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
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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