The genome of Aiptasia , a sea anemone model for coral symbiosis
0301 basic medicine
Gene Transfer, Horizontal
dinoflagellate
Models, Biological
Synteny
Chromosomes
Evolution, Molecular
03 medical and health sciences
Genome Size
pattern-recognition receptors
Animals
14. Life underwater
Symbiosis
Phylogeny
Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
0303 health sciences
endosymbiosis
Genome
Gene Expression Profiling
Molecular Sequence Annotation
15. Life on land
Anthozoa
3. Good health
Sea Anemones
horizontal gene transfer
Microbial Interactions
coral reefs
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.1513318112
Publication Date:
2015-09-01T02:19:53Z
AUTHORS (15)
ABSTRACT
Significance
Coral reefs form marine-biodiversity hotspots of enormous ecological, economic, and aesthetic importance that rely energetically on a functional symbiosis between the coral animal and a photosynthetic alga. The ongoing decline of corals worldwide due to anthropogenic influences, including global warming, ocean acidification, and pollution, heightens the need for an experimentally tractable model system to elucidate the molecular and cellular biology underlying the symbiosis and its susceptibility or resilience to stress. The small sea anemone
Aiptasia
is such a system, and our analysis of its genome provides a foundation for research in this area and has revealed numerous features of interest in relation to the evolution and function of the symbiotic relationship.
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