Microarray studies of darkness stress and bleaching in the Caribbean coral Acropora palmata

ABSTRACT: Coral bleaching occurs in response to numerous abiotic stressors, the ecologically most relevant of which is hyperthermic stress due to increasing seawater temperatures. Bleaching events can span large geographic areas and are currently a potent threat to coral reefs worldwide. Much effort has been focused on understanding the molecular and cellular events underlying bleaching, and these studies have mainly utilized heat and light stress regimes. In an effort to determine whether different stressors share common bleaching mechanisms, we used cDNA microarrays for the corals Acropora palmata and Montastraea faveolata (containing > 10,000 features) to measure differential gene expression during darkness stress. This is the first coral microarray experiment aimed at darkness stress, and the fi

ORGANISM(S): Acropora palmata

SUBMITTER: Michael DeSalvo 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-27022 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress