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Biology letters
2025
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| author | Ashey, Jill Putnam, Hollie M McManus, M Conor |
| author_facet | Ashey, Jill Putnam, Hollie M McManus, M Conor Ashey, Jill Putnam, Hollie M McManus, M Conor |
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| contents | Guided by the northern star coral: a research synthesis and roadmap for . Ashey, Jill Putnam, Hollie M McManus, M Conor Animals Anthozoa Symbiosis Ecosystem Climate Change The northern star coral, , is a temperate, facultatively symbiotic, scleractinian coral spanning the coastal western Atlantic. This calcifying species is mixotrophic with a broad geographical range, and therefore has high utility in addressing questions related to community ecology, symbiosis, population genetics, biomineralization and resilience to environmental perturbations. Here, we review the current peer-reviewed literature, which is primarily found in six focal areas: geographic range, habitat and ecology, symbiosis, life history, microbiome and genomics and transcriptomics. A cross-cutting theme of these studies emerges as the value of an experimental system that is facultatively symbiotic. Yet, the historic overgeneralization of symbiotic versus 'aposymbiotic' has constrained the interpretation of the basic biology and generalizability of conclusions. Emergent from our review, and timely with respect to climate change, is the value that brings as an experimental system with the potential to test questions on range adaptability and environmental resilience. We identify future avenues of research for studies that include integration of population genetics with organismal-molecular-cellular biology across the geographical range, while leveraging the power of the facultative symbiosis context. |
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| spellingShingle | Guided by the northern star coral: a research synthesis and roadmap for . Ashey, Jill Putnam, Hollie M McManus, M Conor Animals Anthozoa Symbiosis Ecosystem Climate Change Guided by the northern star coral: a research synthesis and roadmap for . Ashey, Jill Putnam, Hollie M McManus, M Conor Animals Anthozoa Symbiosis Ecosystem Climate Change The northern star coral, , is a temperate, facultatively symbiotic, scleractinian coral spanning the coastal western Atlantic. This calcifying species is mixotrophic with a broad geographical range, and therefore has high utility in addressing questions related to community ecology, symbiosis, population genetics, biomineralization and resilience to environmental perturbations. Here, we review the current peer-reviewed literature, which is primarily found in six focal areas: geographic range, habitat and ecology, symbiosis, life history, microbiome and genomics and transcriptomics. A cross-cutting theme of these studies emerges as the value of an experimental system that is facultatively symbiotic. Yet, the historic overgeneralization of symbiotic versus 'aposymbiotic' has constrained the interpretation of the basic biology and generalizability of conclusions. Emergent from our review, and timely with respect to climate change, is the value that brings as an experimental system with the potential to test questions on range adaptability and environmental resilience. We identify future avenues of research for studies that include integration of population genetics with organismal-molecular-cellular biology across the geographical range, while leveraging the power of the facultative symbiosis context. |
| title | Guided by the northern star coral: a research synthesis and roadmap for . |
| topic | Animals Anthozoa Symbiosis Ecosystem Climate Change |
| url | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40101773/ |