Study on stress responses in coral using microarray

Abstract

Inevitably, the coral population and its distribution in Korea could be affected by warming currents, similar to the situation in Japan and Taiwan. In this study, we chose Dendronephthya gigantea [1] which is a soft coral widely distributein Jeju Island and Alveopora japonica [2] which is a hard coral rapidly expanding the population around Jeju Island to contruct microarray. Their probes in microarray were based on the noble and known genes sequences from NGS technology. Approximately 30,000 genes from Dendronephthya gigantea and Alveopora japonica were used for microarray, respectively. For the microaray experiments, we carried out temperature and pH stress experiment independently and functional gene expressions were investigated.n Jeju Island and Alveopora japonica [2] which is a hard coral rapidly expanding the population around Jeju Island to contruct microarray. Their probes in microarray were based on the noble and known genes sequences from NGS technology. Approximately 30,000 genes from Dendronephthya gigantea and Alveopora japonica were used for microarray, respectively. For the microaray experiments, we carried out temperature and pH stress experiment independently and functional gene expressions were investigated.