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- Date: 2026-03-29 01:14:00
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Wikipedia Overview
Aiptasia is a genus of a symbiotic cnidarian belonging to the subphylum Anthozoa. Aiptasia is a widely distributed genus of temperate and tropical sea anemones of benthic lifestyle typically found living on mangrove roots and hard substrates. These anemones, as well as many other cnidarian species, often contain symbiotic dinoflagellate unicellular algae of the genus Symbiodinium living inside nutritive cells. The symbionts provide food mainly in the form of lipids and sugars produced from photosynthesis to the host while the hosts provides inorganic nutrients and a constant and protective environment to the algae.
Species of Aiptasia are relatively weedy anemones able to withstand a relatively wide range of salinities and other water quality conditions. In the case of A. pallida and A. pulchella, their hardiness coupled with their ability to reproduce very quickly and out-compete other species in culture gives these anemones the status of pest from the perspective of coral reef aquarium hobbyists. These very characteristics make them easy to grow in the laboratory and thus they are extensively used as model organisms for scientific study. In this respect, Aiptasia have contributed a significant amount of knowledge regarding cnidarian biology, especially human understanding of cnidarian-algal symbioses, a biological phenomenon crucial to the survival of corals and coral reef ecosystems. The dependence of coral reefs on the health of the symbiosis is dramatically illustrated by the devastating effects experienced by corals due to the loss of algal symbionts in response to environmental stress, a phenomenon known as coral bleaching.
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Symbiotic state affects microbiome recovery in a facultatively symbiotic cnidarian | Scientific Reports - Nature
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Editorial: Aiptasia: a model system in coral symbiosis research - Frontiers
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Symbiosis collapses during development of asexual offspring in the absence of heterotrophic feeding in a model cnidarian–algal symbiosis - Nature
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Molecular insights into the Darwin paradox of coral reefs from the sea anemone Aiptasia - Science | AAAS
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The genome of Aiptasia , a sea anemone model for coral symbiosis - PNAS
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Menthol-induced bleaching rapidly and effectively provides experimental aposymbiotic sea anemones (Aiptasia sp.) for symbiosis investigations - Carnegie Science
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Regulatory role of NADPH oxidases in symbiosis and dysbiosis in the sea anemone Aiptasia - Frontiers
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Host autophagic degradation and associated symbiont loss in response to heat stress in the symbiotic anemone, Aiptasia pallida - BioOne Complete
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What an aquarium pest taught me about professional adaptability - Science | AAAS
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Negative phototaxis in the photosymbiotic sea anemone Aiptasia as a potential strategy to protect symbionts from photodamage - Nature
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DNA methylation regulates transcriptional homeostasis of algal endosymbiosis in the coral model Aiptasia - Science | AAAS
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Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Symbiont Colonization and Loss During Bleaching in the Model Sea Anemone Aiptasia - Frontiers
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Development and Symbiosis Establishment in the Cnidarian Endosymbiosis Model Aiptasia sp. | Scientific Reports - Nature
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Live imaging of Aiptasia larvae, a model system for coral and anemone bleaching, using a simple microfluidic device - Nature
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Increased incompatibility of heterologous algal symbionts under thermal stress in the cnidarian-dinoflagellate model Aiptasia - Nature
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Aiptasia sp. larvae as a model to reveal mechanisms of symbiont selection in cnidarians - Nature
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Presence of algal symbionts affects denitrifying bacterial communities in the sea anemone Aiptasia coral model - Nature
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Microinjection to deliver protein, mRNA, and DNA into zygotes of the cnidarian endosymbiosis model Aiptasia sp. - Nature
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The role of chromatin dynamics under global warming response in the symbiotic coral model Aiptasia - Nature
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Coupled carbon and nitrogen cycling regulates the cnidarian–algal symbiosis - Nature
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Transcription factor NF-κB is modulated by symbiotic status in a sea anemone model of cnidarian bleaching - Nature
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Changes in the microbiome of the sea anemone Exaiptasia diaphana during bleaching from short-term thermal elevation - Frontiers
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Engineering students help geneticists study coral bleaching - Stanford Report
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Nitrogen Deprivation Induces Lipid Droplet Accumulation and Alters Fatty Acid Metabolism in Symbiotic Dinoflagellates Isolated from Aiptasia pulchella - Nature
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Aiptasia (IMAGE) - EurekAlert!
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Spotlight: The Cleves Lab - Carnegie Science
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Anemone Invasion! - Defenders of Wildlife
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Aiptasia (IMAGE) - EurekAlert!
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Abundance of Oligoflexales bacteria is associated with algal symbiont density, independent of thermal stress in Aiptasia anemones - Aguirre - 2023 - Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library
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A factor limiting recovery from bleaching in corals - EurekAlert!
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Aiptasia Up Close (IMAGE) - EurekAlert!
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High salinity protects corals from heat stress - EurekAlert!
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Did animal evolution begin with a predatory lifestyle? - Phys.org
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DNA methylation regulates transcriptional homeostasis of algal endosymbiosis in the coral model Aiptasia - Science | AAAS
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How a USC student from Chicago ended up protecting sea life through science - USC Today
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Why don't my Peppermint shrimp eat Aiptasia? - Practical Fishkeeping Magazine
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Secrets of coral algae interaction revealed | ESYMBIOSIS Project | Results in Brief | FP7 - CORDIS
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Molecular insights into Darwin’s coral conundrum - Nature Asia
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Molecular signatures of host specificity linked to habitat specialization in Exaiptasia sea anemones - Wiley Online Library
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