Multi-year, seasonal genotypic surveys of coral-algal symbioses reveal prevalent stability or post-bleaching reversion

By D. Thornhill, Todd C. LaJeunesse, Dustin W. Kemp, W. Fitt, Gregory W. Schmidt. 2006

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Long‐standing environmental conditions, geographic isolation and host–symbiont specificity influence the relative ecological dominance and genetic diversification of coral endosymbionts in the genus Symbiodinium (2010, background): “…differences in these ITS sequences delimit ecologically distinct Symbiodinium (operational taxonomic units, or OTUs; e.g. LaJeunesse, 2002; Pochon et al., 2004, 2007; Rodriguez-Lanetty et al., 2004; Thornhill et al., 2006b, 2008; Sampayo et al., 2007, 2008; Frade et al., 2008; Goulet et al., 2008).”
Can heterotrophic uptake of dissolved organic carbon and zooplankton mitigate carbon budget deficits in annually bleached corals? (2016, background): “…physiological variables such as energy reserves (Rodrigues and Grottoli 2007; Anthony et al. 2009; Grottoli et al. 2014) and Symbiodinium shuffling (Thornhill et al. 2006; LaJeunesse et al. 2009; Grottoli et al. 2014) are more likely to dictate which species or populations of species are expected…”
Juvenile corals can acquire more carbon from high-performance algal symbionts (2009, background): “While such shifts may increase the survival of corals under warming conditions (Berkelmans and van Oppen 2006), non-elevated sea temperatures between bleaching events may favour corals that harbour more photosynthetically active Symbiodinium types such as C1 (ITS1, used in this study) and enhance th”
Climate change and coral reef bleaching: An ecological assessment of long-term impacts, recovery trends and future outlook (2008, background): “Shelf Sci. (200 by which these residual symbionts recover in bleached coral tissues, and the potential for succession within these communities during recovery, have not been widely investigated (but see Toller et al., 2001; Thornhill et al., 2006a,b).”
Consensus thermotolerance ranking for 110 Symbiodinium phylotypes: an exemplar utilization of a novel iterative partial‐rank aggregation tool with broad application potential (2017, background): “Experimental studies (e.g. Thornhill et al. 2006; McGinty, Pieczonka & Mydlarz 2012) can assess in hospite or in vitro phylotypes during abnormal thermal events, however are restricted by host and symbiont specificity (e.g. Fabina et al. 2013) and the culturability of phylotypes (Krueger & Gates…”
Development of clade-specific Symbiodinium primers for quantitative PCR (qPCR) and their application to detecting clade D symbionts in Caribbean corals (2009, methodology): “In the Caribbean, this is not an issue because most (if not all) clade D symbionts in the region are ITS-2 type D1a, a putative heat tolerant type (e.g., Thornhill et al. 2006 ).”
Highly stable symbioses among western Atlantic brooding corals (2006, methodology): “Because PCR–DGGE is not a quantitative method, relative abundance above the minimum detection threshold (¸7%, see Thornhill et al. 2006) of a particular symbiont type cannot be precisely determined.”
Diversity in populations of free‐living Symbiodinium from a Caribbean and Pacific reef (2008, background): “Corals belonging to the genus Montastrea are an ecologically important component of Caribbean reefs and they are known to harbor multiple ITS2 types from clades A, B, C, and D (Rowan et al. 1997; Thornhill et al. 2006a).”
Community dynamics and physiology of Symbiodinium spp. before, during, and after a coral bleaching event (2014, methodology): “Corals are often able to recover from bleaching events, and associated genotypic shifts in Symbiodinium communities have been documented (Berkelmans and van Oppen 2006; LaJeunesse et al. 2009), as has the eventual return to the original Symbiodinium communities (Thornhill et al. 2006).”
Catastrophic mortality on inshore coral reefs of the Florida Keys due to severe low‐temperature stress (2011, background): “As with high-temperature stress, Symbiodinium exposed to cold temperatures experience decreased maximum photosynthetic capacity of PSII, potentially leading to photoinhibition and photodamage (Saxby et al., 2003; Thornhill et al., 2008).”
Remarkably high and consistent tolerance of a Red Sea coral to acute and chronic thermal stress exposures (2021, background): “Crucial to the mechanics of coral bleaching is that corals expel their symbionts but retain their tissue, and thus have the potential to recover by reacquiring symbionts once seawater temperatures return below a coral’s thermal threshold (Thornhill et al. 2006).”
The role of zooxanthellae in the thermal tolerance of corals: a ‘nugget of hope’ for coral reefs in an era of climate change (2006, background): “A similar drift back to pre-bleaching zooxanthella types was noted in three Montastraea species in the Florida Keys following a bleaching event in 1998 (Thornhill et al. 2005).”
Symbiodinium Functional Diversity in the Coral Siderastrea siderea Is Influenced by Thermal Stress and Reef Environment, but Not Ocean Acidification (2018, background): “For example, the composition of in hospite Symbiodinium communities can shift after bleaching disturbances (Baker, 2001; Thornhill et al., 2006; Jones et al., 2008; Kemp et al., 2014; Silverstein et al., 2015), which can strongly influence coral gene expression and future bleaching susceptibility (D”
Chronic parrotfish grazing impedes coral recovery after bleaching (2006, background): “Baker (2001) and Thornhill et al. (2006) observed Symbiodinium D1a in Montastraea spp. colonies following bleaching.”