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The predictability of fluctuating environments shapes the thermal tolerance of marine ectotherms and compensates narrow safety margins (2024)
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Fusi, M., Barausse, A., Booth, J. M., Chapman, E., Daffonchio, D., Sanderson, W., Diele, K., & Giomi, F. (2024). The predictability of fluctuating environments shapes the thermal tolerance of marine ectotherms and compensates narrow safety margins. Scientific Reports, 14, Article 26174. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-77621-1

Aquatic species living in productive coastal habitats with abundant primary producers have evolved in highly dynamic diel and seasonally fluctuating environments in terms of, for example, water temperature and dissolved oxygen. However, how environme... Read More about The predictability of fluctuating environments shapes the thermal tolerance of marine ectotherms and compensates narrow safety margins.

Oxygen supersaturation adds resistance to a cnidarian: Symbiodiniaceae holobiont under moderate warming in experimental settings (2024)
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Arossa, S., Klein, S. G., Garuglieri, E., Steckbauer, A., Parry, A. J., Alva Garcia, J. V., Alamoudi, T., Yang, X., Hung, S.-H., Salazar, O. R., Marasco, R., Fusi, M., Aranda, M., Daffonchio, D., & Duarte, C. M. (2024). Oxygen supersaturation adds resistance to a cnidarian: Symbiodiniaceae holobiont under moderate warming in experimental settings. Frontiers in Marine Science, 11, Article 1305674. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2024.1305674

Ocean warming reduces O2 solubility and increases organismal O2 demand, endangering marine life. Coastal ecosystems, however, experience O2 supersaturation during peak daytime temperatures due to metabolic cycles. Recent discoveries show that this en... Read More about Oxygen supersaturation adds resistance to a cnidarian: Symbiodiniaceae holobiont under moderate warming in experimental settings.

Mangrovimonas cancribranchiae sp. nov., a novel bacterial species associated with the gills of the fiddler crab Cranuca inversa (Brachyura, Ocypodidae) from Red Sea mangroves (2024)
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Yang, X., Garuglieri, E., Van Goethem, M. W., Marasco, R., Fusi, M., & Daffonchio, D. (2024). Mangrovimonas cancribranchiae sp. nov., a novel bacterial species associated with the gills of the fiddler crab Cranuca inversa (Brachyura, Ocypodidae) from Red Sea mangroves. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 74(6), https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.006415

Two bacteria, UG2_1T and UG2_2, were isolated from the gill tissues of the mangrove fiddler crab Cranuca inversa collected on the east coast of the Red Sea (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia). The cells are Gram-negative, rod-shaped, orange-pigmented, motile by g... Read More about Mangrovimonas cancribranchiae sp. nov., a novel bacterial species associated with the gills of the fiddler crab Cranuca inversa (Brachyura, Ocypodidae) from Red Sea mangroves.

Effects of catchment land use on temperate mangrove forests (2024)
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Thomson, T., Ellis, J. I., Fusi, M., Prinz, N., Lundquist, C. J., Bury, S. J., Shankar, U., Cary, S. C., & Pilditch, C. A. (2024). Effects of catchment land use on temperate mangrove forests. Science of the Total Environment, 940, Article 173579. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173579

Human land use changes are threatening the integrity and health of coastal ecosystems worldwide. Intensified land use for anthropogenic purposes increases sedimentation rates, pollutants, and nutrient concentrations into adjacent coastal areas, often... Read More about Effects of catchment land use on temperate mangrove forests.

Consistent effects of independent domestication events on the plant microbiota (2024)
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Soldan, R., Fusi, M., Cardinale, M., Homma, F., Santos, L. G., Wenzl, P., Bach-Pages, M., Bitocchi, E., Chacon Sanchez, M. I., Daffonchio, D., & Preston, G. M. (2024). Consistent effects of independent domestication events on the plant microbiota. Current Biology, 34(3), 557-567.e4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.12.056

The effect of plant domestication on plant-microbe interactions remains difficult to prove. In this study, we provide evidence of a domestication effect on the composition and abundance of the plant microbiota. We focused on the genus Phaseolus, whic... Read More about Consistent effects of independent domestication events on the plant microbiota.

