Stepwise Evolution of Coral Biomineralization Revealed with Genome-Wide Proteomics and Transcriptomics

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 11; no. 6; p. e0156424
• Main Authors: Takeuchi, Takeshi, Yamada, Lixy, Shinzato, Chuya, Sawada, Hitoshi, Satoh, Noriyuki
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 02.06.2016; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Acropora digitifera; Acropora millepora; Analysis; Animals; Annotations; Anthozoa - genetics; Biology and Life Sciences; Biomineralization; Calcification; Calcification, Physiologic - genetics; Calcium Carbonate - metabolism; Climate Change; Coral reefs; Corals; Earth Sciences; Ecology; Epithelial cells; Evolution; Evolution, Molecular; Extracellular matrix; Gene expression; Genes; Genetic aspects; Genome; Genomes; Genomics; Laboratories; Marine ecology; Membrane proteins; Metazoa; Mineralization; Molecular evolution; Morphology; Physiological aspects; Protein families; Proteins; Proteome - genetics; Proteomics; Research and Analysis Methods; Science; Scleractinia; Signaling; Skeleton; Substrates; Transcriptome - genetics; Japan; Okinawa

Despite the importance of stony corals in many research fields related to global issues, such as marine ecology, climate change, paleoclimatogy, and metazoan evolution, very little is known about the evolutionary origin of coral skeleton formation. In order to investigate the evolution of coral biom...