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

• DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1513318112
• Publication Date: 2015-09-01T02:19:53Z
• Authors: Sebastian Baumgarten; Oleg Simakov; Lisl Y. Esherick; Yi Jin Liew; Erik M. Lehnert; Craig T. Michell; Yong Li; Elizabeth A. Hamb...; Annika Guse; Matt E. Oates; Julian Gough; Virginia M. Weis; Manuel Aranda; John R. Pringle; Christian R. Vool...
• Keywords: Sea anemone; Symbiodinium; Coral bleaching; Anthozoa; Anemone

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 photosynthetic alga. The ongoing decline corals worldwide due to anthropogenic influences, including global warming, ocean acidification, pollution, heightens need for an experimentally tractable model system elucidate molecular cellular biology underlying its susceptibility or resilience stress. small sea anemone Aiptasia is such system, our analysis genome provides foundation research in this area has revealed numerous features interest relation evolution function symbiotic relationship.