Spatial extent of dysbiosis in the branching coral Pocillopora damicornis during an acute disease outbreak
Abstract Globally, coral reefs face increasing disease prevalence and large-scale outbreak events. These outbreaks offer insights into microbial and functional patterns of coral disease, including early indicators of disease that may be present in visually-healthy tissues. Outbreak events also allow...
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| author | Austin Greene Tess Moriarty William Leggatt Tracy D. Ainsworth Megan J. Donahue Laurie Raymundo |
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| description | Abstract Globally, coral reefs face increasing disease prevalence and large-scale outbreak events. These outbreaks offer insights into microbial and functional patterns of coral disease, including early indicators of disease that may be present in visually-healthy tissues. Outbreak events also allow investigation of how reef-building corals, typically colonial organisms, respond to disease. We studied Pocillopora damicornis during an acute tissue loss disease outbreak on Guam to determine whether dysbiosis was present in visually-healthy tissues ahead of advancing disease lesions. These data reveal that coral fragments with visual evidence of disease are expectedly dysbiotic with high microbial and metabolomic variability. However, visually-healthy tissues from the same colonies lacked dysbiosis, suggesting disease containment near the affected area. These results challenge the idea of using broad dysbiosis as a pre-visual disease indicator and prompt reevaluation of disease assessment in colonial organisms such as reef-building corals. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9d2fbfce6f7341639f93863e48a4e85a2023-11-20T09:14:27ZengNature PortfolioScientific Reports2045-23222023-10-0113111110.1038/s41598-023-43490-3Spatial extent of dysbiosis in the branching coral Pocillopora damicornis during an acute disease outbreakAustin Greene0Tess Moriarty1William Leggatt2Tracy D. Ainsworth3Megan J. Donahue4Laurie Raymundo5University of Hawai‘i at MānoaUniversity of NewcastleUniversity of NewcastleUniversity of New South WalesUniversity of Hawai‘i at MānoaUniversity of Guam Marine LaboratoryAbstract Globally, coral reefs face increasing disease prevalence and large-scale outbreak events. These outbreaks offer insights into microbial and functional patterns of coral disease, including early indicators of disease that may be present in visually-healthy tissues. Outbreak events also allow investigation of how reef-building corals, typically colonial organisms, respond to disease. We studied Pocillopora damicornis during an acute tissue loss disease outbreak on Guam to determine whether dysbiosis was present in visually-healthy tissues ahead of advancing disease lesions. These data reveal that coral fragments with visual evidence of disease are expectedly dysbiotic with high microbial and metabolomic variability. However, visually-healthy tissues from the same colonies lacked dysbiosis, suggesting disease containment near the affected area. These results challenge the idea of using broad dysbiosis as a pre-visual disease indicator and prompt reevaluation of disease assessment in colonial organisms such as reef-building corals.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-43490-3 |
| spellingShingle | Austin Greene Tess Moriarty William Leggatt Tracy D. Ainsworth Megan J. Donahue Laurie Raymundo Spatial extent of dysbiosis in the branching coral Pocillopora damicornis during an acute disease outbreak Scientific Reports |
| title | Spatial extent of dysbiosis in the branching coral Pocillopora damicornis during an acute disease outbreak |
| title_full | Spatial extent of dysbiosis in the branching coral Pocillopora damicornis during an acute disease outbreak |
| title_fullStr | Spatial extent of dysbiosis in the branching coral Pocillopora damicornis during an acute disease outbreak |
| title_full_unstemmed | Spatial extent of dysbiosis in the branching coral Pocillopora damicornis during an acute disease outbreak |
| title_short | Spatial extent of dysbiosis in the branching coral Pocillopora damicornis during an acute disease outbreak |
| title_sort | spatial extent of dysbiosis in the branching coral pocillopora damicornis during an acute disease outbreak |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-43490-3 |
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