Consensus guidelines for advancing coral holobiont genome and specimen voucher deposition

CR Voolstra, KM Quigley, SW Davies… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
Coral research is being ushered into the genomic era. To fully capitalize on the potential
discoveries from this genomic revolution, the rapidly increasing number of high-quality …

Hybridisation on coral reefs and the conservation of evolutionary novelty

ZT Richards, JPA Hobbs - Current Zoology, 2015‏ - academic.oup.com
Hybridisation was traditionally considered rare on coral reefs. However, a rapid increase in
hybrid studies over the last 20 years has revealed that hybridisation on coral reefs is …

The diversity and biogeography of Western Indian Ocean reef-building corals

D Obura - 2012‏ - journals.plos.org
This study assesses the biogeographic classification of the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) on
the basis of the species diversity and distribution of reef-building corals. Twenty one …

Coral and macroalgal exudates vary in neutral sugar composition and differentially enrich reef bacterioplankton lineages

CE Nelson, SJ Goldberg, L Wegley Kelly… - The ISME …, 2013‏ - academic.oup.com
Increasing algal cover on tropical reefs worldwide may be maintained through feedbacks
whereby algae outcompete coral by altering microbial activity. We hypothesized that algae …

Marine heatwaves threaten cryptic coral diversity and erode associations among coevolving partners

S Starko, JE Fifer, DC Claar, SW Davies, R Cunning… - Science …, 2023‏ - science.org
Climate change–amplified marine heatwaves can drive extensive mortality in foundation
species. However, a paucity of longitudinal genomic datasets has impeded understanding of …

A comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of the Scleractinia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) based on mitochondrial CO1 sequence data

MV Kitahara, SD Cairns, J Stolarski, D Blair, DJ Miller - PloS one, 2010‏ - journals.plos.org
Background Classical morphological taxonomy places the approximately 1400 recognized
species of Scleractinia (hard corals) into 27 families, but many aspects of coral evolution …

[HTML][HTML] A hybrid-capture approach to reconstruct the phylogeny of Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Hexacorallia)

ZBR Quek, SS Jain, ZT Richards, R Arrigoni… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
A well-supported evolutionary tree representing most major lineages of scleractinian corals
is in sight with the development and application of phylogenomic approaches. Specifically …

The new systematics of Scleractinia: integrating molecular and morphological evidence

MV Kitahara, H Fukami, F Benzoni, D Huang - The Cnidaria, Past, Present …, 2016‏ - Springer
The taxonomy of scleractinian corals has traditionally been established based on
morphology at the “macro” scale since the time of Carl Linnaeus. Taxa described using …

Protein expression and genetic structure of the coral Porites lobata in an environmentally extreme Samoan back reef: does host genotype limit phenotypic plasticity?

DJ Barshis, JH Stillman, RD Gates… - Molecular …, 2010‏ - Wiley Online Library
The degree to which coral reef ecosystems will be impacted by global climate change
depends on regional and local differences in corals' susceptibility and resilience to …

Corals from the Persian/Arabian Gulf as models for thermotolerant reef-builders: prevalence of clade C3 Symbiodinium, host fluorescence and ex situ temperature …

B Hume, C D'angelo, J Burt, AC Baker, B Riegl… - Marine pollution …, 2013‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Corals in the Arabian/Persian Gulf endure summer temperatures of up to 36° C,
making them ideal subjects to study the mechanisms underlying thermal tolerance …