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  1. Lotan A, Fine M, Benhillel R (1994) Synchronization of the Life-Cycle and Dispersal Pattern of the Tropical Invader Scyphomedusan Rhopilema-Nomadica Is Temperature-Dependent. Marine Ecology-Progress Series 109: 59-65

  2. Kushmaro A, Loya Y, Fine M, Rosenberg E (1996) Bacterial infection and coral bleaching. Nature 380: 396-396  

  3. Klein R, Tudhope AW, Chilcott CP, Patzold J, Abdulkarim Z, Fine M, Fallick AE, Loya Y (1997) Evaluating southern Red Sea corals as a proxy record for the Asian monsoon. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 148: 381-394  

  4. KramarskyWinter E, Fine M, Loya Y (1997) Coral polyp expulsion. Nature 387: 137-137  

  5. Kushmaro A, Rosenberg E, Fine M, Loya Y (1997) Bleaching of the coral Oculina patagonica by Vibrio AK-1. Marine Ecology-Progress Series 147: 159-165  

  6. Kushmaro A, Rosenberg E, Fine M, Ben Haim Y, Loya Y (1998) Effect of temperature on bleaching of the coral Oculina patagonica by Vibrio AK-1. Marine Ecology-Progress Series 171: 131-137  

  7. Abelson A, Shteinman B, Fine M, Kaganovsky S (1999) Mass transport from pollution sources to remote coral reefs in Eilat (Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea). Marine Pollution Bulletin 38: 25-29  

  8. Felis T, Patzold J, Loya Y, Fine M, Nawar AH, Wefer G (2000) A coral oxygen isotope record from the northern Red Sea documenting NAO, ENSO, and North Pacific teleconnections on Middle East climate variability since the year 1750. Paleoceanography 15: 679-694  

  9. Banin E, Israely T, Fine M, Loya Y, Rosenberg E (2001) Role of endosymbiotic zooxanthellae and coral mucus in the adhesion of the coral-bleaching pathogen Vibrio shiloi to its host. Fems Microbiology Letters 199: 33-37  

  10. Felis T, Patzold J, Loya Y, Fine M, Nawar AH, Wefer G (2001) A coral oxygen isotope record from the northern Red Sea documenting NAO, ENSO, and North Pacific teleconnections on Middle East climate variability since the year 1750 (vol 15, pg 679, 2000). Paleoceanography 16: 233-234  

  11. Fine M, Zibrowius H, Loya Y (2001) Oculina patagonica: a non-lessepsian scleractinian coral invading the Mediterranean Sea. Marine Biology 138: 1195-1203  

  12. Fine M, Banin E, Israely T, Rosenberg E, Loya Y (2002a) Ultraviolet radiation prevents bleaching in the Mediterranean coral Oculina patagonica. Marine Ecology-Progress Series 226: 249-254  

  13. Fine M, Loya Y (2002) Endolithic algae: an alternative source of photoassimilates during coral bleaching. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 269: 1205-1210  

  14. Fine M, Oren U, Loya Y (2002b) Bleaching effect on regeneration and resource translocation in the coral Oculina patagonica. Marine Ecology-Progress Series 234: 119-125  

  15. Golani D, Fine M (2002) On the occurrence of Hippocampus fuscus in the eastern Mediterranean. Journal of Fish Biology 60: 764-766  

  16. Fine M, Loya Y (2003) Alternate coral-bryozoan competitive superiority during coral bleaching. Marine Biology 142: 989-996  

  17. Sussman M, Loya Y, Fine M, Rosenberg E (2003) The marine fireworm Hermodice carunculata is a winter reservoir and spring-summer vector for the coral-bleaching pathogen Vibrio shiloi. Environmental Microbiology 5: 250-255  

  18. Fine M, Steindler L, Loya Y (2004) Endolithic algae photoacclimate to increased irradiance during coral bleaching. Marine and Freshwater Research 55: 115-121

  19. Hoegh-Guldberg O, Fine M (2004) Low temperatures cause coral bleaching. Coral Reefs 23: 444-444  

  20. Siboni N, Fine M, Bresler V, Loya Y (2004) Coastal coal pollution increases Cd concentrations in the predatory gastropod Hexaplex trunculus and is detrimental to its health. Marine Pollution Bulletin 49: 111-118  

