Unknown to Known: Advancing Knowledge of Coral Gene Function

Coral reefs are under threat from warming oceans. Understanding the basis of the thermal stress response is therefore critical to devising strategies to protect corals and the diverse ecosystem services they provide. Developing a small number of coral model systems will be a necessary step to focus multiomics and functional genetics research to gain a mechanistic understanding of coral holobiont biology. The recent development of CRISPR/Cas9...