Calcium carbonate (CaCO3) biomineralizing organisms have played major roles in the
history of life and the global carbon cycle during the past 541 Ma. Both marine diversification …

Hundreds of coral paleoclimate records have been developed over the past several
decades, significantly extending the instrumental record and improving our understanding of …

Stony corals are colonial cnidarians that sustain the most biodiverse marine ecosystems on
Earth: coral reefs. Despite their ecological importance, little is known about the cell types …

Identifying how past environmental conditions shaped the evolution of corals and their
skeletal traits provides a framework for predicting their persistence and that of their non …

Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) was first documented in 2014 near the Port of
Miami, Florida, and has since spread north and south along Florida's Coral Reef, killing …

Reef-building corals and their aragonite (CaCO3) skeletons support entire reef ecosystems,
yet their formation mechanism is poorly understood. Here we used synchrotron …

The wind-driven meridional overturning circulation between the tropical and subtropical
oceans is important for regulating decadal-scale temperature fluctuations in the Pacific …

Coral reefs are highly diverse ecosystems of immense ecological, economic, and aesthetic
importance built on the calcium-carbonate-based skeletons of stony corals. The formation of …

High pCO2 habitats and their populations provide an unparalleled opportunity to assess
how species may survive under future ocean acidification conditions, and help to reveal the …

In corals, pH regulation of the extracellular calcifying medium (ECM) by the calcifying cell
layer is a crucial step in the calcification process and is potentially important to influencing …