ReviewNature reviews. Microbiology2017
Virus-host interactions and their roles in coral reef health and disease.
Review in Nature reviews. Microbiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 70 papers.
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70 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Selective shaping of prokaryotic communities and core symbiont maintenance suggest large-scale aquarium facilities as reservoirs of microbiome diversity in octocorals.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Coral garden conservation and restoration: how host taxon andFrontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
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- Coral microbiomes are structured by environmental gradients in deep waters.Environmental microbiome · 2024Article
- The microbiome dynamics and interaction of endosymbiotic Symbiodiniaceae and fungi are associated with thermal bleaching susceptibility of coral holobionts.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2024Article
- A genome-centric view of the role of the Acropora kenti microbiome in coral health and resilience.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Globally distributed bacteriophage genomes reveal mechanisms of tripartite phage-bacteria-coral interactions.The ISME journal · 2024Article
- Widespread occurrence and diverse origins of polintoviruses influence lineage-specific genome dynamics in stony corals.Virus evolution · 2024Article
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Abstract
Coral reefs occur in nutrient-poor shallow waters, constitute biodiversity and productivity hotspots, and are threatened by anthropogenic disturbance. This Review provides an introduction to coral reef virology and emphasizes the links between viruses, coral mortality and reef ecosystem decline. We describe the distinctive benthic-associated and water-column- associated viromes that are unique to coral reefs, which have received less attention than viruses in open-ocean systems. We hypothesize that viruses of bacteria and eukaryotes dynamically interact with their hosts in the water column and with scleractinian (stony) corals to influence microbial community dynamics, coral bleaching and disease, and reef biogeochemical cycling. Last, we outline how marine viruses are an integral part of the reef system and suggest that the influence of viruses on reef function is an essential component of these globally important environments.
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