Coral and
Boring bivalve symbiosis
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2026
Combining morphology, transcriptomics, and metabolomics to analyze the core regulatory program for regulating coral growth (2026). Zoological Research.
https://doi.org/10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2026.368.
Yijun Fu, Xiaojing Yang, Zhoushuai Chen, Kai Yin, Teng Zhou, Yossi Loya, Ching-Fong Chang, Peizheng Wang, Lejun Yu, Hailong Zhou
Ecological replacement versus process-based recovery of Caribbean reefs (2026). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 123(22), e2604228123.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2604228123.
Yossi Loya, Robert van Woesik
Persistent phenological synchrony in a coral-bivalve symbiosis across five decades (2026) iScience, 29(5), 115527.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2026.115527
Noga Gavrieli, Tal Amit, Maya Gross, Netanel Kramer, Yossi Loya
Species-Specific Vulnerability of Northern Red Sea Mesophotic Corals to Accelerated Warming (2026) Global Change Biology Communications, 1(2), e70011.
https://doi.org/10.1002/gcb4.70011
Netanel Kramer, Naama-Rose Kochman, Ayelet Zion, Maoz Fine, Yossi Loya, Daniel Wangpraseurt
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2025
Netanel Kramer, Claudia Tatiana Galindo-Martínez, Steven L. Jacques, Martin Tresguerres, Yossi Loya, Daniel Wangpraseurt
Intratentacular budding and zooid-dynamics in two coral genera (2025) Ecological Informatics 90, 103293. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2025.103293
Matan Yuval, Amit Peleg, Elvan Ceyhan, Dan Tchernov, Yossi Loya, Avi Bar-Massada, Tali Treibitz
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2024
The Perks of Life as a Coral-Boring Bivalve (2024) Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, 105(4), e02177.
https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.2177.
Tal Amit, Peter G. Beninger, Gitai Yahel, Yossi Loya
Reproductive biology and early life history of the solitary coral Heliofungia actiniformis from Singapore and the Philippines (2024). Mar Biol 171, 56 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-023-04378-y
Sherry Lyn G. Sayco, Rian Prasetia, Peter A. Todd, Yossi Loya, Brian Valencia, Lala Grace Calle & Patrick C. Cabaitan
Netanel Kramer, Tal Amit, Noga Gavrieli, Maya Gross, Daniel Wangpraseurt, Yossi Loya
Reproductive ecology of fire corals in the northern Red Sea. Coral Reefs (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-024-02565-x
Lachan Roth, Tom Shlesinger, Yossi Loya
Coral Hosts Provide More than Shelter to Boring Bivalves (2024). Ecology e4376. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4376
Tal Amit, Peter G. Beninger, Gitai Yahel, Yossi Loya
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2023
Reef-building corals farm and feed on their photosynthetic symbionts (2023). Nature, 620(7976), 1018–1024.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06442-5.
Jörg Wiedenmann, Cecilia D’Angelo, M. Loreto Mardones, Shona Moore, Cassandra E. Benkwitt, Nicholas A. J. Graham, Bastian Hambach, Paul A. Wilson, James Vanstone, Gal Eyal, Or Ben-Zvi, Yossi Loya, Amatzia Genin
Assessment of storm impact on coral reef structural complexity (2023) 891, 164493
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164493
Matan Yuval, Naama Pearl, Dan Tchernov, Stephane Martinez, Yossi Loya, Avi Bar-Massada, Tali Treibitz
Light pollution alters the skeletal morphology of coral juveniles and impairs their light capture capacity. Marine Pollution Bulletin (2023) 193, 115212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115212
Netanel Kramer, Raz Tamir, Claudia Tatiana Galindo-Martínez, Daniel Wangpraseurt, Yossi Loya
Energy allocation trade-offs as a function of age in fungiid corals. Front. Mar. Sci. (2023) 10:1113987.
doi: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1113987
Mila Grinblat, Lee Eyal-Shaham, Gal Eyal, Or Ben-Zvi, Saki Harii, Masya Morita, Kazuhiko Sakai, Mamiko Hirose, David J. Miller, Yossi Loya
Feeding on the smallest cells: an in situ study of picoplankton capture by bivalve molluscs from oligotrophic waters. Front. Mar. Sci. (2023) 10:1184773. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1184773
Tal Amit, Raz Moskovich, Yuval Jacobi, Sandra E. Shumway, Evan J. Ward, Peter Beninger, Gitai Yahel, Yossi Loya
Coming of age: Annual onset of coral reproduction is determined by age rather than size. iScience, 26, 5 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.106533
Hanna Rapuano, Tom Shlesinger, Lachan Roth, Omri Bronstein, Yossi Loya
Exploring Coral Reproduction in Great Depth (2022). Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, 103(4), e02008.
https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.2008.
