Item talk:Q228090

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 "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/spcmsc/science/microbial-processes-reefs",
 "headline": "Microbial Processes on Reefs",
 "datePublished": "August 2, 2019",
 "author": [
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     "name": "Christina Kellogg, Ph.D.",
     "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/christina-kellogg",
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     "text": "The microbial community on coral reefs is generally underappreciated given the ubiquity, abundance, complexity, and formative role these prokaryotes serve in the metabolic and chemical processes on reefs. We use microbiological and metagenomic techniques to decipher the roles the microbial community are playing in processes such as coral disease, submarine groundwater discharge, calcification, and dissolution."
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     "text": "Coral diseases were first reported on reefs in the Florida Keys and Caribbean in the 1970s, and\nin the decades since, they have been reported worldwide and with increasing frequency. Disease is now recognized as one of the major causes of reef degradation and coral mortality, and a recent outbreak of \u201cStony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD)\u201d has decimated millions of corals on the Florida reef tract that is now progressing through other U.S. jurisdictions in the Caribbean region. Recent research has suggested that coral diseases may be secondary opportunistic infections, rather than the result of primary pathogens, making it imperative to understand the microbial shifts that accompany the transition from healthy to diseased corals (Kellogg and others, 2013; Kellogg and others, 2014). Additionally, we need to determine if the spread of coral disease is affected by the level of connectivity among water masses, organisms, trophic levels, or habitats."
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     "text": "The results will uncover changes in metabolic processes (via functional genes) between healthy and senescent reefs with the goal of uncovering new drivers of reef metabolism."
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     "text": "Metagenomics is the study of all microbial genes (taxonomic and functional) within a particular host or habitat. Metagenomic techniques uncover both \u201cwho is there\u201d and some level of \u201cwhat they are doing\u201d by comparing sequenced genes against databases of knowns. This is an emerging field and these techniques have only begun to be applied to coral reef environments. We will combine metadata such as water quality indicators, nutrients, microbial load, and carbonate system parameters with the power of metagenomics to investigate correlations between certain environmental states (e.g., patterns of total alkalinity) and particular microbial groups or microbially-mediated biogeochemical processes to describe the biochemical differences between degraded and healthy reefs."
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   "name": "St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center",
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     "name": "calcification"
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