✅ For the first time, it has been observed in situ that "sleep" helps maintain the host-microbe balance in very primitive organisms, a mechanism that could be extremely ancient in animal evolution.

🌙 When the sun sets, corals recover from the stress accumulated during the day, caused by the intense activity of their symbiotic microorganisms. 💤

#DiscoveringLife
#ConservingBiodiversity

👉https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2026.01.004

This project was so fun thanks to @ambonacolta.bsky.social and @fonamental.bsky.social through the lack of sleep during those 6 hr interval dives over 3 days. Massive thank you to everyone involved, including CARMABI marine station in Curaçao, our collaborators, and @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social

Despite a relatively stable microbiome, we reveal that microbial co-occurrence networks shift between daytime carbohydrate catabolism and nighttime methylotrophy, indicating metabolic hand-offs across domains of life within the holobiont. #SymbioSky #ProtistsOnSky

To help reduce the annotation gap of functional assignment in non-model organisms like corals, we supplemented our host gene ontology enrichment terms using protT5 protein language model to predict functions for poorly annotated proteins, adding more context beyond standard homology-based pipelines.

We uncover transcriptional rhythms in the coral, including dawn initiated RNA biosynthesis, midday & dusk regulation of phosphate metabolism, and midnight activation of stress and repair pathways. Breviolum sp. displays tightly regulated cell cycle dynamics and nutrient transport oscillations.

Thanks to all our collaborators and funders, with a special shoutout to the @univmiami.bsky.social Frost Institute for Data Science & Computing (IDSC) to making this all possible! @fonamental.bsky.social @ambonacolta.bsky.social

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