The genome of Aiptasia, a sea anemone model for coral symbiosis

S Baumgarten, O Simakov… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
The most diverse marine ecosystems, coral reefs, depend upon a functional symbiosis
between a cnidarian animal host (the coral) and intracellular photosynthetic dinoflagellate …

Aiptasia sp. larvae as a model to reveal mechanisms of symbiont selection in cnidarians

I Wolfowicz, S Baumgarten, PA Voss, EA Hambleton… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Symbiosis, defined as the persistent association between two distinct species, is an
evolutionary and ecologically critical phenomenon facilitating survival of both partners in …

Symbiosis induces widespread changes in the proteome of the model cnidarian Aiptasia

CA Oakley, MF Ameismeier, L Peng… - Cellular …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Coral reef ecosystems are metabolically founded on the mutualism between corals and
photosynthetic dinoflagellates of the genus Symbiodinium. The glass anemone Aiptasia sp …

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 …

Proteomics quantifies protein expression changes in a model cnidarian colonised by a thermally tolerant but suboptimal symbiont

AE Sproles, CA Oakley, JL Matthews, L Peng… - The ISME …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The acquisition of thermally tolerant algal symbionts by corals has been proposed as a
natural or assisted mechanism of increasing coral reef resilience to anthropogenic climate …

Sterol transfer by atypical cholesterol-binding NPC2 proteins in coral-algal symbiosis

EA Hambleton, VAS Jones, I Maegele, D Kvaskoff… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Reef-building corals depend on intracellular dinoflagellate symbionts that provide nutrients.
Besides sugars, the transfer of sterols is essential for corals and other sterol-auxotrophic …

Sub‐cellular imaging shows reduced photosynthetic carbon and increased nitrogen assimilation by the non‐native endosymbiont Durusdinium trenchii in the model …

AE Sproles, CA Oakley, T Krueger… - Environmental …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Hosting different symbiont species can affect inter‐partner nutritional fluxes within the
cnidarian–dinoflagellate symbiosis. Using nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometry …

Rapid, Precise, and Accurate Counts of Symbiodinium Cells Using the Guava Flow Cytometer, and a Comparison to Other Methods

CJ Krediet, JC DeNofrio, C Caruso, MS Burriesci… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
In studies of both the establishment and breakdown of cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis, it
is often necessary to determine the number of Symbiodinium cells relative to the quantity of …

Transcriptomic differences between day and night in Acropora millepora provide new insights into metabolite exchange and light‐enhanced calcification in corals

A Bertucci, S Foret, EE Ball, DJ Miller - Molecular Ecology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The evolutionary success of reef‐building corals is often attributed to their symbiotic
relationship with photosynthetic dinoflagellates of the genus Symbiodinium, but metabolic …

Transcriptome analysis illuminates the nature of the intracellular interaction in a vertebrate-algal symbiosis

JA Burns, H Zhang, E Hill, E Kim, R Kerney - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
During embryonic development, cells of the green alga Oophila amblystomatis enter cells of
the salamander Ambystoma maculatum forming an endosymbiosis. Here, using de novo …