Hard, or stony, corals make rocks that can, on geological time scales, lead to the formation of
massive reefs in shallow tropical and subtropical seas. In both historical and contemporary …

Coral reefs maintain extraordinary biodiversity and provide protection from tsunamis and
storm surge, but inshore coral reef health is degrading in many regions due to deteriorating …

Do corals form their skeletons by precipitation from solution or by attachment of amorphous
precursor particles as observed in other minerals and biominerals? The classical model …

Little is known about how stony corals build their calcareous skeletons. There are two
prevailing hypotheses: that it is a physicochemically dominated process and that it is a …

Transcriptome and genome data from twenty stony coral species and a selection of
reference bilaterians were studied to elucidate coral evolutionary history. We identified …

Chirality is ubiquitous in biology, including in biomineralization, where it is found in many
hardened structures of invertebrate marine and terrestrial organisms (for example, spiralling …

The stable (δ 18 O and δ 13 C) and clumped (Δ 47) isotope compositions of coral carbonate
are valuable archives for paleoclimate reconstructions. However, the Δ 47-temperature …

In the recent years several papers and some reviews have dealt with characterization,
localization and influence on the precipitation of calcium carbonate, of the organic matrix …

Calcium carbonate minerals, such as aragonite and calcite, are widespread in biomineral
skeletons, shells, exoskeletons, and more. With rapidly increasing p CO2 levels linked to …

The stable isotope compositions of biogenic carbonates have been used for
paleoceanographic and paleoclimatic reconstructions for decades, and produced some of …