Location-specific responses to thermal stress in larvae of the reef-building coral Montastraea faveolata

ABSTRACT: The potential to adapt to a changing climate depends in part upon the standing genetic variation present in wild populations. In corals, the dispersive larval phase is particularly vulnerable to the effects of environmental stress. Larval survival and response to stress during dispersal and settlement will play a key role in the persistence of coral populations. To test the hypothesis that larval transcription profiles reflect population specific responses to thermal stress, symbiont-free gametes of the scleractinian coral Montastraea faveolata were collected from Florida and Mexico and raised under normal and elevated temperatures. These populations have been shown to exchange larvae frequently enough to prevent significant differentiation of neutral loci. Differences among thousands of g

ORGANISM(S): Montastraea faveolata

SUBMITTER: Nicholas Polato 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-19998 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress