Yang Yang-Chu-Qiao, Hong Wen Ting, Wang Shu Hong
Ministry of Agriculture Key Laboratory of Healthy Mariculture for the East China Sea, College of Fishery, Jimei University, Xiamen 361021, Fujian, China.
Ying Yong Sheng Tai Xue Bao. 2017 Dec;28(12):4143-4149. doi: 10.13287/j.1001-9332.201712.032.
Heterotrophy of zooxanthellae symbiotic corals refers to the nutrition directly coming from food absorption, not the nutrition obtained from photosynthesis. Most ex situ propagation of symbiotic corals focused on the effects of irradiation, flow rate and water quality on corals, few of them involved in the demand and supply of coral heterotrophic nutrition. This paper reviewed the significance of heterotrophic nutrient supply to symbiotic corals from the sources of coral heterotrophic nutrition, the factors affecting the supply of coral heterotrophic nutrient, and the methods of how to study the coral heterotrophy. In general, the research of coral heterotrophy is just at the beginning stage, and future studies should focus on the inherent mechanism of coral feeding selection and developing more effective research methods.
虫黄藻共生珊瑚的异养是指营养直接来自食物吸收，而非光合作用获得的营养。大多数共生珊瑚的异地繁殖研究聚焦于光照、流速和水质对珊瑚的影响，很少涉及珊瑚异养营养的需求与供应。本文从珊瑚异养营养的来源、影响珊瑚异养营养供应的因素以及研究珊瑚异养的方法等方面综述了异养营养供应对共生珊瑚的重要性。总体而言，珊瑚异养的研究尚处于起步阶段，未来研究应聚焦于珊瑚摄食选择的内在机制以及开发更有效的研究方法。
