Global coral genomic vulnerability explains recent reef losses
Oliver Selmoni, Phillip A Cleves, Moises Exposito-Alonso · 2025
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Oliver Selmoni, Phillip Cleves, and Moises Exposito-Alonso map coral heat adaptation in this 2025 paper. Reef building corals are collapsing as oceans warm. The team built a genomic database of 595 Acropora samples from many regions, from the Great Barrier Reef to the Persian Gulf. Gene environment links were searched across species.
Different species showed parallel heat adaptation signals in the same genomic regions. Those regions hold heat shock and symbiosis genes. The authors projected where heat adapted types live now and will spread. Reefs poor in adapted types are declining fastest, marking genomic vulnerability. Adapted types should spread until about 2040, but through mass death of the rest. Diversity loss could then block later adaptation.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Oliver Selmoni, Phillip A Cleves, Moises Exposito-Alonso |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 62 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |