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PROVIDER: PRJNA1112859 | ENA |
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Project description:This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series: GSE27022: Microarray studies of darkness stress and bleaching in the Caribbean coral Acropora palmata GSE27024: Microarray studies of darkness stress and bleaching in the Caribbean coral Montastraea faveolata Refer to individual Series
2011-03-22 | E-GEOD-27025 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Coral disease is one of the major causes of reef degradation and therefore of concern to management and conservation efforts. Dark Spot Syndrome (DSS) was described in the early 1990’s as brown or purple amorphous areas of tissue on a coral and has since become one of the most prevalent diseases reported on Caribbean reefs. It has been identified in a number of coral species, but there is debate as to whether it is in fact the same disease in different corals. Further, it is questioned whether these macroscopic signs are in fact diagnostic of an infectious disease, since they can also be caused by physical injury in some species. The most commonly affected species in the Caribbean is the massive starlet coral Siderastrea siderea. We sampled this species in two geographic locations, Dry Tortugas National Park and Virgin Islands National Park. Tissue biopsies were collected from both healthy colonies with normal pigmentation and those with dark spot lesions. Microbial-community DNA was extracted from coral samples (mucus, tissue, and skeleton), amplified using bacterial-specific primers, and applied to PhyloChip™ G3 microarrays to examine the bacterial diversity associated with this coral. Samples were also screened for the presence of a fungal ribotype that has recently been implicated as a causative agent of DSS in another coral species, however the amplicon pools were overwhelmed by coral 18S rRNA genes from S. siderea. Unlike a similar study on a white-plague-like disease, S. siderea samples did not cluster consistently based on health state (i.e., normal versus dark spot). Various bacteria, including Cyanobacteria and Vibrios, were observed to have increased relative abundance in the discolored tissue, but the patterns were not consistent across all DSS samples. Overall, our findings do not support the hypothesis that DSS in S. siderea is linked to a bacterial pathogen or pathogens. This dataset provides the most comprehensive overview to date of the bacterial community associated with the healthy scleractinian coral S. siderea. 17 samples, coral tissue punches from healthy and also from dark-spot-affected Siderastrea Siderea coral in the Virgin Islands and the Dry Tortugas National Parks was collected for comparison of associated bacterial communities
2014-09-30 | E-GEOD-60622 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Coral disease is one of the major causes of reef degradation and therefore of concern to management and conservation efforts. Dark Spot Syndrome (DSS) was described in the early 1990’s as brown or purple amorphous areas of tissue on a coral and has since become one of the most prevalent diseases reported on Caribbean reefs. It has been identified in a number of coral species, but there is debate as to whether it is in fact the same disease in different corals. Further, it is questioned whether these macroscopic signs are in fact diagnostic of an infectious disease, since they can also be caused by physical injury in some species. The most commonly affected species in the Caribbean is the massive starlet coral Siderastrea siderea. We sampled this species in two geographic locations, Dry Tortugas National Park and Virgin Islands National Park. Tissue biopsies were collected from both healthy colonies with normal pigmentation and those with dark spot lesions. Microbial-community DNA was extracted from coral samples (mucus, tissue, and skeleton), amplified using bacterial-specific primers, and applied to PhyloChip™ G3 microarrays to examine the bacterial diversity associated with this coral. Samples were also screened for the presence of a fungal ribotype that has recently been implicated as a causative agent of DSS in another coral species, however the amplicon pools were overwhelmed by coral 18S rRNA genes from S. siderea. Unlike a similar study on a white-plague-like disease, S. siderea samples did not cluster consistently based on health state (i.e., normal versus dark spot). Various bacteria, including Cyanobacteria and Vibrios, were observed to have increased relative abundance in the discolored tissue, but the patterns were not consistent across all DSS samples. Overall, our findings do not support the hypothesis that DSS in S. siderea is linked to a bacterial pathogen or pathogens. This dataset provides the most comprehensive overview to date of the bacterial community associated with the healthy scleractinian coral S. siderea.
2014-09-30 | GSE60622 | GEO
Project description:Three sympatric species of Caribbean grunts (H. flavolineatum, H. carbonarium and H. macrostomum) were collected while SCUBA diving. RNA was extracted from livers, and the transcriptomes were assembled and annotated to investigate positive selection (Pairwise dN/dS) and patterns of gene expression between the three species.
2019-02-14 | GSE124093 | GEO
Project description:Branching coral species like the Caribbean Acroporids are long lived and reproduce asexually via breakage of branches. Fragmentation is the dominant mode of local population maintenance for these corals across much of their range. Thus, large genets with many member ramets (colonies) are common. Each of the ramets experiences different microenvironments, especially with respect to light and water flow. Here, we investigate whether colonies that are members of the same genet have different epigenomes because of differences in their microenvironments. The Florida Keys experienced a large- scale coral bleaching event in 2014-2015 caused by high water temperatures. During the event, ramets of the same coral genet bleached differently. Previous work had shown that this was unlikely to be due to their eukaryotic algal symbionts (Symbiodinium ‘fitti’) because each genet of this coral species typically harbors a single strain of S. ‘fitti’. Characterization of the microbiome via 16S tag sequencing did not provide evidence for a central role of microbiome variation in determining bleaching response. Instead, epigenetic changes were significantly correlated with the host’s genetic background, the position of the sampled polyps within the colonies (e.g. tip versus base of colony), and differences in the colonies’ condition during the bleaching event. We conclude that microenvironmental differences in growing conditions led to long-term changes in the way the ramets methylated their genomes and thus to a differential bleaching response.