Gill-associated bacteria are homogeneously selected in amphibious mangrove crabs to sustain host intertidal adaptation (2023)
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Fusi, M., Ngugi, D. K., Marasco, R., Booth, J. M., Cardinale, M., Sacchi, L., Clementi, E., Yang, X., Garuglieri, E., Fodelianakis, S., Michoud, G., & Daffonchio, D. (2023). Gill-associated bacteria are homogeneously selected in amphibious mangrove crabs to sustain host intertidal adaptation. Microbiome, 11(1), Article 189. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-023-01629-4

Background: The transition from water to air is a key event in the evolution of many marine organisms to access new food sources, escape water hypoxia, and exploit the higher and temperature-independent oxygen concentration of air. Despite the import... Read More about Gill-associated bacteria are homogeneously selected in amphibious mangrove crabs to sustain host intertidal adaptation.

Ideas and perspectives: The fluctuating nature of oxygen shapes the ecology of aquatic habitats and their biogeochemical cycles – the aquatic oxyscape (2023)
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Fusi, M., Rigaud, S., Guadagnin, G., Barausse, A., Marasco, R., Daffonchio, D., Régis, J., Huchet, L., Camin, C., Pettit, L., Vina-Herbon, C., & Giomi, F. (2023). Ideas and perspectives: The fluctuating nature of oxygen shapes the ecology of aquatic habitats and their biogeochemical cycles – the aquatic oxyscape. Biogeosciences, 20(16), 3509-3521. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-3509-2023

Oxygen availability is a pivotal factor for ecosystem functioning and the resistance of organisms to the effect of climate change in aquatic habitats. Although extensive work has been done to assess the effect of oxygen on marine and freshwater biota... Read More about Ideas and perspectives: The fluctuating nature of oxygen shapes the ecology of aquatic habitats and their biogeochemical cycles – the aquatic oxyscape.

An integrative salt marsh conceptual framework for global comparisons (2023)
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Yando, E. S., Jones, S. F., James, W. R., Colombano, D. D., Montemayor, D. I., Nolte, S., Raw, J. L., Ziegler, S. L., Chen, L., Daffonchio, D., Fusi, M., Rogers, K., & Sergienko, L. (2023). An integrative salt marsh conceptual framework for global comparisons. Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 8(6), 830-849. https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10346

Salt marshes occur globally across climatic and coastal settings, providing key linkages between terrestrial and marine ecosystems. However, salt marsh science lacks a unifying conceptual framework; consequently, historically well-studied locations h... Read More about An integrative salt marsh conceptual framework for global comparisons.

Oxygen dynamics in marine productive ecosystems at ecologically relevant scales (2023)
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Giomi, F., Barausse, A., Steckbauer, A., Daffonchio, D., Duarte, C. M., & Fusi, M. (2023). Oxygen dynamics in marine productive ecosystems at ecologically relevant scales. Nature Geoscience, 16, 560-566. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01217-z

The decline of dissolved oxygen in the oceans could be detrimental to marine life and biogeochemical cycles. However, predicting future oxygen availability with models that mainly focus on temporal and spatial large-scale mean values could lead to in... Read More about Oxygen dynamics in marine productive ecosystems at ecologically relevant scales.

Point of (no) return? Vegetation structure and diversity of restored mangroves in Sulawesi, Indonesia, 14–16 years on (2023)
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Djamaluddin, R., Fusi, M., Djabar, B., Evans, D., Holmes, R., Huxham, M., O'Connell, D. P., Salzmann, U., Singleton, I., Tjoa, A., Trianto, A., & Diele, K. (2023). Point of (no) return? Vegetation structure and diversity of restored mangroves in Sulawesi, Indonesia, 14–16 years on. Restoration Ecology, 31(7), Article e13963. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.13963

Mangrove forests, benefitting millions of people, experience significant degradation. Global recognition of the urgency of halting and reversing this trend have initiated numerous restoration activities. Restoration success is typically evaluated by... Read More about Point of (no) return? Vegetation structure and diversity of restored mangroves in Sulawesi, Indonesia, 14–16 years on.

