Updated project metadata. A thermal stress experiment on Heron Island (Great Barrier Reef) which involved a slow ramp in temperature over one week and then sampling after 4 days at 32 degrees was completed. Control samples were maintained at 27C. The idea of the experiment was to study bleaching from a single cell perspective and thus look at cell condition (both animal and host) in symbio (inside the host tissue) and compare it with the physiological/macromolecular composition of the expelled symbionts (dinoflagellates). Are the cells expelled from the coral host during thermal stress are a result of host stress or algae stress. We took samples for proteomics from the extracted endoderm cells (in symbio) and also of expelled cells. Samples were collected as the symbio left the host. These were flash frozen. Are the symbiont cells expelled from the coral host during thermal stress are a result of host stress or algae stress?