The southeastern corner of New Caledonia. Ile des Pins may actually be the most beautiful island I have ever seen.

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NCPI01 sampled colonies (n=9). No pictures were taken of NC2, a P. damicornis sample analyzed in full (day-time only): JMP, Excel, supplemen-tal data.

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This sample was analyzed in full (daytime only): JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This sample was analyzed in full (daytime only): JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This sample was analyzed in full (daytime only): JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This sample was analyzed in full (daytime only): JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This sample was analyzed in full (daytime only): JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This sample was analyzed in full (daytime only): JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This sample was analyzed in full (daytime only): JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This sample was analyzed in full (daytime only): JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha


















NCPI02 sampled colonies (n=2)

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This sample was analyzed in full (daytime only): JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This sample was analyzed in full (daytime only): JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha





NCPI04 sampled colonies (n=6)

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This sample was analyzed in full (daytime only): JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This sample was analyzed in full (daytime only): JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This sample was analyzed in full (daytime only): JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This sample was analyzed in full (daytime only): JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This sample was analyzed in full (daytime only): JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This sample, which was sampled in the daytime only, was considered an outlier: JMP, Excel, supplemental data









NCPI05 sampled colonies (n=2). Did not dive at NCPI06 (Oct. 29, 2013) or NCPI07-09 (Oct. 30, 2013)

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This sample was analyzed in full (daytime only): JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This sample was analyzed in full (daytime only): JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha




Pins night dive 1 (Oct. 30, 2012)-sampled colonies (n=10; day time pictures)

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was sampled during both the day and night, though only the former was analyzed: JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was sampled during both day and night. See night time images further down on page. For all data: JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was sampled in both day and night. Night time images can be found below. For all data: JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was sampled in both day and night. See night time images further down the page. For all data: JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was sampled in both day and night, and it was displaying aberrant behavior during the day online: JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was sampled during both day and night. Images of the colony at night are posted below. For all data: JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was sampled in both day and night. Night time images are posted below. All data are here: JMP, Excel, supplemental data
Please note that in all data tables “D” following the colony number refers to “dark” rather than “day".”

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was sampled in both daytime and night, and images of the colony at night have been posted below. All data are here: JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was sampled in both day and night. Images of the colony at night have been posted below. All data are here: JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was sampled in both daytime and night time; images of the colony at night have been posted below. All data are here: JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha




















Topside view of first night dive


Pins night dive 1 sampled colonies-night photos (n=10 colonies)

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
Sampled colony during both daytime and night, though only the former was analyzed in full: JMP, Excel, supplemental data
Please see day time images above.

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was sampled in both day and night: JMP, Excel, supplemental data
Daytime images can be found above.


Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
Forgot to take picture of entire colony at night. See above for entire colony photographed during daytime. This sample was analyzed in both day and night: JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
Forgot to take picture of entire colony at night. See above for entire colony photographed during daytime. This colony was analyzed in both day and night: JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
All data can be found under the daytime image of this colony posted above.

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

All data for this colony can be found under its daytime image posted above.

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

All data for this colony, which was sampled both in the day and at night, can be found under the daytime image posted above.

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
All data for this colony, which was also sampled during the day, can be found above (under the daytime images).

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was also sampled during the day, and all data associated with it have been overlaid on the daytime image posted above. PAM data available upon request.

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
All data associated with this colony, which was also sampled during the day, have been overlaid on the daytime images posted above.

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha




















NCNE10 (Neulka, nearby Iles de Pins; 10-31-13) Six colonies were sampled at this site, but, for some reason, I did not post their pictures (where are buried away in an Aperture file on an external hard drive). Here are the data:
colony 30 (Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha): JMP, Excel, supplemental data
colony 31 (Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha): JMP, Excel, supplemental data
colony 32 (Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha): JMP, Excel, supplemental data
colony 33-nucleic acids were not extracted from this sample. supplemental data
colony 34-outlier (Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha): JMP, Excel, supplemental data
colony 35 (Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha): JMP, Excel, supplemental data
NCNE11 (Oct. 31, 2013) One colony was sampled, though the picture was not posted (potentially lost): colony 36 (Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha)-JMP, Excel, supplemen-tal data
Iles de Pins night dive 2 (Nov. 1, 2013)-day time samples (n=10)

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was sampled in the day and night time and displayed aberrant behavior at the former time: JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was sampled during the day and at night, though the daytime sample was lost. Please see the images of the colony at night posted below for the night time data.

