AUTHOR=González-Pech Raúl A. , Vargas Sergio , Francis Warren R. , Wörheide Gert TITLE=Transcriptomic Resilience of the Montipora digitata Holobiont to Low pH JOURNAL=Frontiers in Marine Science VOLUME=4 YEAR=2017 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles/10.3389/fmars.2017.00403 DOI=10.3389/fmars.2017.00403 ISSN=2296-7745 ABSTRACT=
Ocean acidification is considered as one of the major threats for coral reefs at a global scale. Marine calcifying organisms, including stony corals, are expected to be the most affected by the predicted decrease of the surface water pH at the end of the century. The severity of the impacts on coral reefs remains as a matter of controversy. Although previous studies have explored the physiological response of stony corals to changes in pH, the response of the holobiont (i.e., the coral itself plus its symbionts) remains largely unexplored. In the present study, we assessed the changes in overall gene expression of the coral