| publication name | The transcriptomic response of the coral Acropora digitifera to a competent Symbiodinium strain: the symbiosome as an arrested early phagosome. Mohamed et al 2016, Molecular Ecology. |
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| Authors | Mohamed, A. R., Cumbo, V., Harii, S., Shinzato, C., Chan, C. X., Ragan, M. A., Bourne, D. G., Willis, B. L., Ball, E. E., Satoh, N. and Miller, D. J. |
| year | 2016 |
| keywords | Coral Reef Genomics, Transcriptomics, Next-gen sequencing, coral reefs, symbiosis, gene expression, RNA-Seq |
| journal | Molecular Ecology |
| volume | 25 |
| issue | 13 |
| pages | 3127–3141 |
| publisher | John Wiley & Sons Ltd |
| Local/International | International |
| Paper Link | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.13659/abstract |
| Full paper | download |
| Supplementary materials | Not Available |
Abstract
Despite the ecological significance of the relationship between reef-building corals and intracellular photosynthetic dinoflagellates of the genus Symbiodinium, very little is known about the molecular mechanisms involved in its establishment. Indeed, microarray-based analyses point to the conclusion that host gene expression is largely or completely unresponsive during the establishment of symbiosis with a competent strain of Symbiodinium. In this study, the use of Illumina RNA-Seq technology allowed detection of a transient period of differential expression involving a small number of genes (1073 transcripts;