ArticleThe ISME journal2020
Competitive traits of coral symbionts may alter the structure and function of the microbiome.
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- Algal Symbionts Indicate Heatwave Vulnerability in Corals From Hotspots but Not From Thermal Refugia.Molecular ecology · 2026Article
- Nitrogen concentration influences growth performance and biochemical composition of the endosymbiotic dinoflagellate Durusdinium Glynnii.Archives of microbiology · 2025Article
- Influence of reef habitat on coral microbial associations.Environmental microbiology reports · 2024Article
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- Corals adapted to extreme and fluctuating seawater pH increase calcification rates and have unique symbiont communities.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Viruses of a key coral symbiont exhibit temperature-driven productivity across a reefscape.ISME communications · 2023Article
- Cellular traits regulate fluorescence-based light-response phenotypes of coral photosymbionts livingFrontiers in physiology · 2023Article
- Building consensus around the assessment and interpretation of Symbiodiniaceae diversity.PeerJ · 2023Article
- Nutrient dynamics in coral symbiosis depend on both the relative and absolute abundance of Symbiodiniaceae species.Microbiome · 2022Article
- Colonization and metabolite profiles of homologous, heterologous and experimentally evolved algal symbionts in the sea anemone Exaiptasia diaphana.ISME communications · 2022Article
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- Heat stress destabilizes symbiotic nutrient cycling in corals.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Zoantharian Endosymbiont Community Dynamics During a Stress Event.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
In the face of global warming and unprecedented coral bleaching, a new avenue of research is focused on relatively rare algal symbionts and their ability to confer thermal tolerance to their host by association. Yet, thermal tolerance is just one of many physiological attributes inherent to the diversity of symbiodinians, a result of millions of years of competition and niche partitioning. Here, we revealed that competition among cocultured symbiodinians alters nutrient assimilation and compound production with species-specific responses. For Cladocopium goreaui, a species ubiquitous within stable coral associations, temperature stress increased sensitivity to competition eliciting a shift toward investment in cell replication, i.e., putative niche exploitation. Meanwhile, competition led Durusdinium trenchii, a thermally tolerant "background" symbiodinian, to divert resources from immediate growth to storage. As such, competition may be driving the dominance of C. goreaui outside of temperature stress, the destabilization of symbioses under thermal stress, the repopulation of coral tissues by D. trenchii following bleaching, and ultimately undermine the efficacy of symbiont turnover as an adaptive mechanism.
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