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Host And Symbiont-Specific Patterns Of Gene Expression In Response To Cold Stress In The Temperate Coral Astrangia Poculata, Kellie Navarro
Host And Symbiont-Specific Patterns Of Gene Expression In Response To Cold Stress In The Temperate Coral Astrangia Poculata, Kellie Navarro
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The coral Astrangia poculata inhabits hard-bottom environments from the Gulf of Mexico to Massachusetts and withstands large seasonal variation in temperature (–2 to 26 °C). This thermal range and its ability to live in a facultative symbiosis makes this species an ideal model system for investigating stress responses to ocean temperature variation. Although it has been shown that aposymbiotic A. poculata upregulates more genes in response to cold stress than heat stress, the transcriptomic response of the holobiont (coral host and symbiotic algae) to stress is unknown. In this study, we characterize changes in gene expression in both the host …