Marine Animal Microbiomes: Toward Understanding Host–Microbiome Interactions in a Changing Ocean
By A. Apprill. Frontiers in Marine Science, 2017
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All animals on Earth form associations with microorganisms, including protists, bacteria, archaea, fungi, and viruses. In the ocean, animal-microbial relationships have historically been explored in single host-symbiont systems. However, new explorations into the diversity of microorganisms associating with diverse marine animal hosts is moving the field into studies that address interactions between the animal host and a more diverse microbiome. The potential for microbiomes to influence the health, physiology, behavior and ecology of marine animals could alter current understandings of how marine animals adapt to change, and especially the growing climate-related and anthropogenic-induced changes already impacting the ocean environment. This review explores the nature of marine animal-microbiome relationships and interactions, and possible factors that may shift associations from symbiotic to dissociated states. I present a brief review of current microbiome research and opportunities, using examples of select marine animals that span diverse phyla within the Animalia, including systems that are more and less developed for symbiosis research, including two represented in my own research program. Lastly, I consider challenges and emerging solutions for moving these and other study systems into a more detailed understanding of host-microbiome interactions within a changing ocean.
Subfields: Ecology, Oceanography
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In Ecology
- E. Weil
- J. M. Roberts
- Isabel Sousa-Pinto
- B. Willis
- M. Garren
- A. Brandt
- Martin Ostrowski
- Woody Turner
In Oceanography
- J. M. Roberts
- Isabel Sousa-Pinto
- E. Weil
- B. Willis
- Eric P. Achterberg
- M. Garren
- A. Brandt
- Martin Ostrowski
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- Deciphering Coral Disease Dynamics: Integrating Host, Microbiome, and the Changing Environment (2020, background): “Although these issues are not unique to coral disease (Egan and Gardiner, 2016; Logan et al., 2016; Apprill, 2017; Levy et al., 2017), the rapidity and severity of coral disease driven decline has brought these issues to the forefront of coral biology research.”
- Global Observational Needs and Resources for Marine Biodiversity (2019, background): “…level are of high interest due to their sensitivity, ability to augment existing methods of observing macro-organisms (e.g., Bourne et al., 2016; Apprill, 2017; Bierlich et al., 2017; Stat et al., 2018), and their ability to report on the microbial life which is central to the functioning of…”