Robert J. Toonen

TL;DR: A quick and simple, gel-based restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) method for the identification of all six Pocillopora species occurring in Hawai‘i by amplifying either the mtORF region, a newly discovered histone region, or both, and then using the restriction enzymes targeting diagnostic sequences the authors unambiguously identify each species.

TL;DR: In this article, a coral-eating crown-of-thorns sea star, Acanthaster planci, was examined from Johnston Atoll and 12 locations across the Hawaiian Archipelago.

TL;DR: Five degenerate primer pairs are developed for the amplification and sequencing of two noncoding regions found in the mitochondrial genome of corals that appear to have equivalent levels of variability to the most variable of previously published coral mitochondrial loci, but work in a wider variety of taxa.

TL;DR: This study demonstrates consistent signatures of adaptation in growth and stress resistance in corals from naturally thermally variable habitats, suggesting that differences in the amount of thermal variability may be an important contributor to adaptive differentiation in reef-building corals.