Most corals may not change their symbionts

By T. Goulet. 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Oceanography

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One-year survey of a single Micronesian reef reveals extraordinarily rich diversity of Symbiodinium types in soritid foraminifera (2007, background): “An alternative view considers multiple symbiotic partnerships within single coral hosts to be exceptions rather than the norm (Goulet 2006), and this debate continues to be a subject of considerable controversy (Baker and Romanski 2007; Goulet 2007).”
Photobiology of Symbiodinium revisited: bio-physical and bio-optical signatures (2009, background): “Evidence to date suggests that reef forming corals contain a highly conserved assemblage of symbionts which may contain more than one Symbiodinium genetic type in some cases (Ulstrup and van Oppen 2003; LaJeunesse et al. 2004a; Goulet 2006).”
Real-time PCR reveals a high incidence of Symbiodinium clade D at low levels in four scleractinian corals across the Great Barrier Reef: implications for symbiont shuffling (2007, background): “In a recent review, Goulet (2006) surveyed 442 species of both hard and soft corals from 43 published studies in the literature and concluded that the simultaneous occurrence of multiple symbiont clades is low (23%) and, therefore, the promise of symbiont shuffling as a mechanism to cope with clim”
Many corals host thermally resistant symbionts in high-temperature habitat (2011, background): “If only a few species of coral can successfully host physiologically distinct symbionts, it is unlikely that changes in symbiont type would have reef-scale effects (Goulet 2006; HoeghGuldberg et al. 2007).”
Multiple symbiotic partnerships are common in scleractinian corals, but not in octocorals: Comment on Goulet (2006) (2007, methodology): “For example, in our re-analysis of the data in Goulet (2006), 13 species of Acropora were recorded with symbionts in multiple clades (A, C and/or D jointly), while 33 species contained symbionts in only one clade (A, C or D separately).”
Cellular mechanisms of Cnidarian bleaching: stress causes the collapse of symbiosis (2008, background): “Symbiont types in corals have been sampled across a variety of spatial and temporal scales (Goulet, 2006).”
Mixing it up: Multiple symbiont acquisition strategies as an adaptive mechanism in the coral Stylophora pistillata (2012, background): “7 Symbiont Promiscuity in Juvenile Corals The Symbiodinium specificity exhibited by adult corals is thought to limit the possibility of symbiont altering in the adult life stage (LaJeunesse 2002; Goulet & Coffrot h 2003; Goulet 2006).”
Distributions of stress-resistant coral symbionts match environmental patterns at local but not regional scales (2009, background): “Nature 411:765–766 Baker AC, Romanski AM (2007) Multiple symbiotic partnerships are common in scleractinian corals, but not in octocorals: Comment on Goulet (2006).”
Climate change and coral reef bleaching: An ecological assessment of long-term impacts, recovery trends and future outlook (2008, background): “…and coral reef bleaching: An ecological assessment of long-term 8), doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2008.09.003 A.C. Baker et al. / Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science xxx (2008) 1–3714 ARTICLE IN PRESS exhibiting changes Thornhill et al., 2006b; (Baker and Romanski, 2007; but see also Goulet, 2006, 2007).”
Breakdown of the coral-algae symbiosis: towards formalising a linkage between warm-water bleaching thresholds and the growth rate of the intracellular zooxanthellae (2012, unknown): “Modern genomic techniques demonstrate that many coral species can associate with multiple zooxanthellae types (often simultaneously), though the extent to which this flexibility is available to all symbiotic corals remains uncertain (Baker, 2003; Goulet, 2006).”
Bleaching Resistance and the Role of Algal Endosymbionts (2009, methodology): “Goulet et al. (2005) showed that the same clone of Aiptasia pallida responds differently to elevated temperatures with different clades of Symbiodinium.”
Recent advances in the ecology of mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs) (2014, background): “Mesophotic symbionts While most reef-building corals host a single Symbiodinium type and do not appear to change their symbionts over time [76], habitat-specific symbiont associations have been reported for several coral species in shallow water (<40 m) [reviewed in [7 ]].”
Development of clade-specific Symbiodinium primers for quantitative PCR (qPCR) and their application to detecting clade D symbionts in Caribbean corals (2009, background): “These data call into question the apparent specificity (in terms of total diversity of Symbiodinium hosted) reported for many coral species till date ( Goulet 2006, 2007 ).”
Stability of coral–endosymbiont associations during and after a thermal stress event in the southern Great Barrier Reef (2009, background): “Corals that normally associate with a single clade of Symbiodinum may therefore exhibit greater stability ( Goulet 2006, Thornhill et al. 2006a).”