9 of the Executive Orders that Trump signed on Day 1 of his administration specifically assault our environment and our ability to address climate change. Here's a summary of the worst of it: ayanaelizabeth.substack.com/p/trumps-day...
wonderful team @adriennecorrea.bsky.social @cgrupstra.bsky.social @jordansims.bsky.social & many others! Anna Knochel, Matthew Meyer, Carly Karrick, Alex Veglia, Andrew Thurber, Rebecca Vega Thurber
& thanks NSF for funding that supported this work! +3 insightful reviewers
6/ Crystalline array observed in a Symbiodiniaceae cell expelled from Acropora hyacinthus
5/ Some other fun highlights- check out our symbiont capture device- deployed in aquariums and on the reef to catch symbionts expelled from Acropora
4/ we observed putative virion formation in symbionts of bleaching Acropora- we’d love to hear if you’ve seen anything similar in TEMs!
3/ fVLPs are not exclusive to SCTLD-affected reef regions: we compare South Pacific fVLPs to those described in Work et al 2021 from SCTLD infected & non infected corals from Florida
& fVLPs are found in Breviolum, Cladocopium, & Durusdinium dominated corals
2/ We found more Symbiodiniaceae cells with fVLPs in corals sampled during a marine heatwave 🔥🌊 also found in symbionts expelled from corals- read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Out today in ISME Journal thru extensive TEM imaging, we show that a diversity of Pacific coral symbionts contain filamentous virus-like particles (fVLPs) see below for highlights