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The Right Place at the Right Time: Seasonal Variation of Bacterial Communities in Arid Avicennia marina Soils in the Red Sea Is Specific to Its Position in the Intertidal

Research article Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.845611

Authors: Timothy Thomson, Joanne I. Ellis, Marco Fusi, Natalie Prinz, Morgan F. Bennett-Smith, Eva Aylagas, Susana Carvalho, Burton H. Jones

Comparative metagenomics of phytoplankton blooms after nutrient enrichment of oligotrophic marine waters

Research article Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.3897/mbmg.6.79208

Authors: John K. Pearman, Laura Casas, Craig Michell, Naroa Aldanondo, Nazia Mojib, Karie Holtermann, Ioannis Georgakakis, Joao Curdia, Susana Carvalho, Amr Gusti, Xabier Irigoien

algal blooms
eutrophication
metagenomics
nutrient enrichment

Potential effects of heavy metal pollution from a cement factory near Saudi Arabia’s largest green turtle rookery

Research article Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-022-10063-2

Authors: Lyndsey K. Tanabe, Susana Carvalho, Vijayalaxmi Dasari, Areen Nasif, Kaitlyn A. O’Toole, Michael L. Berumen

Harnessing the microbiome to prevent global biodiversity loss

Research article Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-022-01173-1

Authors: Raquel S. Peixoto, Christian R. Voolstra, Michael Sweet, Carlos M. Duarte, Susana Carvalho, Helena Villela, Jeantine E. Lunshof, Lone Gram, Douglas C. Woodhams, Jens Walter, Anna Roik, Ute Hentschel, Rebecca Vega Thurber, Brendan Daisley, Blake Ushijima, Daniele Daffonchio, Rodrigo Costa, Tina Keller-Costa, Jeff S. Bowman, Alexandre S. Rosado, Gregor Reid, Christopher E. Mason, Jenifer B. Walke, Torsten Thomas, Gabriele Berg

Size structure of the coral Stylophora pistillata across reef flat zones in the central Red Sea

Research article Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-17908-3

Authors: Walter A. Rich, Susana Carvalho, Ronald Cadiz, Gloria Gil, Karla Gonzalez, Michael L. Berumen

Coral bleaching due to cold stress on a central Red Sea reef flat

Research article Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9450

Authors: Walter A. Rich, Susana Carvalho, Michael L. Berumen

Inter-annual variability patterns of reef cryptobiota in the central Red Sea across a shelf gradient

Research article Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-21304-2

Authors: R. Villalobos, E. Aylagas, J. K. Pearman, J. Curdia, D. Lozano-Cortés, D. J. Coker, B. Jones, M. L. Berumen, S. Carvalho

Molecular hydrogen can minimize negative effects of heat stress on the hard coral genus Acropora

Research article Year: 2024 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.02.606431

Authors: Malte Ostendarp, Mareike de Breuyn, Yusuf C. El-Khaled, Neus Garcias-Bonet, Susana Carvalho, Raquel S. Peixoto, Christian Wild

Two new records and description of a new Perinereis (Annelida, Nereididae) species for the Saudi Arabian Red Sea region

Research article Year: 2024 DOI:https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1196.115260

Authors: Marcos A L Teixeira, Chloé Julie Loïs Fourreau, Juan Sempere-Valverde, Susana Carvalho

Gulf of Aqaba
mtCOI-5P
NEOM
north-eastern Red Sea
Polychaeta
Saudi Arabia
taxonomy

The Coral Probiotics Village: An Underwater Laboratory to Tackle the Coral Reefs Crisis

Research article Year: 2025 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71558

Authors: Neus Garcias-Bonet, Helena 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, João Curdia, Brian Zgliczynski, Clinton Edwards, Stuart Sandin, Eslam O. Osman, Ronell Sicat, Alexander Przybysz, 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 J. Suggett, Christian R. Voolstra, Susana Carvalho, Raquel S. Peixoto

