Communications Earth & Environment - Periodic upwelling in the Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida enhances coral heterotrophy and positively influences the microbiome supporting higher...

Coral Reefs - Many published coral disease pathogen transmission and heat stress studies lack consistent acclimation periods in their experimental design, making it difficult to interpret or...

History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences - This paper addresses the topic of determinism in contemporary microbiome research. I distinguish two types of deterministic claims about the...

Mass coral bleaching is one of the clearest threats of climate change to the persistence of marine biodiversity. Despite the negative impacts of bleaching on coral health and survival, some corals...

The Oxford Nanopore MinION is the preferred platform for studies in microbial ecology, because of its long-read capability, low cost and ease of use.

Nature Communications - DNA sequencing methods for characterizing microbial communities are well developed for bacteria, archaea and fungi, but less so for eukaryotic parasites and commensals....

Background Ocean warming is a leading cause of increasing episodes of coral bleaching, the dissociation between coral hosts and their dinoflagellate algal symbionts in the family Symbiodiniaceae....

Coral Reefs - Numerous tropical macroalgae provide associational refuge to other benthic organisms, presumably due to their physical structure and/or production of chemical metabolites. One feature...