Signaling cascades and the importance of moonlight in coral broadcast mass spawning

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作者
Kaniewska, Paulina [1 ,2 ]
Alon, Shahar [3 ]
Karako-Lampert, Sarit [4 ]
Hoegh-Guldberg, Ove [5 ,6 ]
Levy, Oren [4 ]
机构
[1] Australian Inst Marine Sci, Townsville, Qld 4810, Australia
[2] Univ Queensland, Sch Biol Sci, St Lucia, Qld, Australia
[3] Tel Aviv Univ, George S Wise Fac Life Sci, Dept Neurobiol, IL-69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
[4] Bar Ilan Univ, Mina & Everard Goodman Fac Life Sci, Ramat Gan, Israel
[5] Univ Queensland, Global Change Inst, St Lucia, Qld, Australia
[6] Univ Queensland, ARC Ctr Excellence Coral Reef Studies, St Lucia, Qld, Australia
基金
澳大利亚研究理事会;
关键词
RNA-SEQ; REEF; LIGHT; TRANSCRIPTOME; REPRODUCTION; INVERTEBRATE; MELANOPSIN; EVOLUTION; BIAS;
D O I
10.7554/eLife.09991
中图分类号
Q [生物科学];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Many reef-building corals participate in a mass-spawning event that occurs yearly on the Great Barrier Reef. This coral reproductive event is one of earth's most prominent examples of synchronised behavior, and coral reproductive success is vital to the persistence of coral reef ecosystems. Although several environmental cues have been implicated in the timing of mass spawning, the specific sensory cues that function together with endogenous clock mechanisms to ensure accurate timing of gamete release are largely unknown. Here, we show that moonlight is an important external stimulus for mass spawning synchrony and describe the potential mechanisms underlying the ability of corals to detect environmental triggers for the signaling cascades that ultimately result in gamete release. Our study increases the understanding of reproductive chronobiology in corals and strongly supports the hypothesis that coral gamete release is achieved by a complex array of potential neurohormones and light-sensing molecules.
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