Ancestral genetic diversity associated with the rapid spread of stress-tolerant coral symbionts in response to Holocene climate change

Benjamin C. C. Hume, Christian R. Voolstra, Chatchanit Arif, Cecilia D’Angelo, John A. Burt, Gal Eyal, Yossi Loya, Jörg Wiedenmann

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Abstract

Coral communities in the Persian/Arabian Gulf (PAG) withstand unusually high salinity levels and regular summer temperature maxima of up to ∼35 °C that kill conspecifics elsewhere. Due to the recent formation of the PAG and its subsequent shift to a hot climate, these corals have had only
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)4416-4421
Number of pages6
JournalProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Volume113
Issue number16
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 4 2016

Bibliographical note

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Acknowledgements: We appreciate the help of Cornelia Roder, Sergey Dobretsov, Julia Schnetzer, Todd LaJeunesse, and Drew Wham with sample collection. A. Al-Hemeri (UAE Federal Environment Agency), A. Al-Cibahy (Environment Agency of Abu Dhabi), and the Oman Ministry of Environment & Climate Affairs kindly provided Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) export permits (no. 09FEA555) and collection permits. We acknowledge Tropical Marine Centre (London) and Tropic Marin (Wartenberg) for sponsoring the Coral Reef Laboratory at the University of Southampton. We thank the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute for supporting the 2012/2013 field workshops during which samples for this study were collected and the Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat for field work support. The study was funded by Natural Environment Research Council Grant NE/K00641X/1 (to J.W.), the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme Grant FP7/2007-2013/ERC Grant Agreement 311179 (to J.W.), the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (C.R.V.), and Israel Science Foundation Grant 341/12, United States Agency for International Development/Middle East Regional Co-operation (USAID/MERC) No. M32-037 (to Y.L.).

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