Host adaptation and unexpected symbiont partners enable reef-building corals to tolerate extreme temperatures

Species-specific trends in the reproductive output of corals across environmental gradients and bleaching histories

(2016) Emily J. Howells et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Local adaptation constrains the distribution potential of heat-tolerant Symbiodinium from the Persian/Arabian Gulf

(2015) Cecilia D'Angelo et al.   ISME Journal

Estimation of the Heat and Water Budgets of the Persian (Arabian) Gulf Using a Regional Climate Model*,+

(2015) Pengfei Xue et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Preconditioning in the reef-building coral Pocillopora damicornis and the potential for trans-generational acclimatization in coral larvae under future climate change conditions

(2015) H. M. Putnam et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Building coral reef resilience through assisted evolution

(2015) Madeleine J. H. van Oppen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genomic determinants of coral heat tolerance across latitudes

(2015) G. B. Dixon et al.   SCIENCE

Towards the identification of the loci of adaptive evolution

(2015) Carolina Pardo-Diaz et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

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

Latitudinal variation in thermal tolerance thresholds of early life stages of corals

(2014) E. S. Woolsey et al.   CORAL REEFS

Multilocus Adaptation Associated with Heat Resistance in Reef-Building Corals

(2014) Rachael A. Bay et al.   CURRENT 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

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

(2014) Todd C. LaJeunesse et al.   PHYCOLOGIA

Sediment and Turbidity Associated with Offshore Dredging Increase Coral Disease Prevalence on Nearby Reefs

(2014) F. Joseph Pollock et al.   PLoS One

Retention of Habitat Complexity Minimizes Disassembly of Reef Fish Communities following Disturbance: A Large-Scale Natural Experiment

(2014) Michael J. Emslie et al.   PLoS One

Changing dynamics of Caribbean reef carbonate budgets: emergence of reef bioeroders as critical controls on present and future reef growth potential

(2014) C. T. Perry et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Mechanisms of reef coral resistance to future climate change

(2014) S. R. Palumbi et al.   SCIENCE

Coral spawning in the Gulf of Oman and relationship to latitudinal variation in spawning season in the northwest Indian Ocean

(2014) E. J. Howells et al.   Scientific Reports

Can resistant coral-Symbiodiniumassociations enable coral communities to survive climate change? A study of a site exposed to long-term hot water input

(2014) Shashank Keshavmurthy et al.   PeerJ

Genotype – environment correlations in corals from the Great Barrier Reef

(2013) Petra Lundgren et al.   BMC GENETICS

Draft Assembly of the Symbiodinium minutum Nuclear Genome Reveals Dinoflagellate Gene Structure

(2013) Eiichi Shoguchi et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Predicting evolutionary responses to climate change in the sea

(2013) Philip L. Munday et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

(2013) Daniel J. Thornhill et al.   EVOLUTION

Chronic nutrient enrichment increases prevalence and severity of coral disease and bleaching

(2013) Rebecca L. Vega Thurber et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Brooded coral larvae differ in their response to high temperature and elevated pCO2 depending on the day of release

(2013) Vivian R. Cumbo et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Patterns of coral settlement in an extreme environment: the southern Persian Gulf (Dubai, United Arab Emirates)

(2013) AG Bauman et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Corals from the Persian/Arabian Gulf as models for thermotolerant reef-builders: Prevalence of clade C3 Symbiodinium, host fluorescence and ex situ temperature tolerance

(2013) B. Hume et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Evidence for a host role in thermotolerance divergence between populations of the mustard hill coral (Porites astreoides ) from different reef environments

(2013) C. D. Kenkel et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Gene expression under chronic heat stress in populations of the mustard hill coral (Porites astreoides ) from different thermal environments

(2013) C. D. Kenkel et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Changes in Bleaching Susceptibility among Corals Subject to Ocean Warming and Recurrent Bleaching in Moorea, French Polynesia

(2013) Morgan S. Pratchett et al.   PLoS One

Genomic basis for coral resilience to climate change

(2013) Daniel J. Barshis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

diveRsity: AnRpackage for the estimation and exploration of population genetics parameters and their associated errors

(2013) Kevin Keenan et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

SymbioGBR: a web-based database of Symbiodinium associated with cnidarian hosts on the Great Barrier Reef

(2013) Linda Tonk et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

The promiscuous larvae: flexibility in the establishment of symbiosis in corals

(2012) V. R. Cumbo et al.   CORAL REEFS

Variation in Symbiodinium communities in juvenile Briareum asbestinum (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) over temporal and spatial scales

(2012) DM Poland et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Thermal tolerances of reef corals in the Gulf: A review of the potential for increasing coral survival and adaptation to climate change through assisted translocation

