National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory

The microbiome of disease resistant and susceptible Acropora sp.

2019

Atlantic Oceanographic Meteorological Laboratory (AOML)

"In this study, we aimed to evaluate the microbiomes of corals that were tested for disease resilience and susceptibility in nursery-reared Caribbean Acropora spp. Diseased coral were grafted onto healthy fragments and diseased fragments may have harbored distinct pathogens. In 2017, three histological samples were examined that suggested that disease fragments were causing rapid tissue loss (RTL). To identify potential disease agents and identify bacteria associated with resilience we used 16S rRNA high-throughput sequencing to evaluate these data. Accession - PRJNA546259; ID - 546259; Data Type - Raw sequence reads; Scope - Multispecies; Submission - Registration date: 4-Jun-2019, NOAA/AOML; Relevance - Environmental"

Acropora cervicornis; Acropora palmata; rRNA sequencing

Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR)

FY2019 CRCP Project ID 31194; Project Title: Characterizing the transcriptomic basis of disease resistance in two critically important Caribbean corals; Principal Investigator: Stephanie Rosales