{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Gomez-Campo K"],"funding":["Pennsylvania State University","National Institutes of Health","NIGMS NIH HHS","NIH HHS","National Science Foundation"],"pagination":["e17246"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC10922902"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["33(4)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Acclimatization through phenotypic plasticity represents a more rapid response to environmental change than adaptation and is vital to optimize organisms' performance in different conditions. Generally, animals are less phenotypically plastic than plants, but reef-building corals exhibit plant-like properties. They are light dependent with a sessile and modular construction that facilitates rapid morphological changes within their lifetime. We induced phenotypic changes by altering light exposure in a reciprocal transplant experiment and found that coral plasticity is a colony trait emerging from comprehensive morphological and physiological changes within the colony. Plasticity in skeletal features optimized coral light harvesting and utilization and paralleled significant methylome and transcriptome modifications. Network-associated responses resulted in the identification of hub genes and clusters associated to the change in phenotype: inter-partner recognition and phagocytosis, soft tissue growth and biomineralization. Furthermore, we identified hub genes putatively involved in animal photoreception-phototransduction. These findings fundamentally advance our understanding of how reef-building corals repattern the methylome and adjust a phenotype, revealing an important role of light sensing by the coral animal to optimize photosynthetic performance of the symbionts."],"journal":["Molecular ecology"],"pubmed_title":["Phenotypic plasticity for improved light harvesting, in tandem with methylome repatterning in reef-building corals."],"pmcid":["PMC10922902"],"funding_grant_id":["NIH R01 GM134056‐01","NSF OCE‐1537959","R01 GM134056","NIH R01 GM134056-01"],"pubmed_authors":["Yang X","Gomez-Campo K","Sanchez R","Enriquez S","Iglesias-Prieto R","Baums IB","Maher T","Martinez-Rugerio I","Osborne CC","Mackenzie SA"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Phenotypic plasticity for improved light harvesting, in tandem with methylome repatterning in reef-building corals.","description":"Acclimatization through phenotypic plasticity represents a more rapid response to environmental change than adaptation and is vital to optimize organisms' performance in different conditions. Generally, animals are less phenotypically plastic than plants, but reef-building corals exhibit plant-like properties. They are light dependent with a sessile and modular construction that facilitates rapid morphological changes within their lifetime. We induced phenotypic changes by altering light exposure in a reciprocal transplant experiment and found that coral plasticity is a colony trait emerging from comprehensive morphological and physiological changes within the colony. Plasticity in skeletal features optimized coral light harvesting and utilization and paralleled significant methylome and transcriptome modifications. Network-associated responses resulted in the identification of hub genes and clusters associated to the change in phenotype: inter-partner recognition and phagocytosis, soft tissue growth and biomineralization. Furthermore, we identified hub genes putatively involved in animal photoreception-phototransduction. These findings fundamentally advance our understanding of how reef-building corals repattern the methylome and adjust a phenotype, revealing an important role of light sensing by the coral animal to optimize photosynthetic performance of the symbionts.","dates":{"release":"2024-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2024 Feb","modification":"2026-06-01T18:11:49.316Z","creation":"2025-04-05T19:20:06.47Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC10922902","cross_references":{"pubmed":["38153177"],"doi":["10.1111/mec.17246"]}}