Microbiome flexibility of Pocillopora verrucosa and Acropora hemprichii from the Red Sea

Type
Bioproject
Dataset

Authors
Ziegler, Maren
Grupstra, Carsten G. B.
Muniz Barreto, Marcelle
Eaton, Martin
BaOmar, Jaafar
Zubier, Khalid
Al-Sofyani, Abdulmohsin
Turki, Adnan J.
Ormond, Rupert
Voolstra, Christian R.

KAUST Department
Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) Division
Red Sea Research Center, Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering (BESE), 4700 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955, Saudi Arabia
Marine Science Program
Red Sea Research Center (RSRC)

Date
2018-09-16

Abstract
The potential for restructuring of bacterial communities across coral species, i.e. the flexibility to associate with different bacteria in different environments, has not been systematically investigated. Here we used 16S rRNA gene sequencing to study bacterial community dynamics in the corals Acropora hemprichii and Pocillopora verrucosa. Colony fragments of both corals were back- and cross-transplanted for 21 months between five sites with differing levels of anthropogenic impact, mostly from land-based sources of pollution in the Red Sea.

Publisher
NCBI

Additional Links
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/?term=PRJNA491299

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  • [Article]
    Ziegler, M., Grupstra, C. G. B., Barreto, M. M., Eaton, M., BaOmar, J., Zubier, K., … Voolstra, C. R. (2019). Coral bacterial community structure responds to environmental change in a host-specific manner. Nature Communications, 10(1). doi:10.1038/s41467-019-10969-5. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-10969-5 Handle: 10754/656261

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http://hdl.handle.net/10754/666492
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Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering (BESE) Division
Marine Science Program
Red Sea Research Center (RSRC)