The microbiome of coral surface mucus has a key role in mediating holobiont health and survival upon disturbance

The coral core microbiome identifies rare bacterial taxa as ubiquitous endosymbionts

(2015) Tracy D Ainsworth et al.   ISME Journal

Bacterial Communities Associated with Porites White Patch Syndrome (PWPS) on Three Western Indian Ocean (WIO) Coral Reefs

(2014) Mathieu G. Séré et al.   PLoS One

Community Shifts in the Surface Microbiomes of the Coral Porites astreoides with Unusual Lesions

(2014) Julie L. Meyer et al.   PLoS One

Local genomic adaptation of coral reef-associated microbiomes to gradients of natural variability and anthropogenic stressors

(2014) L. W. Kelly et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bacterial dynamics within the mucus, tissue and skeleton of the coral Porites lutea during different seasons

(2014) Jie Li et al.   Scientific Reports

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

Major similarities in the bacterial communities associated with lesioned and healthy Fungiidae corals

(2013) Amy Apprill et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Amplicon pyrosequencing reveals spatial and temporal consistency in diazotroph assemblages of theAcropora milleporamicrobiome

(2013) Kimberley A. Lema et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

A bacterial pathogen uses dimethylsulfoniopropionate as a cue to target heat-stressed corals

(2013) Melissa Garren et al.   ISME Journal

Coral and macroalgal exudates vary in neutral sugar composition and differentially enrich reef bacterioplankton lineages

(2013) Craig E Nelson et al.   ISME Journal

Bacterial profiling of White Plague Disease in a comparative coral species framework

(2013) Cornelia Roder et al.   ISME Journal

Bacterial communities and species-specific associations with the mucus of Brazilian coral species

(2013) Camila Carlos et al.   Scientific Reports

Microbial consortia increase thermal tolerance of corals

(2012) Justine A. Gilbert et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Fast, accurate error-correction of amplicon pyrosequences using Acacia

(2012) Lauren Bragg et al.   NATURE METHODS

Substrate-Controlled Succession of Marine Bacterioplankton Populations Induced by a Phytoplankton Bloom

(2012) H. Teeling et al.   SCIENCE

The nature and taxonomic composition of coral symbiomes as drivers of performance limits in scleractinian corals

(2011) Ruth D. Gates et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Biology and ecology of coral mucus release

(2011) John C. Bythell et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Development of Bacterial Biofilms on Artificial Corals in Comparison to Surface-Associated Microbes of Hard Corals

(2011) Michael John Sweet et al.   PLoS One

Drosophila Microbiome Modulates Host Developmental and Metabolic Homeostasis via Insulin Signaling

(2011) S. C. Shin et al.   SCIENCE

New Method for Counting Bacteria Associated with Coral Mucus

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

Bacterial assemblages differ between compartments within the coral holobiont

(2010) M. J. Sweet et al.   CORAL REEFS

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

Threatened Corals Provide Underexplored Microbial Habitats

(2010) Shinichi Sunagawa et al.   PLoS One

How Microbial Community Composition Regulates Coral Disease Development

(2010) Justin Mao-Jones et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

PyNAST: a flexible tool for aligning sequences to a template alignment

(2009) J. G. Caporaso et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Associations between species and groups of sites: indices and statistical inference

(2009) Miquel De Cáceres et al.   ECOLOGY

Coral mucus-associated bacteria: a possible first line of defense

(2009) Maya Shnit-Orland et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Coral mucus as an efficient trap for picoplanktonic cyanobacteria: implications for pelagic–benthic coupling in the reef ecosystem

(2009) MS Naumann et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Metagenomic analysis indicates that stressors induce production of herpes-like viruses in the coral Porites compressa

(2008) R. L. Vega Thurber et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA