Acknowledgements:
Many thanks to the numerous collaborators on this project including: the National Park of American Sāmoa, the National Marine Sanctuary of American Sāmoa, USFWS, the Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources, and the Coral Reef Advisory Group. Thank you to members of the ToBo lab for expertise, guidance, and advice: Brian Bowen, Ingrid Knapp, Mareike Sudek, Chris Suchocki, Sean Canfield, Emily Conklin, Evan Barba, and Xander Velkeneers. Additional thanks to Danwei Huang for sharing additional sequence data, used in the reference mapping of these samples.
This project was funded by the Hawaiʻi Sea Grant and the Pacific Islands Climate Adaptations Science Center, and the Colonel Willys E. Lord and Sandina L. Lord Scholarship, Ruth D. Gates Scholarship, Robinson Fellowship, and Watson T. Yoshimoto Fellowship.
Compliance:
Sampling of giant clams were conducted under guidance of the National Park of American Sāmoa and under the scientific permit of American Samoan Government: Department of Marine and Wildlife, permit NO. DMWR-2016/046.
Genetic Sequences:
The sequences are submitted to the Genbank Short Read Archives, under the Bioproject ID PRJNA867692 and the SRA biosamples accession codes are: SAMN30219961, SAMN30219962, and SAMN30219963.