Patterns of Symbiodinium (Dinophyceae) diversity and assemblages among diverse hosts and the coral reef environment of Lizard Island, Australia
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Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) DivisionRed Sea Research Center (RSRC)
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2018-06-22Permanent link to this record
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Large-scale environmental disturbances may impact both partners in coral host-Symbiodinium systems. Elucidation of the assembly patterns in such complex and interdependent communities may enable better prediction of environmental impacts across coral reef ecosystems. In this study, we investigated how the community composition and diversity of dinoflagellate symbionts in the genus Symbiodinium were distributed among 12 host species from six taxonomic orders (Actinaria, Alcyonacea, Miliolida, Porifera, Rhizostoma, Scleractinia) and in the reef water and sediments at Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef before the 3rd Global Coral Bleaching Event. 454 pyrosequencing of the ITS2 region of Symbiodinium yielded 83 Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs) at a 97% similarity cut-off. Approximately half of the Symbiodinium OTUs from reef water or sediments were also present in symbio. OTUs belonged to six clades (A-D, F-G), but community structure was uneven. The two most abundant OTUs (100% matches to types C1 and A3) comprised 91% of reads and OTU C1 was shared by all species. However, sequence-based analysis of these dominant OTUs revealed host species-specificity, suggesting that genetic similarity cut-offs of Symbiodinium ITS2 data sets need careful evaluation. Of the less abundant OTUs, roughly half occurred at only one site or in one species and the background Symbiodinium communities were distinct between individual samples. We conclude that sampling multiple host taxa with differing life history traits will be critical to fully understand the symbiont diversity of a given system and to predict coral ecosystem responses to environmental change and disturbance considering the differential stress response of the taxa within. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Citation
Ziegler M, Stone E, Colman D, Takacs-Vesbach C, Shepherd U (2018) Patterns of Symbiodinium (Dinophyceae) diversity and assemblages among diverse hosts and the coral reef environment of Lizard Island, Australia. Journal of Phycology. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jpy.12749.Sponsors
We are grateful to Lizard Island Research Station staff for their support. Samples were collected under Great Barrier Reef Marine Parks permit # G13/36006.1. The trip to Lizard Island and the molecular work were funded by the UNM Honors College Research Institute, Sonnet and Ian McKinnon and by a UNM Research Allocations Grant. Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute of General medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number P30GM110907. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. We thank the UNM undergraduate course participants for assistance with sample collection and the reviewers and editor for their comments that helped to improve this manuscript.Publisher
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Journal of PhycologyPubMed ID
29696650Additional Links
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jpy.12749ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1111/jpy.12749
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