Kathleen M. Morrow

TL;DR: This work integrates contemporary scientific knowledge regarding the ecological, host-specific, and environmental forces shaping the diversity, specificity, and distribution of microbial symbionts within the coral holobiont, explore physiological pathways that contribute to holOBiont fitness, and describe potential mechanisms for holobIONt homeostasis.

TL;DR: Data show that responses to elevated pCO2 are species-specific and that the stability and flexibility of microbial partnerships may have an important role in shaping and contributing to the fitness and success of some hosts.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated here that M. faveolata and P. astreoides harbor distinct, host-specific bacteria but that specificity varies by species and site, but the degree to which each species maintains specific microbial associations varies both within each site and across large spatial scales.

TL;DR: Competition among sessile organisms is a major process on coral reefs, and is becoming more important as anthropogenic disturbances cause shifts in dominance to non-reef builders such as macroalgae, soft corals, ascidians, and corallimorpharians.

TL;DR: The recovery of metagenome-assembled genomes from the coral Porites lutea, its dinoflagellate symbiont, and its bacterial and archaeal populations, enabled comparative genomic identification of functions important for host–microbe interactions and nutritional associations.