Long-Term Survey Is Necessary to Reveal Various Shifts of Microbial Composition in Corals.

ABSTRACT: The coral holobiont is the assemblage of coral host and its microbial symbionts, which functions as a unit and is responsive to host species and environmental factors. Although monitoring surveys have been done to determine bacteria associated with coral, none have persisted for >1 year. Therefore, potential variations in minor or dominant community members that occur over extended intervals have not been characterized. In this study, 16S rRNA gene amplicon pyrosequencing was used to investigate the relationship between bacterial communities in healthy Stylophora pistillata in tropical and subtropical Taiwan over 2 years, apparently one of the longest surveys of coral-associated microbes. Dominant bacterial genera in S. pistillata had disparate changes in different geographic

SUBMITTER: Yang SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5468432 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature