Endozoicomoans dominate coral microbiomes even during holobiont breakdown

25 January, 2018

In our latest publication, Claudia Pogoreutz and colleagues investigated microbiome dynamics during holobiont breakdown in the Red Sea coral Pocillopora verrucosa. Strikingly, bacteria of the genus Endozoicomonas dominated the microbiome even at the onset of host mortality.
Read the full story out now in Ecology and Evolution!

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.3830/abstract