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Manuel Aranda

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Verified email at kaust.edu.sa
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Rapid adaptive responses to climate change in corals

G Torda, JM Donelson, M Aranda, DJ Barshis… - Nature Climate …, 2017 - nature.com
Pivotal to projecting the fate of coral reefs is the capacity of reef-building corals to acclimatize
and adapt to climate change. Transgenerational plasticity may enable some marine …

Enhancing the heat tolerance of reef-building corals to future warming

…, D Abrego, YJ Liew, JA Burt, E Meyer, M Aranda - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Reef-building corals thriving in extreme thermal environments may provide genetic variation
that can assist the evolution of populations to rapid climate warming. However, the …

The genome of Aiptasia, a sea anemone model for coral symbiosis

…, J Gough, VM Weis, M Aranda… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
The most diverse marine ecosystems, coral reefs, depend upon a functional symbiosis between
a cnidarian animal host (the coral) and intracellular photosynthetic dinoflagellate algae. …

[PDF][PDF] The genome of the model beetle and pest Tribolium castaneum.

…, EV Kriventseva, T Kadowaki, P Bork, M Aranda… - Nature, 2008 - serval.unil.ch
Tribolium castaneum is a member of the most species-rich eukaryotic order, a powerful model
organism for the study of generalized insect development, and an important pest of stored …

Comparative genomics explains the evolutionary success of reef-forming corals

D Bhattacharya, S Agrawal, M Aranda, S Baumgarten… - elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
10.7554/eLife.13288.001 Transcriptome and genome data from twenty stony coral species
and a selection of reference bilaterians were studied to elucidate coral evolutionary history. …

The past, present, and future of coral heat stress studies

…, S Schmidt‐Roach, M Aranda - Ecology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The global loss and degradation of coral reefs, as a result of intensified frequency and severity
of bleaching events, is a major concern. Evidence of heat stress affecting corals through …

Extending the natural adaptive capacity of coral holobionts

…, DJ Barshis, DG Bourne, M Aranda - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Anthropogenic climate change and environmental degradation destroy coral reefs, the
ecosystem services they provide, and the livelihoods of close to a billion people who depend on …

[HTML][HTML] Symbiodinium Transcriptomes: Genome Insights into the Dinoflagellate Symbionts of Reef-Building Corals

T Bayer, M Aranda, S Sunagawa, LK Yum… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Dinoflagellates are unicellular algae that are ubiquitously abundant in aquatic environments.
Species of the genus Symbiodinium form symbiotic relationships with reef-building corals …

[HTML][HTML] Symbiodinium genomes reveal adaptive evolution of functions related to coral-dinoflagellate symbiosis

…, B Lapeyre, P Bongaerts, I Cooke, M Aranda… - Communications …, 2018 - nature.com
Symbiosis between dinoflagellates of the genus Symbiodinium and reef-building corals forms
the trophic foundation of the world’s coral reef ecosystems. Here we present the first draft …

Epigenome-associated phenotypic acclimatization to ocean acidification in a reef-building coral

…, S Forêt, D Allemand, S Tambutté, M Aranda - Science …, 2018 - science.org
There are increasing concerns that the current rate of climate change might outpace the
ability of reef-building corals to adapt to future conditions. Work on model systems has shown …