Climate change & Kuroshio current : soft coral ecosystem

Abstract

Recently major impacts of climate change including, uprising seawater temperature and ocean acidification, might have accelerated the process of destruction on coral reefs worldwide. The Kuroshio Current originates in the northern Philippines, enters the East China Sea through a strait between Taiwan and the Yaeyama Islands, and flows northward to the west of the Ryukyu Islands. In this research, We studied the physiological aspect, and transcriptional responses of the common soft coral in Japan, Korea and Taiwan against the heat stress. We collected corals from 3 site in Korea, and 2 site in Taiwan and 2 site in Japan. The morphological responses of corals to a range of exposure time (6h, 12h, 24h and 48h) and various temperature (10 0C, 26 0C, 28 0C and 30 0C). For the microarray experiment we exposed corals to various temperature (26 0C, 28 0C and 30 0C) for 24h and hybridized those RNAs extracted from the exposed groups with that ofcontrol group on the Sgr Oligo chip.lippines, enters the East China Sea through a strait between Taiwan and the Yaeyama Islands, and flows northward to the west of the Ryukyu Islands. In this research, We studied the physiological aspect, and transcriptional responses of the common soft coral in Japan, Korea and Taiwan against the heat stress. We collected corals from 3 site in Korea, and 2 site in Taiwan and 2 site in Japan. The morphological responses of corals to a range of exposure time (6h, 12h, 24h and 48h) and various temperature (10 0C, 26 0C, 28 0C and 30 0C). For the microarray experiment we exposed corals to various temperature (26 0C, 28 0C and 30 0C) for 24h and hybridized those RNAs extracted from the exposed groups with that of control group on the Sgr Oligo chip.