The Origins of Modern Corals
- 9 March 2001
- journal article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 291 (5510), 1913-1914
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1056632
Abstract
Modern corals play an important role in marine processes and the global carbon cycle because of their prodigious ability to form calcium carbonate deposits. In their Perspective, [Stanley and Fautin][1] discuss the controversy surrounding the evolution of modern corals. They suggest that lineages may have lost and reacquired skeletons repeatedly as conditions favorable to calcification waned and waxed. [1]: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/291/5510/1913Keywords
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