Molecular diversity and assemblages of coral symbionts (Symbiodiniaceae) in diverse scleractinian coral species

Species and spatio-environmental effects on coral endosymbiont communities in Southeast Asia

(2022) Jing Hui Ong et al.   CORAL REEFS

Miliolidium n. gen, a New Symbiodiniacean Genus Whose Members Associate with Soritid Foraminifera or are Free‐living

(2021) Xavier Pochon et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

A Phylogeny-Informed Analysis of the Global Coral-Symbiodiniaceae Interaction Network Reveals that Traits Correlated with Thermal Bleaching Are Specific to Symbiont Transmission Mode

(2021) Timothy D. Swain et al.   mSystems

Microbiome of juvenile corals in the outer reef slope and lagoon of the South China Sea: insight into coral acclimatization to extreme thermal environments

(2021) Zhenjun Qin et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Taxonomic profiling of Symbiodiniaceae and bacterial communities associated with Indo-Pacific corals in the Gulf of Thailand using PacBio sequencing of full-length ITS and 16S rRNA genes

(2021) Wirulda Pootakham et al.   GENOMICS

Species richness and generalists–specialists mosaicism of symbiodiniacean symbionts in corals from Hong Kong revealed by high-throughput ITS sequencing

(2021) Osama S. Saad et al.   CORAL REEFS

Zooxanthellae Diversity and Coral-Symbiont Associations in the Philippine Archipelago: Specificity and Adaptability Across Thermal Gradients

(2021) Andrew F. Torres et al.   Frontiers in Marine Science

Divergent symbiont communities determine the physiology and nutrition of a reef coral across a light-availability gradient

(2020) Christopher B. Wall et al.   ISME Journal

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

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

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

Symbiolite formation: a powerful in vitro model to untangle the role of bacterial communities in the photosynthesis-induced formation of microbialites

(2020) Matthew R. Nitschke et al.   ISME Journal

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

Endosymbiont diversity and community structure in Porites lutea from Southeast Asia are driven by a suite of environmental variables

(2020) Yuen Ting Rachel Tan et al.   SYMBIOSIS

Low Symbiodiniaceae diversity in a turbid marginal reef environment

(2020) E. G. Smith et al.   CORAL REEFS

Dispersal, genetic variation, and symbiont interaction network of heat-tolerant endosymbiont Durusdinium trenchii: Insights into the adaptive potential of coral to climate change

(2020) Biao Chen et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Cladocopium community divergence in two Acropora coral hosts across multiple spatial scales

(2020) SW Davies et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Untangling ITS2 genotypes of algal symbionts in zooxanthellate corals

(2020) Tuo Shi et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Homogenization of Endosymbiont Communities Hosted by Equatorial Corals during the 2016 Mass Bleaching Event

(2020) Sudhanshi S. Jain et al.   Microorganisms

Unlocking the phylogenetic diversity, primary habitats, and abundances of free‐living Symbiodiniaceae on a coral reef

(2020) Lisa Fujise et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Dynamic symbioses reveal pathways to coral survival through prolonged heatwaves

(2020) Danielle C. Claar et al.   Nature Communications

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

Species variability in the response to elevated temperature of select corals in north-western Philippines

(2019) Jeric P. Da-Anoy et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

The 2014–2017 global-scale coral bleaching event: insights and impacts

(2019) C. Mark Eakin et al.   CORAL REEFS

Latitudinal Variation in the Molecular Diversity and Community Composition of Symbiodiniaceae in Coral From the South China Sea

(2019) Biao Chen et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Differential bleaching and recovery pattern of southeast Indian coral reef to 2016 global mass bleaching event: Occurrence of stress-tolerant symbiont Durusdinium (Clade D) in corals of Palk Bay

(2019) T. Thinesh et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Temperature patterns and mechanisms influencing coral bleaching during the 2016 El Niño

(2019) Tim R. McClanahan et al.   Nature Climate Change

Diversity and Abundance of Scleractinian Corals in the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia: A Case Study of Redang and Tioman Islands

(2019) Khodzori Fikri Akmal et al.   Ocean Science Journal

Diversity of Symbiodiniaceae in 15 Coral Species From the Southern South China Sea: Potential Relationship With Coral Thermal Adaptability

(2019) Zhenjun Qin et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

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

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

Phylogenetic analysis of symbiont transmission mechanisms reveal evolutionary patterns in thermotolerance and host specificity that enhance bleaching resistance among vertically transmitted Symbiodinium

(2018) Timothy D. Swain et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Flexible Symbiotic Associations of Symbiodinium With Five Typical Coral Species in Tropical and Subtropical Reef Regions of the Northern South China Sea

(2018) Sanqiang Gong et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Rare symbionts may contribute to the resilience of coral–algal assemblages

(2017) Maren Ziegler et al.   ISME Journal

Host specificity of Symbiodinium variants revealed by an ITS2 metahaplotype approach

