A New Host and Range Record for the Gall CrabFungicola fageias a Symbiont of the Mushroom CoralLobactis scutariain Hawai‘i

Hoeksema, Bert W.; Butôt, Roland; García-Hernández, Jaaziel E.

doi:10.2984/72.2.7

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“… 57 , 58 . White plague of corals is associated with small crabs of the family Cryptochiridae, which live in small pits or galls inside the host corals 59 , and both the crab and diseased coral microbiomes are dominated by Alphaproteobacteria , mainly Roseobacter , unlike the microbiomes of healthy corals 60 ).…”

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Microbiomes of gall-inducing copepod crustaceans from the corals Stylophora pistillata (Scleractinia) and Gorgonia ventalina (Alcyonacea)

Shelyakin

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Corals harbor complex and diverse microbial communities that strongly impact host fitness and resistance to diseases, but these microbes themselves can be influenced by stresses, like those caused by the presence of macroscopic symbionts. In addition to directly influencing the host, symbionts may transmit pathogenic microbial communities. We analyzed two coral gall-forming copepod systems by using 16S rRNA gene metagenomic sequencing: (1) the sea fan Gorgonia ventalina with copepods of the genus Sphaerippe from the Caribbean and (2) the scleractinian coral Stylophora pistillata with copepods of the genus Spaniomolgus from the Saudi Arabian part of the Red Sea. We show that bacterial communities in these two systems were substantially different with Actinobacteria, Alphaproteobacteria, and Betaproteobacteria more prevalent in samples from Gorgonia ventalina, and Gammaproteobacteria in Stylophora pistillata. In Stylophora pistillata, normal coral microbiomes were enriched with the common coral symbiont Endozoicomonas and some unclassified bacteria, while copepod and gall-tissue microbiomes were highly enriched with the family ME2 (Oceanospirillales) or Rhodobacteraceae. In Gorgonia ventalina, no bacterial group had significantly different prevalence in the normal coral tissues, copepods, and injured tissues. The total microbiome composition of polyps injured by copepods was different. Contrary to our expectations, the microbial community composition of the injured gall tissues was not directly affected by the microbiome of the gall-forming symbiont copepods.

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Microbiomes of gall-inducing copepod crustaceans from the corals Stylophora pistillata (Scleractinia) and Gorgonia ventalina (Alcyonacea)

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“…These finding suggest the need to study the effect of host specificity more extensively. Similar studies of host switching events may show that this phenomenon has occurred several times during in the evolution of symbiotic copepods, as it has among decapod crustacean taxa (Fransen & Hoeksema, 2014;Brinkmann & Fransen, 2016;García-Hernández et al, 2016;Horká et al, 2016;Hoeksema & Fransen, 2017;Hoeksema et al, 2018). The very nature of the specificity of copepods to the host or to the group of hosts requires a thorough sampling program as well as the use of molecular methods (Ivanenko et al, 2018).…”

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A review of Caribbean Copepoda associated with reef-dwelling cnidarians, echinoderms and sponges

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This review of copepod crustaceans associated with reef-dwelling cnidarians, sponges and echinoderms of the Greater Caribbean is based on published records, systematically arranged by the classification of symbiotic copepods and their hosts, sampling sites, coordinates, depth and date of sampling, literature sources, and three recent surveys (Cuba, St. Eustatius in the Eastern Caribbean and Curaçao in the Southern Caribbean). This resulted in totals of 532 records of 115 species of symbiotic copepods (47 genera, 17 families, three orders) hosted by 80 species of invertebrates, representing scleractinians (47%), octocorals (9%), echinoderms (3%), and sponges (1%). Among ten Caribbean ecoregions, the Greater Antilles (with 64 species of symbiotic copepods) as well as the Southern and Eastern Caribbean (with 46 and 17 species of copepods, respectively) are the most studied and best represented, whereas only six species of copepods are known from Bermuda, one from Southwestern Caribbean and none from the Gulf of Mexico. The absence of poecilostomatoid copepods (Anchimolgidae, Rhynchomolgidae and Xarifidae) on Caribbean stony corals as noted by Stock (1988) is confirmed. The results indicate that the diversity and ecology of Caribbean symbiotic copepods are still poorly investigated.

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“…This information would help to clarify which coral species are inhabited by cryptochirds and which ones are not, and whether such presence-absence patterns have the same evolutionary origin. The latter may, however, be less obvious when host switching is taken into consideration (Hoeksema et al 2018). Furthermore, since some closely related coral species have different bathymetric ranges (Hoeksema 2012;Bongaerts et al 2013;Muir et al 2015;Roberts et al 2019), the presence-absence of crab inhabitation may also depend on particular depth limits of their hosts, like for Christmas tree worms (Polychaeta, Serpulidae, Spirobranchus) ranging from 2 to 39 m depth (Hoeksema and ten Hove 2017;.…”

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The scleractinian Agaricia undata as a new host for the coral-gall crab Opecarcinus hypostegus at Bonaire, southern Caribbean

García-Hernández

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The Caribbean scleractinian reef coral Agaricia undata (Agariciidae) is recorded for the first time as a host of the coral-gall crab Opecarcinus hypostegus (Cryptochiridae). The identity of the crab was confirmed with the help of DNA barcoding. The association has been documented with photographs taken in situ at 25 m depth and in the laboratory. The predominantly mesophotic depth range of the host species suggests this association to be present also at greater depths. With this record, all seven Agaricia species are now listed as gall-crab hosts, together with the agariciid Helioseris cucullata. Within the phylogeny of Agariciidae, Helioseris is not closely related to Agaricia. Therefore, the association between Caribbean agariciids and their gallcrab symbionts may either have originated early in their shared evolutionary history or later as a result of host range expansion. New information on coral-associated fauna, such as what is presented here, leads to a better insight on the diversity, evolution, and ecology of coral reef biota, particularly in the Caribbean, where cryptochirids have rarely been studied.

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A New Host and Range Record for the Gall CrabFungicola fageias a Symbiont of the Mushroom CoralLobactis scutariain Hawai‘i

Cited by 13 publications

References 46 publications

Microbiomes of gall-inducing copepod crustaceans from the corals Stylophora pistillata (Scleractinia) and Gorgonia ventalina (Alcyonacea)

Microbiomes of gall-inducing copepod crustaceans from the corals Stylophora pistillata (Scleractinia) and Gorgonia ventalina (Alcyonacea)

A review of Caribbean Copepoda associated with reef-dwelling cnidarians, echinoderms and sponges

The scleractinian Agaricia undata as a new host for the coral-gall crab Opecarcinus hypostegus at Bonaire, southern Caribbean

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