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The highly cross-fertile coral species, Acropora hyacinthus and Acropora cytherea, constitute statistically distinguishable lineages.
Molecular ecology - 1 Aug 2002
Márquez L M, Van Oppen M J H, Willis B L, Reyes A, Miller D J
Abstract excerpt
A major challenge for understanding the evolutionary genetics of mass-spawning corals is to explain the maintenance of discrete morphospecies in view of high rates of interspecific fertilization in vitro and nonmonophyletic patterns in molecular phylogenies. In this study, we focused on Acropora cytherea and A. hyacinthus, which have one of the highest potentials for interspecific fertilization. Using sequences...
Topics
- Animals
- Anthozoa
- DNA
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Genetic Variation
- Haplotypes
- Introns
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phylogeny