  21. Fine M, Aluma Y, Meroz-Fine E, Abelson A, Loya Y (2005) Acabaria erythraea (Octocorallia : Gorgonacea) a successful invader to the Mediterranean Sea? Coral Reefs 24: 161-164  

  22. Fine M, Meroz-Fine E, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2005) Tolerance of endolithic algae to elevated temperature and light in the coral Montipora monasteriata from the southern Great Barrier Reef. Journal of Experimental Biology 208: 75-81  

  23. Hoegh-Guldberg O, Fine M, Skirving W, Johnstone R, Dove S, Strong A (2005) Coral bleaching following wintry weather. Limnology and Oceanography 50: 265-271  

  24. Shenkar N, Fine M, Loya Y (2005) Size matters: bleaching dynamics of the coral Oculina patagonica. Marine Ecology-Progress Series 294: 181-188  

  25. Ainsworth TD, Fine M, Blackall LL, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2006) Fluorescence in situ hybridization and spectral imaging of coral-associated bacterial communities. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 72: 3016-3020  

  26. Dove S, Ortiz JC, Enriquez S, Fine M, Fisher P, Iglesias-Prieto R, Thornhill D, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2006) Response of holosymbiont pigments from the scleractinian coral Montipora monasteriata to short-term heat stress. Limnology and Oceanography 51: 1149-1158  

  27. Fine M, Roff G, Ainsworth TD, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2006) Phototrophic microendoliths bloom during coral "white syndrome". Coral Reefs 25: 577-581

  28. Roff G, Hoegh-Guldberg O, Fine M (2006) Intra-colonial response to Acroporid "White syndrome" lesions in tabular Acropora spp. (Scleractinia). Coral Reefs 25: 255-264  

  29. Shenkar N, Fine M, Kramarsky-Winter E, Loya Y (2006) Population dynamics of zooxanthellae during a bacterial bleaching event. Coral Reefs 25: 223-227  

  30. Ainsworth TD, Kramasky-Winter E, Loya Y, Hoegh-Guldberg O, Fine M (2007) Coral disease diagnostics: What's between a plague and a band? Applied and Environmental Microbiology 73: 981-992  

  31. Magnusson SH, Fine, M., Kuhl, M. (2007) Light microclimate of endolithic phototrophs in the scleractinian corals Montipora monasteriata and Porites cylindrica. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 332: 119-128  

  32. Ainsworth TD, Kvennefors EC, Blackall LL, Fine M, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2007) Disease and cell death in white syndrome of Acroporid corals on the Great Barrier Reef. Mar. Biol. 151: 19-29 

  33. Roff G, Kvennefors ECE, Ulstrup K, Fine M and Hoegh-Guldberg O (2008) Coral disease physiology: the impact of Acroporid white syndrome on Symbiodinium Coral Reefs, 27:373-377  

  34. Fine M, Tchernov D (2007) Scleractinian coral species survive and recover from decalcification. Science 315: 1811.  

  35. Ainsworth TD, Fine M, Roff G, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2007) Bacteria are not the primary cause of bleaching in the Mediterranean coral Oculina patagonica. ISME 2: 67-73  

  36. Fine M, Tchernov D (2007) Ocean acidification and scleractinian corals - Response. Science 317: 1032-1033  

  37. Yarden O, Ainsworth TD, Roff G, Leggat W, Fine M, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2007) Increased Prevalence of Ubiquitous Ascomycetes in an Acropoid Coral (Acropora formosa) Exhibiting Symptoms of Brown Band Syndrome and Skeletal Eroding Band Disease. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 73: 2755-2757  

  38. Hall-Spencer JM, Rodolfo-Metalpa R, Martin S, Ransome E, Fine M, Turner SM, Rowley S, Tedesco D and Buia MC (2008) Volcanic carbon dioxide vents reveal ecosystem effects of ocean acidification. Nature 454:96-99  

