AUTOR:  Fanny L. Gonzalez-Zapata, Pim Bongaerts, Catalina Ramírez-Portilla, Boahemaa Adu-Oppong, Gretchen Walljasper, Alejandro Reyes y Juan A. Sanchez

TÍTULO:  Holobiont Diversity in a Reef-Building Coral over Its Entire Depth Range in the Mesophotic Zone

NOTAS:  Gonzalez-Zapata FL, Bongaerts P, Ramírez-Portilla C, Adu-Oppong B, Walljasper G, Reyes A and Sanchez JA (2018) Holobiont Diversity in a Reef-Building Coral over Its Entire Depth Range in the Mesophotic Zone. Front. Mar. Sci. 5:29. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2018.00029

INICIO: 

Mesophotic reef-building coral communities (∼ 30–120m depth) remain largely unexplored, despite representing roughly three-quarters of the overall depth range at which tropical coral reef ecosystems occur. Although many coral species are restricted to shallow depths, several species occur across large depth ranges, including lower mesophotic depths. Yet, it remains unclear how such species can persist under extreme low-light conditions and how the different symbiotic partners associated with these corals contribute to facilitate such broad depth ranges.