Bacterial inoculation elicits changes to thecoral epigenome
Journal Year: 2026 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-77646-2
Authors: Adam Barno, Helena D.M. Villela, Pedro M. Cordoso, Francisca C. García, Guoxin Cui, Nathalia Delgadillo-Ordoñez, Alexandre S. Rosado, Torsten Thomas, Manuel Aranda, Christian R. Voolstra, Raquel S. Peixoto
  • Coral probiotics (BMCs)
  • DNA Methylation
  • Vibrio coralliilyticus
  • Coral epigenome
  • Heat Stress
  • Pocillopora verrucosa
Beyond PAM: digital photography and RGB color analysis as a cost-effective method for coral bleaching assessment
Journal Year: 2026 DOI:https:// doi. org/ 10. 1007/ s00338- 026- 02944-6
Authors: Ricardo M. Pedraza-Pohlenz, Holger Anlauf, Didier Barradas-Baustista, Octavio R. Salazar, Elisa Zogno, Nicole J. Burt, Sriharsha Chowdarapu, Mafalda Isidro, Cage Mele, Viktor Nunes Peinemann, Manuel Aranda
  • coral bleaching
  • RGB image analysis
  • Acute heat-stress assay (CBASS)
  • Symbiodiniaceae cell density
  • Distance to White
Metagenomic Insights Into Red Sea Biodiversity Across the Web of Life
Journal Year: 2026 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.70389
Authors: Elisa Lailolo, Christoper A. Hempel, Max Dhillon, Mascha Fiona Dix, Alessandro Moret, Marcelle M. Barreto, Jessica Menzies, Sebastian Schmidt-Roach, Manuel Aranda
  • Metagenomics
  • Biodiversity assessment
  • Red Sea
  • Environmental DNA (eDNA)
  • Sediment microbiology
  • Eukaryotic diversity
  • Amplicon sequencing comparison
  • Red Sea Decade Expedition (RSDE)
Oxygen Deprivation Implicated in Rapid Coral Mortality Under Acute Heating Events
Journal Year: 2026 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.71030
Authors: Max Dhillon, Shannon G. Klein, Dilip kr. Maity, Anieka J. Parry, Alessandro Moret, Walter Dellisanti, Abhijit Kushawaha, Sandip Dighe, Cesar C. Pacherres, Michael Kühl, Tadd Truscott, Carlos M. Duarte, Manuel Aranda
  • Concentration boundary layer
  • coral holobiont
  • Coral tissue disintegration
  • Hypoxia
  • Marine Heatwaves
  • Rapid coral mortality
  • thermal stress
Unify learns cellular evolution with universal multimodal embeddings
Journal Year: 2026 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-76230-y
Authors: Huawen Zhong, Wenkai Han, Guoxin Cui, David Gomez-Cabrero, Jesper Tegner, Xin Gao, Manuel Aranda
  • RNA expression
  • single-cell RNA-seq
  • macrogenes
  • bioinformaticss
Extensive coral bleaching and mortality in the central Red Sea during the fourth global coral bleaching event
Journal Year: 2026 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecochg.2026.100117
Authors: Natalie Dunn, Brian Nieuwenhuis, Marco Casartelli, et al.
  • coral bleaching
  • Red Sea
  • Coral Mortality
  • coral cover decline
Acute temperature effects on cilia beating increasecoral deoxygenation
Journal Year: 2026 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aeg0950
Authors: Pacherres C, Max Dhillon, Mads Bilbo, Mikkel Hansen, Douglas Brumley, Manuel Aranda, Soeren Ahmerkamp, Michael Kühl
  • Heat Stress
  • Coral
  • cilia
  • deoxygenation
Accelerating coral assisted evolution to keep pace with climate change
Journal Year: 2026 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s44358-026-00147-z
Authors: Adriana Humanes, Line K. Bay, Cynthia Riginos, David Aguirre, Michael Angiletta Jr, Manuel Aranda, Maria Vanessa Baria-Rodriguez, Illina Baums, Ranjeet Bhagooli, Carlos M. Duarte, James Guest, Andrew Hendry, Carly Kenkel, et al.
