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(2013) DNA barcoding reveals the coral “laboratory-rat”, Stylophora pistillata encompasses multiple identities. Scientific Reports, Volume 3 (Number 1520). Article no. 1520. doi:10.1038/srep01520
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep01520
Abstract
Stylophora pistillata is a widely used coral “lab-rat” species with highly variable morphology and a broad biogeographic range (Red Sea to western central Pacific). Here we show, by analysing Cytochorme Oxidase I sequences, from 241 samples across this range, that this taxon in fact comprises four deeply divergent clades corresponding to the Pacific-Western Australia, Chagos-Madagascar-South Africa, Gulf of Aden-Zanzibar-Madagascar, and Red Sea-Persian/Arabian Gulf-Kenya. On the basis of the fossil record of Stylophora, these four clades diverged from one another 51.5-29.6 Mya, i.e., long before the closure of the Tethyan connection between the tropical Indo-West Pacific and Atlantic in the early Miocene (16–24 Mya) and should be recognised as four distinct species. These findings have implications for comparative ecological and/or physiological studies carried out using Stylophora pistillata as a model species, and highlight the fact that phenotypic plasticity, thought to be common in scleractinian corals, can mask significant genetic variation.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science > Life Sciences (2010- ) | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Marine animals -- Genetics, Marine organisms -- Genetics, Reef organisms -- Genetics, Marine biology -- Genetics, Marine biology -- Classification, Genetics, Species | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Scientific Reports | ||||
| Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group | ||||
| ISSN: | 2045-2322 | ||||
| Official Date: | 2013 | ||||
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| Volume: | Volume 3 | ||||
| Number: | Number 1520 | ||||
| Page Range: | Article no. 1520 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1038/srep01520 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||
| Funder: | Guo jia ke xue wei yuan hui [National Science Council (Taiwan)] , Zhong yang yan jiu yuan [Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan)] |
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