Symbiodinium genotypic and environmental controls on lipids in reef building corals

Lipids in reef building corals can be divided into two classes; non-polar storage lipids, e.g. wax esters and triglycerides, and polar structural lipids, e.g. phospholipids and cholesterol. Differences among algal endosymbiont types are known to have important influences on processes including growt...

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Published in:PloS one 2011-05, Vol.6 (5), p.e20434-e20434
Main Authors: Cooper, Timothy F, Lai, Michael, Ulstrup, Karin E, Saunders, Sandra M, Flematti, Gavin R, Radford, Ben, van Oppen, Madeleine J H
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acropora
Algae
Animals
Anthozoa - microbiology
Australia
Biology
Carbon
Cholesterol
Chromatography
Colonies
Coral Reefs
Corals
Depth indicators
Ecosystem
Energy reserves
Energy storage
Environment
Esters
Genotype
Geography
Light
Limnology
Lipids
Lipids - chemistry
Metabolism
Microalgae - genetics
Microorganisms
Models, Biological
Parameter estimation
Phospholipids
Phosphorus
Photosynthesis
Physiology
Plant biochemistry
Reserves
Respiration
Science
Studies
Symbiodinium
Symbiosis - physiology
Thin layer chromatography
Triglycerides
Water
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Summary:Lipids in reef building corals can be divided into two classes; non-polar storage lipids, e.g. wax esters and triglycerides, and polar structural lipids, e.g. phospholipids and cholesterol. Differences among algal endosymbiont types are known to have important influences on processes including growth and the photobiology of scleractinian corals yet very little is known about the role of symbiont types on lipid energy reserves. The ratio of storage lipid and structural lipid fractions of Scott Reef corals were determined by thin layer chromatography. The lipid fraction ratio varied with depth and depended on symbiont type harboured by two corals (Seriatopora hystrix and Pachyseris speciosa). S. hystrix colonies associated with Symbiodinium C1 or C1/C# at deep depths (>23 m) had lower lipid fraction ratios (i.e. approximately equal parts of storage and structural lipids) than those with Symbiodinium D1 in shallow depths (
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0020434