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Stony coral
Researchers at the University of Haifa, the Centre for Genomic Regulation (Barcelona), and the Weizmann Institute have managed to sequence – for the first time – the genetic program of each cell type in stony corals.
This allows researchers to understand exactly which cells take part in key processes in the coralâs development, such as skeleton formation, the immune system, and so forth.
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The joint study was published in the prestigious journal
Cell.
âCoral reefs play a critical role in the ecosystem in oceans and seas, since they provide a habitat for around 25 percent of the animals in the sea and build the largest biogenic structures in the world,” explained Dr Tali Mass (one of the authors of the study), head of the Coral Biomineralization and Physiology Laboratory within the Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences at the University of Haifa.