Unexpected complexity of the reef-building coral Acropora millepora transcription factor network.

• Published in: BMC Systems Biology
• Main Authors: Ryu, Tae Woo, Mavromatis, Charalampos Harris, Bayer, Till, Voolstra, Christian R., Ravasi, Timothy
• Other Authors: King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) Division, Bioscience Program, Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC), Integrative Systems Biology Lab, Marine Science Program, Red Sea Research Center (RSRC), Reef Genomics Lab, Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany, School of Natural Sciences, University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States, Center for Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, United States
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Nature 2011
• Subjects: Animals; Anthozoa; Biological Evolution; DNA Footprinting; Gene Expression Profiling; Genomics; Models; Biological; Oceans and Seas; Phylogeny; Sequence Analysis; DNA; Species Specificity; Transcription Factors; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10754/323513; https://doi.org/10.1186/1752-0509-5-58

Coral reefs are disturbed on a global scale by environmental changes including rising sea surface temperatures and ocean acidification. Little is known about how corals respond or adapt to these environmental changes especially at the molecular level. This is mostly because of the paucity of genome-wide studies on corals and the application of systems approaches that incorporate the latter. Like in any other organism, the response of corals to stress is tightly controlled by the coordinated interplay of many transcription factors.