in family Symbiodiniaceae and genus Symbiodinium

(2021) Raúl A. González-Pech et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

A stony coral cell atlas illuminates the molecular and cellular basis of coral symbiosis, calcification, and immunity

(2021) Shani Levy et al.   CELL

Morphological stasis masks ecologically divergent coral species on tropical reefs

(2021) Pim Bongaerts et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Opportunities and challenges for high‐quality biodiversity tissue archives in the age of long‐read sequencing

(2021) Mozes P. K. Blom   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Genetic and spatial organization of the unusual chromosomes of the dinoflagellate Symbiodinium microadriaticum

(2021) Ankita Nand et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Types, topotypes and vouchers are the key to progress in coral taxonomy: Comment on Wepfer et al. (2020)

(2021) Victor E. Bonito et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The critical importance of vouchers in genomics

(2021) Janet C Buckner et al.   eLife

Insights into the Cultured Bacterial Fraction of Corals

(2021) Michael Sweet et al.   mSystems

Unique combinations of coral host and algal symbiont genotypes reflect intraspecific variation in heat stress responses among colonies of the reef-building coral, Montipora digitata

(2020) Javid Kavousi et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

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

(2020) Emily J. Howells et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Challenges of unculturable bacteria: environmental perspectives

(2020) Attila Bodor et al.   REVIEWS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND BIO-TECHNOLOGY

Fine-scale delineation of Symbiodiniaceae genotypes on a previously bleached central Red Sea reef system demonstrates a prevalence of coral host-specific associations

(2020) B. C. C. Hume et al.   CORAL REEFS

Towards a rigorous species delimitation framework for scleractinian corals based on RAD sequencing: the case study of Leptastrea from the Indo-Pacific

(2020) Roberto Arrigoni et al.   CORAL REEFS

Description of Freudenthalidium gen. nov. and Halluxium gen. nov. to Formally Recognize Clades Fr3 and H as Genera in the Family Symbiodiniaceae (Dinophyceae) 1

(2020) Matthew R. Nitschke et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Deep-sea corals provide new insight into the ecology, evolution, and the role of plastids in widespread apicomplexan symbionts of anthozoans

(2020) Samuel A. Vohsen et al.   Microbiome

Adapting with Microbial Help: Microbiome Flexibility Facilitates Rapid Responses to Environmental Change

(2020) Christian R. Voolstra et al.   BIOESSAYS

New approaches to species delimitation and population structure of anthozoans: two case studies of octocorals using ultraconserved elements and exons

(2020) Katie L. Erickson et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Diversity within species: interpreting strains in microbiomes

(2020) Thea Van Rossum et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Strain-level epidemiology of microbial communities and the human microbiome

(2020) Yan Yan et al.   Genome Medicine

The genome of the cauliflower coral Pocillopora verrucosa

(2020) Carol Buitrago-López et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Eighteen Coral Genomes Reveal the Evolutionary Origin of Acropora Strategies to Accommodate Environmental Changes

(2020) Chuya Shinzato et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Cryptic lineages respond differently to coral bleaching

(2020) Matías Gómez‐Corrales et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Building a global genomics observatory: Using GEOME (the Genomic Observatories Metadatabase) to expedite and improve deposition and retrieval of genetic data and metadata for biodiversity research

(2020) Cynthia Riginos et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Cladocopium infistulum sp. nov. (Dinophyceae), a thermally tolerant dinoflagellate symbiotic with giant clams from the western Pacific Ocean

(2020) Sung Yeon Lee et al.   PHYCOLOGIA

A framework for in situ molecular characterization of coral holobionts using nanopore sequencing

(2020) Quentin Carradec et al.   Scientific Reports

The World Coral Conservatory (WCC): A Noah's ark for corals to support survival of reef ecosystems

(2020) Didier Zoccola et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Local Conditions Influence the Prokaryotic Communities Associated With the Mesophotic Black Coral Antipathella subpinnata

(2020) Jeroen A. J. M. van de Water et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Increasing comparability among coral bleaching experiments

(2020) A.G. Grottoli et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Limitations of Using Cultured Algae to Study Cnidarian‐Algal Symbioses and Suggestions for Future Studies

