Bacterial Communities Associated With Healthy and Bleached Crustose Coralline Alga Porolithon onkodes.

ABSTRACT: Crustose coralline algae (CCA) play vital roles in producing and stabilizing reef structures and inducing the settlement and metamorphosis of invertebrate larvae in coral reef ecosystems. However, little is known about the bacterial communities associated with healthy and bleached CCA and their interactions with coral larval settlement. We collected samples of healthy, middle semi-bleached, and bleached CCA Porolithon onkodes from Sanya Bay in the South China Sea and investigated their influences on the larval settlement and metamorphosis of the reef-building coral Pocillopora damicornis. The larval settlement/metamorphosis rates all exceeded 70% when exposed to healthy, middle semi-bleached, and bleached algae. Furthermore, the compositions of bacterial community using ampli

SUBMITTER: Yang F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8219876 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature