A Phylogeny-Informed Analysis of the Global Coral-Symbiodiniaceae Interaction Network Reveals that Traits Correlated with Thermal Bleaching Are Specific to Symbiont Transmission Mode

Timothy D. Swain; Simon Lax; Jack Gilbert; Vadim Backman; Luisa A. Marcelino

doi:10.1128/mSystems.00266-21

mSystems (Jun 2021)

A Phylogeny-Informed Analysis of the Global Coral-Symbiodiniaceae Interaction Network Reveals that Traits Correlated with Thermal Bleaching Are Specific to Symbiont Transmission Mode

Timothy D. Swain,
Simon Lax,
Jack Gilbert,
Vadim Backman,
Luisa A. Marcelino

Affiliations

Timothy D. Swain: ORCiD; Department of Marine and Environmental Science, Nova Southeastern University, Dania Beach, Florida, USA
Simon Lax: ORCiD; Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Jack Gilbert: ORCiD; Department of Pediatrics and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
Vadim Backman: ORCiD; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Luisa A. Marcelino: ORCiD; Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00266-21
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 6, no. 3

Abstract

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Recent advances have revealed a complex network of interactions between coral and Symbiodiniaceae. Specifically, nonrandom association patterns, which are determined in part by restrictions imposed by symbiont transmission mode, increase the sensitivity of the overall network to thermal stress.

Published in mSystems

ISSN: 2379-5077 (Online)
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Science: Microbiology
Website: https://journals.asm.org/journal/msystems

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