Montipora capitata coral gamete bundle proteome

Coral bleaching in response to stress deprives coral colonies of energy-providing algal symbionts, potentially disrupting colony energy balance. In M. capitata, thermal bleaching typically occurs at the beginning of a new gametogenic cycle, depriving parent colonies of symbionts just as oocyte formation begins. However, this species is able to recover from bleachin through a variety of plastic responses and produce viable gametes on schedule, even though oocytes from bleached colonies are significantly smaller than from non-bleached. We performed mass spectrometry proteomics on the gamete bundles (eggs and sperm) produced from bleached and non-bleached colonies. The data here were collected with data dependent acquisition; an additional data independent acquisition dataset has been uploaded to Panorama Web.