  39. Roff G, Ulstrup KE, Fine M, Ralph PJ, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2008) Spatial heterogeneity of photosynthetic activity within diseased corals from the great barrier reef. Journal of Phycology 44: 526-538  

  40. Roff G, Kvennefors E, Ulstrup K, Fine M, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2008). "Coral disease physiology: the impact of Acroporid white syndrome on Symbiodinium. Coral Reefs 27: 373-377  

  41. Dove SG, Lovell C, Fine M, Deckenback J, Hoegh-Guldberg O, Iglesias-Prieto R, Anthony KRN (2008) Host pigments: potential facilitators of photosynthesis in coral symbioses. Plant Cell and Environment 31: 1523-1533  

  42. Lee JJ, Fine M, Levy O, Morales J (2009) A Note on sexual reproduction of a Marginopora sp. from a modern deep-water population in the Heron-Wistari channel, Australia. Jour. Forameniferal Res. 39: 4-7  

  43. Kaniewska P, Campbell P. R, Fine M, Hoegh-Guldberg, O (2009) Phototropic growth in a reef flat acroporid branching coral species. The Journal of Experimental Biology 212: 662-667  

  44. Sisma-Ventura, G, Guzner, B, Yam, R, Fine M, Shemesh A (2009) The reef builder gastropod Dendropoma petreaum - A proxy of short and long term climatic events in the Eastern Mediterranean. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta    73: 4376–4383  

  45. Krief S, Hendy EJ, Fine M, Yam R, Meibom A, Foster GL, Shemesh A (2010) Physiological and isotopic responses of scleractinian corals  to ocean acidification. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta   74:4988-5001  

  46. Meron D, Atias E, Iasur Kruh L, Elifantz H, Minz D, Fine M and Banin E (2010) The impact of reduced pH on the microbial community of the coral Acropora eurystoma ISME 5:51-60  

  47. Veal CJ, Carmi M, Fine M and Hoegh-Guldberg O (2010) Increasing the surface area detection resolution by single wax dipping of coral fragments. Coral Reefs 29:893-897  

  48. Lee JJ, Cervasco M, Morales J, Billik M, Fine M, and Levy O (2010). Symbiosis drove cellular evolution. Symbiosis 51, 13-25.  

  49. Veal CJ, Carmi M Dishon G,  Sharon Y,  Michael K, Tchernov D, Hoegh-Guldberg O and Fine M (2011) Shallow water wave lensing in Coral Reefs: A physical and biological case study. J. Exp. Biol  213:4304-4312    

  50. Gutner-Hoch E and Fine M (2011) Genotypic Diversity and Distribution of Ostreobium quekettii within Scleractinian Corals. Coral Reefs 30: 643-650  

  51. Rodolfo-Metalpa R,  Houlbrèque F, Tambutté E,  Boisson F, Baggini C, Patti FP, Jeffree R, Fine M, Foggo A, Gattuso J-P and  Hall-Spencer JM. (2011) Coral and mollusc resistance to ocean acidification moderated by warming. Nature Clim Change 1:308-312  

  52. Roff G, Kvennefors ECE, Maoz Fine, Ortiz  J,  Hoegh-Guldberg O,  The ecology of ‘Acroporid white syndrome’, a coral disease from the Southern Great Barrier Reef. PLos ONE 6(12): e26829  

  53. Dishon G, Dubinsky Z, Fine M and Iluz D (2012) Underwater light field patterns in subtropical coastal waters: A case study from the Gulf of Eilat (Aqaba). Isr. J. Plant. Scie.  

  54. Meron D, Rodolfo-Metalpa R, Cunning R, Baker AC, Fine M, and Banin E (2012), Changes in coral microbial communities in response to a natural pH gradient ISME 6: 1775-1785.