The microbial landscape in bioturbated mangrove sediment: A resource for promoting nature‐based solutions for mangroves (2023)
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Booth, J. M., Fusi, M., Marasco, R., & Daffonchio, D. (2023). The microbial landscape in bioturbated mangrove sediment: A resource for promoting nature‐based solutions for mangroves. Microbial Biotechnology, 16(8), 1584-1602. https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.14273

Globally, soils and sediments are affected by the bioturbation activities of benthic species. The consequences of these activities are particularly impactful in intertidal sediment, which is generally anoxic and nutrient-poor. Mangrove intertidal sed... Read More about The microbial landscape in bioturbated mangrove sediment: A resource for promoting nature‐based solutions for mangroves.

Enzyme adaptation to habitat thermal legacy shapes the thermal plasticity of marine microbiomes (2023)
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Marasco, R., Fusi, M., Coscolín, C., Barozzi, A., Almendral, D., Bargiela, R., Nutschel, C. G. N., Pfleger, C., Dittrich, J., Gohlke, H., Matesanz, R., Sanchez-Carrillo, S., Mapelli, F., Chernikova, T. N., Golyshin, P. N., Ferrer, M., & Daffonchio, D. (2023). Enzyme adaptation to habitat thermal legacy shapes the thermal plasticity of marine microbiomes. Nature Communications, 14(1), Article 1045. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36610-0

Microbial communities respond to temperature with physiological adaptation and compositional turnover. Whether thermal selection of enzymes explains marine microbiome plasticity in response to temperature remains unresolved. By quantifying the therma... Read More about Enzyme adaptation to habitat thermal legacy shapes the thermal plasticity of marine microbiomes.

Disturbance of primary producer communities disrupts the thermal limits of the associated aquatic fauna (2023)
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Booth, J., Giomi, F., Daffonchio, D., McQuaid, C., & Fusi, M. (2023). Disturbance of primary producer communities disrupts the thermal limits of the associated aquatic fauna. Science of the Total Environment, 872, 162135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162135

Environmental fluctuation forms a framework of variability within which species have evolved. Environmental fluctuation includes predictability, such as diel cycles of aquatic oxygen fluctuation driven by primary producers. Oxygen availability and fl... Read More about Disturbance of primary producer communities disrupts the thermal limits of the associated aquatic fauna.

Cell phenotype changes and oxidative stress response in Vibrio spp. induced into viable but non-culturable (VBNC) state (2023)
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Prosdocimi, E. M., Arioli, S., Mapelli, F., Zeaiter, Z., Fusi, M., Daffonchio, D., Borin, S., & Crotti, E. (2023). Cell phenotype changes and oxidative stress response in Vibrio spp. induced into viable but non-culturable (VBNC) state. Annals of Microbiology, 73(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13213-022-01703-6

Purpose: Aquatic bacteria of the genus Vibrio include animal and human pathogens. The occurrence of Vibrio-related diseases has been associated with the current climate change-driven increase of sea surface temperature. Vibrio spp. can enter into the... Read More about Cell phenotype changes and oxidative stress response in Vibrio spp. induced into viable but non-culturable (VBNC) state.

Environmental micro-niche filtering shapes bacterial pioneer communities during primary colonization of a Himalayas' glacier forefield (2022)
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Rolli, E., Marasco, R., Fusi, M., Scaglia, B., Schubotz, F., Mapelli, F., Ciccazzo, S., Brusetti, L., Trombino, L., Tambone, F., Adani, F., Borin, S., & Daffonchio, D. (2022). Environmental micro-niche filtering shapes bacterial pioneer communities during primary colonization of a Himalayas' glacier forefield. Environmental Microbiology, 24(12), 5998-6016. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16268

The pedogenesis from the mineral substrate released upon glacier melting has been explained with the succession of consortia of pioneer microorganisms, whose structure and functionality are determined by the environmental conditions developing in the... Read More about Environmental micro-niche filtering shapes bacterial pioneer communities during primary colonization of a Himalayas' glacier forefield.

