Coral thermal tolerance shaped by local adaptation of photosymbionts

By E. Howells, V. Beltran, N. W. Larsen, Line K. Bay, B. Willis, M. Oppen. 2012

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Breakdown of the coral-algae symbiosis: towards formalising a linkage between warm-water bleaching thresholds and the growth rate of the intracellular zooxanthellae (2012, positive): “For example , Howells et al. (2012) recently demonstrated that for the generalist Symbiodinium 20 type C1, regionally-adapted differences in average cell diameter correlate with altered thermal tolerance; with the isolated population of physically larger (∼ 10”
Mechanisms of Thermal Tolerance in Reef-Building Corals across a Fine-Grained Environmental Mosaic: Lessons from Ofu, American Samoa (2018, background): “As is the case with the coral host, however, adaptation and acclimatization of the symbiont represent additional pathways to rapid acclimatization and is a rapidly growing area of research (Howells et al., 2011; Baums et al., 2014; Hume et al., 2016).”
Adaptation and the physiology of ocean acidification (2013, positive): “Coral hosts associate with multiple strains and genotypes of Symbiodinium, some of which confer local adaptation to temperature and greater resistance to temperature-induced bleaching (see Howells et al. 2012).”
Remarkably high and consistent tolerance of a Red Sea coral to acute and chronic thermal stress exposures (2021, background): “…impacts is projected to vary greatly among locations (van Hooidonk et al. 2016), with many coral populations already identified as having a superior thermal tolerance compared to most due to prior exposure to elevated temperatures (Oliver and Palumbi 2011; Howells et al. 2012; Schoepf et al. 2015).”
Community dynamics and physiology of Symbiodinium spp. before, during, and after a coral bleaching event (2014, background): “Substantial research emphasis has focused on delineating thermally tolerant vs. sensitive coral–Symbiodinium associations (Berkelmans and van Oppen 2006; Abrego et al. 2008; Howells et al. 2011).”
Symbiodinium Functional Diversity in the Coral Siderastrea siderea Is Influenced by Thermal Stress and Reef Environment, but Not Ocean Acidification (2018, background): “I (Coffroth and Santos, 2005; Pochon and Gates, 2010; Thornhill et al., 2014), with additional evidence for significant within-clade genetic diversity (Howells et al., 2012; Pettay and Lajeunesse, 2013; Thornhill et al., 2017).”