Marine microbial symbiosis heats up: The phylogenetic and functional response of a sponge holobiont to thermal stress

ISME Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 991-1002

  Fan, Lu ^a   Liu, Michael ^a   Simister, Rachel ^b,c   Webster, Nicole S ^b   Thomas, Torsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

community stability; functional redundancy; marine disease; microbial symbionts; ocean warming

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL; CORAL BLEACHING; GROWTH RATE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MORTALITY; PERTURBATION; PHYLOGENETICS; SCAVENGING (FEEDING); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEAWATER; SESSILE SPECIES; SPECIALIZATION; SPONGE; SURVIVAL; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VIRULENCE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL REEF; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPONGE (PORIFERA); SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL REEFS; ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIOTA; PHYLOGENY; PORIFERA; SEAWATER; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; INVERTEBRATA; PORIFERA; RHOPALOEIDES ODORABILE;

EID: 84876855871     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2012.165     Document Type: Article

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