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The Tara Pacific Expedition—A Pan-Ecosystemic Approach Of The “-Omics” Complexity Of Coral Reef Holobionts Across The Pacific Ocean, Serge Planes, Denis Allemand, Sylvain Agostini, Bernard Banaigs, Emilie Boissin, Emmanuel Boss, Guillaume Bourdin, Chris Bowler, Eric Douville, J. M. Flores, Didier Forcioli, Paola Furla, Pierre E. Galand, Jean François Ghiglione, Eric Gilson, Fabien Lombard, Clémentine Moulin, Stephane Pesant, Julie Poulain, Stéphanie Reynaud, Sarah Romac, Matthew B. Sullivan, Shinichi Sunagawa, Olivier P. Thomas, Romain Troublé, Colomban De Vargas, Rebecca Vega Thurber, Christian R. Voolstra, Patrick Wincker, Didier Zoccola, E. Armstrong

Marine Sciences Faculty Scholarship

Coral reefs are the most diverse habitats in the marine realm. Their productivity, structural complexity, and biodiversity critically depend on ecosystem services provided by corals that are threatened because of climate change effects—in particular, ocean warming and acidification. The coral holobiont is composed of the coral animal host, endosymbiotic dinoflagellates, associated viruses, bacteria, and other microeukaryotes. In particular, the mandatory photosymbiosis with microalgae of the family Symbiodiniaceae and its consequences on the evolution, physiology, and stress resilience of the coral holobiont have yet to be fully elucidated. The functioning of the holobiont as a whole is largely unknown, although bacteria …