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2017
Godoy-Vitorino, Filipa; Ruiz-Diaz, Claudia P.; Rivera-Seda, Abigail; Ramírez-Lugo, Juan S.; Toledo-Hernández, Carlos
The microbial biosphere of the coral Acropora cervicornis in Northeastern Puerto Rico Journal Article
In: PeerJ, vol. 10, no. 3717, pp. 15, 2017.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: 16S rDNA, Caribbean, Coral, coral reefs, Depth-related, Microbiota
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title = {The microbial biosphere of the coral \textit{Acropora cervicornis} in Northeastern Puerto Rico},
author = {Filipa Godoy-Vitorino and Claudia P. Ruiz-Diaz and Abigail Rivera-Seda and Juan S. Ramírez-Lugo and Carlos Toledo-Hernández},
editor = {Robert Toonen},
url = {https://peerj.com/articles/3717/
https://sampr.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/The-microbial-biosphere-of-the-coral-Acropora-cervicornis-in-Northeastern-Puerto-Rico.pdf},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3717},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-08-29},
urldate = {2017-08-29},
journal = {PeerJ},
volume = {10},
number = {3717},
pages = {15},
abstract = {Coral reefs are the most biodiverse ecosystems in the marine realm, and they not only contribute a plethora of ecosystem services to other marine organisms, but they also are beneficial to humankind via, for instance, their role as nurseries for commercially important fish species. Corals are considered holobionts (host + symbionts) since they are composed not only of coral polyps, but also algae, other microbial eukaryotes and prokaryotes. In recent years, Caribbean reef corals, including the once-common scleractinian coral Acropora cervicornis, have suffered unprecedented mortality due to climate change-related stressors. Unfortunately, our basic knowledge of the molecular ecophysiology of reef corals, particularly with respect to their complex bacterial microbiota, is currently too poor to project how climate change will affect this species. For instance, we do not know how light influences microbial communities of A. cervicornis, arguably the most endangered of all Caribbean coral species. To this end, we characterized the microbiota of A. cervicornis inhabiting water depths with different light regimes.},
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Coral reefs are the most biodiverse ecosystems in the marine realm, and they not only contribute a plethora of ecosystem services to other marine organisms, but they also are beneficial to humankind via, for instance, their role as nurseries for commercially important fish species. Corals are considered holobionts (host + symbionts) since they are composed not only of coral polyps, but also algae, other microbial eukaryotes and prokaryotes. In recent years, Caribbean reef corals, including the once-common scleractinian coral Acropora cervicornis, have suffered unprecedented mortality due to climate change-related stressors. Unfortunately, our basic knowledge of the molecular ecophysiology of reef corals, particularly with respect to their complex bacterial microbiota, is currently too poor to project how climate change will affect this species. For instance, we do not know how light influences microbial communities of A. cervicornis, arguably the most endangered of all Caribbean coral species. To this end, we characterized the microbiota of A. cervicornis inhabiting water depths with different light regimes.