Genomic Resources for Imperiled Caribbean Reef-Forming Corals (Hexacorallia: Scleractinia): Complete Mitochondrial Genomes of <i>Dichocoenia stokesii</i>, <i>Diploria labyrinthiformis</i>, <i>Oculina patagonica</i>, and <i>Stephanocoenia intersepta</i>.

ABSTRACT: Coral reefs provide a wide variety of services essential to both marine ecosystems and human societies yet reef-forming corals are currently facing a multitude of global and local environmental stressors. Long-term monitoring of reef-forming corals is of utmost importance for understanding the response of declining coral populations to environmental insult, and for their restoration. This study is a part of a greater long-term goal that aims at generating genomic resources for imperiled corals in the greater Caribbean basin. To support the future monitoring of coral reefs using non-intrusive eDNA strategies, we have sequenced for the first time the mitochondrial genome of four species of corals, three of them inhabiting the greater Caribbean basin: Dichocoenia stokesii, Diploria

SUBMITTER: Zabransky K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12856378 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature