Coral reefs have suffered long‐term decline due to a range of anthropogenic disturbances
and are now also under threat from climate change. For appropriate management of these …

The genetic enhancement of wild animals and plants for characteristics that benefit human
populations has been practiced for thousands of years, resulting in impressive improvements …

During the past decade, acute and chronic bleaching of tropical reef corals has occurred
with increasing frequency and scale. Bleaching, ie, the loss of pigment and the decrease in …

Emerging infectious diseases are a worldwide problem and are believed to play a major
role in coral reef degradation. The study of coral diseases is difficult but the use of culture-…

Ocean acidification (OA), a consequence of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions, poses
a serious threat to marine organisms in tropical, open-ocean, coastal, deep-sea, and high-…

SYNOPSIS. The ability of scleractinian corals to survive changes that are predicted in the
global environment over the next century will lie in their physiological mechanisms of …

Current sampling of genomic sequence data from eukaryotes is relatively poor, biased, and
inadequate to address important questions about their biology, evolution, and ecology; this …

Marine protected areas (MPAs) are increasingly being used globally to conserve marine
resources. However, whether many MPAs are being effectively and equitably managed, and …

Coral reef ecosystems are seriously threatened by changing conditions in the ocean.
Although many factors are implicated, climate change has emerged as a dominant and rapidly …

Despite being one of the simplest metazoans, corals harbor some of the most highly diverse
and abundant microbial communities. Differentiating core, symbiotic bacteria from this …