ArticleCommunications biology2022
Intrapopulation adaptive variance supports thermal tolerance in a reef-building coral.
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- Selective breeding enhances coral heat tolerance even over small spatial scales.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Intergenerational metabolomic signatures of bleaching resistance in corals.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Slight thermal stress exerts genetic diversity selection at coral (Acropora digitifera) larval stages.BMC genomics · 2025Article
- Heat-induced stress modulates cell surface glycans and membrane lipids of coral symbionts.The ISME journal · 2025Article
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- Climate adaptive loci revealed by seascape genomics correlate with phenotypic variation in heat tolerance of the coral Acropora millepora.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Complex parental effects impact variation in larval thermal tolerance in a vertically transmitting coral.Heredity · 2024Article
- Thermal tolerance traits of individual corals are widely distributed across the Great Barrier Reef.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Corals that survive repeated thermal stress show signs of selection and acclimatization.PloS one · 2024Article
- Divergent bleaching and recovery trajectories in reef-building corals following a decade of successive marine heatwaves.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Importance of depth and temperature variability as drivers of coral symbiont composition despite a mass bleaching event.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Host transcriptomic plasticity and photosymbiotic fidelity underpin Pocillopora acclimatization across thermal regimes in the Pacific Ocean.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Comparative transcriptome analysis reveals deep molecular landscapes in stony coralFrontiers in genetics · 2023Article
- Genetic patterns in Montipora capitata across an environmental mosaic in Kāne'ohe Bay, O'ahu, Hawai'i.Molecular ecology · 2022Article
- Expression plasticity regulates intraspecific variation in the acclimatization potential of a reef-building coral.Nature communications · 2022Article
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Abstract
Coral holobionts are multi-species assemblages, which adds significant complexity to genotype-phenotype connections underlying ecologically important traits like coral bleaching. Small scale heterogeneity in bleaching is ubiquitous in the absence of strong environmental gradients, which provides adaptive variance needed for the long-term persistence of coral reefs. We used RAD-seq, qPCR and LC-MS/MS metabolomics to characterize host genomic variation, symbiont community and biochemical correlates in two bleaching phenotypes of the vertically transmitting coral Montipora capitata. Phenotype was driven by symbiosis state and host genetic variance. We documented 5 gene ontologies that were significantly associated with both the binary bleaching phenotype and symbiont composition, representing functions that confer a phenotype via host-symbiont interactions. We bred these corals and show that symbiont communities were broadly conserved in bulk-crosses, resulting in significantly higher survivorship under temperature stress in juveniles, but not larvae, from tolerant parents. Using a select and re-sequence approach, we document numerous gene ontologies selected by heat stress, some of which (cell signaling, antioxidant activity, pH regulation) have unique selection dynamics in larvae from thermally tolerant parents. These data show that vertically transmitting corals may have an adaptive advantage under climate change if host and symbiont variance interact to influence bleaching phenotype.
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