Roni Liberman, Tom Shlesinger, Yossi Loya, Yehuda Benayahu
A coral spawning calendar for Sesoko Station, Okinawa, Japan (2022). Galaxea, Journal of Coral Reef Studies, 24(1), 41–49.
https://doi.org/10.3755/galaxea.G2021_S10O.
Andrew H. Baird, Alasdair J. Edwards, James R. Guest, Saki Harii, Masayuki Hatta, Liam Lachs, Hanaka Mera, Frederic Sinniger, David Abrego, Or Ben-Zvi, Omri Bronstein, Patrick C. Cabaitan, Vivian R. Cumbo, Gal Eyal, Lee Eyal-Shaham, Bar Feldman, Joana Figueiredo, Jean-François Flot, Mila Grinblat, Andrew Heyward, Michio Hidaka, Mamiko Hirose, Akira Iguchi, Naoko Isomura, Robert A. Kinzie, Seiya Kitanobo, Alyson Kuba, Oren Levy, Yossi Loya, Takuma Mezaki, Amin R. Mohamed, Masaya Morita, Satoshi Nojima, Yoko Nozawa, Rian Prasetia, Eneour Puill-Stephan, Catalina Ramirez-Portilla, Hanna Rapuano, Yaeli Rosenberg, Yusuke Sakai, Kazuhiko Sakai, Tom Shlesinger, Tullia I. Terraneo, Irina Yakovleva, Hiromi H. Yamamoto, Kiyoshi Yamazato
Morpho-functional traits of the coral Stylophora pistillata enhance light capture for photosynthesis at mesophotic depths. Nature Communications, 5, 861 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03829-4
Netanel Kramer, Jiaao Guan, Shaochen Chen, Daniel Wangpraseurt, Yossi Loya
Emerging 3D technologies for future reformation of coral reefs: Enhancing biodiversity using biomimetic structures based on designs by nature. Science of the Total Environment, 830, 154749 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154749
Coral fluorescence: a prey-lure in deep habitats. Commun Biol 5, 537 (2022).
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03460-3
Or Ben-Zvi, Yoav Lindemann, Gal Eyal, Yossi Loya
Soft coral reproductive phenology along a depth gradient: Can “going deeper” provide a viable refuge? (2022). Ecology. e3760.
https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3760
Ronen Liberman, Tom Shlesinger, Yossi Loya, Yehuda Benayahu
Growth and survival dynamics of mesophotic coral juveniles in shallow reefs (2022) Marine Ecology Progress Series 682:237-242
https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13956
Netanel Kramer, Raz Tamir, Gal Eyal, Yossi Loya
Nightly Reef Breaker: The Cryptic Behavior of a Coral-Reef Crab (2021). Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, 102(4), e01914.
https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.1914
Tom Shlesinger, Derya Akkaynak, Yossi Loya
Efficient light-harvesting of mesophotic corals is facilitated by coral optical traits (2021) Functional Ecology, 00, 1-13
https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13948
Netanel Kramer, Raz Tamir, Or Ben-Zvi, Steven L. Jacques, Yossi Loya, Daniel Wangpraseurt
Biogeography, reproductive biology and phylogenetic divergence within the Fungiidae (mushroom corals) (2021) Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 164:107265. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107265
Mila Grinblat, Ira Cooke, Tom Shlesinger, Or Ben-Zvi, Yossi Loya, David J. Miller, Peter F. Cowman
Symbiodiniaceae conduct under natural bleaching stress during advanced gametogenesis stages of a mesophotic coral (2021) Coral Reefs 40, 959–964. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-021-02082-1
Gal Eyal, Lee Eyal-Shaham, Yossi Loya
Who is smashing the reef at night? A nocturnal mystery (2021) The Scientific Naturalist
https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3420
Tom Shlesinger, Derya Akkaynak, Yossi Loya
Photosynthesis and bio-optical properties of fluorescent mesophotic corals (2021) Frontiers in Marine Science 8:651601
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.651601
Or Ben-Zvi, Daniel Wangpraseurt, Omri Bronstein, Gal Eyal, Yossi Loya
Mesophotic reef geomorphology categorization, habitat identification, and relationships with surface cover and terrace formation in the Gulf of Aqaba (2021) Geomorphology 107548. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2020.107548
David K. Weinstein, Raz Tamir, Netanel Kramer, Gal Eyal, Igal Berenshtein, Yonathan Shaked, Yossi Loya, Adi Torfstein
Depth-dependent parental effects create invisible barriers to coral dispersal (2021) Communications Biology 4:202
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01727-9
Tom Shlesinger, Yossi Loya
Experimental evidence of temperature-induced bleaching in two fluorescence morphs of a Red Sea mesophotic coral (2021) Coral Reefs 40(1):187-99
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-020-02027-0
Or Ben-Zvi, Eyal Ofer, Gal Eyal, Yossi Loya
Repeatable semantic reef-mapping through photogrammetry and label-augmentation (2021) Remote Sensing 13(4), 659
https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13040659
Matan Yuval, Iñigo Alonso, Gal Eyal, Dan Tchernov, Yossi Loya, Ana C. Murillo, Tali Treibitz
An Indo-Pacific coral spawning database (2021) Scientific Data 8(35)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-00793-8
Baird, A.H., Guest, J.R., Edwards, A.J. et al.
