[Ca. Aquarickettsia rohweri transcriptomes] - Sampling and experimental metadata related to 'Candidatus' Aquarickettsia rohweri transcriptome data from host Acropora cervicornis colonies collected at Looe Key, Lower Florida Keys from Apr to Jun of 2019 (Collaborative Research: Tracking the interacting roles of the environment, host genotype, and a novel Rickettsiales in coral disease susceptibility)

All host colonies (Acropora cervicornis genotype ML-50) were collected from the same location, the Mote Marine Laboratory in situ coral nursery in Looe Key, Lower Florida Keys between April and June of 2019.

The Rickettsiales-like bacterial parasite, 'Candidatus' Aquarickettsia rohweri (NCBI:txid2602574) is a ubiquitous coral symbiont that is strongly linked to coral disease susceptibility in staghorn coral, and is undergoing positive selection across the Caribbean. Although ‘Ca.' A. rohweri is a putative parasite, little is known about the activity of this bacterium in coral tissue. We performed a transcriptomic analyses of ‘Ca.' A. rohweri populations during a 6-week nutrient exposure experiment. ‘Ca.' A. rohweri energy scavenging genes and those potentially involved during habitat transition are significantly upregulated during enrichment.