Innate immune gene expression in Acropora palmata is consistent despite variance in yearly disease events
Fig 2
A. palmata and Symbiodiniaceae samples cluster by year, while disease response is only identified in the coral.
A) Principal Component (PC) 1 and PC2 of A. palmata counts, using a variance stabilizing transformation (VST), identifies the difference between years as the primary driver of sample variance. B) PC2 and PC3 of A. palmata counts, using a VST, is driven by disease response. C) PC1 and PC2 of Symbiodiniaceae counts, using a VST, identifies year as the primary driver of sample variance. D) PC2 and PC3 of Symbiodiniaceae counts, using a VST, shows no effect of disease outcome. For A) and C), black ellipses represent a 95% confidence interval in 2016 and 2017. For B) and D), the colored ellipses represent 95% confidence intervals for Baseline (blue), No Transmission (yellow) and Transmission (red).