CAARL

Comparative Genomics and Environmental Diversity of Coral Associated Apicomplexa-Related Lineages

 Coordinatore AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS 

 Organization address address: CALLE SERRANO 117
city: MADRID
postcode: 28006

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Alberto
Cognome: Sereno Alvarez
Email: send email
Telefono: +34 91 5668852
Fax: +34 91 5668913

 Nazionalità Coordinatore Spain [ES]
 Totale costo 221˙191 €
 EC contributo 221˙191 €
 Programma FP7-PEOPLE
Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
 Code Call FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IOF
 Funding Scheme MC-IOF
 Anno di inizio 2014
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2014-01-01   -   2016-12-31

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS

 Organization address address: CALLE SERRANO 117
city: MADRID
postcode: 28006

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Alberto
Cognome: Sereno Alvarez
Email: send email
Telefono: +34 91 5668852
Fax: +34 91 5668913

ES (MADRID) coordinator 221˙191.50

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reefs    marine    diversity    communities    reef    plastid    questions    parasites    symbiodinium    microbial    photosynthetic    coral    relationship   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Coral reefs are home to the greatest density of species in shallow marine waters, including unusually diverse microbial communities. However, almost everything we know about reef microbial communities is confined to prokaryotes and viruses: next to nothing is known about the microbial eukaryotes, with the exception of the symbiont dinoflagellate Symbiodinium. Coral reefs are like most other marine environments, where protists are consistently overlooked. Chromera and Vitrella are two reef-associated algae assumed to have a symbiotic relationship similar to that of Symbiodinium. As photosynthetic relatives of apicomplexan parasites, they held answers to long-debated questions about plastid evolution, but equally important questions about their functional relationship to corals and the reef community have hardly been asked. It has been observed that bacterial sequence surveys are heavily ‘contaminated’ with eukaryotic plastid sequences. The apicomplexanrelated lineages (ARLs) are the richest source of still-unidentified plastid diversity, and virtually all of this diversity is restricted to coral reefs. We know they exist, but have no direct information on their biology or role in ecosystems whatsoever. ARL-V is the most common lineage, but we cannot even say whether the organisms are photosynthetic symbionts or intracellular parasites. To address these questions, an ecological approach was needed.'

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