Functional responses of coral microbial communities to ocean acidification

DNA samples of G. fascicularis were used to investigate the GeoChip 5.0 based functional gene arrays, which contains 57,000 probes and covered over 144,000 gene sequences from 393 functional gene families associated with a variety of microbial functional traits, such as carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur cycling, pathogenicity and secondary metabolism. In the study presented here, we tested the effect of OA exposure (PH7.85, PH8.15 and PH8.45) on the coral bacterial community and function, using the microarray analyses