Jarosław Stolarski

TL;DR: The phylogenetic analyses imply that the most basal extant scleractinians are azooxanthellate solitary corals from deep-water, their divergence predating that of the robust and complex corals.

TL;DR: In this paper, a layered model of skeletal growth is proposed to explain the differences between centers of calcification and fibrous structures in terms of differential growth dynamics between these regions, and a distinction between deposits of the Rapid Accretion Front (dRAF) and Thickening Deposits (TD) is proposed.

TL;DR: It is shown that two exclusively deep-sea families, the Gardineriidae and Micrabaciidae, diverged prior to the Complexa/Robusta coral split around 425 Ma, thereby pushing the evolutionary origin of scleractinian corals deep into the Paleozoic.

TL;DR: Findings of this study demonstrate that coloniality may not be a robust taxonomic character in scleractinian corals.

TL;DR: The results show that neither Psammocora nor Coscinaraea are monophyletic genera, and the high genetic distances between the species of Siderastreidae, especially between Pseudosiderastrea tayamai and SiderASTrea savignyana on one side and the other genera on the other, suggest a deep divergence in the phylogenetic structure of the family.