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Transgenerational inheritance of shuffled symbiont communities in the coral Montipora digitata

Name: Transgenerational inheritance of shuffled symbiont communities in the coral Montipora digitata
Published: 2026

Australian Institute of Marine Science

Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)

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To evaluate the effects of El Nino driven mass thermal stress on the coral Monitpora digitata during spawning in a severe bleaching year (2016).

32 colonies were collected, from a minimum of 5 - 10 metres apart laterally along the shore. Spawning occurred on 23rd April 2015, where egg-sperm bundles were collected from spawning colonies, total of 9.

27 of these colonies were re-collected from Hazard Bay in April 2016 and 5 remaining colonies were presumed dead. Colony colouration was assessed using the CoralWatch Color Chart, with photographs alongside each colony at the time of collection.

Spawning occurred on 24th April 2016, and a total of 4 were spawning colonies.

To determine the effects of thermal stress and the presence of bleaching in 2016, the health of coral colonies were measured using methods of effective quantum yield of photosystem II (YII), colony coloration, and Symbiodiniaceae cell density. YII was measured using Pulse Amplitude Modulated fluorometry (PAM) with a fibre optic cable (diving-PAM, Waltz).

Samples from all spawning adults and 10 – 12 eggs from each colony were genotyped in both 2015 and 2016 through ITS2 amplicon sequencing. Analysis of community composition was achieved through sequence variations, evidence of shuffling of Symbiodiniaceae communities and differences in Symbiont densities and photochemical efficiencies.

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Willis, B. College of Science and Engineering, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia

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Quigley, K. Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and College of Science and Engineering, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia

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Funding was provided by the US National Science Foundation to CDK (DBI-1401165)

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Kenkel, C (AIMS) and Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

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Funding was provided by the Australian Research Council to BLW (CE1401000020)

Modified: 18 09 2026

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Quigley KM, Willis BL, Kenkel CD (2019) Transgenerational inheritance of shuffled symbiont communities in the coral Montipora digitata. Scientific Reports 9: 13328

local : 11068/15290

All raw sequencing data has been deposited in the NCBI Sequence Read Archive under Accession number SRP077416 and SRP133660.

url : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra External Link

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url : https://github.com/LaserKate/MontiSymTransgen External Link

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