New insights into microbial and metabolite signatures of coral bleaching

Copyright © 2023. Published by Elsevier B.V..

Coral bleaching and coral reef degradation have been severely increased due to anthropogenic impacts, especially global warming. Studies have indicated the key role of host-microbiome symbiotic relationships for the coral holobiont health and development, although not all of the mechanisms of interaction have been fully explored. Here, we explore bacterial and metabolic shifts within coral holobionts under thermal stress, and its correlation with bleaching. Our results showed obvious signs of coral bleaching after 13 days of heating treatment, and a more-complex co-occurrence network was observed in the coral-associated bacterial community of the heating group. The bacterial community and metabolites changed significantly under thermal stress, and genera Flavobacterium, Shewanella and Psychrobacter increased from <0.1 % to 43.58 %, 6.95 % and 6.35 %, respectively. Bacteria potentially associated with stress tolerance, biofilm formation and mobile elements decreased from 80.93 %, 62.15 % and 49.27 % to 56.28 %, 28.41 % and 18.76 %, respectively. The differentially expressed metabolites of corals after heating treatment, such as Cer(d18:0/17:0), 1-Methyladenosine, Trp-P-1 and Marasmal, were associated with cell cycle regulation and antioxidant properties. Our results can contribute to our current understanding on the correlations between coral-symbiotic bacteria, metabolites and the coral physiological response to thermal stress. These new insights into the metabolomics of heat-stressed coral holobionts may expand our knowledge on the mechanisms underlying bleaching.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:892

Enthalten in:

The Science of the total environment - 892(2023) vom: 20. Sept., Seite 164258

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sun, Hao [VerfasserIn]
Xie, Ziqiang [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Xiaozhou [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Bo [VerfasserIn]
Liao, Baolin [VerfasserIn]
Yin, Jiehui [VerfasserIn]
Xiao, Baohua [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Coral bleaching
Coral metabolites
Coral-associated bacteria
DMSP metabolism
Heating experiment
Journal Article

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Date Completed 10.07.2023

Date Revised 18.07.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164258

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NLM357122372