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was sampled in both the night and day, though the daytime sample was lost. Please see the night time images posted below for data.

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was sampled in both the night and day, though the daytime sample was lost. Please see the night time images posted below for data.

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was sampled in both the night and day, though the daytime sample was lost. Please see the night time images posted below for data.

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was sampled in both the night and day, though the daytime sample was lost. Please see the night time images posted below for data.

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was sampled in both the day and night. The night time colony images have been posted below. All data are here: JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was sampled in the day and night time and was displaying aberrant behavior in the day (but not at night). Night time pictures have been posted below. All data can be found here: JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was sampled in the day and again at night. The night time images have been posted below. All data are here: JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was sampled in the day and again at night, though the night time biopsy was lost. Daytime data can be found here: JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha




















Iles de Pins night dive 2 (Nov. 1, 2013)-night time samples (n=10)

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
Data for this colony, which was also sampled during the day, can be found as files overlaid onto the daytime images posted above.

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
Although this colony was sampled in both the day and night time, only the night sample was analyzed (the light one was list). JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was sampled in the day, as well, though the biopsy was lost. The night biopsy data can be found here: JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was sampled in the day and again at night, though the daytime biopsy was lost. The night biopsy data are here: JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was sampled in day and night, though the daytime biopsy was lost. Night biopsy data are here: JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was sampled in the day and night time, though the former biopsy was lost. The night time data can be found here: JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was sampled in the day and again at night. All data have been overlaid on the daytime images posted above.

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was also sampled in the day, and all data (from both day and night biopsies) can be found as files overlaid on the daytime images posted above.

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was also sampled in the daytime, and all data have been overlaid onto the daytime images posted above.

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was sampled at night, but the biopsy was lost. See the daytime images posted above for the daytime data for this same colony.

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha




















Iles de Pins night dive 3 sampled colonies (n=9)-day time photos

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was also sampled at night, though no night time images were taken. All data are here: JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was sampled in the day and again at night. It was displaying aberrant behavior in the light only, not in the dark. The night time images of the colony have been posted below. All data are here: JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was sampled in the day and again at night. The night time images have been posted below. All data are here: JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was sampled in the day and again at night. The night time images have been posted below. All data are here: JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was sampled in the day and again at night. However, the RNA extracted from the daytime biopsy was too low quality to confidently assess the gene expression data. See night time images posted below for data associated with that biopsy.

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was sampled during the day and again at night (images posted below), when it was found to be displaying aberrant behavior. JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was sampled in the day, and then again at night (see night time images posted below). However, the night time biopsy was lost. Day time data here: JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was sampled in the day and then again at night. Please see the nigh time images posted below. All data are here: JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
















Iles de Pins night dive 3 sampled colonies-night (n=9)

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was sampled in the day, as well, and all data have been overlaid on the daytime images (posted above).

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was also sampled during the day, and all data have been overlaid onto the daytime images posted above.

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
All data associated with this colony, which was also sampled during the day, have been overlaid onto the daytime images (posted above).

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was sampled in the day and again at night. The daytime biopsy’s RNA quality was too low to analyze gene expression data with confidence. The night time data can be found here: JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was sampled in the day and again at night; however, the RNA extracted from the daytime biopsy was of low quality and not analyzed in detail (nor were photos taken during the day). Night time data: JMP, Excel, supplemental data

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony, which was also sampled during the day, was displaying aberrant behavior at night. Please see the data files overlaid onto the daytime images (posted above).

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was sampled first in the day and then again at night. However, the night time biopsy was lost. All other data can be found on the daytime images of the colony posted above.

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha
This colony was also sampled during the day, and all data files have been overlaid onto the daytime images posted above.

Pocillopora damicornis genotype alpha















