Transcriptome of the Caribbean stony coral Porites astreoides from three developmental stages.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Porites astreoides is a ubiquitous species of coral on modern Caribbean reefs that is resistant to increasing temperatures, overfishing, and other anthropogenic impacts that have threatened most other coral species. We assembled and annotated a transcriptome from this coral using Illumina sequences from three different developmental stages collected over several years: free-swimming larvae, newly settled larvae, and adults (>10 cm in diameter). This resource will aid understanding of coral calcification, larval settlement, and host-symbiont interactions.

Findings

A de novo transcriptome for the P. astreoides holobiont (coral plus algal symbiont) was assembled using 594 Mbp of raw Illumina sequencing data generated from five age-specific cDNA libraries. The new tra

SUBMITTER: Mansour TA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4969664 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature