Montastraea cavernosa corallite structure demonstrates distinct morphotypes across shallow and mesophotic depth zones in the Gulf of Mexico

• Michael S. Studivan ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: studivanms@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Florida Atlantic University, Fort Pierce, Florida, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3771-0415

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• Gillian Milstein,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

  Affiliation Corning School of Ocean Studies, Maine Maritime Academy, Castine, Maine, United States of America

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• Joshua D. Voss

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Florida Atlantic University, Fort Pierce, Florida, United States of America

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