Distinct Bacterial Communities Associated with the Coral Model Aiptasia in Aposymbiotic and Symbiotic States with Symbiodinium
dc.contributor.author | Röthig, Till | |
dc.contributor.author | Martins Da Costa, Ruben | |
dc.contributor.author | Simona, Fabia | |
dc.contributor.author | Baumgarten, Sebastian | |
dc.contributor.author | Torres, Ana F. | |
dc.contributor.author | Radhakrishnan, Anand | |
dc.contributor.author | Aranda, Manuel | |
dc.contributor.author | Voolstra, Christian R. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-01-22T10:45:41Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-01-22T10:45:41Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-11-18 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Röthig T, Costa RM, Simona F, Baumgarten S, Torres AF, et al. (2016) Distinct Bacterial Communities Associated with the Coral Model Aiptasia in Aposymbiotic and Symbiotic States with Symbiodinium. Frontiers in Marine Science 3. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2016.00234. | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2296-7745 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3389/fmars.2016.00234 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10754/622707 | |
dc.description.abstract | Coral reefs are in decline. The basic functional unit of coral reefs is the coral metaorganism or holobiont consisting of the cnidarian host animal, symbiotic algae of the genus Symbiodinium, and a specific consortium of bacteria (among others), but research is slow due to the difficulty of working with corals. Aiptasia has proven to be a tractable model system to elucidate the intricacies of cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbioses, but characterization of the associated bacterial microbiome is required to provide a complete and integrated understanding of holobiont function. In this work, we characterize and analyze the microbiome of aposymbiotic and symbiotic Aiptasia and show that bacterial associates are distinct in both conditions. We further show that key microbial associates can be cultured without their cnidarian host. Our results suggest that bacteria play an important role in the symbiosis of Aiptasia with Symbiodinium, a finding that underlines the power of the Aiptasia model system where cnidarian hosts can be analyzed in aposymbiotic and symbiotic states. The characterization of the native microbiome and the ability to retrieve culturable isolates contributes to the resources available for the Aiptasia model system. This provides an opportunity to comparatively analyze cnidarian metaorganisms as collective functional holobionts and as separated member species. We hope that this will accelerate research into understanding the intricacies of coral biology, which is urgently needed to develop strategies to mitigate the effects of environmental change. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | We would like to thank Mohammad Bin Sarhan for preliminary work on cultural isolates and Craig T. Michell for MiSeq library generation. | |
dc.publisher | Frontiers Media SA | |
dc.relation.url | journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2016.00234/full | |
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dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.subject | 16S rRNA gene | |
dc.subject | Cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis | |
dc.subject | Coral reef | |
dc.subject | Functional profiling | |
dc.subject | Microbial community profiling | |
dc.title | Distinct Bacterial Communities Associated with the Coral Model Aiptasia in Aposymbiotic and Symbiotic States with Symbiodinium | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.contributor.department | Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) Division | |
dc.contributor.department | Bioscience Program | |
dc.contributor.department | Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC) | |
dc.contributor.department | Marine Science Program | |
dc.contributor.department | Red Sea Research Center (RSRC) | |
dc.identifier.journal | Frontiers in Marine Science | |
dc.eprint.version | Publisher's Version/PDF | |
kaust.person | Röthig, Till | |
kaust.person | Martins Da Costa, Ruben | |
kaust.person | Simona, Fabia | |
kaust.person | Baumgarten, Sebastian | |
kaust.person | Torres, Ana F. | |
kaust.person | Radhakrishnan, Anand | |
kaust.person | Aranda, Manuel | |
kaust.person | Voolstra, Christian R. | |
dc.relation.issupplementedby | bioproject:PRJNA325476 | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2018-06-14T04:46:58Z | |
display.relations | <b>Is Supplemented By:</b><br/> <ul><li><i>[Bioproject]</i> <br/> Title: sea anemone metagenome Targeted loci environmentalPublication Date: 2016-06-13. bioproject: <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/?term=PRJNA325476" >PRJNA325476</a> Handle: <a href="http://hdl.handle.net/10754/666555" >10754/666555</a></a></li></ul> |
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