Fig. 1: pa-BAK knockdown improves coral thermal resilience.
From: BAK knockdown delays bleaching and alleviates oxidative DNA damage in a reef-building coral
A Successful siRNA-mediated downregulation of pa-BAK in Pocillopora acuta. The expression is normalized to the control treatment (siNTC) by the ΔΔCT method. The error bar represents standard deviation (n = 9 colonies). B Bleaching rate in heat-stressed corals with successful pa-BAK knockdown (siBAK) compared to their controls (siNTC), points represent each microscopy snap. Three snaps were taken for each coral (n = 9). C Correlation between the tolerance gain (calculated as the percent difference between the bleaching rate of treated (siBAK) and control corals (siNTC) for each colony) and the magnitude of pa-BAK knockdown (calculated as percentual downregulation compared to the control), R stands for Pearson correlation coefficient (n = 9).
