ArticlemBio2018
Rethinking the Coral Microbiome: Simplicity Exists within a Diverse Microbial Biosphere.
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58 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Effects of life history strategy on the diversity and composition of the coral holobiont communities of Sabah, Malaysia.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Genetic clustering within massive Porites species complex is the primary driver of holobiont assembly.PloS one · 2025Article
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- Bacterial and Symbiodiniaceae communities' variation in corals with distinct traits and geographical distribution.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Microscale sampling of the coral gastrovascular cavity reveals a gut-like microbial community.Animal microbiome · 2024Article
- Impact of Nutrient Enrichment on Community Structure and Co-Occurrence Networks of Coral Symbiotic Microbiota inMicroorganisms · 2024Article
- Symbiosis takes a front and center role in biology.PLoS biology · 2024Article
- Microbiomes of three coral species in the Mexican Caribbean and their shifts associated with the Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease.PloS one · 2024Article
- A gauge of coral physiology: re-examining temporal changes inISME communications · 2024Article
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- Multiscale Spatial Variability and Stability in the Structure and Diversity of Bacterial Communities Associated with the Kelp Eisenia cokeri in Peru.Microbial ecology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Studies of the coral microbiome predominantly characterize the microbial community of the host species as a collective, rather than that of the individual. This ecological perspective on the coral microbiome has led to the conclusion that the coral holobiont is the most diverse microbial biosphere studied thus far. However, investigating the microbiome of the individual, rather than that of the species, highlights common and conserved community attributes which can provide insights into the significance of microbial associations to the host. Here, we show there are consistent characteristics between individuals in the proposed three components of the coral microbiome (i.e., "environmentally responsive community," "resident or individual microbiome," and "core microbiome"). We found that the resident microbiome of a photoendosymbiotic coral harbored <3% (∼605 phylotypes) of the 16S rRNA phylotypes associated with all investigated individuals of that species ("species-specific microbiome") (∼21,654 phylotypes; individuals from
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