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

Where less may be more: how the rare biosphere pulls ecosystems strings

(2017) Alexandre Jousset 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

Global warming and recurrent mass bleaching of corals

(2017) Terry P. Hughes et al.   NATURE

Gene Expression Variation Resolves Species and Individual Strains among Coral-Associated Dinoflagellates within the GenusSymbiodinium

(2016) John E. Parkinson et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

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

(2016) Nadine M Boulotte et al.   ISME Journal

Most Low-Abundance “Background” Symbiodinium spp. Are Transitory and Have Minimal Functional Significance for Symbiotic Corals

(2016) Moo Joon Lee et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Diversity at low abundance: The phenomenon of the rare bacterial biosphere

(2016) M. Yu. Skopina et al.   MICROBIOLOGY

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

Rare species contribute disproportionately to the functional structure of species assemblages

(2016) Rafael P. Leitão et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Intra-genomic variation in symbiotic dinoflagellates: recent divergence or recombination between lineages?

(2015) Shaun P Wilkinson et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The coral core microbiome identifies rare bacterial taxa as ubiquitous endosymbionts

(2015) Tracy D Ainsworth et al.   ISME Journal

Niche acclimatization in Red Sea corals is dependent on flexibility of host-symbiont association

(2015) M Ziegler et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Evidence for an active rare biosphere within freshwater protists community

(2015) Didier Debroas 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 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

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

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

Niche acclimatization in Red Sea corals is dependent on flexibility of host-symbiont association

(2015) M Ziegler et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

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

Bacteria–bacteria interactions within the microbiota of the ancestral metazoan Hydra contribute to fungal resistance

(2014) Sebastian Fraune 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

ExploringSymbiodiniumdiversity and host specificity inAcroporacorals from geographical extremes of Western Australia with 454 amplicon pyrosequencing

(2014) L. Thomas 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

Buffered Qualitative Stability explains the robustness and evolvability of transcriptional networks

(2014) Luca Albergante et al.   eLife

Rare Species Support Vulnerable Functions in High-Diversity Ecosystems

(2013) David Mouillot et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic diversity promotes ecosystem stability

(2012) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   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

The Rare Bacterial Biosphere

(2011) Carlos Pedrós-Alió   Annual Review of Marine Science

UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection

(2011) Robert C. Edgar et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Removing Noise From Pyrosequenced Amplicons

(2011) Christopher Quince et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Enterotypes of the human gut microbiome

(2011) Manimozhiyan Arumugam et al.   NATURE

Finding Statistically Significant Communities in Networks

(2011) Andrea Lancichinetti et al.   PLoS One

Activity of abundant and rare bacteria in a coastal ocean

(2011) B. J. Campbell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Niche specialization of reef-building corals in the mesophotic zone: metabolic trade-offs between divergent Symbiodinium types

(2010) T. F. Cooper et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Networked buffering: a basic mechanism for distributed robustness in complex adaptive systems

(2010) James M Whitacre et al.   Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling

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

Quantification of algal endosymbionts (Symbiodinium) in coral tissue using real-time PCR

(2009) J. C. MIEOG et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Power-Law Distributions in Empirical Data

(2009) Aaron Clauset et al.   SIAM REVIEW

An evaluation of the functional significance of peat microorganisms using a reciprocal transplant approach

(2009) Pedro A. Dimitriu et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Species-specific interactions between algal endosymbionts and coral hosts define their bleaching response to heat and light stress

(2008) D. Abrego et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A community change in the algal endosymbionts of a scleractinian coral following a natural bleaching event: field evidence of acclimatization

(2008) A.M Jones et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES