Cornelia Roder

TL;DR: Comparison of bacterial assemblages of samples from healthy (HH) colonies and such displaying signs of White Plague Disease of two different coral species from the same reef in Koh Tao, Thailand, using 16S rRNA gene microarrays suggests that while corals harbor distinct species-specific microbial assemblage, disease-specific bacterial abundance patterns exist that are maintained over coral species boundaries.

TL;DR: This study characterizes Symbiodinium diversity around the Arabian Peninsula, which contains some of the most thermally diverse and understudied reefs on Earth, to serve as a baseline for further exploration into the effects of environmental change on host–symbiont pairings and the identification and ecological significance of symbiont types from regions already experiencing ‘Future Ocean’ conditions.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the content and structure of the coral microbiome aligns with environmental differences and denotes habitat adequacy, and availability of a range of coral host habitats might be important for the conservation of distinct microbiome structures and diversity.

TL;DR: Compared holobiont physiology and 16S-based bacterial communities of tissue and mucus of the hard coral Acropora hemprichii after 1 and 16 weeks of in-situ inorganic nutrient enrichment and/or herbivore exclusion in an offshore reef of the Central Red Sea, no particular bacterial species was consistently associated with the coral under a given treatment and the single effects of manipulated eutrophication and overfishing could not predict the combined effect.

TL;DR: Comparison of 16S rRNA gene microarrays of healthy and diseased colonies displaying White Plague Disease signs from two closely related Caribbean coral species shows that it is possible to derive conserved bacterial footprints of diseased coral holobionts that might help in identifying key bacterial species related to the underlying etiopathology.