Acropora aspera (STE)
Acropora aspera - coral nubbins were collected from reef flat, Heron Island, Australia. Samples were placed in aquaria and exposed to short thermal stress (STE) reaching 6-7ºC above ambient temperature after 6h (~1ºC increase per h, 30 ±1ºC) and lasting for a 1-day period.   Equal concentrations of a high quality RNA from biological replicates (n=5) were pooled together and used for sequencing using the Illumina GA II Sequencing System (using the Illumina® TruSeq® RNA Sample Preparation Kit) by Australian Genome Research Facility Ltd (AGRF) that resulted in over 6 million reads per replicate (four technical replicates) per sample.