ArticleThe ISME journal2017
Microbial contributions to the persistence of coral reefs.
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80 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 214 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Environmental Changes Driving Shifts in the Structure and Functional Properties of the Symbiotic Microbiota ofMicroorganisms · 2024Article
- A test for microbiome-mediated rescue via host phenotypic plasticity inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
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- Microbial shifts associated to ENSO-derived thermal anomalies reveal coral acclimation at holobiont level.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
On contemplating the adaptive capacity of reef organisms to a rapidly changing environment, the microbiome offers significant and greatly unrecognised potential. Microbial symbionts contribute to the physiology, development, immunity and behaviour of their hosts, and can respond very rapidly to changing environmental conditions, providing a powerful mechanism for acclimatisation and also possibly rapid evolution of coral reef holobionts. Environmentally acquired fluctuations in the microbiome can have significant functional consequences for the holobiont phenotype upon which selection can act. Environmentally induced changes in microbial abundance may be analogous to host gene duplication, symbiont switching / shuffling as a result of environmental change can either remove or introduce raw genetic material into the holobiont; and horizontal gene transfer can facilitate rapid evolution within microbial strains. Vertical transmission of symbionts is a key feature of many reef holobionts and this would enable environmentally acquired microbial traits to be faithfully passed to future generations, ultimately facilitating microbiome-mediated transgenerational acclimatisation (MMTA) and potentially even adaptation of reef species in a rapidly changing climate. In this commentary, we highlight the capacity and mechanisms for MMTA in reef species, propose a modified Price equation as a framework for assessing MMTA and recommend future areas of research to better understand how microorganisms contribute to the transgenerational acclimatisation of reef organisms, which is essential if we are to reliably predict the consequences of global change for reef ecosystems.
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