Timepoint one is one day of heat-light stress; timepoint two is recovery from it the next day. Controls are the fragments never exposed to stress. Individual denotes a coral colony that yielded several fragments for different treatments.
Fold-amplification within each PCR cycle for each qRT-PCR assay. Determined by qPCR of serial dilutions of the template (see Pfaffl 2001, Nucleic Acids Res 29:00)