Mfaveolata time course bleaching experiment

ABSTRACT: The declining health of coral reefs worldwide is likely to intensify in response to continued anthropogenic disturbance from coastal development, pollution, and climate change. In response to these stresses, reef-building corals may exhibit bleaching, which marks the breakdown in symbiosis between coral and zooxanthellae. Mass coral bleaching due to elevated water temperature can devastate coral reefs on a large geographic scale. In order to understand the molecular and cellular basis of bleaching in corals, we have measured gene expression changes associated with thermal stress and bleaching using a cDNA microarray containing 1,310 genes of the Caribbean coral Montastraea faveolata. In a first experiment, we identified differentially expressed genes by comparing experimentally bleache

ORGANISM(S): Montastraea faveolata

SUBMITTER: Mary Co 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-10632 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress