Chimerism in wild adult populations of the broadcast spawning coral Acropora millepora on the Great Barrier Reef
| العنوان: | Chimerism in wild adult populations of the broadcast spawning coral Acropora millepora on the Great Barrier Reef |
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| المؤلفون: | Lynne van Herwerden, Bette L. Willis, Madeleine J. H. van Oppen, Eneour Puill-Stephan |
| المصدر: | PLoS ONE, Vol 4, Iss 11, p e7751 (2009) PLoS ONE |
| بيانات النشر: | Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2009. |
| سنة النشر: | 2009 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Genotype, Oceans and Seas, Coral, Marine and Aquatic Sciences/Genetics, Genomics, and Barcoding, DNA Mutational Analysis, Population, Marine and Aquatic Sciences, Zoology, Population genetics, lcsh:Medicine, Pocillopora damicornis, Ecology/Marine and Freshwater Ecology, Chimerism, Acropora millepora, Genetics and Genomics/Population Genetics, Animals, education, lcsh:Science, Reef, Alleles, DNA Primers, Marine and Aquatic Sciences/Ecology, geography, education.field_of_study, Polymorphism, Genetic, Multidisciplinary, geography.geographical_feature_category, biology, Ecology, fungi, lcsh:R, Australia, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Coral reef, biology.organism_classification, Porifera, Genetics, Population, Genetic Techniques, Genetic structure, lcsh:Q, Research Article, Microsatellite Repeats |
| الوصف: | Background: Chimeras are organisms containing tissues or cells of two or more genetically distinct individuals, and are known to exist in at least nine phyla of protists, plants, and animals. Although widespread and common in marine invertebrates, the extent of chimerism in wild populations of reef corals is unknown. Methodology/Principal Findings: The extent of chimerism was explored within two populations of a common coral, Acropora millepora, on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, by using up to 12 polymorphic DNA microsatellite loci. At least 2% and 5% of Magnetic Island and Pelorus Island populations of A. millepora, respectively, were found to be chimeras (3% overall), based on conservative estimates. A slightly less conservative estimate indicated that 5% of colonies in each population were chimeras. These values are likely to be vast underestimates of the true extent of chimerism, as our sampling protocol was restricted to a maximum of eight branches per colony, while most colonies consist of hundreds of branches. Genotypes within chimeric corals showed high relatedness, indicating that genetic similarity is a prerequisite for long-term acceptance of non-self genotypes within coral colonies. Conclusions/Significance: While some brooding corals have been shown to form genetic chimeras in their early life history stages under experimental conditions, this study provides the first genetic evidence of the occurrence of coral chimeras in the wild and of chimerism in a broadcast spawning species. We hypothesize that chimerism is more widespread in corals than previously thought, and suggest that this has important implications for their resilience, potentially enhancing their capacity to compete for space and respond to stressors such as pathogen infection. |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1932-6203 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::0c0c01e563637d980de81044fe5f59f6 http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2767510?pdf=render |
| Rights: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....0c0c01e563637d980de81044fe5f59f6 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 19326203 |
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