Evidence for de novo acquisition of microalgal symbionts by bleached adult corals
This study tested whether bleached adult corals can acquire photosymbionts (family Symbiodiniaceae) from the environment. We subjected adult fragments of six coral species to a chemical bleaching treatment: P. lobata, D. heliopora, S. pistillata, D. pallida, E. lamellosa and P. daedalea. The bleached corals were then inoculated with a cultured symbiont (a Cladocopium C1acro strain). Genotyping of the symbiont communities before bleaching and after reinoculation was carried out. Full details are in the paper Scharfenstein et al. (2022).
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Raw sequences of the ITS2 Symbiodiniaceae datasets are available in GenBank (BioSample accession: SAMN22047733 – SAMN22047828; BioProject ID: PRJNA768535).HTML Open
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Scharfenstein, H.J., Chan, W.Y., Buerger, P. et al. Evidence for de novo acquisition of microalgal symbionts by bleached adult corals. ISME J 16, 1676–1679…HTML Open
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| Date (revision) | 2026-10-25 |
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| Status | completed |
| Update frequency | notPlanned |
| Metadata language | en |
| License | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 |
| Source metadata | ISO 19115 XML |
| Last updated | 2026-11-05 |
| Created | 2026-11-05 |
| API | package_show |