ArticleMolecular biology and evolution2021
The Evolution of Calcification in Reef-Building Corals.
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- A carbon-nitrogen negative feedback loop underlies the repeated evolution of cnidarian-Symbiodiniaceae symbioses.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Role of the bicarbonate transporter SLC4γ in stony-coral skeleton formation and evolution.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Pervasive tandem duplications and convergent evolution shape coral genomes.Genome biology · 2023Article
- Utilizing an artificial intelligence system to build the digital structural proteome of reef-building corals.GigaScience · 2022Article
- Different skeletal protein toolkits achieve similar structure and performance in the tropical coral Stylophora pistillata and the temperate Oculina patagonica.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Full-Length Transcriptome Maps of Reef-Building Coral Illuminate the Molecular Basis of Calcification, Symbiosis, and Circadian Genes.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
- Investigating calcification-related candidates in a non-symbiotic scleractinian coral, Tubastraea spp.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Distinct fine-scale variations in calcification control revealed by high-resolution 2D boron laser images in the cold-water coralScience advances · 2022Article
- A New Gene Family Diagnostic for Intracellular Biomineralization of Amorphous Ca Carbonates by Cyanobacteria.Genome biology and evolution · 2022Article
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Abstract
Corals build the structural foundation of coral reefs, one of the most diverse and productive ecosystems on our planet. Although the process of coral calcification that allows corals to build these immense structures has been extensively investigated, we still know little about the evolutionary processes that allowed the soft-bodied ancestor of corals to become the ecosystem builders they are today. Using a combination of phylogenomics, proteomics, and immunohistochemistry, we show that scleractinian corals likely acquired the ability to calcify sometime between ∼308 and ∼265 Ma through a combination of lineage-specific gene duplications and the co-option of existing genes to the calcification process. Our results suggest that coral calcification did not require extensive evolutionary changes, but rather few coral-specific gene duplications and a series of small, gradual optimizations of ancestral proteins and their co-option to the calcification process.
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