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
A carbon-nitrogen negative feedback loop underlies the repeated evolution of cnidarian–Symbiodiniaceae symbioses
Journal Year: 2023 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42582-y
Authors: Guoxin Cui, Alessandro Moret, JessicaMenzies, Huawen Zhong, Angus Li, Shiou-Han Hung, Salim Al-Babili, Manuel Aranda
  • carbon-nitrogen
  • Symbiodiniaceae
  • Ammonium
  • coral symbiosis
Assessing the feasibility of assisted migration of corals in the Red Sea
Journal Year: 2023 DOI:https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1181456
Authors: Marcelle M. Barreto, Sebastian Schmidt-Roach, Huawen Zhong, Manuel Aranda
  • coral reef
  • assisted migration
  • coral breeding
  • Global Climate Change
From the shallow to the mesophotic: a characterization of Symbiodiniaceae diversity in the Red Sea NEOM region
Journal Year: 2023 DOI:https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1077805
Authors: Tullia I. Terraneo, Mustapha Ouhssain, Carolina Bocanegra Castano, Manuel Aranda, Benjamin C. C. Hume, Fabio Marchese, Silvia Vimercati, Giovanni Chimienti, Ameer A. Eweida, Christian R. Voolstra, Burton H. Jones, Sam J. Purkis, Mattie Rodrigue, Francesca Benzoni
  • NEOM
  • mesophotic communities
  • Scleractinia
  • Symbiodiniaceae
Molecular insights into the Darwin paradox of coral reefs from the sea anemone Aiptasia
Journal Year: 2023 DOI:doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adf7108
Authors: Guoxin Cui, Migle K. Konciute, LorraineLing, Luke Esau, Jean-Baptiste Raina, Octavio R. Salazar, JasonS. Presnell, NilsRädecker, Huawen Zhong, JessicaMenzies, PhillipA. Cleves, Yi Jin Liew, CoryJ. Krediet, Val Sawiccy, MahaJ. Cziesielski, Paul Guagliardo, JeremyBougoure, MathieuPernice, Heribert Hirt, ChristianR. Voolstra, Virigina M. Weis, Pringle John R., Manuel Aranda
  • Aiptasia
  • Glucose
  • Ammonium
  • Nutrient recycling
  • Darwin Paradox
  • Whole-organism nitrogen assimilation
  • Symbiosis
Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) in the coral model system Exaiptasia diaphana
Journal Year: 2023 DOI:doi: 10.3791/64817. PMID: 37010313
Authors: Mascha Fiona Dix, Peng Liu, Guoxin Cui, Francesco Della Valle, Valerio Orlando, Manuel Aranda
  • Exaiptasia diaphana
  • epigenetics
  • chromatin
  • ChIP-seq
  • environmental changes
  • Adaptive Response
Linker histone H1 modulates defense priming and immunity in plants
Journal Year: 2023 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkad106
Authors: Arsheed H. Sheikh, Kashif Nawaz, Naheed Tabassum, Marilia Almeida-Trapp, Kiruthiga G. Mariappan, Hanna Alhoraibi, Naganand Rayapuram, Manuel Aranda, Martin Groth, Heribert Hirt
  • gene regulation
  • epigenetics
  • Transcriptomics
  • histone
Novel infrastructure for coral gardening and reefscaping
Journal Year: 2023 DOI:https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1110830
Authors: Sebastian Schmidt-Roach, Rebecca Klaus, Abdulaziz M. Al-Suwailem, Alejandro R. Prieto, Julian Charrière, Charlotte A.E. Hauser, Carlos M. Duarte, Manuel Aranda
  • coral restoration
  • maritechture
  • coral nursery
  • Adaptive management
  • selective propagation
  • breeding hubs
Disparate population structure and holobiont assemblage of Pocilloporid corals along the Red Sea necessitates reserve networks for effective conservation
Journal Year: 2023 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16871
Authors: Buitrago-López Carol, Anny Cárdenas, Benjamin C. C. Hume, Thierry Gosselin, Fabian Staubach, Henrique Marques-Souza Manuel Aranda, Barshis Daniel J., Yvonne Sawall, Christian R. Voolstra
  • Adaptation
  • Climate Change
  • coral reef
  • population genomics
  • Symbiodiniaceae
Rapid shits in thermal reaction norms and tolerance of brooded coral larvae following parental thermal acclimation
Journal Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16826
Authors: Lei Jiang, Cheng-Yue Liu, Guoxin Cui, Lin-Tao Huang, Xiao- Lei Yu, You-Fang Sun, Manuel Aranda, et al.
  • Acclimatization
  • coral larvae
  • Brooding corals
  • Heat tolerance
  • Metabolic depression
  • parental preconditioning