RNA-Seq of the Caribbean reef-building coral Orbicella faveolata (Scleractinia-Merulinidae) under bleaching and disease stress expands models of coral innate …

DA Anderson, ME Walz, E Weil, P Tonellato, MC Smith - PeerJ, 2016 - peerj.com
Climate change-driven coral disease outbreaks have led to widespread declines in coral
populations. Early work on coral genomics established that corals have a complex innate …

Towards a phylogenetic classification of reef corals: the Indo‐Pacific genera Merulina, Goniastrea and Scapophyllia (Scleractinia, Merulinidae)

D Huang, F Benzoni, R Arrigoni, AH Baird… - Zoologica …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in scleractinian systematics and taxonomy have been achieved through
the integration of molecular and morphological data, as well as rigorous analysis using …

The “naked coral” hypothesis revisited–evidence for and against scleractinian monophyly

MV Kitahara, MF Lin, S Foret, G Huttley, DJ Miller… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The relationship between Scleractinia and Corallimorpharia, Orders within Anthozoa
distinguished by the presence of an aragonite skeleton in the former, is controversial …

Corallimorpharians are not “naked corals”: insights into relationships between Scleractinia and Corallimorpharia from phylogenomic analyses

MF Lin, WH Chou, MV Kitahara, CLA Chen, DJ Miller… - PeerJ, 2016 - peerj.com
Calcification is one of the most distinctive traits of scleractinian corals. Their hard skeletons
form the substratum of reef ecosystems and confer on corals their remarkable diversity of …

[PDF][PDF] The story of symbiosis with zooxanthellae, or how they enable their host to thrive in a nutrient poor environment

A Fournier - Master Biosci Rev-Ec Norm Supérieure Lyon, 2013 - biologie.ens-lyon.fr
According to de Bary's original definition, a symbiosis is a long-term relationship between
two different species. In this review, we focus on those involving zooxanthellae, which is the …

Molecular cytogenetic analysis of the scleractinian coral Acropora solitaryensis Veron & Wallace 1984

T Taguchi, T Mezaki, F Iwase, S Sekida, S Kubota… - Zoological science, 2014 - BioOne
We performed a molecular cytogenetic investigation of the scleractinian coral Acropora
solitaryensis, which is dominant in the temperate region of Japan (30–35° N). Molecular …

Genome-based analyses of six hexacorallian species reject the “naked coral” hypothesis

X Wang, G Drillon, T Ryu, CR Voolstra… - Genome biology and …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Scleractinian corals are the foundation species of the coral-reef ecosystem. Their calcium
carbonate skeletons form extensive structures that are home to millions of species, making …

Absence/presence calling in microarray-based CGH experiments with non-model organisms

MJ Jonker, WC de Leeuw, M Marinković… - Nucleic acids …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Structural variations in genomes are commonly studied by (micro) array-based comparative
genomic hybridization. The data analysis methods to infer copy number variation in model …

[PDF][PDF] Transcription of Genes Involved in Bleaching of a Coral Reef Species Acropora Downingi (Wallace, 1999) in Response to High Temperature

P Javid, S Pabasteh, SM Alavi, S Behzadi… - Available at SSRN … - papers.ssrn.com
Global warming is adversely affected the coral reef ecosystems worldwide. In the present
study, the branches of coral species Acropora downingi collected from Larak Island in the …

[PDF][PDF] Approval Page

MC Scott - 2013 - newheavenreefconservation.org
Coral reefs are one of the most environmentally and economically valuable ecosystems for
tropical nations, but also one of the most threatened. Their narrow habitat range and …