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    Major similarities in the bacterial communities associated with lesioned and healthy Fungiidae corals

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    Authors
    Apprill, Amy
    Hughen, Konrad
    Mincer, Tracy
    KAUST Grant Number
    USA 00002
    Date
    2013-03-21
    Online Publication Date
    2013-03-21
    Print Publication Date
    2013-07
    Permanent link to this record
    http://hdl.handle.net/10754/598752
    
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    Abstract
    Cultivation-based studies have demonstrated that yellow-band disease (YBD), a lesion-producing ailment affecting diverse species of coral, is caused by a consortium of Vibrio spp. This study takes the first cultivation-independent approach to examine the whole bacterial community associated with YBD-like lesioned corals. Two species of Fungiidae corals, Ctenactis crassa and Herpolitha limax, displaying YBD-like lesions were examined across diverse reefs throughout the Red Sea. Using a pyrosequencing approach targeting the V1-V3 regions of the SSU rRNA gene, no major differences in bacterial community composition or diversity were identified between healthy and lesioned corals of either species. Indicator species analysis did not find Vibrio significantly associated with the lesioned corals. However, operational taxonomic units belonging to the Ruegeria genus of Alphaproteobacteria and NS9 marine group of Flavobacteria were significantly associated with the lesioned corals. The most striking trend of this dataset was that reef location was found to be the most significant influence on the coral-bacterial community. It is possible that more pronounced lesion-specific bacterial signatures might have been concealed by the strong influence of environmental conditions on coral-bacteria. Overall, this study demonstrates inconsistencies between cultivation-independent and cultivation-based studies regarding the role of specific bacteria in coral diseases. © 2013 John Wiley & Sons Ltd and Society for Applied Microbiology.
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    Apprill A, Hughen K, Mincer T (2013) Major similarities in the bacterial communities associated with lesioned and healthy Fungiidae corals. Environmental Microbiology 15: 2063–2072. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.12107.
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    We are grateful to J. Cervino for lesion identification, K. Furby, J. Ossolinski, J. Kneeland and W. Bernstein for sample collections, and the crew of the M/V Dream Island. We thank K. Selph of the UH SOEST flow cytometry facility for cell enumeration, J. Jennings of Oregon State University for inorganic nutrient analysis, and C. Wright and the University of Illinois W. M. Keck Center for Comparative and Functional Genomics for sequencing. The authors acknowledge the faculty of the 2011 MBL hosted STAMPS course for insight into sequencing data analysis and two insightful reviewers for their comments on this manuscript. This research was supported by a WHOI Ocean Life Institute postdoctoral scholar fellowship to A. Apprill, and by Award No. USA 00002 to K. Hughen made by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).
    Publisher
    Wiley
    Journal
    Environmental Microbiology
    DOI
    10.1111/1462-2920.12107
    PubMed ID
    23516962
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1111/1462-2920.12107
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