The robust clade coral Montastraea faveolata engages in a symbiosis with the microeukaryote Symbiodinum. We used this experiment in combination with results from previous microarray experimentation in coral of the same species to provide a time series that begins before metamorphosis and ends after the transition from planula to polyp in Montastraea faveolata. This time series allows us to evaluate the effects of symbiosis upon the host transcriptome at various stages of metamorphosis and days after infection--Abstract.