🚨🧵 Out now in ISMEJ (@ismepublications.bsky.social)! We find abundant corallicolid sequences within bearded fireworms (𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘢) across reefs and years in Curaçao 🇨🇼! 🪱🪸 This is the first report of corallicolids inside a non-anthozoan host! #ProtistsOnSky #MicroSky #SymbioSky #Corals - ThreadSky

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ambonacolta.bsky.social • 6 days ago

🚨🧵 Out now in ISMEJ (@ismepublications.bsky.social)!
We find abundant corallicolid sequences within bearded fireworms (𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘢) across reefs and years in Curaçao 🇨🇼!

🪱🪸 This is the first report of corallicolids inside a non-anthozoan host!

#ProtistsOnSky #MicroSky #SymbioSky #Corals

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ambonacolta.bsky.social•6 days ago

🔥 This exciting discovery started with an interesting observation: corallivourous fireworms feeding along the disease line of a black band diseased Orbicella annularis colony!
The @delcampolab.bsky.social team spotted this while investigating coral diseases in partnership with CARMABI 🧪🏝️

ambonacolta.bsky.social•6 days ago

🔎 We found corallicolids were abundant in all sampled worms — and distinct from the ones in the corals the worms fed on!

ambonacolta.bsky.social•6 days ago

🧪 To dig deeper, we teamed up with Dr. Candace Grimes, who amplified 16S rRNA genes in fireworms across body compartments back in 2017. With this data we confirmed a high corallicolid apicoplast presence in the gut and feces of worms 🪱💩

ambonacolta.bsky.social•6 days ago

🌟 Taken together, we suggest fireworms are a reservoir and potential vector for corallicolids, moving parasites between coral hosts via feces 🪱💩🪸. This deepens our understanding of coral reef host-parasite interactions and reveals exciting new corallicolid ecology!

ambonacolta.bsky.social•6 days ago

This work was co-led by me and @bradweilerdives.bsky.social under the guidance of @fonamental.bsky.social 🙌.
Huge thanks to our amazing collaborators: Candace Grimes, Morelia Trznadel, Mark Vermeij, & @pjkeelinglab.bsky.social!

tylerjcarrier.bsky.social•5 days ago

Are full, active cells present or is this residual DNA?

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