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Dynamics of coral-associated bacterial communities acclimated to temperature stress based on recent thermal history.

ABSTRACT: Seasonal variation in temperature fluctuations may provide corals and their algal symbionts varying abilities to acclimate to changing temperatures. We hypothesized that different temperature ranges between seasons may promote temperature-tolerance of corals, which would increase stability of a bacterial community following thermal stress. Acropora muricata coral colonies were collected in summer and winter (water temperatures were 23.4-30.2 and 12.1-23.1?°C, respectively) from the Penghu Archipelago in Taiwan, then exposed to 6 temperature treatments (10-33?°C). Changes in coral-associated bacteria were determined after 12, 24, and 48?h. Based on 16S rRNA gene amplicons and Illumina sequencing, bacterial communities differed between seasons and treatments altered the dominant bacteria. Cold stress caused slower shifts in the bacterial community in winter than in summer, whereas a more rapid shift occurred under heat stress in both seasons. Results supported our hypothesis that bacterial community composition of corals in winter are more stable in cold temperatures but changed rapidly in hot temperatures, with opposite results for the bacterial communities in summer. We infer that the thermal tolerance ranges of coral-associated bacteria, with a stable community composition, are associated with their short-term (3 mo) seawater thermal history. Therefore, seasonal acclimation may increase tolerance of coral-associated bacteria to temperature fluctuations.

SUBMITTER: Shiu JH

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5668310 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Dynamics of coral-associated bacterial communities acclimated to temperature stress based on recent thermal history.

Shiu Jia-Ho JH Keshavmurthy Shashank S Chiang Pei-Wen PW Chen Hsing-Ju HJ Lou Shueh-Ping SP Tseng Ching-Hung CH Justin Hsieh Hernyi H Allen Chen Chaolun C Tang Sen-Lin SL

Scientific reports 20171102 1

Seasonal variation in temperature fluctuations may provide corals and their algal symbionts varying abilities to acclimate to changing temperatures. We hypothesized that different temperature ranges between seasons may promote temperature-tolerance of corals, which would increase stability of a bacterial community following thermal stress. Acropora muricata coral colonies were collected in summer and winter (water temperatures were 23.4-30.2 and 12.1-23.1 °C, respectively) from the Penghu Archip ...[more]

PMID: 29097716

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Project description:The acclimatization capacity of corals is a critical consideration in the persistence of coral reefs under stresses imposed by global climate change. The stress history of corals plays a role in subsequent response to heat stress, but the transcriptomic changes associated with these plastic changes have not been previously explored. In order to identify host transcriptomic changes associated with acquired thermal tolerance in the scleractinian coral Acropora millepora, corals preconditioned to a sub-lethal temperature of 3°C below bleaching threshold temperature were compared to both non-preconditioned corals and untreated controls using a cDNA microarray platform. After eight days of hyperthermal challenge, conditions under which non-preconditioned corals bleached and preconditioned corals (thermal-tolerant) maintained Symbiodinium density, a clear differentiation in the transcriptional profiles was revealed among the condition examined. Among these changes, nine differentially expressed genes separated preconditioned corals from non-preconditioned corals, with 42 genes differentially expressed between control and preconditioned treatments, and 70 genes between non-preconditioned corals and controls. Differentially expressed genes included components of an apoptotic signaling cascade, which suggest the inhibition of apoptosis in preconditioned corals. Additionally, lectins and genes involved in response to oxidative stress were also detected. One dominant pattern was the apparent tuning of gene expression observed between preconditioned and non-preconditioned treatments; that is, differences in expression magnitude were more apparent than differences in the identity of genes differentially expressed. Our work revealed a transcriptomic signature underlying the tolerance associated with coral thermal history, and suggests that understanding the molecular mechanisms behind physiological acclimatization would be critical for the modeling of reefs in impending climate change scenarios.

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Dynamics of coral-associated bacterial communities acclimated to temperature stress based on recent thermal history.

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Dynamics of coral-associated bacterial communities acclimated to temperature stress based on recent thermal history.

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