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Impact of Ocean Warming and Acidification on Symbiosis Establishment and Gene Expression Profiles in Recruits of Reef Coral Acropora intermedia

The onset of symbiosis and the early development of most broadcast spawning corals play pivotal roles in recruitment success, yet these critical early stages are threatened by multiple stressors. However, molecular mechanisms governing these critical processes under ocean warming and acidification a...

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Autores principales: Sun, Youfang, Jiang, Lei, Gong, Sanqiang, Guo, Minglan, Yuan, Xiangcheng, Zhou, Guowei, Lei, Xinming, Zhang, Yuyang, Yuan, Tao, Lian, Jiansheng, Qian, Peiyuan, Huang, Hui
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7561415/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33117302
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.532447
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author Sun, Youfang
Jiang, Lei
Gong, Sanqiang
Guo, Minglan
Yuan, Xiangcheng
Zhou, Guowei
Lei, Xinming
Zhang, Yuyang
Yuan, Tao
Lian, Jiansheng
Qian, Peiyuan
Huang, Hui
author_facet Sun, Youfang
Jiang, Lei
Gong, Sanqiang
Guo, Minglan
Yuan, Xiangcheng
Zhou, Guowei
Lei, Xinming
Zhang, Yuyang
Yuan, Tao
Lian, Jiansheng
Qian, Peiyuan
Huang, Hui
author_sort Sun, Youfang
collection PubMed
description The onset of symbiosis and the early development of most broadcast spawning corals play pivotal roles in recruitment success, yet these critical early stages are threatened by multiple stressors. However, molecular mechanisms governing these critical processes under ocean warming and acidification are still poorly understood. The present study investigated the interactive impact of elevated temperature (∼28.0°C and ∼30.5°C) and partial pressure of carbon dioxide (pCO(2)) (∼600 and ∼1,200 μatm) on early development and the gene expression patterns in juvenile Acropora intermedia over 33 days. The results showed that coral survival was >89% and was unaffected by high temperature, pCO(2), or the combined treatment. Notably, high temperature completely arrested successful symbiosis establishment and the budding process, whereas acidification had a negligible effect. Moreover, there was a positive exponential relationship between symbiosis establishment and budding rates (y = 0.0004e(6.43x), R = 0.72, P < 0.0001), which indicated the importance of symbiosis in fueling asexual budding. Compared with corals at the control temperature (28°C), those under elevated temperature preferentially harbored Durusdinium spp., despite unsuccessful symbiosis establishment. In addition, compared to the control, 351 and 153 differentially expressed genes were detected in the symbiont and coral host in response to experimental conditions, respectively. In coral host, some genes involved in nutrient transportation and tissue fluorescence were affected by high temperature. In the symbionts, a suite of genes related to cell growth, ribosomal proteins, photosynthesis, and energy production was downregulated under high temperatures, which may have severely hampered successful cell proliferation of the endosymbionts and explains the failure of symbiosis establishment. Therefore, our results suggest that the responses of symbionts to future ocean conditions could play a vital role in shaping successful symbiosis in juvenile coral.
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spelling pubmed-75614152020-10-27 Impact of Ocean Warming and Acidification on Symbiosis Establishment and Gene Expression Profiles in Recruits of Reef Coral Acropora intermedia Sun, Youfang Jiang, Lei Gong, Sanqiang Guo, Minglan Yuan, Xiangcheng Zhou, Guowei Lei, Xinming Zhang, Yuyang Yuan, Tao Lian, Jiansheng Qian, Peiyuan Huang, Hui Front Microbiol Microbiology The onset of symbiosis and the early development of most broadcast spawning corals play pivotal roles in recruitment success, yet these critical early stages are threatened by multiple stressors. However, molecular mechanisms governing these critical processes under ocean warming and acidification are still poorly understood. The present study investigated the interactive impact of elevated temperature (∼28.0°C and ∼30.5°C) and partial pressure of carbon dioxide (pCO(2)) (∼600 and ∼1,200 μatm) on early development and the gene expression patterns in juvenile Acropora intermedia over 33 days. The results showed that coral survival was >89% and was unaffected by high temperature, pCO(2), or the combined treatment. Notably, high temperature completely arrested successful symbiosis establishment and the budding process, whereas acidification had a negligible effect. Moreover, there was a positive exponential relationship between symbiosis establishment and budding rates (y = 0.0004e(6.43x), R = 0.72, P < 0.0001), which indicated the importance of symbiosis in fueling asexual budding. Compared with corals at the control temperature (28°C), those under elevated temperature preferentially harbored Durusdinium spp., despite unsuccessful symbiosis establishment. In addition, compared to the control, 351 and 153 differentially expressed genes were detected in the symbiont and coral host in response to experimental conditions, respectively. In coral host, some genes involved in nutrient transportation and tissue fluorescence were affected by high temperature. In the symbionts, a suite of genes related to cell growth, ribosomal proteins, photosynthesis, and energy production was downregulated under high temperatures, which may have severely hampered successful cell proliferation of the endosymbionts and explains the failure of symbiosis establishment. Therefore, our results suggest that the responses of symbionts to future ocean conditions could play a vital role in shaping successful symbiosis in juvenile coral. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7561415/ /pubmed/33117302 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.532447 Text en Copyright © 2020 Sun, Jiang, Gong, Guo, Yuan, Zhou, Lei, Zhang, Yuan, Lian, Qian and Huang. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Microbiology
Sun, Youfang
Jiang, Lei
Gong, Sanqiang
Guo, Minglan
Yuan, Xiangcheng
Zhou, Guowei
Lei, Xinming
Zhang, Yuyang
Yuan, Tao
Lian, Jiansheng
Qian, Peiyuan
Huang, Hui
Impact of Ocean Warming and Acidification on Symbiosis Establishment and Gene Expression Profiles in Recruits of Reef Coral Acropora intermedia
title Impact of Ocean Warming and Acidification on Symbiosis Establishment and Gene Expression Profiles in Recruits of Reef Coral Acropora intermedia
title_full Impact of Ocean Warming and Acidification on Symbiosis Establishment and Gene Expression Profiles in Recruits of Reef Coral Acropora intermedia
title_fullStr Impact of Ocean Warming and Acidification on Symbiosis Establishment and Gene Expression Profiles in Recruits of Reef Coral Acropora intermedia
title_full_unstemmed Impact of Ocean Warming and Acidification on Symbiosis Establishment and Gene Expression Profiles in Recruits of Reef Coral Acropora intermedia
title_short Impact of Ocean Warming and Acidification on Symbiosis Establishment and Gene Expression Profiles in Recruits of Reef Coral Acropora intermedia
title_sort impact of ocean warming and acidification on symbiosis establishment and gene expression profiles in recruits of reef coral acropora intermedia
topic Microbiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7561415/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33117302
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.532447
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