ArticleThe ISME journal2017
Acceptable symbiont cell size differs among cnidarian species and may limit symbiont diversity.
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- Phagocytosis of exogenous bacteria by gill epithelial cells in the deep-sea symbiotic musselRoyal Society open science · 2022Article
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- Surface Topography, Bacterial Carrying Capacity, and the Prospect of Microbiome Manipulation in the Sea Anemone Coral Model Aiptasia.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
- Adaptation to Bleaching: Are Thermotolerant Symbiodiniaceae Strains More Successful Than Other Strains Under Elevated Temperatures in a Model Symbiotic Cnidarian?Frontiers in microbiology · 2020Article
- Competition and succession among coral endosymbionts.Ecology and evolution · 2019Article
- Transcriptomic analyses highlight the likely metabolic consequences of colonization of a cnidarian host by native or non-nativeBiology open · 2019Article
- Green fluorescence from cnidarian hosts attracts symbiotic algae.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Article
- Isolation of uracil auxotroph mutants of coral symbiont alga for symbiosis studies.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Using Aiptasia as a Model to Study Metabolic Interactions in Cnidarian-Frontiers in physiology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Reef-building corals form symbiotic relationships with dinoflagellates of the genus Symbiodinium. Symbiodinium are genetically and physiologically diverse, and corals may be able to adapt to different environments by altering their dominant Symbiodinium phylotype. Notably, each coral species associates only with specific Symbiodinium phylotypes, and consequently the diversity of symbionts available to the host is limited by the species specificity. Currently, it is widely presumed that species specificity is determined by the combination of cell-surface molecules on the host and symbiont. Here we show experimental evidence supporting a new model to explain at least part of the specificity in coral-Symbiodinium symbiosis. Using the laboratory model Aiptasia-Symbiodinium system, we found that symbiont infectivity is related to cell size; larger Symbiodinium phylotypes are less likely to establish a symbiotic relationship with the host Aiptasia. This size dependency is further supported by experiments where symbionts were replaced by artificial fluorescent microspheres. Finally, experiments using two different coral species demonstrate that our size-dependent-infection model can be expanded to coral-Symbiodinium symbiosis, with the acceptability of large-sized Symbiodinium phylotypes differing between two coral species. Thus the selectivity of the host for symbiont cell size can affect the diversity of symbionts in corals.
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