Diversity and distribution of coral-associated bacteria

By Forest Rohwer, V. Seguritan, F. Azam, Nancy Knowlton. 2002

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Antimicrobial activity of Red Sea corals (2006, background): “This mucus layer is colonized by bacteria, allowing for the establishment of a bacterial community that can be characteristic to a particular coral species (Mitchell and Chet 1975; Ducklow and Mitchell 1979b; Rublee et al. 1980; Segel and Ducklow 1982; Ritchie et al. 1994; Rohwer et al. 2002).”
GLOBAL MARINE BIODIVERSITY TRENDS (2006, background): “(35) found 430 bacterial species, most of which were novel, in only 14 small pieces of coral taken from three species at two locations; again, statistical estimates suggest that this tiny sample probably contained about 6000 bacterial species.”
Environmental and Gut Bacteroidetes: The Food Connection (2011, background): “, 2000), associated with corals (Frias-Lopez et al., 2002; Rohwer et al., 2002) or on the surface of macroalgae (Beleneva and Zhukova, 2006; Staufenberger et al.”
Thermodependent bacterial pathogens and mass mortalities in temperate benthic communities: a new case of emerging disease linked to climate change (2007, background): “Finally, changes in the metabolism of the host under stressful conditions may cause a shift in the natural bacterial community, resulting in the colonization of newly vacant niches by pathogens (Rohwer et al., 2002).”
The status of coral reef ecology research in the Red Sea (2013, background): “Notably, many studies now recognize the importance of identifying microbiota associated with corals, sponges and other benthic organisms under normal, ''healthy'' conditions (e.g. Rohwer et al. 2002; Taylor et al. 2007).”
Coral-associated Archaea (2004, background): “…the community was 3.4, indicating that archaeal communities on corals are diverse, rivaling diversity estimates of coral-associated bacterial communities (Acropora spp., H ’ = 2.2; Diploria strigosa, H ’ = 4.2; Montastraea franksi, H ’ = 3.4; Porites spp., H ’ = 2.5; taken from Rohwer et al. 2002).”
Diazotrophic bacteria associated with Hawaiian Montipora corals: Diversity and abundance in correlation with symbiotic dinoflagellates (2009, neutral): “of the holobiont challenges the long held model of a two-part symbiotic system (Knowlton and Rohwer, 2003; Rohwer et al., 2002).”
Microbial indicators as a diagnostic tool for assessing water quality and climate stress in coral reef ecosystems (2017, background): “Each of the microhabitats within a coral colony is associated with a distinct microbial community (Rohwer et al. 2002; Sweet et al. 2011; Bourne et al. 2016).”
The Hologenome Concept: Human, Animal and Plant Microbiota (2014, background): “The term holobiont was initially introduced independently by Mindell (1992) and Margulis (1993) to describe a host and its primary symbiont; the meaning was subsequently expanded to include the host plus all of its symbiotic microorganisms, including viruses (Rohwer et al. 2002).”
Are infectious diseases really killing corals? Alternative interpretations of the experimental and ecological data (2007, background): “Another confounding aspect of coral microbiology is the discovery that corals harbor microbial communities not just in their outer mucus layers, but in their tissues (Ducklow and Mitchell, 1979; Klaus et al., 2005; Ritchie and Smith, 1995; Rohwer et al., 2002).”
The Adaptive Hypothesis of Bleaching (2004, background): “The microbial community associated with corals is diverse and complex, having features in common with the coral-algal symbiosis (Rohwer et al. 2001, 2002; Knowlton and Rohwer in press).”
Viruses as pathogens of marine organisms—from bacteria to whales (2006, background): “Corals have been shown to be a habitat for many microbial species (Knowlton & Rohwer, 2003), and recent studies have demonstrated the presence of complex communities of bacteria (Rohwer et al., 2001, 2002; Casas et al., 2004; Frias-Lopez et al., 2004; Bourne & Munn, 2005”