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The Onset of Microbial Associations in the Coral Pocillopora Meandrina The ISME Journal (2009) 3, 685–699 & 2009 International Society for Microbial Ecology All rights reserved 1751-7362/09 $32.00 www.nature.com/ismej ORIGINAL ARTICLE The onset of microbial associations in the coral Pocillopora meandrina Amy Apprill1,2, Heather Q Marlow3, Mark Q Martindale3 and Michael S Rappe´1 1Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, SOEST, University of Hawaii, Kaneohe, HI, USA; 2Department of Oceanography, SOEST, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA and 3Kewalo Marine Laboratory, Pacific Biomedical Research Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA Associations between healthy adult reef-building corals and bacteria and archaea have been observed in many coral species, but the initiation of their association is not understood. We investigated the onset of association between microorganisms and Pocillopora meandrina, a coral that vertically seeds its eggs with symbiotic dinoflagellates before spawning. We compared the bacterial communities associated with prespawned oocyte bundles, spawned eggs, and week old planulae using multivariate analyses of terminal restriction fragment length polymorphisms of SSU rRNA genes, which revealed that the composition of bacteria differed between these life stages. Additionally, planulae raised in ambient seawater and seawater filtered to reduce the microbial cell density harbored dissimilar bacterial communities, though SSU rRNA gene clone libraries showed that planulae raised in both treatments were primarily associated with different members of the Roseobacter clade of Alphaproteobacteria. Fluorescent in situ hybridization with an oligonucleotide probe suite targeting all bacteria and one oligonucleotide probe targeting members of the Roseobacter clade was used to localize the bacterial cells. Only planulae greater than 3 days old were observed to contain internalized bacterial cells, and members of the Roseobacter clade were detected in high abundance within planula tissues exposed to the ambient seawater treatment. We conclude that the onset of association between microorganisms and the coral P. meandrina appears to occur through horizontal uptake by planulae older than 79 h, and that uptake is preferential to members of the Roseobacter clade and potentially sensitive to the ambient seawater microbial community. The ISME Journal (2009) 3, 685–699; doi:10.1038/ismej.2009.3; published online 26 February 2009 Subject Category: microbe–microbe and microbe–host interactions Keywords: coral; marine bacteria; microorganisms; planula development; Pocillopora meandrina; vertically seeded Introduction bial diversity associated with the tissue and mucus layers of adult corals (Rohwer et al., 2001, 2002; Frias- Corals are best considered as a holobiont organism Lopez et al., 2002; Kellogg, 2004; Wegley et al., 2004), composed of a dynamic assemblage of anthozoan host showed stable associations between geographically polyps, symbiotic dinoflagellates (zooxanthellae), separated corals and certain bacterial taxa (Rohwer endolithic algae and fungi, bacteria, archaea, and et al., 2002), and revealed the presence of microbial viruses residing within the skeleton, tissues, and functional genes that may play a role in coral health mucus layer of adult coral colonies (Rohwer et al., (Beman et al., 2007; Wegley et al., 2007). Microorgan- 2002; Knowlton and Rohwer, 2003). The coral- isms are also becoming an increasingly important zooxanthellae symbiosis has been well studied, component of studies investigating the variables though knowledge of microbial (defined hereafter as leading to coral bleaching and disease (Beleneva bacteria and archaea) communities associated with et al., 2005; Bourne, 2005; Guppy and Bythell, 2006; corals has been greatly advanced in recent years by Ainsworth et al., 2007; Bourne et al., 2007) but, in the emergence of culture independent approaches general, these studies have been hampered by the and molecular biology-based methodology. Studies many unknowns that still remain regarding microbial using these techniques have uncovered high micro- associations in healthy corals. Fundamental to the study of coral–microbial associations is an understanding of when and how Correspondence: MS Rappe´, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, the relationships are established, and the specificity University of Hawaii, PO Box 1346, Kaneohe, HI 96744, USA. E-mail: [email protected] of the established associations. The onset of associa- Received 17 September 2008; revised 12 December 2008; accepted tion has not been studied in any coral species but 21 December 2008; published online 26 February 2009 could provide important insight into the nature of Microbial associations in developing P. meandrina A Apprill et al 686 coral–microbial relationships. In some inverte- brates, vertical transmission of microbial symbionts Planulae is common, and ensures the longevity of the Embryo partnership (Smith and Douglas, 1987). Vertical transmission has been shown in such marine invertebrates as tropical sponges (Sharp et al., 2007), bivalves (Krueger et al., 1996) and bryozoa (Haygood and Davidson, 1997), and is well studied Eggs are in terrestrial aphids, where there is evidence that fertilized vertical transmission has permitted opportunities Settled polyp for co-evolution and co-diversification of the hosts and their symbionts (Munson et al., 1991). Acquisi- tion of microbial symbionts through horizontal transmission also occurs in many invertebrate species through a variety of acquisition mechanisms Adult spawns sperm (Moran and Baumann, 2000; Nussbaumer et al., and egg bundles that 2006; Kikuchi et al., 2007). Many of these associa- contain zooxanthellae tions are also species specific, but the onset of the associations are affected by the availability of the symbionts in their environment, and the host requires a specific mechanism for acquisition (Moran and Baumann, 2000). Figure 1 Developmental stages of the coral P. meandrina. The onset of the coral-dinoflagellate symbiosis in (a) Adult colonies simultaneously spawn both sperm and eggs broadcast spawning coral species occurs either that contain zooxanthellae. (b) The eggs are fertilized by another colony’s sperm, and individually develop into (c) embryo and before spawning, with the maternal colony seeding subsequently (d) motile planula stages. (e) Planula settle onto a the eggs, or, more commonly, by the acquisition of benthic substrate and metamorphose into a single adult polyp, dinoflagellate cells from the environment by the which is then capable of self-replicating to form an adult colony. coral (Trench, 1983). In more rare cases, fertilization Illustrations are not to scale. takes place within the maternal polyp (brooding), and these species release fully developed planula larvae that typically contain zooxanthellae (Harrison Materials and methods and Wallace, 1990; Richmond and Hunter, 1990). The goal of this study was to examine the onset of Summary of spawning events and sample collections microbial associations in colonies of Pocillopora Our goal was to collect prespawned oocyte bundles, meandrina, a globally distributed reef-building coral freshly spawned eggs, and rear planulae to 1 week that acquires zooxanthellae vertically from the from material obtained from the same colony. In maternal colony. P. meandrina has a known spawn- April 2007, we identified 26 colonies from Kaneohe ing history in Hawaii and a well-studied develop- Bay, Oahu (211 27.3450 N, 1571 46.9610 W) (hereafter mental period (Hirose et al., 2001; Marlow and labeled A-Z), which were located at the same Martindale, 2007). P. meandrina colonies are simul- sampling site but separated by a distance of at least taneous hermaphrodites in which each polyp 5 m from each other to limit the probability that seasonally spawns sperm and eggs that contain colonies represented genetic clones. Spawning was zooxanthellae (Figure 1a). During spawning, sperm not observed in April but was observed following and individual eggs are released and the eggs the full moon in May and June 2007, with a large become fertilized by sperm (potentially only from spawning event occurring in May and a smaller a different colony) (Figure 1b), and each egg event in June. Oocyte bundles were collected in develops into an embryo (Figure 1c) and subse- April and May 2007, whereas freshly spawned eggs quently into a motile planula (Figure 1d). The were collected and planulae were reared up to 1 planula finally settles onto a benthic substrate and week from the May and June 2007 spawning events. develops into a single polyp (Figure 1e), which then Eggs from spawning colonies were incubated at grows into a colony of calcifying polyps. room temperature with a mixture of sperm from the In this study we investigate the acquisition of different colonies for 20 min, rinsed three times in microorganisms at different developmental stages sterile seawater, and incubated in replicate petri (prespawned oocyte bundles, spawned eggs, and dishes at 29 1C under a 12/12 light/dark cycle in an week old planulae) of the coral P. meandrina using a ambient microbial seawater (AMSW) or low micro- cultivation independent, ribosomal RNA gene-based bial seawater (LMSW) treatment. For AMSW, sea- approach in conjunction with fluorescence micro- water was filtered through a GF/A filter (Whatman scopy. Our results show that, although microbes are International Ltd., Kent, United Kingdom) to remove associated with the oocyte bundle and egg life zooplankton and other large organisms. LMSW was stages, they are not
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