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 …

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 …

The present-day world is severely suffering from the recently emerged SARS-CoV-2. The
lack of prescribed drugs for the deadly virus has stressed the likely need to identify novel …

Many corals harbour symbiotic dinoflagellate algae. The algae live inside coral cells in a
specialized membrane compartment known as the symbiosome, which shares the …

Ocean acidification causes corals to calcify at reduced rates, but current understanding of
the underlying processes is limited. Here, we conduct a mechanistic study into how …

Crustose coralline algae play a crucial role in the building of reefs in the photic zones of
nearshore ecosystems globally, and are highly susceptible to ocean acidification …

Much recent marine research has been directed towards understanding the effects of
anthropogenic-induced environmental change on marine biodiversity, particularly for those …