Remotely sensing coral bleaching in the Red Sea

Research article Year: 2025 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.70000

Authors: Elamurugu Alias Gokul, Dionysios E. Raitsos, Robert J. W. Brewin, Susana Carvalho, Khaled Asfahani, Ibrahim Hoteit

Probiotics prevent mortality of thermal-sensitive corals exposed to short-term heat stres

Research article Year: 2025 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/ismeco/ycaf039

Authors: Mareike de Breuyn, Malte Ostendarp, Yusuf C El-Khaled, Neus Garcias-Bonet, Susana Carvalho, Christian Wild, Raquel S Peixoto

Temperature-dependent responses of the hard corals Acropora sp. and Pocillopora verrucosa to molecular hydrogen

Research article Year: 2025 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0308894

Authors: Malte Ostendarp, Mareike de Breuyn, Yusuf C. El-Khaled, Neus Garcias-Bonet, Susana Carvalho, Raquel S. Peixoto, Christian Wild

Parahesione dudahamra sp. nov., an eye-catching symbiotic worm from the Red Sea, with complementary description and notes on Leocrates giardi Gravier, 1900 (Annelida: Phyllodocida: Hesionidae)

Research article Year: 2025 DOI:https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5673.2.2

Authors: VITALY SYOMIN, ARTHUR ANKER, GLAFIRA KOLBASOVA, SUSANA CARVALHO

Near complete local extinction of iconic anemonefish and their anemone hosts following a heat stress event

Research article Year: 2025 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s44185-025-00107-4

Authors: Morgan F. Bennett-Smith, Helena Villela, Micaela S. S. Justo, Viktor Nunes Peinemann, Michael L. Berumen, Susana Carvalho, Neus Garcias-Bonet, Francisca C. García, Melissa Versteeg, Theresa Rueger, Peter M. Buston, Raquel S. Peixoto

Adaptive hues: color change in a small coral reef mesopredator (Pseudochromis flavivertex)

Research article Year: 2025 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-025-02804-9

Authors: Stephania Palacios-Narváez, Darren J. Coker, Micaela S. Justo, Viktor Nunes Peinemann, John E. Majoris, Michael L. Berumen

The first record of Porcupinella profunda from the North Pacific, Aleutian Trench documents phylogenetic position in the Umbellulidae

Research article Year: 2025 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2025.103590

Authors: Yuka Kushida, Angelika Brandt, James Davis Reimer, Hiroki Kise, Angelo Poliseno

Aleut-Bio cruise
Chunellidae
Molecular phylogeny
Umbellula

Gaps and Data Ambiguities in DNA Reference Libraries: A Limiting Factor for Molecular-Based Biodiversity Assessments Using Annelids as a Case Study

Research article Year: 2025 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71544

Authors: Marcos A. L. Teixeira, Eva Aylagas, John K. Pearman, Susana Carvalho

A sea of worms: the striking cases of the European Perinereis cultrifera and P. rullieri (Annelida: Nereididae) species complexes, with description of 13 new species

Research article Year: 2025 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1071/IS24059

Authors: Marcos A. L. Teixeira, Joachim Langeneck, Maël Grosse, Pedro E. Vieira, José Carlos Hernández, Bruno R. Sampieri, Panagiotis Kasapidis, Torkild Bakken, Susana Carvalho, Ascensão Ravara, Arne Nygren, Filipe O. Costa

Canary Islands
cryptic species
identification key
integrative taxonomy
Mediterranean Sea
Northeast Atlantic
Polychaeta

Holopelagic Annelida from the Red Sea off the Central Saudi Arabian coast

Research article Year: 2025 DOI:https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5632.1.1

Authors: G.D. KOLBASOVA, V.L. SYOMIN, J. SEMPERE-VALVERDE, M.A.L. TEIXEIRA, S. CARVALHO

Annelida
18S
28S
pelagic polychaetes
zooplankton
molecular systematics
morphology
COI

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