(2020) Shumpei Maruyama et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

An enhanced target-enrichment bait set for Hexacorallia provides phylogenomic resolution of the staghorn corals (Acroporidae) and close relatives

(2020) Peter F. Cowman et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

A modern scleractinian coral with a two-component calcite–aragonite skeleton

(2020) Jarosław Stolarski et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Coral Probiotics: Premise, Promise, Prospects

(2020) Raquel S. Peixoto et al.   Annual Review of Animal Biosciences

SymPortal: a novel analytical framework and platform for coral algal symbiont next-generation sequencing ITS2 profiling

(2019) B. C. C. Hume et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Genome Evolution of Coral Reef Symbionts as Intracellular Residents

(2019) Raúl A. González-Pech et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Nutrient Availability and Metabolism Affect the Stability of Coral–Symbiodiniaceae Symbioses

(2019) Luke A. Morris et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

A next generation approach to species delimitation reveals the role of hybridization in a cryptic species complex of corals

(2019) Andrea M. Quattrini et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Environmental latitudinal gradients and host‐specificity shape Symbiodiniaceae distribution in Red Sea Porites corals

(2019) Tullia I. Terraneo et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Morphology and molecules reveal two new species of Porites (Scleractinia, Poritidae) from the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden

(2019) Tullia I. Terraneo et al.   SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY

A genomic view of the reef-building coral Porites lutea and its microbial symbionts

(2019) Steven J. Robbins et al.   Nature Microbiology

proGenomes2: an improved database for accurate and consistent habitat, taxonomic and functional annotations of prokaryotic genomes

(2019) Daniel R Mende et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Accurate population genetic measurements require cryptic species identification in corals

(2018) Elizabeth A. Sheets et al.   CORAL REEFS

Binning enables efficient host genome reconstruction in cnidarian holobionts

(2018) Juan Sebastián Celis et al.   GigaScience

Systematic Revision of Symbiodiniaceae Highlights the Antiquity and Diversity of Coral Endosymbionts

(2018) Todd C. LaJeunesse et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A standardized bacterial taxonomy based on genome phylogeny substantially revises the tree of life

(2018) Donovan H Parks et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Coral microbiome database: Integration of sequences reveals high diversity and relatedness of coral-associated microbes

(2018) Megan J. Huggett et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Advancing genomics through the Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance (GIGA)

(2017) Christian R. Voolstra et al.   INVERTEBRATE SYSTEMATICS

Excess labile carbon promotes the expression of virulence factors in coral reef bacterioplankton

(2017) Anny Cárdenas et al.   ISME Journal

Population genetics of reef coral endosymbionts (Symbiodinium , Dinophyceae)

(2017) D. J. Thornhill et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Universal target-enrichment baits for anthozoan (Cnidaria) phylogenomics: New approaches to long-standing problems

(2017) Andrea M. Quattrini et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

A communal catalogue reveals Earth’s multiscale microbial diversity

(2017) Luke R. Thompson et al.   NATURE

Symbiodinium glynnii sp. nov., a species of stress-tolerant symbiotic dinoflagellates from pocilloporid and montiporid corals in the Pacific Ocean

(2017) Drew C. Wham et al.   PHYCOLOGIA

Symbiotic Dinoflagellate Functional Diversity Mediates Coral Survival under Ecological Crisis

(2017) David J. Suggett et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Bacterial community dynamics are linked to patterns of coral heat tolerance

(2017) Maren Ziegler et al.   Nature Communications

Rapid adaptive responses to climate change in corals

(2017) Gergely Torda et al.   Nature Climate Change

Comparative analysis of the genomes of Stylophora pistillata and Acropora digitifera provides evidence for extensive differences between species of corals

(2017) Christian R. Voolstra et al.   Scientific Reports

The Genomic Observatories Metadatabase (GeOMe): A new repository for field and sampling event metadata associated with genetic samples

(2017) John Deck et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The role of floridoside in osmoadaptation of coral-associated algal endosymbionts to high-salinity conditions