(2012) Steve L. Coles et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Symbiont communities and host genetic structure of the brain coralPlatygyra verweyi, at the outlet of a nuclear power plant and adjacent areas

(2012) SHASHANK KESHAVMURTHY et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Transcriptome-wide polymorphisms of red abalone (Haliotis rufescens) reveal patterns of gene flow and local adaptation

(2012) Pierre De Wit et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

2b-RAD: a simple and flexible method for genome-wide genotyping

(2012) Shi Wang et al.   NATURE METHODS

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

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

Coral Thermal Tolerance: Tuning Gene Expression to Resist Thermal Stress

(2012) Anthony J. Bellantuono et al.   PLoS One

The 27-year decline of coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef and its causes

(2012) G. De'ath et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Episodic heterogeneous decline and recovery of coral cover in the Indian Ocean

(2011) M. Ateweberhan et al.   CORAL REEFS

Coral reproduction in the world’s warmest reefs: southern Persian Gulf (Dubai, United Arab Emirates)

(2011) A. G. Bauman et al.   CORAL REEFS

Water Contamination Reduces the Tolerance of Coral Larvae to Thermal Stress

(2011) Andrew P. Negri et al.   PLoS One

Present Limits to Heat-Adaptability in Corals and Population-Level Responses to Climate Extremes

(2011) Bernhard M. Riegl et al.   PLoS One

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

Low genetic diversity of symbiotic dinoflagellates (Symbiodinium) in scleractinian corals from tropical reefs in southern Hainan Island, China

(2011) Guo-Wei ZHOU et al.   Journal of Systematics and Evolution

Coral thermal tolerance shaped by local adaptation of photosymbionts

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

The Growing Need for Sustainable Ecological Management of Marine Communities of the Persian Gulf

(2010) Peter F. Sale et al.   AMBIO

Differential stability of photosynthetic membranes and fatty acid composition at elevated temperature in Symbiodinium

(2010) E. Díaz-Almeyda et al.   CORAL REEFS

Many corals host thermally resistant symbionts in high-temperature habitat

(2010) T. A. Oliver et al.   CORAL REEFS

Levels of immunity parameters underpin bleaching and disease susceptibility of reef corals

(2010) Caroline V. Palmer et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

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

The physiology of climate change: how potentials for acclimatization and genetic adaptation will determine 'winners' and 'losers'

(2010) G. N. Somero   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

A HYCOM modeling study of the Persian Gulf: 1. Model configurations and surface circulation

(2010) Fengchao Yao et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Diversity in populations of free-living Symbiodinium from a Caribbean and Pacific reef

(2010) Mackenzie M. Manning et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Protein expression and genetic structure of the coralPorites lobatain an environmentally extreme Samoan back reef: does host genotype limit phenotypic plasticity?

(2010) D. J. BARSHIS et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Location-Specific Responses to Thermal Stress in Larvae of the Reef-Building Coral Montastraea faveolata

(2010) Nicholas R. Polato et al.   PLoS One

The Impact of Climate Change on the World's Marine Ecosystems

(2010) O. Hoegh-Guldberg et al.   SCIENCE

Genetic variation in responses to a settlement cue and elevated temperature in the reef-building coral Acropora millepora

(2009) E Meyer et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Water quality and coral bleaching thresholds: Formalising the linkage for the inshore reefs of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia

(2009) Scott A. Wooldridge   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Onset of algal endosymbiont specificity varies among closely related species ofAcroporacorals during early ontogeny

(2009) DAVID ABREGO et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Diversity of symbiotic algae of the genusSymbiodiniumin scleractinian corals of the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea

(2009) Zhi-Jun DONG et al.   Journal of Systematics and Evolution

Cellular mechanisms of Cnidarian bleaching: stress causes the collapse of symbiosis

(2008) V. M. Weis   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The effect of thermal history on the susceptibility of reef-building corals to thermal stress

(2008) R. Middlebrook et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Major bleaching events can lead to increased thermal tolerance in corals

(2008) J. A. Maynard et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Algal symbionts increase oxidative damage and death in coral larvae at high temperatures

(2008) IM Yakovleva et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

GSTand its relatives do not measure differentiation

(2008) LOU JOST   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Impacts of climate warming on terrestrial ectotherms across latitude

(2008) C. A. Deutsch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

One-Third of Reef-Building Corals Face Elevated Extinction Risk from Climate Change and Local Impacts

(2008) K. E. Carpenter et al.   SCIENCE

Cell biology in model systems as the key to understanding corals

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

Coral bleaching: the role of the host

(2008) Andrew H. Baird et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Adaptation from standing genetic variation

(2007) R BARRETT et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION