Intracellular Bacterial Symbionts in Corals: Challenges and Future Directions

Intracellular bacteria are common and taxonomically diverse in cultured and in hospite algal endosymbionts of coral reefs

(2021) Justin Maire et al.   ISME Journal

Towards enhancing coral heat tolerance: a “microbiome transplantation” treatment using inoculations of homogenized coral tissues

(2021) Talisa Doering et al.   Microbiome

Differential Patterns of Microbiota Recovery in Symbiotic and Aposymbiotic Corals following Antibiotic Disturbance

(2021) Shavonna M. Bent et al.   mSystems

The coral symbiont Candidatus Aquarickettsia is variably abundant in threatened Caribbean acroporids and transmitted horizontally

(2021) Lydia J. Baker et al.   ISME Journal

Testing cophylogeny between coral reef invertebrates and their bacterial and archaeal symbionts

(2021) Paul A. O’Brien et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Coming together—symbiont acquisition and early development in deep-sea bathymodioline mussels

(2021) Maximilian Franke et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A role for bacterial experimental evolution in coral bleaching mitigation?

(2021) Justin Maire et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Coral microbiome manipulation elicits metabolic and genetic restructuring to mitigate heat stress and evade mortality

(2021) Erika P. Santoro et al.   Science Advances

Insights into the Cultured Bacterial Fraction of Corals

(2021) Michael Sweet et al.   mSystems

Development of a free radical scavenging bacterial consortium to mitigate oxidative stress in cnidarians

(2021) Ashley M. Dungan et al.   Microbial Biotechnology

Symbiodiniaceae‐bacteria interactions: rethinking metabolite exchange in reef‐building corals as multi‐partner metabolic networks

(2020) Jennifer L. Matthews et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Revealing changes in the microbiome of Symbiodiniaceae under thermal stress

(2020) Emma F. Camp et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Comparative genomics: Dominant coral-bacterium Endozoicomonas acroporae metabolizes dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP)

(2020) Kshitij Tandon et al.   ISME Journal

A Zeaxanthin-Producing Bacterium Isolated from the Algal Phycosphere Protects Coral Endosymbionts from Environmental Stress

(2020) Keisuke Motone et al.   mBio

Transformation of the Drosophila sex-manipulative endosymbiont Spiroplasma poulsonii and persisting hurdles for functional genetics studies

(2020) Florent Masson et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Assessment of bacterial community composition within and among Acropora loripes colonies in the wild and in captivity

(2020) Katarina Damjanovic et al.   CORAL REEFS

Diverse coral reef invertebrates exhibit patterns of phylosymbiosis

(2020) Paul A. O’Brien et al.   ISME Journal

Single-cell bacterial transcription measurements reveal the importance of dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) hotspots in ocean sulfur cycling

(2020) Cherry Gao et al.   Nature Communications

Heat-evolved microalgal symbionts increase coral bleaching tolerance

(2020) P. Buerger et al.   Science Advances

Spatial and morphological reorganization of endosymbiosis during metamorphosis accommodates adult metabolic requirements in a weevil

(2020) Justin Maire et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Chlamydiae in the Environment

(2020) Astrid Collingro et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Parasitic ‘ Candidatus Aquarickettsia rohweri’ is a marker of disease susceptibility in Acropora cervicornis but is lost during thermal stress

(2020) Grace Klinges et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Insights into ‘Symbiodiniaceae phycosphere’ in a coral holobiont

(2020) Amana Guedes Garrido et al.   SYMBIOSIS

Coral Probiotics: Premise, Promise, Prospects

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

Thermal and Herbicide Tolerances of Chromerid Algae and Their Ability to Form a Symbiosis With Corals

(2019) Leela J. Chakravarti et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Weevilpgrp-lbprevents endosymbiont TCT dissemination and chronic host systemic immune activation

(2019) Justin Maire et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Microbiome engineering: enhancing climate resilience in corals

(2019) Hannah E Epstein et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

A widespread coral-infecting apicomplexan with chlorophyll biosynthesis genes

(2019) Waldan K. Kwong et al.   NATURE

Effects of thermal stress on amount, composition, and antibacterial properties of coral mucus

(2019) Rachel M. Wright et al.   PeerJ

The roles of age, parentage and environment on bacterial and algal endosymbiont communities in Acropora corals

(2019) Wing Yan Chan et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Coral microbiome dynamics, functions and design in a changing world

(2019) Madeleine J. H. van Oppen et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Coral bacterial community structure responds to environmental change in a host-specific manner

(2019) Maren Ziegler et al.   Nature Communications

Establishment of Coral-Bacteria Symbioses Reveal Changes in the Core Bacterial Community With Host Ontogeny

(2019) Rachele Bernasconi et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Experimental Inoculation of Coral Recruits With Marine Bacteria Indicates Scope for Microbiome Manipulation in Acropora tenuis and Platygyra daedalea

(2019) Katarina Damjanovic et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Phylogenetic, genomic, and biogeographic characterization of a novel and ubiquitous marine invertebrate-associated Rickettsiales parasite, Candidatus Aquarickettsia rohweri, gen. nov., sp. nov

(2019) J. Grace Klinges et al.   ISME Journal

Early Life Stages of a Common Broadcast Spawning Coral Associate with Specific Bacterial Communities Despite Lack of Internalized Bacteria

(2019) Katarina Damjanovic et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Mixed‐mode bacterial transmission in the common brooding coral Pocillopora acuta

(2019) Katarina Damjanovic et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Coral bleaching patterns are the outcome of complex biological and environmental networking

(2019) David J. Suggett et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Characterization of coral-associated microbial aggregates (CAMAs) within tissues of the coral Acropora hyacinthus

(2019) Naohisa Wada et al.   Scientific Reports

Beneath the surface: community assembly and functions of the coral skeleton microbiome

(2019) Francesco Ricci et al.   Microbiome

Tick-Bacteria Mutualism Depends on B Vitamin Synthesis Pathways

(2018) Olivier Duron et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Controlling vector-borne diseases by releasing modified mosquitoes

(2018) Heather A. Flores et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Spatial and temporal patterns of mass bleaching of corals in the Anthropocene

(2018) Terry P. Hughes et al.   SCIENCE

In Vitro Culture of the Insect Endosymbiont Spiroplasma poulsonii Highlights Bacterial Genes Involved in Host-Symbiont Interaction

(2018) Florent Masson et al.   mBio

Identification and Removal of Contaminant Sequences From Ribosomal Gene Databases: Lessons From the Census of Deep Life

(2018) Cody S. Sheik 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

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

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

What can a weevil teach a fly, and reciprocally? Interaction of host immune systems with endosymbionts in Glossina and Sitophilus

(2018) Anna Zaidman-Rémy et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Marine probiotics: increasing coral resistance to bleaching through microbiome manipulation

(2018) Phillipe M. Rosado et al.   ISME Journal

Coral-associated bacteria demonstrate phylosymbiosis and cophylogeny

(2018) F. Joseph Pollock et al.   Nature Communications

Into the Wild: Parallel Transcriptomics of the Tsetse-Wigglesworthia Mutualism within Kenyan Populations

(2017) Miguel Medina Munoz et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Shifting paradigms in restoration of the world's coral reefs

(2017) Madeleine J. H. van Oppen et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Rapid thermal adaptation in photosymbionts of reef-building corals

(2017) Leela J. Chakravarti et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Small genome symbiont underlies cuticle hardness in beetles

(2017) Hisashi Anbutsu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Culture of an aphid heritable symbiont demonstrates its direct role in defence against parasitoids

(2017) Jayce W. Brandt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Unravelling the relationship between the tsetse fly and its obligate symbiont Wigglesworthia : transcriptomic and metabolomic landscapes reveal highly integrated physiological networks

(2017) XiaoLi Bing et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Defining the Core Microbiome in Corals’ Microbial Soup

(2017) Alejandra Hernandez-Agreda et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Defining the core microbiome of the symbiotic dinoflagellate, Symbiodinium

(2017) Caitlin A. Lawson et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Defining Brugia malayi and Wolbachia symbiosis by stage-specific dual RNA-seq

(2017) Alexandra Grote et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Subcellular tracking reveals the location of dimethylsulfoniopropionate in microalgae and visualises its uptake by marine bacteria

(2017) Jean-Baptiste Raina et al.   eLife

Broadcast Spawning Coral Mussismilia hispida Can Vertically Transfer its Associated Bacterial Core

(2017) Deborah C. A. Leite et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Beneficial Microorganisms for Corals (BMC): Proposed Mechanisms for Coral Health and Resilience

(2017) Raquel S. Peixoto et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Zooming in on the phycosphere: the ecological interface for phytoplankton–bacteria relationships

(2017) Justin R. Seymour et al.   Nature Microbiology

The contribution of microbial biotechnology to mitigating coral reef degradation

(2017) Katarina Damjanovic et al.   Microbial Biotechnology

Insights into the Coral Microbiome: Underpinning the Health and Resilience of Reef Ecosystems

