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 …

Do corals form their skeletons by precipitation from solution or by attachment of amorphous
precursor particles as observed in other minerals and biominerals? The classical model …

Background Microbial inhabitants of soils are important to ecosystem and planetary
functions, yet there are large gaps in our knowledge of their diversity and ecology. The …

There are increasing concerns that the current rate of climate change might outpace the
ability of reef-building corals to adapt to future conditions. Work on model systems has …

Transcriptome and genome data from twenty stony coral species and a selection of
reference bilaterians were studied to elucidate coral evolutionary history. We identified …

Coral calcification is dependent on the mutualistic partnership between endosymbiotic
zooxanthellae and the coral host. Here, using newly developed geochemical proxies (δ11B …

Stony corals form the foundation of coral reef ecosystems. Their phylogeny is characterized
by a deep evolutionary divergence that separates corals into a robust and complex clade …

Marine heat waves are increasing in magnitude, duration, and frequency as a result of
climate change and are the principal global driver of mortality in reef‐building corals …