Prokaryote Communities Inhabiting Endemic and Newly Discovered Sponges and Octocorals from the Red Sea.
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ArticleKAUST Department
Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) DivisionMarine Science Program
Red Sea Research Center (RSRC)
Reef Ecology Lab
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2020-01-14Online Publication Date
2020-01-14Print Publication Date
2020-07Embargo End Date
2021-01-15Submitted Date
2019-04-05Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/661075
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In the present study, we assessed prokaryotic communities of demosponges, a calcareous sponge, octocorals, sediment and seawater in coral reef habitat of the central Red Sea, including endemic species and species new to science. Goals of the study were to compare the prokaryotic communities of demosponges with the calcareous sponge and octocorals and to assign preliminary high microbial abundance (HMA) or low microbial abundance (LMA) status to the sponge species based on compositional trait data. Based on the compositional data, we were able to assign preliminary LMA or HMA status to all sponge species. Certain species, however, had traits of both LMA and HMA species. For example, the sponge Ectyoplasia coccinea, which appeared to be a LMA species, had traits, including a relatively high abundance of Chloroflexi members, that were more typical of HMA species. This included dominant OTUs assigned to two different classes within the Chloroflexi. The calcareous sponge clustered together with seawater, the known LMA sponge Stylissa carteri and other presumable LMA species. The two dominant OTUs of this species were assigned to the Deltaproteobacteria and had no close relatives in the GenBank database. The octocoral species in the present study had prokaryotic communities that were distinct from sediment, seawater and all sponge species. These were characterised by OTUs assigned to the orders Rhodospirillales, Cellvibrionales, Spirochaetales and the genus Endozoicomonas, which were rare or absent in samples from other biotopes.Citation
Cleary, D. F. R., Polónia, A. R. M., Reijnen, B. T., Berumen, M. L., & de Voogd, N. J. (2020). Prokaryote Communities Inhabiting Endemic and Newly Discovered Sponges and Octocorals from the Red Sea. Microbial Ecology. doi:10.1007/s00248-019-01465-wSponsors
We would like to thank Michael Campbell for providing the map. We are grateful for support in the field from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, including support from the Coastal and Marine Resources Core Lab.This work is a contribution to the LESS CORAL project [PTDC/AAC-AMB/115304/2009] funded by FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia , I.P., through national funds, and co-funding by FEDER, within the PT2020 Partnership Agreement and Compete 2020. Thanks are also due, for financial support to CESAM (UID/AMB/50017/ 2019), to FCT/MEC through national funds, and co-funding by the FEDER. Michael L. Berumen was supported by funding from KAUST (award no. CRG-1-814 2012-BER-002) and baseline research funds. Ana R.M. Polónia was supported by a postdoctoral scholarship (SFRH/BPD/117563/2016) funded by FCT, Portugal and national funds MCTES.
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Springer NatureJournal
Microbial ecologyAdditional Links
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s00248-019-01465-wae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1007/s00248-019-01465-w