  55. Gabay Y, Benayahu Y and Fine M, (2012) Does elevated pCO2 affect reef octocorals? Ecology and Evolution 3:465–751

  56. Hilmi N, Allemand D, Dupont S, et al. (2012) Towards improved socio-economic assessments of ocean acidification’s impacts. Marine Biology DOI: 10.1007/s00227-012-2031-5

  57. Cohen S and Fine M, Measuring gross and net calcification of a reef coral under ocean acidification conditions: methodological considerations. Biogeoscience DOI:10.5194/bgd-9-8241-2012

  58. Meron D. Fine M. Buia M.C. Banin E, (2012) Changes in microbial communities associated with the Sea anemone Anemonia viridis in a natural pH gradient. Microbiology of Aquatic Systems DOI: 10.1007/s00248-012-0127-6  

  59. Tremblay P. Fine M.  Maguer J. F Grover R. and Ferrier-Pag`es C. (2013) Ocean acidification increases photosynthate translocation in a coral–dinoflagellates symbiosis. Biogeosciences 10: 83-109  

  60. Byler KA, Carmi-Veal M, Fine M, Goulet TL (2013) Multiple Symbiont Acquisition Strategies as an Adaptive Mechanism in the Coral Stylophora pistillata. PLoS ONE 8: e59596. doi:10.1371  

  61. Kennedy EV,  Perry CT, Halloran PR, Iglesias-Prieto R, Schönberg CHL, Wisshak  M , Form AU, Carricart-Ganivet JP, Fine M, C. Eakin M, Mumby PJ (2013) Avoiding coral reef functional collapse requires local and global action. Current Biology 23: 912-918

  62. Foran E, Weiner S, Fine M (2013) Biogenic Fish-gut Calcium Carbonate is a Stable Amorphous Phase in the Gilt-head Seabream, Sparus aurata Scientific reports. 2013, 3:1700

  63. Borell EM, Steinke M, Fine M (2013) Direct and indirect effects of high pCO2 on algal grazing by coral reef herbivores from the Gulf of Aqaba (Red Sea) Coral Reefs DOI 10.1007/s00338-013-1066-5  

  64. Fine M, Gildor H and Genin A (2013) A coral reef Refugia in the Red Sea. Global Change Biology 19: 3640-3647

  65. Fine M, Sabbah S, Shashar N, and Hoegh-Guldberg O (2013) Light from down under. Journal of Experimental Biology 216: 4341-4346  

  66. Gabay Y, Fine M, Benayahu Y (2014). Octocoral tissue provides protection from declining oceanic pH, Plos ONE 9: e91553

  67. Milazzo M, Rodolfo-Metalpa R, Bin San Chan V, Fine M, Alessi C, Thiyagarajan V, Hall-Spencer J & Chemello  R (2014) Ocean acidification impairs vermetid reef recruitment. Scientific Reports  4:4189

  68. Rodolfo-Metalpa R, Hoogenboom M, Rottier C , Ramos-Esplá A, Baker A, Fine M and Ferrier-Pagès C (2014) Thermally tolerant corals have limited capacity to acclimatize to future warming.  Global Change Biology 20:3036-3049.

  69. Horwitz R and Fine M (2014) High CO2 detrimentally affects tissue regeneration of Red Sea corals. Coral Reefs 33:819–829

  70. Borell EM, Steinke M, Horwitz R, Fine M (2014) Increasing pCO2 correlates with low concentrations of intracellular dimethylsulfoniopropionate in the sea anemone Anemonia viridis. Ecology and Evolution 4:441-449

  71. Gabay Y, Fine M, Benayahu Y (2014), The azooxanthellate soft coral Dendronephthya hemprichi under ocean acidification conditions Hydrobiologia (in press).

  72. Horwitz R, Borell E, Fine M, Shaked Y (2014) Trace element profiles of the sea anemone Anemonia viridis living nearby a natural CO2 vent. Peer J e538

  73. Hazan Y, Wangensteen OS, Fine M (2014) Tough as a rock-boring urchin: Adult Echinometra sp. EE from the Red Sea show high resistance to ocean acidification over long term exposures. Marine Biology DOI 10.1007/s00227-014-2525-4.

