Genomes of the Caribbean reef-building corals <i>Colpophyllia natans, Dendrogyra cylindrus</i>, and <i>Siderastrea siderea</i>.

ABSTRACT: Corals populations worldwide are declining rapidly due to elevated ocean temperatures and other human impacts. The Caribbean harbors a high number of threatened, endangered, and critically endangered coral species compared to reefs of the larger Indo-Pacific. The reef corals of the Caribbean are also long diverged from their Pacific counterparts and may have evolved different survival strategies. Most genomic resources have been developed for Pacific coral species which may impede our ability to study the changes in genetic composition of Caribbean reef communities in response to global change. To help fill the gap in genomic resources, we used PacBio HiFi sequencing to generate the first genome assemblies for three Caribbean, reef-building corals, Colpophyllia natans, Dendrogyra cylind

SUBMITTER: Locatelli NS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11370458 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature