Data sources
We chose two studies
(Rose
et al., 2015;Barshis
et al., 2013) for this analysis by searching for the
genus, Acropora, in the NCBI SRA database, comprising 181 coral
samples sequenced with RNA-seq method. These studies were selected
because they involved similar heat stress experiments on Acropora
hyacinthus corals. Furthermore, these corals were all isolated from
back reef tide pools in Ofu, American Samoa. The SRA metadata tables for
each study are shown in supplemental table S1.