  74. Grover R, Ferrier-Pages C, Maguer JF, Ezzat L, Fine M (2014) Nitrogen fixation in the mucus of Red Sea corals. JEB doi:10.1242/jeb.111591

  75. Horwitz R, Borell EM, Yam R, Shemesh A, Fine M, (2015) Natural high pCO2 increases autotrophy in Anemonia viridis (Anthozoa) as revealed from stable isotope (C, N) analysis. Scientific Reports 5: 8779 | DOI: 10.1038/srep08779

  76. Kvitt H, Kramarsky-Winter E, Maor-Landaw K, Zandbank K, Kushmaro A, Rosenfeld H, Fine M, and Tchernov D  (2015) Breakdown of coral colonial form under reduced pH conditions is initiated in polyps and mediated through apoptosis. PNAS http://www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1419621112

  77. Hall ER, DeGroot BC, Fine M (2015) Lesion recovery of two scleractinian corals under low pH conditions: implications for restoration efforts Mar Pollut Bull doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2015.08.030

  78. Krueger T, Kopp C, Domart-Coulon I, Fine M, Meibom A (2015) NanoSIMS isotopic imaging – deciphering the nature of coral-symbiont metabolic interaction. European Journal of Phycology 50:60-61

  79. Lee J.J., Cevasco M., Morales J., Billick M., Fine M. & Levy O. (2016). VARIATION AMONG THE MARGINOPORA VERTEBRALIS COLLECTED FROM THE GREAT BARRIER REEF, AUSTRALIA. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 46, 201-219.

  80. Fine M, Tsadok R, Meron D, Cohen S, Milazzo M (2016) Environmental sensitivity of Neogoniolithon brassica-florida associated with vermetid reefs in the Mediterranean Sea. ICES J Mar Sci 2016 fsw167. doi: 10.1093/icesjms/fsw167

  81. Muller EM, Fine M, Ritchie KB (2016) The stable microbiome of inter and sub-tidal anemone species under increasing pCO(2). Scientific Reports 6

  82. Horwitz, R., Hoogenboom, M.O. and Fine, M. (2017) Spatial competition dynamics between reef corals under ocean acidification. Scientific Reports 7.

  83. Bednarz, V.N., Grover, R., Maguer, J.F., Fine, M. and Ferrier-Page, C. (2017) The Assimilation of Diazotroph-Derived Nitrogen by Scleractinian Corals Depends on Their Metabolic Status. Mbio 8.

  84. Perry, O., Y. Sapir, G. Perry, H. ten Hove, and M. Fine (2017) Substrate selection of Spirobranchus in the Gulf of Eilat. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. DOI: 10.1017/S0025315416002022

  85. Ezzat L., Fine M., Maguer J-F., Grover R., Ferrier-Pages C. (2017) Carbon and nitrogen acquisition of shallow and deep holobionts of the scleractinian coral S. pistillata. Frontiers in Marine Science.  4:102 doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00102

  86. Krueger T., Horwitz N., Bodin J., Giovani ME. Escrig S.,Meibom A., Fine M. (2017) Common reef building coral in the northern Red Sea resistant to elevated temperature and acidification. Roy. Soc. Open Sci.4:170038

  87. Bellworthy J, Fine M (2017) Beyond peak summer temperatures, branching corals in the Gulf of Aqaba are resilient to thermal stress but sensitive to high light. Coral Reefs DOI 10.1007/s00338-017-1598-1

  88. Cohen SK, Krueger T, Fine M (2017) Measuring coral calcification under ocean acidification: methodological considerations for the 45Ca-uptake and total alkalinity anomaly technique. Peer J DOI 10.7717/peerj.3749

  89. Perry O, Bronstein O, Blecher N, Atkins A, Kupriyanova E, ten Hove H, Levy O and Fine M (2018) On the genus Spirobranchus (Annelida, Polychaeta, Serpulidae) from the northern Red Sea, and a description of a new species. Invertebrate Systematics 32: 605-626

  90. Grinblat, M., Fine, M., Tikochinski, Y. Loya Y (2018) Stylophora pistillata in the Red Sea demonstrate higher GFP fluorescence under ocean acidification conditions. Coral Reefs37: 309-320

  91. Bellworthy J and Fine M (2018) The Red Sea Simulator: A high-precision climate change mesocosm with automated monitoring for the long-term study of coral reef organisms Limnology & Oceanography: Methods (doi: 10.1002/lom3.10250)

  92. Hall E., Muller EM, Goulet T., Bellworthy J., Ritchie KB., Fine M (2018) Eutrophication may compromise the resilience of the Red Sea coral Stylophora pistillata to global change. Marine Pollution Bulletin131:701-711.

