The coral microbiome is a powerful mechanism for resiliency with significant capacity to protect its host from pathogens, parasites, toxins, eutrophic waters, heat stress, and bleaching. This study will investigate whether heat tolerant coral species that retain their beneficial microbiome during a heat stress event can aid less heat tolerant species in recovering beneficial microbiome members via horizontal transmission during or post-heat stress.
Erica Lauer Vose 