(2017) Michael A. Ochsenkühn et al.   Science Advances

Endozoicomonas genomes reveal functional adaptation and plasticity in bacterial strains symbiotically associated with diverse marine hosts

(2017) Matthew J. Neave et al.   Scientific Reports

Cryptic genetic divergence within threatened species of Acropora coral from the Indian and Pacific Oceans

(2016) Zoe T. Richards et al.   CONSERVATION GENETICS

Differential specificity between closely related corals and abundant Endozoicomonas endosymbionts across global scales

(2016) Matthew J Neave et al.   ISME Journal

RAD sequencing enables unprecedented phylogenetic resolution and objective species delimitation in recalcitrant divergent taxa

(2016) Santiago Herrera et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Ancestral genetic diversity associated with the rapid spread of stress-tolerant coral symbionts in response to Holocene climate change

(2016) Benjamin C. C. Hume et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reefgenomics.Org - a repository for marine genomics data

(2016) Yi Jin Liew et al.   Database-The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation

The Coral Trait Database, a curated database of trait information for coral species from the global oceans

(2016) Joshua S. Madin et al.   Scientific Data

Genomes of coral dinoflagellate symbionts highlight evolutionary adaptations conducive to a symbiotic lifestyle

(2016) M. Aranda et al.   Scientific Reports

Hybridisation on coral reefs and the conservation of evolutionary novelty

(2015) Zoe T. Richards et al.   Current Zoology

Microbiome structure of the fungid coralCtenactis echinataaligns with environmental differences

(2015) Cornelia Roder et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Functional diversity of photobiological traits within the genusSymbiodiniumappears to be governed by the interaction of cell size with cladal designation

(2015) David J. Suggett et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Microbial species delineation using whole genome sequences

(2015) Neha J. Varghese et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The genome ofAiptasia, a sea anemone model for coral symbiosis

(2015) Sebastian Baumgarten et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Structure and function of the global ocean microbiome

(2015) S. Sunagawa et al.   SCIENCE

It's more than stamp collecting: how genome sequencing can unify biological research

(2015) Stephen Richards   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Extensive phenotypic plasticity of a Red Sea coral over a strong latitudinal temperature gradient suggests limited acclimatization potential to warming

(2015) Yvonne Sawall et al.   Scientific Reports

Hybridisation on coral reefs and the conservation of evolutionary novelty

(2015) Zoe T. Richards et al.   Current Zoology

Age-Related Shifts in Bacterial Diversity in a Reef Coral

(2015) Alex D. Williams et al.   PLoS One

Limits to physiological plasticity of the coral Pocillopora verrucosa from the central Red Sea

(2014) Maren Ziegler et al.   CORAL REEFS

The Microbiome of the Red Sea Coral Stylophora pistillata Is Dominated by Tissue-Associated Endozoicomonas Bacteria

(2013) Till Bayer et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Cultivating endosymbionts — Host environmental mimics support the survival of Symbiodinium C15 ex hospite

(2012) Thomas Krueger et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

A genetics-based description ofSymbiodinium minutumsp. nov. andS. psygmophilumsp. nov. (Dinophyceae), two dinoflagellates symbiotic with cnidaria

(2012) Todd C. Lajeunesse et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

GeoSymbio: a hybrid, cloud-based web application of global geospatial bioinformatics and ecoinformatics for Symbiodinium-host symbioses

(2011) ERIK C. FRANKLIN et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Misannotations of rRNA can now generate 90% false positive protein matches in metatranscriptomic studies

(2011) H. James Tripp et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Genomic understanding of dinoflagellates

(2011) Senjie Lin   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

Coral thermal tolerance shaped by local adaptation of photosymbionts

(2011) E. J. Howells et al.   Nature Climate Change

Shape-shifting corals: Molecular markers show morphology is evolutionarily plastic in Porites

(2009) Zac H Forsman et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Cohesive molecular genetic data delineate species diversity in the dinoflagellate genusSymbiodinium

(2009) E. M. SAMPAYO et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Morphological plasticity in scleractinian corals

(2008) Peter A. Todd   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Bleaching susceptibility and mortality of corals are determined by fine-scale differences in symbiont type

(2008) E. M. Sampayo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA