CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing in a reef-building coral

Significance Coral reefs are biodiversity hotspots of great ecological, economic, and aesthetic importance. Their global decline due to climate change and other anthropogenic stressors has increased the urgency to understand the molecular bases of various aspects of coral biology, including the interactions with algal symbionts and responses to stress. Recent genomic and transcriptomic studies have yielded many hypotheses about genes that may be...