Transcriptome assembly of P. acuta
To examine genetic responses of P. acuta during polyp bail-out induction, we first constructed a reference transcriptome assembly. After removing RNA reads from coral-associated microbiomes, including those of Symbiodinium , a total of 73,903 transcripts were reconstructed (N50 = 1,278 nt; E90N50 = 1,756 nt; GenBank assembly accession: GIDI00000000), with 84% transcriptomic completeness (fragmented, 9.7%; missing, 6.2%) identified by the BUSCO analysis.