Figure 2 Expression of genes related to bleaching and programmed cell death pathways, relative to control at time 0h. Single gene expression patterns (A) and the ratio between pro-life and pro-death genes (B) were calculated using the ΔΔCt method. Control samples are depicted with the dotted line, non-preconditioned (NPC) with the dashed line, and preconditioned (PC) with the solid line. The variability of the measurements is visualized with boxplots where non-preconditioned corals are in white and preconditioned in grey. Dots represent outlining values. Random effect model with post-hoc Tukey independent for each gene/ratio was used to test the difference of the values. * marks significant (p ≦0.05), ‡ almost significant (p ≦ 0.1) difference between PC and NPC corals, n = 10.
Figure 3