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Frontiers in microbiology
2025
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| Online Access: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40969425/ |
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| author | Marques, Matilde Pascoal, Francisco Villela, Helena Santos, Elsa Baylina, Núria Peixoto, Raquel S Keller-Costa, Tina Costa, Rodrigo |
| author_facet | Marques, Matilde Pascoal, Francisco Villela, Helena Santos, Elsa Baylina, Núria Peixoto, Raquel S Keller-Costa, Tina Costa, Rodrigo Marques, Matilde Pascoal, Francisco Villela, Helena Santos, Elsa Baylina, Núria Peixoto, Raquel S Keller-Costa, Tina Costa, Rodrigo |
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| contents | Selective shaping of prokaryotic communities and core symbiont maintenance suggest large-scale aquarium facilities as reservoirs of microbiome diversity in octocorals. Marques, Matilde Pascoal, Francisco Villela, Helena Santos, Elsa Baylina, Núria Peixoto, Raquel S Keller-Costa, Tina Costa, Rodrigo Octocorals play a critical role in coral ecosystems, contributing to habitat complexity and marine biodiversity. Despite their ecological importance, the microbial communities associated with octocorals remain understudied, particularly under ex situ conditions. This study compared the prokaryotic communities of the tropical octocoral sp., surrounding seawater, and sediments ("biotopes") from a natural Red Sea reef and a long-term tropical aquarium mesocosm designed to emulate natural reef ecosystems ("habitats"). Using high throughput 16S rRNA gene sequencing, we assessed community composition, diversity, and core taxa. Distinct prokaryotic assemblages were associated with each biotope, with core symbionts persisting across habitats. While seawater communities diverged between habitats, sediment communities were compositionally more similar, dominated by , , , and . sp. harbored specific symbionts consistently across habitats. Alpha-diversity in sp. did not differ significantly between habitats (ANOVA with Tukey's HSD, > 0.05), and beta-diversity patterns were also not significant (PERMANOVA, > 0.05). We identified 19 ASVs shared across sp. habitats, dominated by , unclassified , and . Several core families, such as , , and were consistently associated with sp. across habitats, indicating stability of specific host-microbe associations even after 25 years in aquarium conditions. Phylogenetic analysis further demonstrated the selective maintenance of diverse lineages in aquarium-kept specimens. These findings suggest that large-scale aquarium ecosystems can preserve, to some extent, the structure and diversity of coral-associated microbiomes over extended time periods. By supporting key symbiotic taxa, multi-trophic integrated aquarium systems may serve as repositories for healthy coral-associated microbial communities and microbiome stewardship, underscoring their value in future conservation efforts to sustain the biodiversity of marine holobionts in the face of growing environmental challenges. |
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| language | en |
| publishDate | 2025 |
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| spellingShingle | Selective shaping of prokaryotic communities and core symbiont maintenance suggest large-scale aquarium facilities as reservoirs of microbiome diversity in octocorals. Marques, Matilde Pascoal, Francisco Villela, Helena Santos, Elsa Baylina, Núria Peixoto, Raquel S Keller-Costa, Tina Costa, Rodrigo Selective shaping of prokaryotic communities and core symbiont maintenance suggest large-scale aquarium facilities as reservoirs of microbiome diversity in octocorals. Marques, Matilde Pascoal, Francisco Villela, Helena Santos, Elsa Baylina, Núria Peixoto, Raquel S Keller-Costa, Tina Costa, Rodrigo Octocorals play a critical role in coral ecosystems, contributing to habitat complexity and marine biodiversity. Despite their ecological importance, the microbial communities associated with octocorals remain understudied, particularly under ex situ conditions. This study compared the prokaryotic communities of the tropical octocoral sp., surrounding seawater, and sediments ("biotopes") from a natural Red Sea reef and a long-term tropical aquarium mesocosm designed to emulate natural reef ecosystems ("habitats"). Using high throughput 16S rRNA gene sequencing, we assessed community composition, diversity, and core taxa. Distinct prokaryotic assemblages were associated with each biotope, with core symbionts persisting across habitats. While seawater communities diverged between habitats, sediment communities were compositionally more similar, dominated by , , , and . sp. harbored specific symbionts consistently across habitats. Alpha-diversity in sp. did not differ significantly between habitats (ANOVA with Tukey's HSD, > 0.05), and beta-diversity patterns were also not significant (PERMANOVA, > 0.05). We identified 19 ASVs shared across sp. habitats, dominated by , unclassified , and . Several core families, such as , , and were consistently associated with sp. across habitats, indicating stability of specific host-microbe associations even after 25 years in aquarium conditions. Phylogenetic analysis further demonstrated the selective maintenance of diverse lineages in aquarium-kept specimens. These findings suggest that large-scale aquarium ecosystems can preserve, to some extent, the structure and diversity of coral-associated microbiomes over extended time periods. By supporting key symbiotic taxa, multi-trophic integrated aquarium systems may serve as repositories for healthy coral-associated microbial communities and microbiome stewardship, underscoring their value in future conservation efforts to sustain the biodiversity of marine holobionts in the face of growing environmental challenges. |
| title | Selective shaping of prokaryotic communities and core symbiont maintenance suggest large-scale aquarium facilities as reservoirs of microbiome diversity in octocorals. |
| url | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40969425/ |