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Mitochondrial and nuclear genes suggest that stony corals are monophyletic but most families of stony corals are not (Order Scleractinia, Class Anthozoa, Phylum Cnidaria). [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2008
Modern hard corals (Class Hexacorallia; Order Scleractinia) are widely studied because of their fundamental role in reef building and their superb fossil record extending back to the Triassic.
Hironobu Fukami, Chaolun Allen Chen, Ann F Budd, Allen Collins, Carden Wallace, Yao-Yang Chuang, Chienhsun Chen, Chang-Feng Dai, Kenji Iwao, Charles Sheppard, Nancy Knowlton   +10 more
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The complete mitochondrial genome of Montipora vietnamensis (Scleractinia, Acroporidae) [PDF]

Biodiversity Data Journal, 2022
Montipora vietnamensis Veron, 2000 (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Scleractinia, Acroporidae) is an uncommon, but distinctive species of stony coral. The complete mitochondrial genome of M.
Wei Wang, Bingbing Cao, Ziqing Xu, Zhiyu Jia, Shuangen Yu, Peng Tian, Wentao Niu, Jiaguang Xiao   +7 more
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An illustrated key to the genera and subgenera of the Recent azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa), with an attached glossary [PDF]

ZooKeys, 2012
The 120 presently recognized genera and seven subgenera of the azooxanthellate Scleractinia are keyed using gross morphological characters of the corallum. All genera are illustrated with calicular and side views of coralla.
Stephen Cairns, Marcelo Kitahara
doaj   +2 more sources

Cnidaria, Scleractinia, Siderastreidae, Siderastrea siderea (Ellis and Solander, 1786): Hartt Expedition and the first record of a Caribbean siderastreid in tropical Southwestern Atlantic [PDF]

, 2010
Samples of Siderastrea collected by the geologist C. F. Hartt during expedition to Brazil (19th century), anddeposited at the National Museum of the Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, have been re-examined.
Johnsson, R., Neves, E. G., Pichon, M., Silveira, F. L.   +3 more
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Islands in the mud: The South Texas banks provide crucial mesophotic habitat for coral communities

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
On the continental shelf off the coast of South Texas lie a series of natural hard-bottom structures (rocky outcrops and relic coral-algal reefs) known as the South Texas Banks (STB), which provide critical habitat for benthic organisms and pelagic fish.
Maria Bollinger, Keir J. Macartney, Erin E. Easton, David W. Hicks   +3 more
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Host Range of the Coral-Associated Worm Snail Petaloconchus sp. (Gastropoda: Vermetidae), a Newly Discovered Cryptogenic Pest Species in the Southern Caribbean

Diversity, 2022
The presence of associated endofauna can have an impact on the health of corals. During fieldwork on the southern Caribbean island of Curaçao in 2021, the presence of an unknown coral-dwelling worm snail was discovered, which appeared to cause damage to ...
Bert W. Hoeksema, Charlotte E. Harper, Sean J. Langdon-Down, Roel J. van der Schoot, Annabel Smith-Moorhouse, Roselle Spaargaren, Rosalie F. Timmerman   +6 more
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Acute Toxicity Assays with Adult Coral Fragments: A Method for Standardization

Toxics, 2023
Coral reefs are globally declining due to various anthropogenic stressors. Amongst those, chemical pollutants, such as pesticides from agricultural runoff, sewage or an overabundance of personal care products in coastal waters due to intense tourism, may
David Brefeld, Valentina Di Mauro, Matthias Y. Kellermann, Samuel Nietzer, Mareen Moeller, Laura H. Lütjens, Sascha Pawlowski, Mechtild Petersen-Thiery, Peter J. Schupp   +8 more
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Evolutionary and biogeographical implications of degraded LAGLIDADG endonuclease functionality and group I intron occurrence in stony corals (Scleractinia) and mushroom corals (Corallimorpharia). [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
Group I introns and homing endonuclease genes (HEGs) are mobile genetic elements, capable of invading target sequences in intron-less genomes. LAGLIDADG HEGs are the largest family of endonucleases, playing a key role in the mobility of group I introns ...
Juan Sebastián Celis, David R Edgell, Björn Stelbrink, Daniel Wibberg, Torsten Hauffe, Jochen Blom, Jörn Kalinowski, Thomas Wilke   +7 more
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High Clonality and Geographically Separated Cryptic Lineages in the Threatened Temperate Coral, Acropora pruinosa

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021
Acropora pruinosa is a threatened zooxanthellate scleractinian coral that is distributed in the temperate areas along the coastline of Japan and the northern area of the South China Sea. Since A. pruinosa propagates both asexually and sexually, assessing
Supisara Pipithkul, Sota Ishizu, Akifumi Shimura, Hiroyuki Yokochi, Satoshi Nagai, Hironobu Fukami, Nina Yasuda   +6 more
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Complete mitochondrial DNA sequence of the Psammocora profundacella (Scleractinia, Psammocoridae): mitogenome characterisation and phylogenetic implications [PDF]

Biodiversity Data Journal, 2021
Complete mitochondrial DNA sequence data have played a significant role in phylogenetic and evolutionary studies of scleractinian corals. In this study, the complete mitogenome of Psammocora profundacella Gardiner, 1898, collected from Guangdong Province,
Peng Tian, Jiaguang Xiao, Zhiyu Jia, Feng Guo, Xiaolei Wang, Wei Wang, Jianjia Wang, Dingyong Huang, Wentao Niu   +8 more
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