2.1 Data sources
We determined studies as relevant by the description of the sampling
environment in their SRA metadata and manuscripts. Our selected studies
measured Acropora coral gene expression change in response to
environmental stress with RNA-seq or Tag-seq. From the four studies we
selected, we had a total of five environmental stress contrasts, each
between a population in a non-stressed and stressed environment (Table 1
and Figure 2). We treated the Symbiodiniaceae genus contrast as
stress-related as well, Cladocopium implying higher coral stress
level than Durusdinium , since that was the finding of the
original study based on gene expression analysis of the coral host
(Barfield et al., 2018).
Table 1. BioProjects and environmental stressors included in
study.