Journal article
Coral-bacterial communities before and after a coral mass spawning event on Ningaloo Reef
PLoS ONE, Vol.7(5), e36920
2012
Abstract
Bacteria associated with three coral species, Acropora tenuis, Pocillopora damicornis and Tubastrea faulkneri, were assessed before and after coral mass spawning on Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia. Two colonies of each species were sampled before and after the mass spawning event and two additional samples were collected for P. damicornis after planulation. A variable 470 bp region of the 16 S rRNA gene was selected for pyrosequencing to provide an understanding of potential variations in coral-associated bacterial diversity and community structure. Bacterial diversity increased for all coral species after spawning as assessed by Chao1 diversity indicators. Minimal changes in community structure were observed at the class level and data at the taxonomical level of genus incorporated into a PCA analysis indicated that despite bacterial diversity increasing after spawning, coral-associated community structure did not shift greatly with samples grouped according to species. However, interesting changes could be detected from the dataset; for example, α-Proteobacteria increased in relative abundance after coral spawning and particularly the Roseobacter clade was found to be prominent in all coral species, indicating that this group may be important in coral reproduction.
Details
- Title
- Coral-bacterial communities before and after a coral mass spawning event on Ningaloo Reef
- Authors/Creators
- J. Ceh (Author/Creator)J-B Raina (Author/Creator)R.M. Soo (Author/Creator)M. van Keulen (Author/Creator)D.G. Bourne (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- PLoS ONE, Vol.7(5), e36920
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science
- Identifiers
- 991005541462607891
- Copyright
- © 2012 Ceh et al.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Note
- This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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- Citation topics
- 3 Agriculture, Environment & Ecology
- 3.2 Marine Biology
- 3.2.570 Coral Reef Ecology
- Web Of Science research areas
- Microbiology
- ESI research areas
- Microbiology