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SUBMITTER: Yuyama I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6637933 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yuyama Ikuko I Higuchi Tomihiko T
PeerJ 20190715
Although coral skeletons generally comprise aragonite crystals, changes in the molar Mg/Ca ratio (<i>m</i>Mg/Ca) in seawater result in the incorporation of calcite crystals. The formation mechanism of aragonite and calcite crystals in the scleractinian coral <i>Acropora tenuis</i> was therefore investigated by RNA-seq analysis, using early growth stage calcite (<i>m</i>Mg/Ca = 0.5) and aragonite (<i>m</i>Mg/Ca = 5.2)-based corals. As a result, 1,287 genes were up-regulated and 748 down-regulated ...[more]