Systematic revision of Symbiodiniaceae highlights the antiquity and diversity of coral endosymbionts

TC LaJeunesse, JE Parkinson, PW Gabrielson… - Current Biology, 2018 - cell.com
The advent of molecular data has transformed the science of organizing and studying life on
Earth. Genetics-based evidence provides fundamental insights into the diversity, ecology …

Help me, symbionts, you're my only hope: Approaches to accelerate our understanding of coral holobiont interactions

CB Bove, MV Ingersoll… - … and Comparative Biology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Tropical corals construct the three-dimensional framework for one of the most diverse
ecosystems on the planet, providing habitat to a plethora of species across taxa. However …

Rapid ecosystem-scale consequences of acute deoxygenation on a Caribbean coral reef

MD Johnson, JJ Scott, M Leray, N Lucey… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Loss of oxygen in the global ocean is accelerating due to climate change and
eutrophication, but how acute deoxygenation events affect tropical marine ecosystems …

Signatures of selection underpinning rapid coral adaptation to the world's warmest reefs

EG Smith, KM Hazzouri, JY Choi, P Delaney… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Coral populations in the world's warmest reefs, the Persian/Arabian Gulf (PAG), represent an
ideal model system to understand the evolutionary response of coral populations to past and …

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 …

RAD sequencing enables unprecedented phylogenetic resolution and objective species delimitation in recalcitrant divergent taxa

S Herrera, TM Shank - Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 2016 - Elsevier
Species delimitations is problematic in many cases due to the difficulty of evaluating
predictions from species hypotheses. In many cases delimitations rely on subjective …

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 next generation approach to species delimitation reveals the role of hybridization in a cryptic species complex of corals

AM Quattrini, T Wu, K Soong, MS Jeng… - BMC Evolutionary …, 2019 - Springer
Background Our ability to investigate processes shaping the evolutionary diversification of
corals (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) is limited by a lack of understanding of species boundaries …

Universal target‐enrichment baits for anthozoan (Cnidaria) phylogenomics: New approaches to long‐standing problems

AM Quattrini, BC Faircloth, LF Dueñas… - Molecular ecology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Anthozoans (eg, corals, anemones) are an ecologically important and diverse
group of marine metazoans that occur from shallow to deep waters worldwide. However, our …

New approaches to species delimitation and population structure of anthozoans: Two case studies of octocorals using ultraconserved elements and exons

KL Erickson, A Pentico, AM Quattrini… - Molecular Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As coral populations decline worldwide in the face of ongoing environmental change,
documenting their distribution, diversity and conservation status is now more imperative than …