(2017) Edward G Smith et al.   ISME Journal

Biogeography and molecular diversity of coral symbionts in the genus Symbiodinium around the Arabian Peninsula

(2017) Maren Ziegler et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Temperature-Driven Local Acclimatization of Symbiodnium Hosted by the Coral Galaxea fascicularis at Hainan Island, China

(2017) Guowei Zhou et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Symbiodiniumspp. associated with scleractinian corals from Dongsha Atoll (Pratas), Taiwan, in the South China Sea

(2017) Shashank Keshavmurthy et al.   PeerJ

Temperature shapes coral-algal symbiosis in the South China Sea

(2017) Haoya Tong et al.   Scientific Reports

Low symbiont diversity as a potential adaptive strategy in a marginal non-reefal environment: a case study of corals in Hong Kong

(2016) Tsz Yan Ng et al.   CORAL REEFS

Consensus thermotolerance ranking for 110Symbiodiniumphylotypes: an exemplar utilization of a novel iterative partial-rank aggregation tool with broad application potential

(2016) Timothy D. Swain et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Exploring the Symbiodinium rare biosphere provides evidence for symbiont switching in reef-building corals

(2016) Nadine M Boulotte et al.   ISME Journal

Comparative genomics explains the evolutionary success of reef-forming corals

(2016) Debashish Bhattacharya et al.   eLife

Recovery from bleaching is mediated by threshold densities of background thermo-tolerant symbiont types in a reef-building coral

(2016) Line K. Bay et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Photosymbiosis and the expansion of shallow-water corals

(2016) K. Frankowiak et al.   Science Advances

Coral community response to bleaching on a highly disturbed reef

(2016) J. R. Guest et al.   Scientific Reports

Regional coral responses to climate disturbances and warming is predicted by multivariate stress model and not temperature threshold metrics

(2015) Timothy R. McClanahan et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Spatially distinct and regionally endemic Symbiodinium assemblages in the threatened Caribbean reef-building coral Orbicella faveolata

(2015) Dustin W. Kemp et al.   CORAL REEFS

Microbial invasion of the Caribbean by an Indo-Pacific coral zooxanthella

(2015) D. Tye Pettay et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Investigating the causes and consequences of symbiont shuffling in a multi-partner reef coral symbiosis under environmental change

(2015) R. Cunning et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Symbiodinium thermophilum sp. nov., a thermotolerant symbiotic alga prevalent in corals of the world's hottest sea, the Persian/Arabian Gulf

(2015) B. C. C. Hume et al.   Scientific Reports

The cumulative impact of annual coral bleaching can turn some coral species winners into losers

(2014) Andréa G. Grottoli et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Change in algal symbiont communities after bleaching, not prior heat exposure, increases heat tolerance of reef corals

(2014) Rachel N. Silverstein et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Minimum entropy decomposition: Unsupervised oligotyping for sensitive partitioning of high-throughput marker gene sequences

(2014) A Murat Eren et al.   ISME Journal

AssessingSymbiodiniumdiversity in scleractinian corals via next-generation sequencing-based genotyping of the ITS2 rDNA region

(2014) Chatchanit Arif et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Ecologically differentiated stress-tolerant endosymbionts in the dinoflagellate genusSymbiodinium(Dinophyceae) Clade D are different species

(2014) Todd C. LaJeunesse et al.   PHYCOLOGIA

Deep-Sequencing Method for Quantifying Background Abundances of Symbiodinium Types: Exploring the Rare Symbiodinium Biosphere in Reef-Building Corals

(2014) Kate M. Quigley et al.   PLoS One

Taxonomic classification of the reef coral families Merulinidae, Montastraeidae, and Diploastraeidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia)

(2014) Danwei Huang et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

HOST-SPECIALIST LINEAGES DOMINATE THE ADAPTIVE RADIATION OF REEF CORAL ENDOSYMBIONTS

(2013) Daniel J. Thornhill et al.   EVOLUTION

Contrasting Patterns of Coral Bleaching Susceptibility in 2010 Suggest an Adaptive Response to Thermal Stress

(2012) James R. Guest et al.   PLoS One

EVOLUTIONARY DIVERSIFICATION OF REEF CORALS: A COMPARISON OF THE MOLECULAR AND FOSSIL RECORDS

(2011) Carl Simpson et al.   EVOLUTION

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

Improved Resolution of Reef-Coral Endosymbiont (Symbiodinium) Species Diversity, Ecology, and Evolution through psbA Non-Coding Region Genotyping

(2011) Todd C. LaJeunesse et al.   PLoS One

Long-standing environmental conditions, geographic isolation and host-symbiont specificity influence the relative ecological dominance and genetic diversification of coral endosymbionts in the genusSymbiodinium

(2010) Todd C. LaJeunesse et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

(2009) P. D. Schloss et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

BLAST+: architecture and applications

(2009) Christiam Camacho et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Cohesive molecular genetic data delineate species diversity in the dinoflagellate genusSymbiodinium

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