Leptoria phrygia in Southern Taiwan shuffles and switches symbionts to resist thermal-induced bleaching [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2020 AbstractSymbiodiniaceae communities in some corals often shuffle or switch after severe bleaching events, one of the major threats to coral survival in a world with climate change. In this study we reciprocally transplanted five Leptoria phrygia colonies between two sites with significantly different temperature regimes and monitored them for 12 months.
Ya-Yi Huang +4 more
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Cellular plasticity facilitates phenotypic change in a dominant coral’s Symbiodiniaceae assemblage
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Coral-associated dinoflagellates (Symbiodiniaceae) are photosynthetic endosymbionts that influence coral acclimation, as indicated by photo-endosymbiotic phenotypic variance across different environmental conditions.
Colin J. Anthony +3 more
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Transgenerational inheritance of shuffled symbiont communities in the coral Montipora digitata [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2018 Abstract Adult organisms may “prime” their offspring for environmental change through a number of genetic and non-genetic mechanisms, termed parental effects. Some coral species may shuffle the proportions of Symbiodiniaceae within their endosymbiotic communities, subsequently altering their thermal tolerance, but
Quigley, Kate M. +2 more
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Phenotypic variance predicts symbiont population densities in corals: a modeling approach. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 We test whether the phenotypic variance of symbionts (Symbiodinium) in corals is closely related with the capacity of corals to acclimatize to increasing seawater temperatures.
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Molecular Ecology, 2019 AbstractAs climate change progresses and extreme temperature events increase in frequency, rates of disturbance may soon outpace the capacity of certain species of reef‐building coral to recover from bleaching. This may lead to dramatic shifts in community composition and ecosystem function.
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Transcriptomic plasticity and symbiont shuffling underpin Pocillopora acclimatization across heat-stress regimes in the Pacific Ocean [PDF]
, 2021 ABSTRACT The characterization of adaptation and acclimation capacities of coral holobionts is crucial for anticipating the impact of global climate change on coral reefs. Understanding the extent to which the coral host and its photosymbionts contribute to adaptive and/or plastic responses in the coral metaorganism is
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 Although the importance of coral holobionts is widely accepted, the relationship between the flexibility of the microbial structure and the coral host is very complicated.
Wentao Zhu +15 more
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Erratum to: Baseline shifts in coral skeletal oxygen isotopic composition: a signature of symbiont shuffling? [PDF]
Coral Reefs, 2013 Acknowledgments Coral samples were collected and exported with appropriate collection and CITES export permits from Belize and Honduras. We thank R. Bundy, D. Moguillansky, E. Effner, T. Wong and A. Hartmann for help with isotopic analyses, and K. Hughen, H. Wong and M. Dore for Sr/Ca analyses. We thank C.
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Increased cell proliferation and mucocyte density in the sea anemone Aiptasia pallida recovering from bleaching. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Recovery of coral after bleaching episodes is a critical period for the health of the reef ecosystem. While events such as symbiont (genus Symbiodinium) shifting/shuffling or tissue apoptosis have been demonstrated to occur following bleaching, little is
David Fransolet +5 more
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Deep-sequencing method for quantifying background abundances of symbiodinium types: exploring the rare symbiodinium biosphere in reef-building corals. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 The capacity of reef-building corals to associate with environmentally-appropriate types of endosymbionts from the dinoflagellate genus Symbiodinium contributes significantly to their success at local scales.
Kate M Quigley +5 more
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