Coral life history and symbiosis: Functional genomic resources for two reef building Caribbean corals, Acropora palmata and Montastraea faveolata

Table 3 Potential symbiosis-related genes in A. palmata

Unigene ID*	Length (nt)	#cDNAs	Blastx hit (nr)	e value
3742400	538	2	homothorax 1, homeodomain	10^-36
3741518	411	3	chromobox homolog 1	10^-18
3742103	376	2	THAP DNA binding domain	10^-5
3740339	1444	3	aspartyl protease	10^-136
3740760	793	3	leucine carboxyl methyltransferase 1	10^-59
3741304	512	2	phosphoplipase A2 inhibitor	10^-3
3740726	526	2	type III collagen	10^-13
3742809	1601	17	no
3743087	956	3	no
3740331	862	3	no
3741565	1147	2	no
3740122	1045	2	no
3742400	636	2	no
3741088	585	2	no
3743345	444	2	no

* Criteria for inclusion were that the unigenes must be expressed in both symbiotic life history stages and absent from all of the non-symbiotic stages.

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