2019-12-05 | GSE124246 | GEO
Project description:Branching coral species like the Caribbean Acroporids are long lived and reproduce asexually via breakage of branches. Fragmentation is the dominant mode of local population maintenance for these corals across much of their range. Thus, large genets with many member ramets (colonies) are common. Each of the ramets experiences different microenvironments, especially with respect to light and water flow. Here, we investigate whether colonies that are members of the same genet have different epigenomes because of differences in their microenvironments. The Florida Keys experienced a large- scale coral bleaching event in 2014-2015 caused by high water temperatures. During the event, ramets of the same coral genet bleached differently. Previous work had shown that this was unlikely to be due to their eukaryotic algal symbionts (Symbiodinium ‘fitti’) because each genet of this coral species typically harbors a single strain of S. ‘fitti’. Characterization of the microbiome via 16S tag sequencing did not provide evidence for a central role of microbiome variation in determining bleaching response. Instead, epigenetic changes were significantly correlated with the host’s genetic background, the position of the sampled polyps within the colonies (e.g. tip versus base of colony), and differences in the colonies’ condition during the bleaching event. We conclude that microenvironmental differences in growing conditions led to long-term changes in the way the ramets methylated their genomes and thus to a differential bleaching response.
2020-12-18 | GSE124256 | GEO
Project description:Cold water coral microbiomes: Anthothelidae species
| PRJNA296835 | ENA
Project description:The declining health of coral reefs worldwide is likely to intensify in response to continued anthropogenic disturbance from coastal development, pollution, and climate change. In response to these stresses, reef-building corals may exhibit bleaching, which marks the breakdown in symbiosis between coral and zooxanthellae. Mass coral bleaching due to elevated water temperature can devastate coral reefs on a large geographic scale. In order to understand the molecular and cellular basis of bleaching in corals, we have measured gene expression changes associated with thermal stress and bleaching using a cDNA microarray containing 1,310 genes of the Caribbean coral Montastraea faveolata. In a first experiment, we identified differentially expressed genes by comparing experimentally bleached M. faveolata fragments to control non-heat-stressed fragments. We also identified differentially expressed genes during a time course experiment with four time points across nine days. Results suggest that thermal stress and bleaching in M. faveolata affect the following processes: oxidative stress, Ca2+ homeostasis, cytoskeletal organization, cell death, calcification, metabolism, protein synthesis, heat shock protein activity, and transposon activity. These results represent the first large-scale transcriptomic study focused on revealing the cellular foundation of thermal stress-induced coral bleaching. We postulate that oxidative stress in thermal-stressed corals causes a disruption of Ca2+ homeostasis, which in turn leads to cytoskeletal and cell adhesion changes, decreased calcification, and the initiation of cell death via apoptosis and necrosis. Keywords: thermal stress response; coral bleaching 5 control and 5 heat-stressed RNA samples were hybridized in a 5-replicate dye-swap design (10 total hyb's).
2008-05-31 | E-GEOD-10630 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:The declining health of coral reefs worldwide is likely to intensify in response to continued anthropogenic disturbance from coastal development, pollution, and climate change. In response to these stresses, reef-building corals may exhibit bleaching, which marks the breakdown in symbiosis between coral and zooxanthellae. Mass coral bleaching due to elevated water temperature can devastate coral reefs on a large geographic scale. In order to understand the molecular and cellular basis of bleaching in corals, we have measured gene expression changes associated with thermal stress and bleaching using a cDNA microarray containing 1,310 genes of the Caribbean coral Montastraea faveolata. In a first experiment, we identified differentially expressed genes by comparing experimentally bleached M. faveolata fragments to control non-heat-stressed fragments. We also identified differentially expressed genes during a time course experiment with four time points across nine days. Results suggest that thermal stress and bleaching in M. faveolata affect the following processes: oxidative stress, Ca2+ homeostasis, cytoskeletal organization, cell death, calcification, metabolism, protein synthesis, heat shock protein activity, and transposon activity. These results represent the first large-scale transcriptomic study focused on revealing the cellular foundation of thermal stress-induced coral bleaching. We postulate that oxidative stress in thermal-stressed corals causes a disruption of Ca2+ homeostasis, which in turn leads to cytoskeletal and cell adhesion changes, decreased calcification, and the initiation of cell death via apoptosis and necrosis. Keywords: thermal stress response, time course, coral bleaching Time course with 4 time points and 4 biological replicates per time point. Each biological replicate at each time point was hybridized to a pooled reference control sample containing RNA from all control non-heat-stressed coral fragments.
2008-05-31 | E-GEOD-10632 | biostudies-arrayexpress