Cell biology of cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis

SK Davy, D Allemand, VM Weis - Microbiology and Molecular …, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
The symbiosis between cnidarians (eg, corals or sea anemones) and intracellular
dinoflagellate algae of the genus Symbiodinium is of immense ecological importance. In …

Symbiodinium—Invertebrate Symbioses and the Role of Metabolomics

BR Gordon, W Leggat - Marine drugs, 2010 - mdpi.com
Symbioses play an important role within the marine environment. Among the most well
known of these symbioses is that between coral and the photosynthetic dinoflagellate …

Broad scale proteomic analysis of heat-destabilised symbiosis in the hard coral Acropora millepora

K Petrou, BL Nunn, MP Padula, DJ Miller… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Coral reefs across the globe are threatened by warming oceans. The last few years have
seen the worst mass coral bleaching events recorded, with more than one quarter of all reefs …

Differential responses of the coral host and their algal symbiont to thermal stress

W Leggat, F Seneca, K Wasmund, L Ukani… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
The success of any symbiosis under stress conditions is dependent upon the responses of
both partners to that stress. The coral symbiosis is particularly susceptible to small increases …

Subcellular Investigation of Photosynthesis-Driven Carbon Assimilation in the Symbiotic Reef Coral Pocillopora damicornis

C Kopp, I Domart-Coulon, S Escrig, BM Humbel… - MBio, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
Reef-building corals form essential, mutualistic endosymbiotic associations with
photosynthetic Symbiodinium dinoflagellates, providing their animal host partner with …

Detection of polystyrene nanoplastics in biological samples based on the solvatochromic properties of Nile red: application in Hydra attenuata exposed to …

F Gagné, J Auclair, B Quinn - Environmental Science and Pollution …, 2019 - Springer
The release of nanoplastics (NP) from the weathering of microplastics is a major concern for
the environment. Methods for the detection of NP in biological tissues are urgently needed …

Symbiotic lifestyle triggers drastic changes in the gene expression of the algal endosymbiont Breviolum minutum (Symbiodiniaceae)

K Maor‐Landaw, MJH van Oppen… - Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Coral–dinoflagellate symbiosis underpins the evolutionary success of corals reefs.
Successful exchange of molecules between the cnidarian host and the Symbiodiniaceae …

Study of cnidarian-algal symbiosis in the “omics” age

ELI Meyer, VM Weis - The Biological Bulletin, 2012 - journals.uchicago.edu
The symbiotic associations between cnidarians and dinoflagellate algae (Symbiodinium)
support productive and diverse ecosystems in coral reefs. Many aspects of this association …

Diversity of fatty acid composition of symbiotic dinoflagellates in corals: evidence for the transfer of host PUFAs to the symbionts

AB Imbs, IM Yakovleva, TN Dautova, LH Bui, P Jones - Phytochemistry, 2014 - Elsevier
High diversity of fatty acid (FA) composition of endosymbiotic dinoflagellates of the
Symbiodinium group (zooxanthellae) isolated from different cnidarian groups has been …

A Compartmental Comparison of Major Lipid Species in a Coral-Symbiodinium Endosymbiosis: Evidence that the Coral Host Regulates Lipogenesis of Its Cytosolic …

HK Chen, SN Song, LH Wang, AB Mayfield, YJ Chen… - PLoS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
The lipid body (LB) formation in the host coral gastrodermal cell cytoplasm is a hallmark of
the coral-Symbiodinium endosymbiosis, and such lipid-based entities are not found in …