Comparative analysis of bacterial communities associated with healthy and diseased corals in the Indonesian sea.

Comparative analysis of bacterial communities associated with healthy and diseased corals in the Indonesian sea.

Mhuantong, Wuttichai;Nuryadi, Handung;Trianto, Agus;Sabdono, Agus;Tangphatsornruang, Sithichoke;Eurwilaichitr, Lily;Kanokratana, Pattanop;Champreda, Verawat;
PeerJ 2019 Vol. 7 pp. e8137
243
mhuantong2019comparativepeerj

Abstract

Coral reef ecosystems are impacted by climate change and human activities, such as increasing coastal development, overfishing, sewage and other pollutant discharge, and consequent eutrophication, which triggers increasing incidents of diseases and deterioration of corals worldwide. In this study, bacterial communities associated with four species of corals: , , sp., and sp. in the healthy and disease stages with different diseases were compared using tagged 16S rRNA sequencing. In total, 59 bacterial phyla, 190 orders, and 307 genera were assigned in coral metagenomes where and were pre-dominated followed by together with , , and as minor taxa. Principal Coordinates Analysis (PCoA) showed separated clustering of bacterial diversity in healthy and infected groups for individual coral species. was found as the major bacterial genus across all corals. The lower number of was found in infected with white band disease and sp. with white plaque disease, but marked increases of and , respectively, were observed. This was in contrast to infected by a black band and sp. infected by yellow blotch diseases which showed an increasing abundance of but a decrease in WH1-8 bacteria. Overall, infection was shown to result in disturbance in the complexity and structure of the associated bacterial microbiomes which can be relevant to the pathogenicity of the microbes associated with infected corals.

Citation

ID: 90225
Ref Key: mhuantong2019comparativepeerj
Use this key to autocite in SciMatic or Thesis Manager

References

Blockchain Verification

Account:
NFT Contract Address:
0x95644003c57E6F55A65596E3D9Eac6813e3566dA
Article ID:
90225
Unique Identifier:
10.7717/peerj.8137
Network:
Scimatic Chain (ID: 481)
Loading...
Blockchain Readiness Checklist
Authors
Abstract
Journal Name
Year
Title
5/5
Creates 1,000,000 NFT tokens for this article
Token Features:
  • ERC-1155 Standard NFT
  • 1 Million Supply per Article
  • Transferable via MetaMask
  • Permanent Blockchain Record
Blockchain QR Code
Scan with Saymatik Web3.0 Wallet

Saymatik Web3.0 Wallet