Latitudinal symbiont zonation in Stylophora pistillata from southeast Africa

Marine Biology

Volumn 154, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 209-217

  Macdonald, Angus H H ^a   Sampayo, Eugenia M ^b   Ridgway, Tyrone ^b   Schleyer, Michael H ^a  

^a OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLADISTICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORAL; ELECTROKINESIS; GEL; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; OCCUPATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYMBIONT; TRANSITION ZONE;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (WEST); PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ANTHOZOA; SCLERACTINIA; STYLOPHORA PISTILLATA; SYMBIODINIUM;

EID: 41849109125     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-008-0915-1     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Atoda K (1947) The larva and postlarval development of some reef-building corals. II. Stylophora pistillata (Esper). Science Reports Tohoku University 4th Series (Biol) 18:48-65
2. Baker AC (2003) Flexibility and specificity in coral-algal symbiosis: diversity, ecology, and biogeography of Symbiodinium. Annu Rev Ecol Ev Syst 34:661-689
3. Baker AC, Starger C, McClanahan T, Glynn P (2004) Corals' adaptive response to climate change. Nature 430:741
4. Berg H, Francis J, Souter P (2002) Support to marine research for sustainable management of marine and coastal resources in the Western Indian ocean. Ambio 31:597-601
5. Burnett WJ (2002) Longitudinal variation in algal symbionts (zooxanthellae) from the Indian ocean zoanthid Palythoa caesia. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 234:105-109
6. Celliers L, Schleyer MH (2002) Coral bleaching on high-latitude marginal reefs at Sodwana Bay, South Africa. Mar Pollut Bull 44:1380-1387
7. Celliers L, Mann BQ, Macdonald AHH, Schleyer MH (2007) A benthic survey of the rocky reefs off Pondoland, South Africa. Afr J Mar Sci 29:65-77
8. Done TJ (1999) Coral community adaptability to environmental change at the scales of regions, reefs, and reef zones. Am Zool 39:66-79
9. Douglas AE (1998) Host benefit and the evolution of specialization in symbiosis. Heredity 81:599-603
10. Fabricius KE, Mieog JC, Colin PL, Idip D, van Oppen MJH (2004) Identity and diversity of coral endosymbionts (zooxanthellae) from three Palauan reefs with contrasting bleaching, temperature and shading histories. Mol Ecol 13:2445-2458
11. Hoegh-Guldberg O, Hinde R (1986) Studies on a nudibranch that contains zooxanthellae I. Photosynthesis, respiration and the translocation of newly fixed carbon by zooxanthellae in Pteraeolidia ianthina. Proc R Soc Lond B 228:493-509
12. Hughes TP, Bellwood DR, Connolly SR (2002) Biodiversity hotspots, centres of endemicity, and the conservation of coral reefs. Ecol Lett 5:775-784
13. Hunter RL, LaJeunesse TC, Santos SR (2007) Structure and evolution of the rDNA internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region 2 in the symbiotic dinoflagellates (Symbiodinium, Dinophyta). J Phycol 43:120-128
14. Iglesias-Prieto R, Matta JL, Robins WA, Trench RK (1992) Photosynthetic response to elevated-temperature in the symbiotic dinoflagellate Symbiodinium microadriaticum in culture. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 89:10302-10305
15. Iglesias-Prieto R, Beltran VH, LaJeunesse TC, Reyes-Bonilla H, Thome PE (2004) Different algal symbionts explain the vertical distribution of dominant reef corals in the eastern Pacific. Proc R Soc B 271:1757-1763
16. Kleypas JA, McManus JW, Menez LAB (1999) Environmental limits to coral reef development: where do we draw the line? Am Zool 39:146-159
17. LaJeunesse TC (2002) Diversity and community structure of symbiotic dinoflagellates from Caribbean coral reefs. Mar Biol 141:387-400
18. LaJeunesse TC (2005) Species radiations of symbiotic dinoflagellates in the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific since the Miocene-Pliocene transition. Mol Biol Evol 22:570-581
19. LaJeunesse TC, Trench RK (2000) Biogeography of two species of Symbiodinium (Freudenthal) inhabiting the intertidal sea anemone Anthopleura elegantissima (Brandt). Biol Bull 199:126-134
20. LaJeunesse TC, Loh WKW, van Woesik R, Hoegh-Guldberg O, Schmidt GW, Fitt WK (2003) Low symbiont diversity in southern Great Barrier Reef corals, relative to those of the Caribbean. Limnol Oceanogr 48:2046-2054
21. LaJeunesse TC, Bhagooli R, Hidaka M, deVantier L, Done T, Schmidt GW, Fitt WK, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2004) Closely related Symbiodinium spp. differ in relative dominance in coral reef host communities across environmental, latitudinal and biogeographic gradients. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 284:147-161
