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Genome analysis of a coral-associated bacterial consortium highlights complementary hydrocarbon degradation ability and other beneficial mechanisms for the host

Research article Year: 2023 DOI:10.1038/s41598-023-38512-z

Authors: Helena Villela, Flúvio Modolon, Júnia Schultz, Nathalia Delgadillo-Ordoñez, Susana Carvalho, Adriana Ururahy Soriano, Raquel S Peixoto

PAH
Oil-degrading bacteria
Genome-based framework
Coral reefs
Bacteria

Baseline for marine cave monitoring strategies in the Alboran Sea using modified Cave Ecosystem-Based Quality Index (CavEBQI)

Research article Year: 2024 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.117065

Authors: Pablo Lanza-Arroyo, Juan Sempere-Valverde, Markos Digenis, José Miguel Remón, Diego Moreno, Agustín Barrajón, Antonio de la Linde, Maria del Carmen Arroyo, Manuel Fernández-Casado, Eugenio Mallofret, Luis Sánchez-Tocino, Vasilis Gerovasileiou

Marine caves
Ecological quality
Environmental monitoring
Alboran Sea

Differential spatio-temporal responses of Red Sea coral reef benthic communities to a mass bleaching event

Research article Year: 2024 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-74956-7

Authors: Karla Gonzalez, Nauras Daraghmeh, Diego Lozano-Cortés, Francesca Benzoni, Michael L. Berumen, Susana Carvalho

Coral reefs
Benthic communities
Bleaching
Community changes
Red Sea
DHW

Changes in benthic communities in Blagopoluchiya Bay (Novaya Zemlya, Kara Sea): the influence of the snow crab

Research article Year: 2024 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-024-03388-1

Authors: Alexey A. Udalov, Ivan M. Anisimov, Alexander B. Basin, Gennady V. Borisenko, Sergey V. Galkin, Vitaly L. Syomin, Sergey A. Shchuka, Miloslav I. Simakov, Anna K. Zalota, Margarita V. Chikina

Alien species
Chionoecetes opilio
Macrofauna
Megafauna
Video observations
Arctic fjord

Vertical distribution patterns of macrofauna in the sediments of the Arctic cross-shelf trough and adjacent shelf - Similarities and differences from lower latitudes

Research article Year: 2024 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2024.104315

Authors: Vitaly L. Syomin, Olga L. Zimina, Alexey A. KrylovAlexey A. Krylov, Ivan O. Nekhaev, Victor A. Bogin, Vladimir Yu. Zakharov

Zoobenthos
Vertical distribution
Sediment properties
Community structure
Niche partitioning
Arctic
North Barents Sea
Franz Victoria through

Global mesozooplankton communities show lower connectivity in deep oceanic layers

Research article Year: 2024 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17286

Authors: Oriol Canals, Jon Correl, Ernesto Villarino, Guillem Chust, Eva Aylagas, Iñaki Mendibil, Craig T. Michell, Juan Ignacio González-Gordillo, Xabier Irigoien, Naiara Rodríguez-Ezpeleta

Connectivity
Deep ocean
Dispersal
Environmental selection
Oceanic currents
Zooplankton

Dietary partitioning among three cryptobenthic reef fish mesopredators revealed by visual analysis, metabarcoding of gut content, and stable isotope analysis

Research article Year: 2024 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.541

Authors: Stephania Palacios-Narváez, Darren J Coker, Eva Aylagas, Viktor Nunes Peinemann, Micaela S.S. Justo, Matthew D. Tietbohl, Carolina Bocanegra, Chakkiath Paul Antony, Michael L. Berumen

Dietary niche breadth
DNA metabarcoding
Fish stomach content
High-throughputsequencing
Stable isotopes
Trophic ecology

Fine-scale spatial and temporal trends in Red Sea coral reef research

Review Year: 2024 DOI:10.1016/j.rsma.2024.103404

Authors: Jesse E.M. Cochran, Alexander Kattan, Ute Langner, Anna M. Knochel, Susana Carvalho, Darren Coker, Lucy Fitzgerald, Kiana Ford, Micaela S.S. Justo, Royale S. Hardernstine, Viktor Nunes Peinemann, Lucia Pombo-Ayora, Milica Predagovic, Water A. Rich, Kirsty Scott, Hailey Shchepanik, Lyndsey K. Tanabe, Matthew D. Tietbohl, Collin T. Williams, Michael L. Berumen

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Systematic review
Hotsopt analysis
Tropical ecosystems
Marginal Seas

The Red Sea cryptobiome: Spatial and temporal patterns

Book Chapter ISSN:9781032342900 DOI:DOI: 10.1201/9781003321392-3

Authors: Susana Carvalho, John K. Pearman

Coral Reefs and Associated Marine Fauna around the Arabian Peninsula

Cryptofauna
Red Sea
Biodiversity
Coral reefs

Eukaryotic diversity patterns in the Red Sea: from the surface to the deep

Research article Year: 2024 DOI:https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1295997

Authors: John K. Pearman, Burton Jones, Maryam Qashqari, Susana Carvalho

Eukaryotes
18S rRNA
Assembly processes
Deterministic
Stochastic
Red Sea

Too hot to handle? An urgent need to understand climate change impacts on the biogeochemistry of tropical coastal waters

Research article Year: 2024 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17074

Authors: Cátia Carreira, Patrick W. S. Joyce, Xosé Anxelu G. Morán, Susana Carvalho, Laura Falkenberg, Christian Lønborg

Acclimation
Biogeochemistry
Climate change
Coastal waters
Datasets
Impact
Knowledge gap
Stressors
Tropic

Camptoplax ahmar sp. nov., a new pilumnid crab (Crustacea: Brachyura) from the Red Sea

Research article Year: 2024

Authors: Peter K L Ng, Arthur Anker

Crustacea
Brachyuran crab
Pilumnidae
Infauna
Indian Ocean
Red Sea

A second species in the polychaete-associated crab genus Gustavus Ahyong & Ng, 2009 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Aphanodactylidae)

Research article Year: 2024 DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5497.3.3

Authors: Peter K L Ng, Arthur Anker

Crustacea
Thoracotremata
Integrative taxonomy
New taxon
Symbiosis
Terebellidae
Saudi Arabia
Indian Ocean
Genus range extension

Molecular diversity and patterns of co-occurrence of decapod crustaceans associated with branching corals in the central Red Sea

Research article Year: 2024 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-024-01457-1

Authors: Laura Macrina, Tullia Isotta Terraneo, Roberto Arrigoni, Davide Maggioni, Matthew D. Tietbohl, Arthur Anker, Robert M Lasley Jr, Melissa Pappas, Michael Lee Berumen, Francesca Benzoni

Decapoda
Phylogeny
Symbiosis
Coral reefs
Integrative taxonomy

Venomous Foes in Mediterranean Africa: Occurrence of Physalia physalis (Linnaeus, 1758), and First Records of Glaucus atlanticus Forster, 1777 for Algeria and Tunisia

Research article Year: 2024 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s41208-024-00706-1

Authors: Sahar Chebaane, Juan Sempere-Valverde, Andrea Desiderato, Sonia K M Gueroun, Francesco Tiralongo, Ernesto Azzurro, Ramla Bouhlel, Emma Derouiche, Yassine Ramzi Sghaier

Citizen science
Pleuston
Neuston
Harmful fauna
Mediterranean Sea

Plasticlusters: A marine litter microhabitat in a marina of Tunisia, N Africa

Research article Year: 2024 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.116389

Authors: Juan Sempere-Valverde, Pablo Saenz-Arias, Anastasiia Marynova, Ons Benzarti, Ramla Bouhlel, Carlos Maria López Fe de la Cuadra, José Manuel Guerra-García, Sahar Chebaane

Non-indigenous species
Marinas
Plastic debris
Artificial habitat
Floating substrata

Localization and symbiotic status of probiotics in the coral holobiont

Research article Year: 2024 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.00261-24

Authors: Pedro M Cardoso, L J Hill, Helena D M Villela, C L S Vilela, J M Assis, Phillipe M Rosado, João G Rosado, M A Chacon, M E Majzoub, Gustavo A S Duarte, T Thomas, Raquel S Peixoto

Coral probiotics
Beneficial microorganisms for corals
FISH
Coral-associated microbes
Tissue
Location
Halomonas sp.
Cobetia sp.

Exploring the Potential Molecular Mechanisms of Interactions between a Probiotic Consortium and Its Coral Host

Research article Year: 2024 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.00921-22

Authors: Phillipe M Rosado, Pedro M Cardoso, João G Rosado, Júnia Schultz, Ulisses Nunes da Rocha, Tina Keller-Costa, Raquel S Peixoto

Beneficial microorganisms for corals
Coral probiotics
Genomes
Mechanisms
Symbiosis
Molecular interactions
Holobiont

Probiotics reshape the coral microbiome in situ without detectable off-target effects in the surrounding environment

Research article Year: 2024 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06135-3

Authors: Nathalia Delgadillo-Ordoñez, Neus Garcia-Bonet, Inês Raimundo, Francisca C García, Helena Villela, Eslam O Osman, Erika P Santoro, Joao Curdia, Joao G. D. Rosado, Pedro Cardoso, Ahmed Alsaggaf, Adam Barno, Chakkiath Paul Antony, Carolina Bocanegra, Michael L. Berumen, Christian R. Voolstra, Francesca Benzoni, Susana Carvalho, Raquel S Peixoto

Probiotics
Microbiome
Coral reefs
Beneficial microorganisms for corals
Red Sea

Disentangling eukaryotic biodiversity patterns from man-made environments (port and marina) and nearby coral reefs in the Red Sea: A focus on the surveillance of non-indigenous species

Research article Year: 2024

Authors: Eva Aylagas, Hailey Shchepanik, John K. Pearman, Bruno Parisi, Joao Curdia, Michael L. Berumen, Susana Carvalho

Biosecurity
Coral reefs
invasive species
Man-made environments
Metabarcoding

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