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Phylogeography of the red coral (Corallium rubrum): inferences on the evolutionary history of a temperate gorgonian.
Genetica - 1 Jul 2011
Aurelle D, Ledoux J-B, Rocher C, Borsa P, Chenuil A, Féral J-P
Abstract excerpt
The red coral Corallium rubrum (Cnidaria, Octocorallia) is an exploited, long-lived sessile species from the Mediterranean Sea and the adjacent coastline in the Atlantic Ocean. Surveys of genetic variation using microsatellites have shown that populations of C. rubrum are characterized by strong differentiation at the local scale but a study of the phylogeography of this species was still lacking. Here, we used...
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