Interest

Habitat forming species, impacted by warming induced mass mortality events.

Distribution and origin of the sample

Mediterranean Sea and neighboring Atlantic Ocean. Reference genome from one colony from Cova de la Vaca in The Montgrí, Medes Islands and Baix Ter Natural Park (Catalunya, Spain).

Principal investigator

Jean-Baptiste Ledoux, Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR).

Joaquim Garrabou, Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC).

Tyler Alioto. Centre Nacional d'Anàlisi Genòmica, Cenre for Genomic Regulation (CNAG-CRG).

Marta Gut. Centre Nacional d'Anàlisi Genòmica, Cenre for Genomic Regulation (CNAG-CRG).

Funding

MERCES (H2020-n°689518).

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