(2016) David G. Bourne et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Diversity and function of prevalent symbiotic marine bacteria in the genus Endozoicomonas

(2016) Matthew J. Neave et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Distribution of the obligate endosymbiont Blochmannia floridanus and expression analysis of putative immune genes in ovaries of the carpenter ant Camponotus floridanus

(2016) Maria Kupper et al.   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

Algae–bacteria interactions: Evolution, ecology and emerging applications

(2016) Rishiram Ramanan et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES

Wolbachia Blocks Currently Circulating Zika Virus Isolates in Brazilian Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes

(2016) Heverton Leandro Carneiro Dutra et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

From microbiology to cell biology: when an intracellular bacterium becomes part of its host cell

(2016) John P McCutcheon   CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY

Genome Evolution in the Obligate but Environmentally Active Luminous Symbionts of Flashlight Fish

(2016) Tory A. Hendry et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Adaptation by Deletogenic Replication Slippage in a Nascent Symbiont

(2016) Adam L. Clayton et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Cellular and molecular remodelling of a host cell for vertical transmission of bacterial symbionts

(2016) Jun-Bo Luan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Coral Mucus Is a Hot Spot for Viral Infections

(2015) Hanh Nguyen-Kim et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Species Richness on Coral Reefs and the Pursuit of Convergent Global Estimates

(2015) Rebecca Fisher et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Metagenomic characterization of viral communities in corals: mining biological signal from methodological noise

(2015) Elisha M. Wood-Charlson et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Imaging the uptake of nitrogen-fixing bacteria into larvae of the coral Acropora millepora

(2015) Kimberley A Lema et al.   ISME Journal

The coral core microbiome identifies rare bacterial taxa as ubiquitous endosymbionts

(2015) Tracy D Ainsworth et al.   ISME Journal

Coral-the world's most diverse symbiotic ecosystem

(2015) Linda L. Blackall et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The coral immune response facilitates protection against microbes during tissue regeneration

(2015) Jeroen A. J. M. van de Water et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Interaction and signalling between a cosmopolitan phytoplankton and associated bacteria

(2015) S. A. Amin et al.   NATURE

Heritable symbiosis: The advantages and perils of an evolutionary rabbit hole

(2015) Gordon M. Bennett et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

An out-of-body experience: the extracellular dimension for the transmission of mutualistic bacteria in insects

(2015) H. Salem et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Intranuclear bacteria: inside the cellular control center of eukaryotes

(2015) Frederik Schulz et al.   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

Evidence for Autoinduction and Quorum Sensing in White Band Disease-Causing Microbes on Acropora cervicornis

(2015) Rebecca H. Certner et al.   Scientific Reports

Microbes in the coral holobiont: partners through evolution, development, and ecological interactions

(2015) Janelle R. Thompson et al.   Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Mutualism–parasitism paradigm synthesized from results of root-endophyte models

(2015) Keerthi G. Mandyam et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The Tiniest Tiny Genomes

(2014) Nancy A. Moran et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Vitamin B6Generated by Obligate Symbionts Is Critical for Maintaining Proline Homeostasis and Fecundity in Tsetse Flies

(2014) Veronika Michalkova et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Reagent and laboratory contamination can critically impact sequence-based microbiome analyses

(2014) Susannah J Salter et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Direct exchange of vitamin B12 is demonstrated by modelling the growth dynamics of algal–bacterial cocultures

(2014) Matthew AA Grant et al.   ISME Journal

Microbial aggregates within tissues infect a diversity of corals throughout the Indo-Pacific

(2014) TM Work et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Intrasperm vertical symbiont transmission

(2014) K. Watanabe et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

From Parasitism to Mutualism: Unexpected Interactions Between a Cuckoo and Its Host

(2014) D. Canestrari et al.   SCIENCE

Stability of the wMel Wolbachia Infection following Invasion into Aedes aegypti Populations

(2014) Ary A. Hoffmann et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Limited Dengue Virus Replication in Field-Collected Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes Infected with Wolbachia

(2014) Francesca D. Frentiu et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

The symbiont side of symbiosis: do microbes really benefit?

