Disease represents an emerging threat to coral reef ecosystems worldwide, highlighting the need to understand how stressful environmental conditions interact with coral immune...
The goal of this study is to evaluate variability of bacterial communities within microhabitats of corals, polyps and coenosarcs, to contribute to the determination of common attributes of a healthy c
Host microbiomes play a key role in coral disease dynamics, thus it is essential to characterize microbial communities of diseased tissues and identify how they are altered by...
Wild, aposymbiotic Astrangia poculata corals were collected before, during and after quiescence over 9 time points. Whole corals polyps were co-extracted for DNA and RNA, and the 16S rRNA gene was seq
