Carly D. Kenkel

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that Corals from thermally different reef habitats exhibit distinct physiological responses when exposed to 6 weeks of chronic temperature stress in a common garden experiment, and they describe expression profiles obtained from the same corals for a panel of 9 previously reported and 10 novel stress response genes identified in a pilot RNA-Seq experiment.

TL;DR: A year-long reciprocal transplant of mustard hill coral between a highly environmentally variable inshore habitat and a more stable offshore habitat demonstrated that populations exhibit phenotypic signatures that are consistent with local adaptation, and revealed a novel genomic mechanism of resilience to a variable environment.

TL;DR: It is shown that inshore corals are more tolerant of a 6‐week temperature stress than offshore corals, and coral host populations showed significant genetic divergence between inshores and offshore reefs, suggesting that in Porites astreoides, the coral host might play a prominent role in holobiont thermotolerance.

TL;DR: Basic guidelines to help restoration practitioners meet the adaptive potential of reef‐building corals facing a rapidly changing environment are provided.

TL;DR: The ability of deep sequencing of the ITS locus to detect and quantify low-abundant Symbiodinium types, as well as finer-scale diversity below the type level, will enable more robust quantification of local genetic diversity in Symbiod inium populations.