Understanding how diversity evolves and is maintained is critical to predicting the future
trajectories of ecosystems under climate change; however, our understanding of these …

Understanding how biodiversity originates and is maintained are fundamental challenge in
evolutionary biology. Speciation is a continuous process and progression along this …

Clonal organisms like reef building corals exhibit a wide variety of colony morphologies and
geometric shapes which can have many physiological and ecological implications. Colony …

Scleractinian corals are the main modern builders of coral reefs, which are major hot spots
of marine biodiversity. Southern Atlantic reef corals are understudied compared to their …

Understanding the dispersal potential of different species is essential for predicting recovery
trajectories following local disturbances and the potential for adaptive loci to spread to …

Based on material acquired from Green Island, Taiwan, using a combined approach of
traditional morphology-based taxonomy and molecular barcoding, we describe a new …

A recent study has shown that two common Caribbean corals, Montastrea cavernosa and
Siderastrea siderea, in the Florida Keys each consist of four genetically distinct lineages …

Coral reef decline raises concerns about potential co-extinctions of coral-associated fauna
that rely on corals for survival. Despite their diversity and abundance on reefs, these typically …

Corals provide habitat for numerous marine species and ecosystem services for global
human populations. However, they are vulnerable to local and global scale threats …