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2020
The Complexity of the Holobiont in the Red Sea Coral Euphyllia paradivisa under Heat Stress (2020). Microorganisms, 8(3), 372.
https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8030372.
Dalit Meron, Keren Maor-Landaw, Gal Eyal, Hila Elifantz, Ehud Banin, Yossi Loya, Oren Levy
A unique reproductive strategy in the mushroom coral Fungia fungites (2020) Coral Reefs
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-020-02004-7
Lee Eyal-Shaham, Gal Eyal, Or Ben-Zvi, Kazuhiko Sakai, Saki Harii, Frederic Sinniger, Mamiko Hirose, Patrick Cabaitan, Omri Bronstein, Bar Feldman, Tom Shlesinger, Oren Levy, Yossi Loya
Coral morphology portrays the spatial distribution and population size-structure along a 5-100 m depth gradient (2020) Frontiers in Marine Science 7:615. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00615
Netanel Kramer, Raz Tamir, Gal Eyal, Yossi Loya
A generalized light-driven model of community transitions along coral reef depth gradients (2020) Global Ecology and Biogeography. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13140
Jack H. Laverick, Raz Tamir, Gal Eyal, Yossi Loya
Reciprocal-transplantation between shallow and mesophotic stony corals (2020), Marine Environmental Research 105035.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2020.105035
Raz Tamir, Or Ben-Zvi, Gal Eyal, Netanel Kramer, Yossi Loya
Photophysiology of a mesophotic coral 3 years after transplantation to a shallow environment (2020), Coral Rees 1-11
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-020-01910-0
Or Ben-Zvi, Raz Tamir, Nir Keren, Dan Tchernov, Ilana Berman-Frank, Yuval Kolodny, Tal Benaltabet, Harel Bavli, Mor Friedman, Noga Glanz-Idan, Hadar Traugott, Yossi Loya, Gal Eyal
Science, Diplomacy, and the Red Sea’s Unique Coral Reef: It’s Time for Action (2020) Frontiers in Marine Science 7:90
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00090
Karine Kleinhaus, Ali Al-Sawalmih, Daniel J Barshis, Amatzia Genin, Lola N Grace, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Yossi Loya, Anders Meibom, Eslam O Osman, Jean-Daniel Ruch, Yonathan Shaked, Christian R Voolstra, Assaf Zvuloni, Maoz Fine
Effects of Light Pollution on the Early Life Stages of the Most Abundant Northern Red Sea Coral (2020) Microorganisms 8(2):193
http://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8020193
Raz Tamir, Gal Eyal, Itay Cohen, Yossi Loya
Breakdown in spawning synchrony: A silent threat to coral persistence (2019) Science 365 (6457):1002-1007
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax0110
Tom Shlesinger, Yossi Loya
Light environment drives the shallow‐to‐mesophotic coral community transition (2019) Ecosphere 10(9):e02839
https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2839
Raz Tamir, Gal Eyal, Netanel Kramer, Jack H Laverick, Yossi Loya
Mass medusae release and temporal reproductive segregation among the three Red Sea fire coral species (2019) Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 100(2):1-3
https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.1508
Tom Shlesinger, Yossi Loya
Response of fluorescence morphs of the mesophotic coral Euphyllia paradivisa to ultra-violet radiation (2019) Scientific Reports 9(1):1-9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-41710-3
Or Ben-Zvi, Gal Eyal, Yossi Loya
Upper mesophotic depths in the coral reefs of Eilat, Red Sea, offer suitable refuge grounds for coral settlement (2019) Scientific Reports 9(1):1-12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-38795-1
Netanel Kramer, Gal Eyal, Raz Tamir, Yossi Loya