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Urbanization comprehensively impairs biological rhythms in coral holobionts

Coral reefs are in global decline due to climate change and anthropogenic influences (Hughes et al., Conservation Biology, 27: 261–269, 2013). Near coastal cities or other densely populated areas, coral reefs face a range of additional challenges. While considerable progress has been made in underst...

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Autores principales: Rosenberg, Yaeli, Simon‐Blecher, Noa, Lalzar, Maya, Yam, Ruth, Shemesh, Aldo, Alon, Shahar, Perna, Gabriela, Cárdenas, Anny, Voolstra, Christian R., Miller, David J., Levy, Oren
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Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9311646/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35218086
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16144
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author Rosenberg, Yaeli
Simon‐Blecher, Noa
Lalzar, Maya
Yam, Ruth
Shemesh, Aldo
Alon, Shahar
Perna, Gabriela
Cárdenas, Anny
Voolstra, Christian R.
Miller, David J.
Levy, Oren
author_facet Rosenberg, Yaeli
Simon‐Blecher, Noa
Lalzar, Maya
Yam, Ruth
Shemesh, Aldo
Alon, Shahar
Perna, Gabriela
Cárdenas, Anny
Voolstra, Christian R.
Miller, David J.
Levy, Oren
author_sort Rosenberg, Yaeli
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description Coral reefs are in global decline due to climate change and anthropogenic influences (Hughes et al., Conservation Biology, 27: 261–269, 2013). Near coastal cities or other densely populated areas, coral reefs face a range of additional challenges. While considerable progress has been made in understanding coral responses to acute individual stressors (Dominoni et al., Nature Ecology & Evolution, 4: 502–511, 2020), the impacts of chronic exposure to varying combinations of sensory pollutants are largely unknown. To investigate the impacts of urban proximity on corals, we conducted a year‐long in‐natura study—incorporating sampling at diel, monthly, and seasonal time points—in which we compared corals from an urban area to corals from a proximal non‐urban area. Here we reveal that despite appearing relatively healthy, natural biorhythms and environmental sensory systems were extensively disturbed in corals from the urban environment. Transcriptomic data indicated poor symbiont performance, disturbance to gametogenic cycles, and loss or shifted seasonality of vital biological processes. Altered seasonality patterns were also observed in the microbiomes of the urban coral population, signifying the impact of urbanization on the holobiont, rather than the coral host alone. These results should raise alarm regarding the largely unknown long‐term impacts of sensory pollution on the resilience and survival of coral reefs close to coastal communities.
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spelling pubmed-93116462022-07-29 Urbanization comprehensively impairs biological rhythms in coral holobionts Rosenberg, Yaeli Simon‐Blecher, Noa Lalzar, Maya Yam, Ruth Shemesh, Aldo Alon, Shahar Perna, Gabriela Cárdenas, Anny Voolstra, Christian R. Miller, David J. Levy, Oren Glob Chang Biol Research Articles Coral reefs are in global decline due to climate change and anthropogenic influences (Hughes et al., Conservation Biology, 27: 261–269, 2013). Near coastal cities or other densely populated areas, coral reefs face a range of additional challenges. While considerable progress has been made in understanding coral responses to acute individual stressors (Dominoni et al., Nature Ecology & Evolution, 4: 502–511, 2020), the impacts of chronic exposure to varying combinations of sensory pollutants are largely unknown. To investigate the impacts of urban proximity on corals, we conducted a year‐long in‐natura study—incorporating sampling at diel, monthly, and seasonal time points—in which we compared corals from an urban area to corals from a proximal non‐urban area. Here we reveal that despite appearing relatively healthy, natural biorhythms and environmental sensory systems were extensively disturbed in corals from the urban environment. Transcriptomic data indicated poor symbiont performance, disturbance to gametogenic cycles, and loss or shifted seasonality of vital biological processes. Altered seasonality patterns were also observed in the microbiomes of the urban coral population, signifying the impact of urbanization on the holobiont, rather than the coral host alone. These results should raise alarm regarding the largely unknown long‐term impacts of sensory pollution on the resilience and survival of coral reefs close to coastal communities. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-03-16 2022-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9311646/ /pubmed/35218086 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16144 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Global Change Biology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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Rosenberg, Yaeli
Simon‐Blecher, Noa
Lalzar, Maya
Yam, Ruth
Shemesh, Aldo
Alon, Shahar
Perna, Gabriela
Cárdenas, Anny
Voolstra, Christian R.
Miller, David J.
Levy, Oren
Urbanization comprehensively impairs biological rhythms in coral holobionts
title Urbanization comprehensively impairs biological rhythms in coral holobionts
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title_short Urbanization comprehensively impairs biological rhythms in coral holobionts
title_sort urbanization comprehensively impairs biological rhythms in coral holobionts
topic Research Articles
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9311646/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35218086
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16144
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