Selective Breeding and Coral Larval Heat Tolerance

This repository contains the code required to reproduce analyses conducted by Annika Lamb (AIMS) for the manuscript "A selective breeding design based on parental rapid heat stress thresholds did not produce more heat tolerant coral larvae".

Repository contains three scripts for collectively analysing and graphing broodstock heat tolerance and fecundity and larval heat tolerance.

Data was analysed to evaluate:

1. whether a rapid heat stress assay can be used to identify heritable heat tolerance in coral populations, and
2. whether there is a trade-off between coral heat tolerance and fecundity that could impact the efficacy of selective breeding.

Note that data and models are stored on the AIMS data repository

Broodstock heat tolerance

R code for analysing rapid heat stress assay data on coral broodstock

Broodstock_ThermalThreshold_Code

Requires:

Davies_Aspat_2022_PhotochemicalEfficiencyData.csv Davies_Aspat_2022_NDVIData.csv Moore_Ahya_2022_PhotochemicalEfficiencyData.csv Moore_2022_NDVIData.csv Moore_Aspat_2022_PhotochemicalEfficiencyData.csv Davies_Aspat_2023_PhotochemicalEfficiencyData.csv Davies_Aspat_2023_NDVIData.csv Broodstock_ED50values.csv CollectionData_DaviesReef_Aspathulata_2023.csv CrossedBroodstock_ED50_Values.csv

Broodstock fecundity

R code for analysing broodstock fecundity and how it correlates with broodstock heat tolerance

Broodstock_Fecundity_Analyses.R

Requires:

Broodstock_EggCountData.csv Broodstock_EggSizeData.csv

Larval heat tolerance

R code for analysing larval heat tolerance

2023Aspat_Larval_SurvivalAnalyses.R

Requires:

LarvalSurvivorship_11112023Run_7crosses.csv