22. Lien Y-T, Nakano Y, Plathong S, Fukami H, Wang J-T, Chen CA (2007) Occurrence of the putatively heat-tolerant Symbiodinium phylotype D in high-latitudinal outlying coral communities. Coral Reefs 26:35-44
23. Loh WKW, Loi T, Carter D, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2001) Genetic variability of the symbiotic dinoflagellates from the wide ranging coral species Seriatopora hystrix and Acropora longicyathus in the Indo-West Pacific. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 222:97-107
24. McClanahan TR, Maina J, Moothien-Pillay KR, Baker AC (2005) Effects of geography, taxa, water flow, and temperature variation on coral bleaching intensity in Mauritius. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 298:131-142
25. MacDonald AHH (2005) The tramp coral, Stylophora pistillata, in the south-west Indian Ocean: ecomorph or speciation. MSc thesis, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
26. Randall JE (1998) Zoogeography of shore fishes of the Indo-Pacific region. Zool Stud 37:227-269
27. Reynolds RW, Smith TM (1994) Improved global sea surface temperature analyses. J Clim 7:929-948
28. Ridgway T, Sampayo EM (2005) Population genetic status of the Western Indian Ocean: What do we know? WIO J Mar Sci 4:1-9
29. Ridgway T, Hoegh-Guldberg O, Ayre DJ (2001) Panmixia in Pocillopora verrucosa from South Africa. Mar Biol 139:175-181
30. Ridgway T, Riginos C, Davis J, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2007) Pocillopora verrucosa genetic connectivity patterns in Southern African Marine Protected Areas. Mar Ecol Prog Ser In press
31. Rocha LA, Craig MT, Bowen BW (2007) Phylogeography and the conservation of coral reef fishes. Coral Reefs 26:501-512
32. Rodriguez-Lanetty M, Loh WKW, Carter D, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2001) Latitudinal variability in symbiont specificity within the widespread scleractinian coral Plesiastrea versipora. Mar Biol 138:1175-1181
33. Rowan R, Powers DA (1991) Molecular genetic identification of symbiotic dinoflagellates (zooxanthellae). Mar Ecol Prog Ser 71:65-73
34. Rowan R, Knowlton N (1995) Intraspecific diversity and ecological zonation in coral algal symbiosis. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 92:2850-2853
35. Sambrook J, Russell DW (2001) Molecular cloning: a laboratory manual 3rd edn. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, New York
36. Sampayo EM, Franceschinis L, Hoegh-Guldberg O, Dove S (2007) Niche diversification of closely related symbiotic dinoflagellates. Mol Ecol 16:3721-3733
37. Swofford DL (1999) PAUP*, phylogenetic analysis using parsimony (*and other methods), version 4.0b10, Sinauer Associates, Sunderland
38. Thompson JD, Gibson TJ, Plewniak F, Jeanmougin F, Higgins DG (1997) The ClustalX windows interface:flexible strategies for multiple sequence alignment aided by quality analysis tools. Nucleic Acids Res 24:4876-4882
39. Thornhill DJ, LaJeunesse TC, Kemp DW, Fitt WK, Schmidt GW (2006) Multi-year, seasonal genotypic surveys of coral-algal symbioses reveal prevalent stability or post-bleaching reversion. Mar Biol 148:711-722
40. Thornhill DJ, LaJeunesse TC, Santos SR (2007) Measuring rDNA diversity in eukaryotic microbial systems:how intragenomic variation, pseudogenes, and PCR artifacts confound biodiversity estimates. Mol Ecol 16:5326-5340
41. Toller WW, Rowan R, Knowlton N (2001) Zooxanthellae of the Montastraea annularis species complex: patterns of distribution of four taxa of Symbiodinium on different reefs and across depths. Biol Bull 201:348-359
42. van Oppen MJH, Palstra FP, Piquet AMT, Miller DJ (2001) Patterns of coral-dinoflagellate associations in Acropora:significance of local availability and physiology of Symbiodinium strains and host-symbiont selectivity. Proc R Soc Lond B 268:2617-2617
43. van Oppen MJH, Mahiny AJ, Done TJ (2005) Geographic distribution of zooxanthella types in three coral species on the Great Barrier Reef sampled after the 2002 bleaching event. Coral Reefs 24:482-487
44. Veron JEN (1993) A biogeographic database of hermatypic corals: Species of the Central Indo-Pacific, Genera of the World. Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph Series 10. 433 pp
45. Visram S, Douglas AE (2006) Molecular diversity of symbiotic algae (zooxanthellae) in scleractinian corals of Kenya. Coral Reefs 25:172-176
46. Warner ME, LaJeunesse TC, Robison JE, Thur RM (2006) The ecological distribution and comparative photobiology of symbiotic dinoflagellates from reef corals in Belize: potential implications for coral bleaching. Limn Oceanogr 51:1887-1897