NMMBA (Taiwan) Ph.D. student Crystal McRae carried out a three-month high-temperature incubation of adult corals (Pocillopora acuta) and monitored their reproductive biology. She found that, when compared to experimental controls, these colonies released fewer larvae, and those larvae that were released tended to be smaller and demonstrate less discrimination with respect to settlement type (McRae et al. 2021 Coral Reefs). We took a subset of the larvae released after three months, as well as biopsies from their parents, and used a proteomic analysis to determine whether parents and offspring demonstrate similar high-temperature responses (relative to controls). The associated data are the subject of a recently (July 2021) accepted manuscript in Frontiers in Marine Science.

  1. The mass spectrometry data have been bundled within this MGF file.

  2. To download the open-access peaks files (MZML) or the results of querying the peptides against coral sequence databases, check out our “MassIVE” submission: accession MSV000087874.

  3. A more user-friendly, distilled, tab-delineated dataset can be found here.

  4. A less user-friendly dataset, albeit one of potentially more interest to protein biochemists, can be found here.

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Look at all those coral proteins!

Look at all those coral proteins!