Transcriptome study of scleractinian coral Alveopora japonia

Abstract

This species may benefit from the recent increase in seawater temperature, and may shift from a kelp-forest habitat to a coral-dominated habitat, disrupting the competitive interactions among benthic taxa around Jeju Island. The transcriptome was sequenced with the Illumina HiSeq 2000 Sequencing System. A total of 31,921,488 read pairs (100 bp) in the FASTQ format were produced and the short-read dataset has been deposited in GenBank. This procedure extracted 5,949,582,694 bp from 30,449,429 read. The genes most similar to many A. japonica coding sequences were from other marine invertebrates, such as Acropora digitifera (stony coral 26.5%), Orbicella faveolata (stony coral 15.37%), Amphimedon queenslandica (sponge 14.89%), and Stylophora pistillata (stony coral 9.58%).