Coral gene expression in white syndromes
White-syndrome lesions in Acropora hyacinthus show distinct innate-immunity–related expression versus healthy tissue.
Source
Gene expression associated with white syndromes in a reef building coral, Acropora hyacinthus
Study at a glance
- Design
- Other — RNA-seq of white-syndrome disease, adjacent, and healthy Acropora hyacinthus tissues
- N
- N=16 · Fragments from 16 colonies; analyses with n=8 per tissue group
- Population
- Reef-building coral Acropora hyacinthus colonies in Palau
- Outcome
- Differentially expressed genes separating diseased from healthy coral tissue
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What they did
RNA-seq contrasted disease, adjacent, and healthy coral tissues and called differentially expressed genes.
What they found
Hundreds of DEGs separate disease from healthy; healthy vs adjacent are more similar.
The limits
What it doesn't show
Field disease etiology remains debated; expression ≠ proven causation.
Key terms
- White syndrome
- Coral tissue-loss disease phenotype.
- Acropora hyacinthus
- Reef-building coral species.
- DEG
- Differentially expressed gene.
- Innate immunity
- Non-adaptive host defense.
- Adjacent tissue
- Near-lesion apparently intact tissue.
- Cnidarian
- Animal clade including corals.
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Common questions
Species?
A. hyacinthus.
States?
Disease/adjacent/healthy.
Signal?
Many DEGs in disease.
Focus?
Innate immunity.
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