Evolution, Development and Ecology of Anemonefishes: Model Organisms for Marine Science (2024)

Anemonefishes, one of the most popular and recognizable of fishes in the world, are much more than film characters; they are also emerging model organisms for studying the biology, ecology, and evolution of coral reef fishes. They are a group of 28 species often employed to study patterns and processes of social organization, intra- and inter-specific competition, sex change, mutualism, dispersal and connectivity of fish populations, habitat selection, pigment pattern formation, lifespan and predator-prey interactions. This multi-authored book covers all these areas and provides an update on the research done with this model and the perspective it opens for the future.

Key Features

• Contains basic and up-to-date information on an emerging fish model
• Allows non-specialist readers to grasp the relevance of a wide research area
• Provides accurate and easy to access information on each of the 28 species
• Includes guidance for establishing a breeding colony
• Documents that anemonefishes are useful model organisms for ecological, developmental and climate research

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Introduction: Anemonefish: New models organisms for marine science

Vincent Laudet and Timothy Ravasi

Evolution, biogeography and genetics

1. A phylogenetic context: The diversification of damselfishes (Pomacentridae)

Bruno Frédérich

2. Anemonefish Genomes

Nicolas Salamin, Celia Schunter, Alison Monroe, Taewoo Ryu and Timothy Ravasi

3. Biogeography and genetic barriers in Amphiprion anemonefishes

Song He, Benoit Pujol, Serge Planes and Michael L. Berumen

4. Genomic evidence of hybridization during the evolution of anemonefishes

Anna Marcionetti, Sarah Schmid and Nicolas Salamin

5. The use of modern genetic tools in anemonefishes

Laurie John Lee Mitchell, Sakuto Yamanaka, Masato Kinosh*ta and Fabio Cortesi

Life history and development

6. The post-embryonic period of anemonefishes

Natacha Roux, David Lecchini and Vincent Laudet

7. Color patterns in anemonefish: development, role, and diversity

Pauline Salis, Marleen Klann and Vincent Laudet

8. Age and longevity

Mirko Mutalipassi, Eva Terzibasi Tozzini and Alessandro Cellerino

9. The visual ecology of Anemonefishes

Fabio Cortesi, Valerio Tettamanti and Fanny de Busserolles

10. Sound communication

Eric Parmentier and David Lecchini

11. Neuroendocrinology of life history and stress in anemonefishes

Mélanie Dussenne, Alexander Goikoetxea, Benjamin Geffroy and Laurence Besseau.

Reproduction and social behavior

12. Sex change from male to female: Active feminization of the brain, behavior and gonads in anemonefish

Laura Casas, Coltan Gable Parker and Justin S. Rhodes.

13. Anemonefish behaviour and reproduction

Riccardo Beldade, Giacomo Bernardi and Suzanne C. Mills

14. Social evolution in anemonefishes: Formation, maintenance, and transformation of social groups

Peter Buston, Rebecca Branconi and Theresa Rueger

15. Parental care: patterns, proximate and ultimate causes, and consequences

Tina A. Barbasch, Ross DeAngelis, Justin Rhodes and Peter M. Buston

Ecology

16. Habitat selection of anemonefish

Kina Hayashi and James Davis Reimer

17. 3D analysis of coral reef informs anemonefish habitat

Akihisa Hattori

18. Cohabitation and competition in anemonefishes: patterns and consequences

Maya Srinivasan and Geoffrey P Jones

19. No place like home: can omics uncover the secret behind the sea anemone and anemonefish symbiotic relationship?

Cassie M. Hoepner, Emily K. Fobert, Catherine A. Abbot and Karen Burke da Silva　

20. Larval dispersal in anemonefish populations: Self-recruitment, connectivity and metapopulation dynamics

Geoffrey P. Jones, Hugo B. Harrison, Michael L. Berumen, Serge Planes and Simon R. Thorrold

Human impact and conservation

21. The impact of popular film on the conservation of iconic species: Anemonefishes in the aquarium trade

Carmen R. B. da Silva, Cassie M. Hoepner, Manon Mercader, Vincent Laudet and Karen Burke da Silva

22. Anemonefish Husbandry

Jennifer M. Donelson, Pascal Romans, Sakuto Yamanaka, Masato Kinosh*ta and Natacha Roux

23. Resilience and adaptation to local and global environmental change

Celia Schunter, Jennifer M. Donelson, Philip Munday and Timothy Ravasi

24. Anemonefishes as models in ecotoxicology

Simon Pouil, Marc Besson and Marc Metian

25. Saving Nemo: extinction risk, conservation status and effective management strategies for anemonefishes

Geoffrey P. Jones, Maya Srinivasan, Gemma F. Galbraith, Michael L. Berumen and Serge Planes

Conclusion: Perspectives for anemonefish research

Tim Ravasi, Geoffrey P. Jones and Vincent Laudet

Biography

Vincent Laudet has studied for 20 years the role of nuclear hormone receptors and in particular the thyroid hormone receptor in evolution and development using several model organisms such as amphioxus or zebrafish. Between 2015 and 2020 he was director of the marine station of Banyuls-sur-mer in France. There, his group focuses on the evolution of life history strategies, in particular the recruitment of coral reef fish larvae to the reef and the role played by thyroid hormones in triggering and coordinating this process. Since March 2020 he is Professor at OIST (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University) and Research Fellow at Academia Sinica (Taiwan) where his group develops the clownfish Amphiprion ocellaris as a model organism for Eco/Evo/Devo studies. He focuses in particular on the function and the plasticity of the brilliant pigment patterns of these iconic fishes. His team actively collaborate with Tim Ravasi on the genomics and ecology of anemonefishes from the Ryukyu archipelago. Vincent Laudet’s laboratory has contributed to more than 250 scientific papers and 40 reviews (h-index: 78) including two books in molecular endocrinology, molecular evolution and developmental biology.

Timothy Ravasi shown for the first time that climate change stressors such as ocean warming and acidification are able to induce genomics and epigenomics changes in tropical fish, specifically his team was able to: (i) demonstrate for the first time that tropical fish are able to restore their energy metabolism if parent are reared at high water temperature (Transgenerational Acclimation); (ii) identify those molecular pathways underline this Transgenerational Acclimation; (iii) provide the first evidence that selective DNA methylation of specific loci is one of the epigenetics mechanism use by fish to transfer the information of a new environment to the next generation (iv) unveil the for the first time, the molecular mechanisms underline sex change in cowfishes’. Furthermore, his team sequenced the genomes of the orange clownfish Amphiprion percula, the false clownfish Amphiprion ocellaris, the Clark's anemonefish Amphiprion clarkii and the cinnamon clownfish Amphiprion melanopus, which today, are among the most complete fish genomes ever been sequenced. Between 2009 and 2019 he was a Tenured Professor at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia. There, his group focuses on developing genomics approaches and protocols to study coral reef fish, their ecology and their responses to climate stressors. Since August 2019 he is a Tenured Professor at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) and Adjunct Professor at the Australian Research Council Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, where his group develops the clownfish as a model organism for climate change studies. Timothy Ravasi’s laboratory has contributed to more than 140 scientific papers and 4 book chapters that have been cited more than 25,000 time with an h-index: 58.