(2014) Justine R. Garcia et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Initial Symbiont Contact Orchestrates Host-Organ-wide Transcriptional Changes that Prime Tissue Colonization

(2013) Natacha Kremer et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

Small, Smaller, Smallest: The Origins and Evolution of Ancient Dual Symbioses in a Phloem-Feeding Insect

(2013) Gordon M. Bennett et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii thermal tolerance enhancement mediated by a mutualistic interaction with vitamin B12-producing bacteria

(2013) Bo Xie et al.   ISME Journal

Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences

(2013) Margaret McFall-Ngai et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Nutrient cycling in early coral life stages:Pocillopora damicornislarvae provide their algal symbiont (Symbiodinium) with nitrogen acquired from bacterial associates

(2013) Janja Ceh et al.   Ecology and Evolution

The armadillo: a model for the neuropathy of leprosy and potentially other neurodegenerative diseases

(2012) R. Sharma et al.   Disease Models & Mechanisms

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

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

Tissue distribution and transmission routes for the tsetse fly endosymbionts

(2012) Séverine Balmand et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

Interactions between Diatoms and Bacteria

(2012) S. A. Amin et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

The fine line between mutualism and parasitism: complex effects in a cleaning symbiosis demonstrated by multiple field experiments

(2012) Bryan L. Brown et al.   OECOLOGIA

Bacterial Symbiosis Maintenance in the Asexually Reproducing and Regenerating Flatworm Paracatenula galateia

(2012) Ulrich Dirks et al.   PLoS One

Still a Host of Hosts for Wolbachia: Analysis of Recent Data Suggests That 40% of Terrestrial Arthropod Species Are Infected

(2012) Roman Zug et al.   PLoS One

The diversity of actinorhizal symbiosis

(2012) Katharina Pawlowski et al.   PROTOPLASMA

Biological and chemical characteristics of the coral gastric cavity

(2011) S. Agostini et al.   CORAL REEFS

Intracellular pathogens: living in an extreme environment

(2011) Stefan H. E. Kaufmann   IMMUNOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Coral-associated marine fungi form novel lineages and heterogeneous assemblages

(2011) Anthony S Amend et al.   ISME Journal

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

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

Assessing key safety concerns of a Wolbachia-based strategy to control dengue transmission by Aedes mosquitoes

(2011) Jean Popovici et al.   MEMORIAS DO INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ

The wMel Wolbachia strain blocks dengue and invades caged Aedes aegypti populations

(2011) T. Walker et al.   NATURE

Extreme genome reduction in symbiotic bacteria

(2011) John P. McCutcheon et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Evolutionary transitions in bacterial symbiosis

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

New Method for Counting Bacteria Associated with Coral Mucus

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

Fine-structural analysis of black band disease-infected coral reveals boring cyanobacteria and novel bacteria

(2010) AW Miller et al.   DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS

Isolation, pure culture and characterization of Serratia symbiotica sp. nov., the R-type of secondary endosymbiont of the black bean aphid Aphis fabae

(2010) A. Sabri et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Endosymbiotic associations within protists

(2010) E. C. M. Nowack et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A Wolbachia Symbiont in Aedes aegypti Limits Infection with Dengue, Chikungunya, and Plasmodium

(2009) Luciano A. Moreira et al.   CELL

Evidence of cyanobacteria-like endosymbionts in Acroporid corals from the Great Barrier Reef

(2009) E. C. E. Kvennefors et al.   CORAL REEFS

Photolysis of iron-siderophore chelates promotes bacterial-algal mutualism

(2009) S. A. Amin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Stable Introduction of a Life-Shortening Wolbachia Infection into the Mosquito Aedes aegypti

(2009) C. J. McMeniman et al.   SCIENCE

Genomics and Evolution of Heritable Bacterial Symbionts

(2008) Nancy A. Moran et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Global distribution and diversity of coral-associatedArchaeaand their possible role in the coral holobiont nitrogen cycle

(2008) Nachshon Siboni et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Genetic transformation of a Corynebacterial symbiont from the Chagas disease vector Triatoma infestans

(2008) Ravi V. Durvasula et al.   EXPERIMENTAL PARASITOLOGY

How many species are infected with Wolbachia? – a statistical analysis of current data

(2008) Kirsten Hilgenboecker et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

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

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

Analysis of milk gland structure and function in Glossina morsitans: Milk protein production, symbiont populations and fecundity

(2008) Geoffrey M. Attardo et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Learning how to live together: genomic insights into prokaryote–animal symbioses

(2008) Andrés Moya et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Symbiotic diversity in marine animals: the art of harnessing chemosynthesis

(2008) Nicole Dubilier et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Wolbachia: master manipulators of invertebrate biology

(2008) John H. Werren et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

The Bacterial Symbiont Wolbachia Induces Resistance to RNA Viral Infections in Drosophila melanogaster

(2008) Luís Teixeira et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY