摘要: Ecological damage from periodic environmental extremes is often repaired in resilient ecosystems, but the rate of return to a non-damaged state critical. Measures recovery communities include biomass, productivity and diversity, while measures individuals tend focus on physiological conditions normal metabolic functioning. Transcriptomics offers window into entire physiology organism under stress can represent holistic view organismal recovery. In this study, we track seven colonies Acropora hyacinthus following natural bleaching event. We identified large response field that involved approximately 20% host transcriptome. The transcriptome remained largely perturbed for at least six months after temperatures had cooled four symbiont populations recovered. Moreover, small set genes did not recover previous expression levels even 12 event, about time growth rates resumed. This study among first incorporate transcriptomics longitudinal dataset stress. data demonstrate lasting effects coral long recover.