Author contributions
E.M. and R.D.G conceived and coordinated the project, E.M. and F.C.C.
collected samples from the wild, ran the preconditioning experiment, and
assessed the bleaching rate in corals. E.M extracted RNA and analyzed
gene expression, performed Caspase-3 activity experiments and
statistically analyzed the data. E.M. wrote the manuscript. E.M. and
F.C.C. read and approved the manuscript.