  • Coral
  • assisted evolution
  • Climate Change
Heat stress triggers distinct transcriptomic responses in cold-adapted Antarctic marine invertebrates
Journal Year: 2026 DOI:https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2026.1769593
Authors: Andrea Prófumo, Octavio R. Salazar, Carlos Angulo-Preckler, Carlos M. Duarte, Manuel Aranda, Conxita Avila
  • Antarctic
  • Heat Stress
  • Transcriptome
Differential Responses to Heat Stress Between Freshly Isolated and Long-Term Cultured Symbiodinium
Year: 2026 DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms14020455
Authors: Silvia Arossa, Shannon G. Klein, Jacqueline V. Alva Garcia, Alexandra Steckbauer, Naira Pluma, Luca Genchi, Sergey P. Laptenok, Shiou-Han Hung, Octavio R. Salazar, Manuel Aranda, Carlo Liberale, Carlos M. Duarte
  • Symbiodiniaceae
  • Symbiosis
  • algae culture
  • thermal stress
  • Symbiodinium
  • Cassiopea andromeda
  • upside down jellyfish
Oxygen Supersaturation Could Protect Reef-Building Corals Against Acute Thermal Stress
Journal Year: 2025 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70586
Authors: Anieka J. Parry, Shannon G. Klein, Alexandra Steckbauer, Max Dhillon, Marcelle M. Barreto, Victoria C. Golding, Eleonora Re, Silvia Arossa, Manuel Aranda, Carlos M. Duarte
  • Oxygen Supersaturation
  • Thermal Tolerance
  • Hypoxia
  • Marine Heatwaves
  • Flow Conditions
Marine heatwaves select for thermal tolerance in a reef-building coral
Journal Year: 2025 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02381-3
Authors: Emily J. Howells, David Abrego, Sebastian Schmidt-Roach, E. Puill-Stephan, H. Denis, S. Harii, Line K. Bay, John A. Burt, K. Monro, Manuel Aranda
  • Marine Heatwaves
  • Platygyra daedalea
  • Thermal Tolerance
  • fitness-related Traits
The coral probiotics village: an underwater laboratory to tackle the coral reefs crisis
Journal Year: 2025 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71558
Authors: Neus Garcias-Bonet, Helena D.M. Villela, Francisca C. García, Gustavo A.S. Duarte, Nathalia Delgadillo-Ordoñez, Inês Raimundo, Yusuf C. El-Khaled, Erika P. Santoro, Morgan Bennett-Smith, Brian O. Nieuwenhuis, Joao Curdia, Clinton Edwards, Stuart Sandin, Eslam O. Osman, Ronell Sicat, Alexandre S. Rosado, Burton H. Jones, Francesca Benzoni, Michael L. Berumen, Khaled Salama, Shinkyu Park, Manuel Aranda, Carlos M. Duarte, Sebastian Schmidt-Roach, Charlotte A.E. Hauser, Tadd Truscott, David Suggett, Christian R. Voolstra, Susana Carvalho, Raquel S. Peixoto
  • Coral Probiotics
  • coral restoration
  • AI-assisted reef monitoring
Benchmarking cross-species single-cell RNA-seq data integration methods: towards a cell type tree of life
Journal Year: 2025 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkae1316
Authors: Huawen Zhong, Wenkai Han, David Gomez-Cabrero, Jesper Tegner, Guoxin Cui, Manuel Aranda
  • single-cell RNA-seq
  • Interspecific genetic variations
  • SAMap
  • SATURN
  • scGEN
Genome sequence of the Mediterranean red coral Corallium rubrum
Journal Year: 2024 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-024-07006-0
Authors: Phillippe Ganot, Tobias Rausch, Markus Hsi-Yang, Didier Zoccola, Xin Wang, Manuel Aranda, Vladimir Benes, Denis Allemand, Sylvie Tambutté
  • Fungal genomics
  • Mediterranean
  • Corallium rubrum
Broadband background-free stimulated Raman scattering microspectroscopy with a novel frequency modulation scheme
Journal Year: 2024 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0236062
Authors: L. Genchi, S. P. Laptenok, D. Gonzalez-Hermandez, Jessica Menzies, Manuel Aranda, C. Liberale
  • Acoustic-optics
  • Environmental studies
  • Frequency modulation
  • Microspectroscopy
  • Raman microscopy
  • Raman scattering
  • Microscopy
  • Algae
The Northern Red Sea (Shushah Island) coral health inferred from benthic foraminifers
Journal Year: 2024 DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/d16080463
Authors: Nazik Öğretmen, Carlos Angulo-Preckler, Manuel Aranda, Carlos M. Duarte, Hildegard Westphal
  • Foraminifers
  • FoRAM Index
  • water quality
  • coral reef health
  • Red Sea
Oxygen supersaturation adds resistance to a cnidarian: Symbiodiniaceae holobiont under moderate warming in experimental settings
Journal Year: 2024 DOI:https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2024.1305674
Authors: Silvia Arossa, Shannon G. Klein, Elisa Garuglieri, Alexandra Steckbauer, Anieka J. Parry, Jacqueline V. Alva Garcia, Taiba Alamoudi, Xinyuan Yang, Shiou-Han Hung, Octavio R. Salazar, Ramona Marasco, Marco Fusi, Manuel Aranda, Daniele Daffonchio, Carlos M. Duarte
  • O2 supersaturation
  • Cnidarians
  • Symbiodiniaceae
  • beneficial bacterial taxa
SOS1 tonoplast neo-localization and the RGG protein SALTY are important in the extreme salinity tolerance of Salicornia bigelovii
Journal Year: 2024 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48595-5
Authors: Octavio R. Salazar, Ke Chen, Vanessa J. Melino, Muppala P. Reddy, Eva Hřbová, Jana Čížková, Denisa Beránková, Juan Pablo Arciniegas Vega, Lina Maria Cáceres Leal, Manuel Aranda, Lukasz Jaremko, Mariusz Jaremko, Nina V. Fedoroff, Mark Tester, Sandra M. Schmöckel
  • Salicornia bigelovii
  • salinity tolerance
  • salt marshes
  • Proteomics
The Northern Red Sea (Shushah Island) Coral Health Inferred from Benthic Foraminifers
Journal Year: 2023 DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/d16080463
Authors: Nazik Öğretmen, Carlos Angulo-Preckler, Manuel Aranda, Carlos M. Duarte, Hildegard Westphal
  • Red Sea
  • Foraminifers
  • FoRAM Index
  • Marine Biodiversity