  93. Krueger T., Bodin J., Horwitz N., Loussert-Fonta C., Sakr A., Escrig S., Fine M. and Meibom A.  (2018) Temperature and feeding induce tissue level changes in autotrophic and heterotrophic nutrient allocation in the coral symbiosis – A NanoSIMS study. Scientific Reports 8 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-31094-1.

  94. Bellworthy J., Menoud M., Krueger T., Meibom A. and Fine M (2018) Developmental carry over effects of ocean warming and acidification in corals from a potential climate refugium, Gulf of Aqaba. Journal of Experimental Biology

  95. Fine M, Cinar M, Voolstra CR, Safa A, Rinkevich B, Laffoley D, Hilmi N, Allemand D (2019) Coral Reefs of the Red Sea- challenges and solutions. Regional Studies in Marine Science (25) 100498

  96. Banc-Prandi G and Fine M (2019) Copper enrichment reduces thermal tolerance of the highly resistant Red Sea coral Stylophora pistillata Coral Reefs  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-019-01774-z.

  97. Cattano C, Milazzo M, Fine M, Holzman R, Quattrocchi F (2019) Behavioural responses of fish groups exposed to a predatory threat under elevated CO2.Marine Environmental Research. doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2019.04.011

  98. Coronado I, Fine M, Bosellini F, Stolarski J (2019) Impact of ocean acidification on crystallographic vital effect of the coral skeleton. Nature Communications 10:2896 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10833-6

  99. Pupier et al. (2019) Divergent capacity of scleractinian and soft corals to assimilate and transfer diazotrophically-derived nitrogen to the reef environment. Frontiers Microbiology 14;10:1860. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.01860.

  100. Fine M., Hoegh-Guldberg O., Meroz-Fine. E., Dove S., (2019) Ecological changes over 90 years at Low Isles on the Great Barrier Reef, Nature Communications. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12431-y

  101. Bellworthy J, Spangenberg J, Fine M (2019) Feeding increases the number of offspring but decreases parental investment of Red Sea coral Stylophora pistillata. Ecology and Evolution 9: 12245-12258

  102. Pupier CA, Fine M, Bednarz VN, Rottier C, Grover R, Ferrier-Pagès C (2019) Productivity and carbon fluxes depend on species and symbiont density in soft coral symbioses. Scientific Reports 9:17819,   https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-54209-8

  103. Gibbin, E., Banc-Prandi, G., Fine, M. et al. A method to disentangle and quantify host anabolic turnover in photosymbiotic holobionts with subcellular resolution. Commun Biol 3, 14 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-019-0742-6

  104. Krueger T, Horwitz N, Bodin J, Giovani M-E,Escrig S, Fine, M, Meibom A (2020)Intracellular competition for nitrogen controls dinoflagellate population density in corals,Proc Roy Soc B, 287:1922   http://doi =10.1098/rspb.2020.0049  

  105. Kleinhaus K, Al-Sawalmih A, Barshis D, Genin A, Grace L, Hoegh-Guldberg O, Loya Y, Meibom A, Osman E, Ruch J-D, Shaked Y, Voolstra C, Zvuloni A, Fine M, (2020) Science, Diplomacy, and the Red Sea’s Unique Coral Reef: It’s Time for Action. Frontiers in Marine Science 7,   DOI=10.3389/fmars.2020.00090  

  106. Lifshitz N, Hazanov L, Fine M, Yarden O (2020) Seasonal Variations in the Culturable Mycobiome of Acropora loripes along a Depth Gradient. Microorganisms 8: 1139; doi:10.3390/microorganisms8081139

  107. Banc-Prandi G, Cerutti JMB, Fine M (2020) Recovery assessment of the branching coral Stylophora pistillata following copper contamination and depuration. Mar Poll Bull (in press).

