Hemocytes, similar to vertebrate blood cells, play important roles in insect development and
immunity, but it is not well understood how they perform their tasks. New technology, in …

Chronic liver inflammation, a pervasive global health issue, results in millions of annual
deaths due to its progression from fibrosis to the more severe forms of cirrhosis and …

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 …

Homologous chromosomes in the diploid genome are thought to contain equivalent genetic
information, but this common concept has not been fully verified in animal genomes with …

Background Over the last decade, several coral genomes have been sequenced allowing a
better understanding of these symbiotic organisms threatened by climate change …

Mutualistic relationships with photosynthetic organisms are common in cnidarians, which
form an intracellular symbiosis with dinoflagellates in the family Symbiodiniaceae. The …

Coral disease has progressively become one of the most pressing issues affecting coral reef
survival. In the last 50 years, several reefs throughout the Caribbean have been severely …

Corals harbor a complex suite of beneficial microbial symbionts. Shuffling the composition of
these symbionts could, in theory, help the host withstand rapidly emerging or geographically …

The characterization of active compounds in Cnidaria sheds light on a large bank of
substances against multiresistant bacteria related to diseases in humans, which makes it a …

Gene expression, especially in multispecies experiments, is used to gain insight into the
genetic basis of how organisms adapt and respond to changing environments. However …