Safeguarding Imperiled Biodiversity and Evolutionary Processes in the Wallacea Center of Endemism (2022)
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Struebig, M. J., Aninta, S. G., Beger, M., Bani, A., Barus, H., Brace, S., Davies, Z., De Brauwer, M., Diele, K., Djakiman, C., Djamaluddin, R., Drinkwater, R., Dumbrell, A., Evans, D., Fusi, M., Herrera-Alsina, L., Iskandar, D. T., Jompa, J., Juliandi, B., Lancaster, L. T., …Supriatna, J. (2022). Safeguarding Imperiled Biodiversity and Evolutionary Processes in the Wallacea Center of Endemism. Bioscience, 72(11), 1118-1130. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biac085

Wallacea—the meeting point between the Asian and Australian fauna—is one of the world's largest centers of endemism. Twenty-three million years of complex geological history have given rise to a living laboratory for the study of evolution and biodiv... Read More about Safeguarding Imperiled Biodiversity and Evolutionary Processes in the Wallacea Center of Endemism.

The plant rhizosheath–root niche is an edaphic “mini-oasis” in hyperarid deserts with enhanced microbial competition (2022)
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Marasco, R., Fusi, M., Ramond, J., Van Goethem, M. W., Seferji, K., Maggs-Kölling, G., Cowan, D. A., & Daffonchio, D. (2022). The plant rhizosheath–root niche is an edaphic “mini-oasis” in hyperarid deserts with enhanced microbial competition. ISME Communications, 2(1), Article 47. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43705-022-00130-7

Plants have evolved unique morphological and developmental adaptations to cope with the abiotic stresses imposed by (hyper)arid environments. Such adaptations include the formation of rhizosheath–root system in which mutualistic plant–soil microbiome... Read More about The plant rhizosheath–root niche is an edaphic “mini-oasis” in hyperarid deserts with enhanced microbial competition.

Bioturbation Intensity Modifies the Sediment Microbiome and Biochemistry and Supports Plant Growth in an Arid Mangrove System (2022)
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Fusi, M., Booth, J. M., Marasco, R., Merlino, G., Garcias-Bonet, N., Barozzi, A., Garuglieri, E., Mbobo, T., Diele, K., Duarte, C. M., & Daffonchio, D. (2022). Bioturbation Intensity Modifies the Sediment Microbiome and Biochemistry and Supports Plant Growth in an Arid Mangrove System. Microbiology Spectrum, 10(3), https://doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.01117-22

In intertidal systems, the type and role of interactions among sediment microorganisms, animals, plants and abiotic factors are complex and not well understood. Such interactions are known to promote nutrient provision and cycling, and their dynamics... Read More about Bioturbation Intensity Modifies the Sediment Microbiome and Biochemistry and Supports Plant Growth in an Arid Mangrove System.

Approaching the domesticated plant holobiont from a community evolution perspective (2022)
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Soldan, R., Fusi, M., & Preston, G. M. (2022). Approaching the domesticated plant holobiont from a community evolution perspective. Microbiology, 168(5), https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.001188

Plants establish a pivotal relationship with their microbiome and are often conceptualized as holobionts. Nonetheless, holobiont theories have attracted much criticism, especially concerning the fact that the holobiont is rarely a unit of selection.... Read More about Approaching the domesticated plant holobiont from a community evolution perspective.

Morphological characteristics and abundance of prokaryotes associated with gills in mangrove brachyuran crabs living along a tidal gradient (2022)
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Garuglieri, E., Booth, J. M., Fusi, M., Yang, X., Marasco, R., Mbobo, T., Clementi, E., Sacchi, L., & Daffonchio, D. (2022). Morphological characteristics and abundance of prokaryotes associated with gills in mangrove brachyuran crabs living along a tidal gradient. PLOS ONE, 17(4), Article e0266977. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266977

Due to the chemico-physical differences between air and water, the transition from aquatic life to the land poses several challenges for animal evolution, necessitating morphological, physiological and behavioural adaptations. Microbial symbiosis is... Read More about Morphological characteristics and abundance of prokaryotes associated with gills in mangrove brachyuran crabs living along a tidal gradient.