Brooding and parthenogenesis enhance the success of the coral, Porites astreoides relative to Orbicella annularis

This data set includes microsatellite genotypes for the corals Porites astreoides and Orbicella annularis collected off the south shore of St. John, US Virgin Islands. Samples were collected from 4 sites from both species and a fifth site for Porites astreoides in which maternal colonies and their brooded larvae were collected. In addition, long-term data collected from 1987 - 2024 on patterns of percent cover change, settlement and abundance of small corals for these two species are presented from the same coastline along the south shore of St. John., Coral tissue samples were collected along a 50 m transect for both species at four sites and within a 10 x 5 m area for Porites astreoides maternal colonies, surrounding colonies and larvae.  Samples DNA was extracted and amplified with microsatellite loci.  Genotypes were analyzed with Genieous Prime software.  Long-term population data was collected via photographs (percent cover), settlement plates (settlement) and in-situ surveys of small corals., , # Brooding and parthenogenesis enhance the success of the coral, Porites astreoides, relative to Orbicella annularis

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.pg4f4qrz4](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.pg4f4qrz4)

Brooding and parthenogenesis enhance the success of the coral, *Porites astreoide,s* relative to *Orbicella annularis*

## Description of the data and file structure

The data file is in 7 Excel worksheets.

The first sheet \"Explanations\" describes what data is contained in the other 6 worksheets

The second sheet is “Coral Genotypes”. These are the microsatellite genotypes for Porites astreoides and Orbicella annularis. Four survey sites for both species P. astreoides has Site Q for maternal corals and their larvae, plus surrounding Conspecifics. Genotypes are the two alleles (1, 2) for each locus

The third sheet is “Maternal colonies and larvae”. These are the ID of each maternal colony and their collected larvae, the date collected, and the two alleles for each microsatellite lo...,