  108.  Liberman R, Fine M, Benayahu Y, (2021) Simulated climate change scenarios impact the reproduction and early life stages of a soft coral. Mar Enviro. Res 163: 105215 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2020.105215

  109.   Kleinhaus K, Voolstra CR., Meibom A, Amitai Y, Gildor H, Fine M (2020) A Closing Window of Opportunity to Save a Unique Marine Ecosystem. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7: 1117, DOI=10.3389/fmars.2020.615733

  110. Evensen NR, Fine M, Perna G, Voolstra CR, Barshis DJ. (2021) Remarkably high and consistent tolerance of a Red Sea coral to acute and chronic thermal stress exposures, Limnol Oceanogr, doi.org/10.1002/lno.11715

  111.  Bellworthy J and Fine M (2021) Warming resistant corals from the Gulf of Aqaba live close to their cold-water bleaching threshold, Peer J DOI 10.7717/peerj.11100

  112.  Pupier C., Fine M., Grover R., Ferrier-Pages C.  (2021) Lipid biomarkers reveal the trophic plasticity of octocorals along a depth gradient. Limnol Oceanogr https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11746

  113.  Savary R., Barshis DJ., Voolstra CR., Cárdenas A., Evensen NR., Banc-Prandi G., Maoz Fine M and Meibom A (2021). Fast and pervasive transcriptomic resilience and acclimation of extremely heat tolerant coral holobionts from the northern Red Sea. PNAS 118:19 e2023298118.

  114. Pupier CA, Grover R, Fine M, Rottier C, van de Water J, Ferrier-Pagès, C (2021) Dissolved nitrogen acquisition in the symbioses of soft and hard corals with Symbiodiniaceae: a key to understand their different nutritional strategies? Frontiers in Microbiology 12:1215

  115. Bednarz V, van de Water JAJM, Grover R, Maguer J-F, Fine M, Ferrier-Pages C (2021) Unravelling the importance of diazotrophy in corals - Combined assessment of nitrogen assimilation, diazotrophic community and natural stable isotope signatures. Frontiers in Microbiology.  https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.631244

  116. Voolstra, CR, Valenzuela, JJ, Turkarslan, S, Cardenas, A, Hume, BCC, Perna, G, Buitrago-Lopez, C, Rowe, K, Orellana, MV, Baliga, NS, Paranjape, S, Banc-Prandi, G, Bellworthy, J, Fine, M, Frias-Torres, S., & Barshis, DJ (2021). Contrasting heat stress response patterns of coral holobionts across the Red Sea suggest distinct mechanisms of thermal tolerance. Molecular Ecology, 00, 1– 15. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16064

  117. Kochman N-R, Grover R, Rottier C, Ferrier-Pages C, Fine M (2021) The reef building coral Stylophora pistillata uses stored carbohydrates to maintain ATP levels under thermal stress. Coral Reefs (in press) https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-021-02174-y.

  118. Banister RB, Schwarz MT, Fine M, Ritchie KR, Muller EM (2021).  Instability and Stasis Among the Microbiome of Seagrass Leaves, Roots and Rhizomes, and Nearby Sediments Within a Natural pH Gradient. Microb Ecol . https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-021-01867-9

  119. Ferrier-Pagès C, Bednarz V, Grover R, Benayahu Y, Maguer JF. Rottier C, Wiedenmann J, Fine M (2021) Symbiotic stony and soft corals: Is their host-algae relationship really mutualistic at lower mesophotic reefs? https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.1199

  120. Blanckaert A, Omanović D, Fine M, Grover R, Ferrier-Pagès C (2022) Desert dust deposition supplies essential bioelements to Red Sea corals. Global Change Biology, 00, 1– 19. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16074

  121. Banc-Prandi G, Evensen NR, Barshis DJ, Perna G, Moussa Omar Y, Fine M, Assessment of temperature optimum signatures of corals at both latitudinal extremes of the Red Sea, Conservation Physiology, Volume 10, Issue 1, 2022, coac002, https://doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coac002

  122. Banc-Prandi, G., Baharier, N., Benaltabet, T., Torfstein, A., Antler, G., & Fine, M. (2022). Elevated temperatures reduce the resilience of the Red Sea branching coral Stylophora pistillata to copper pollution. Aquatic Toxicology, 106096.

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