TY - JOUR
T1 - Mediterranean versus Red sea corals facing climate change, a transcriptome analysis
AU - Maor-Landaw, Keren
AU - Waldman Ben-Asher, Hiba
AU - Karako-Lampert, Sarit
AU - Salmon-Divon, Mali
AU - Prada, Fiorella
AU - Caroselli, Erik
AU - Goffredo, Stefano
AU - Falini, Giuseppe
AU - Dubinsky, Zvy
AU - Levy, Oren
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 The Author(s).
PY - 2017/2/9
Y1 - 2017/2/9
N2 - The anthropogenic increase in atmospheric CO2 that drives global warming and ocean acidification raises serious concerns regarding the future of corals, the main carbonate biomineralizers. Here we used transcriptome analysis to study the effect of long-term gradual temperature increase (annual rate), combined with lowered pH values, on a sub-tropical Red Sea coral, Stylophora pistillata, and on a temperate Mediterranean symbiotic coral Balanophyllia europaea. The gene expression profiles revealed a strong effect of both temperature increase and pH decrease implying for synergism response. The temperate coral, exposed to a twice as high range of seasonal temperature fluctuations than the Red Sea species, faced stress more effectively. The compensatory strategy for coping apparently involves deviating cellular resources into a massive up-regulation of genes in general, and specifically of genes involved in the generation of metabolic energy. Our results imply that sub-lethal, prolonged exposure to stress can stimulate evolutionary increase in stress resilience.
AB - The anthropogenic increase in atmospheric CO2 that drives global warming and ocean acidification raises serious concerns regarding the future of corals, the main carbonate biomineralizers. Here we used transcriptome analysis to study the effect of long-term gradual temperature increase (annual rate), combined with lowered pH values, on a sub-tropical Red Sea coral, Stylophora pistillata, and on a temperate Mediterranean symbiotic coral Balanophyllia europaea. The gene expression profiles revealed a strong effect of both temperature increase and pH decrease implying for synergism response. The temperate coral, exposed to a twice as high range of seasonal temperature fluctuations than the Red Sea species, faced stress more effectively. The compensatory strategy for coping apparently involves deviating cellular resources into a massive up-regulation of genes in general, and specifically of genes involved in the generation of metabolic energy. Our results imply that sub-lethal, prolonged exposure to stress can stimulate evolutionary increase in stress resilience.
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U2 - 10.1038/srep42405
DO - 10.1038/srep42405
M3 - Article
C2 - 28181588
AN - SCOPUS:85012048349
SN - 2045-2322
VL - 7
JO - Scientific Reports
JF - Scientific Reports
M1 - 42405
ER -