Erratum to: Widespread prevalence of cryptic Symbiodinium D in the key Caribbean reef builder, Orbicella annularis
Erratum to: Widespread prevalence of cryptic Symbiodinium D in the key Caribbean reef builder, Orbicella annularis
Emma V. Kennedy 0 1 2 3 4
Nicola L. Foster 0 1 2 3 4
Peter J. Mumby 0 1 2 3 4
Jamie R. Stevens 0 1 2 3 4
0 Biosciences, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter , Stocker Road, Exeter EX4 4QD , UK
1 Finney JC, Pettay T , Sampayo EM, Warner ME, Oxenford H , LaJeunesse TC (2010) The relative significance of host-habitat, depth, and geography on the ecology, endemism and speciation of coral endosymbionts. Microb Ecol 60:250-263 LaJeunesse TC, Smith R, Walther M, Pinzo n JH, Pettay T, McGinley M, Aschaffenburg M, Medina-Rosas P, Cupul-Magana AL, Perez AL , Reyes-Bonilla H, Warner ME (2010) Host-symbiont recombination vs. natural selection in the response of coral- dinoflagellate symbioses to environmental disturbance. Proc R Soc B 277:2925-2934
2 Marine Spatial Ecology Lab, School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland , Saint Lucia, QLD 4072 , Australia
3 School of Marine Science and Engineering, Plymouth University , Drake Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AA , UK
4 Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University , Kessels Road, Nathan 4111 , Australia
thought to be the only representative of Clade D found in the Caribbean (Finney et al. 2010), and LaJeunesse et al. (2014) have described D1a as a distinct species, Symbiodinium trenchii. Given our data and the biogeographic evidence, the most parsimonious interpretation of our results is that symbiont detected (by both techniques) in our study was Symbiodinium trenchii. Therefore, to clarify, any reference to 'Symbiodinium D1' in this paper might reasonably be assumed to be Symbiodinium trenchii, also known as D1a or D1-4. We thank Prof. T. LaJeunesse (Penn State University, USA) for access to unpublished findings relating to the systematics and distribution of Symbiodinium clade D variants.
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Throughout the manuscript Widespread prevalence of
Symbiodinium D in the key Caribbean reef builder
Orbicella annularis, we used the term Symbiodinium D1 to
describe the symbiont/s targeted by our screening
technique. Since our RT-PCR primers lacked the specificity to
distinguish among members of Clade D, we were not able
to unambiguously confirm that the symbiont we were
detecting at low abundance background concentrations was
type D1a, otherwise known as D1-4 (despite this being the
only type we identified using DNA fingerprinting). We
adopted Symbiodinium D1 as a generic term for both D1
and D1a throughout the manuscript. It has become apparent
that our use of the term D1 to mean either type D1a or D1
may be confusing to readers. Type D1 corresponds to
Symbiodinium associated with Acropora and Pocillopora
from the Indo-Pacific (LaJeunesse et al. 2010). Type D1a is
(...truncated)