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Distinguishing between Microbial Habitats Unravels Ecological Complexity in Coral Microbiomes.
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- Pooled it
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- Resolving Symbiodiniaceae Diversity Across Coral Microhabitats and Reef Niches.Environmental microbiology · 2025Article
- Coral garden conservation and restoration: how host taxon andFrontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Sponge exhalent metabolites influence coral reef picoplankton dynamics.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Microscale sampling of the coral gastrovascular cavity reveals a gut-like microbial community.Animal microbiome · 2024Article
- The coral microbiome in sickness, in health and in a changing world.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2024Review
- Global warming-related response after bacterial challenge in Astroides calycularis, a Mediterranean thermophilic coral.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Multiomics data integration, limitations, and prospects to reveal the metabolic activity of the coral holobiont.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2024Review
- Bacterial symbionts of the precious coral Corallium rubrum are differentially distributed across colony-specific compartments and differ among colormorphs.Environmental microbiology reports · 2024Article
- A gauge of coral physiology: re-examining temporal changes inISME communications · 2024Article
- Seasonal dynamics and environmental drivers of tissue and mucus microbiomes in the staghorn coralPeerJ · 2024Article
- Coral and Seawater Metagenomes Reveal Key Microbial Functions to Coral Health and Ecosystem Functioning Shaped at Reef Scale.Microbial ecology · 2023Article
- Long-term coral microbial community acclimatization is associated with coral survival in a changing climate.PloS one · 2023Article
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Abstract
The diverse prokaryotic communities associated with reef-building corals may provide important ecological advantages to their threatened hosts. The consistency of relationships between corals and specific prokaryotes, however, is debated, and the locations where microbially mediated processes occur in the host are not resolved. Here, we examined how the prokaryotic associates of five common Caribbean corals with different evolutionary and ecological traits differ across mucus and tissue habitats. We used physical and chemical separation of coral mucus and tissue and sequencing of partial small-subunit rRNA genes of bacteria and archaea from these samples to demonstrate that coral tissue and mucus harbor unique reservoirs of prokaryotes, with 23 to 49% and 31 to 56% of sequences exclusive to the tissue and mucus habitats, respectively. Across all coral species, we found that 46 tissue- and 22 mucus-specific microbial members consistently associated with the different habitats. Sequences classifying as "
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