Heterotrophy promotes the re-establishment of photosynthate translocation in a symbiotic coral after heat stress
Tremblay, Pascal, Gori, Andrea, Maguer, Jean François, Hoogenboom, Mia, and Ferrier-Pagès, Christine (2016) Heterotrophy promotes the re-establishment of photosynthate translocation in a symbiotic coral after heat stress. Scientific Reports, 6. 38112. pp. 1-14.
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Abstract
Symbiotic scleractinian corals are particularly affected by climate change stress and respond by bleaching (losing their symbiotic dinoflagellate partners). Recently, the energetic status of corals is emerging as a particularly important factor that determines the corals’ vulnerability to heat stress. However, detailed studies of coral energetic that trace the flow of carbon from symbionts to host are still sparse. The present study thus investigates the impact of heat stress on the nutritional interactions between dinoflagellates and coral Stylophora pistillata maintained under auto- and heterotrophy. First, we demonstrated that the percentage of autotrophic carbon retained in the symbionts was significantly higher during heat stress than under non-stressful conditions, in both fed and unfed colonies. This higher photosynthate retention in symbionts translated into lower rates of carbon translocation, which required the coral host to use tissue energy reserves to sustain its respiratory needs. As calcification rates were positively correlated to carbon translocation, a significant decrease in skeletal growth was observed during heat stress. This study also provides evidence that heterotrophic nutrient supply enhances the re-establishment of normal nutritional exchanges between the two symbiotic partners in the coral S. pistillata, but it did not mitigate the effects of temperature stress on coral calcification.
| Item ID: | 47788 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
| Keywords: | climate change, ecophysiology, marine biology |
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| Funders: | Centre Scientifique de Monaco (CSM), Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Mar 2017 22:53 |
| FoR Codes: | 31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > 3109 Zoology > 310912 Comparative physiology @ 20% 31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > 3103 Ecology > 310303 Ecological physiology @ 40% 31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > 3103 Ecology > 310305 Marine and estuarine ecology (incl. marine ichthyology) @ 40% |
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