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Warming exacerbates fungal pathogenicity to drive physiological collapse and microbiome reorganization in octocorals

2026-08-13

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Corals are increasingly threatened by climate change, yet the interplay between ocean warming and fungal infection remains experimentally underexplored. Here, we demonstrate that thermal stress exacerbates the pathogenicity of the fungus Aspergillus sydowii, driving physiological collapse and functional reorganization in the octocoral Sclerophytum sp. We deployed a 34-day mesocosm heat-stress experiment and quanti...

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Literature Corpus work: 0ac00304-8422-5b5a-882f-a4baad16792f
DOI: 10.64898/2026.08.12.744400

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