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Venturing in coral larval chimerism: a compact functional domain with fostered genotypic diversity.
Scientific reports - 13 Jan 2016
Rinkevich Baruch, Shaish Lee, Douek Jacob, Ben-Shlomo Rachel
Abstract excerpt
The globally distributed coral species Pocillopora damicornis is known to release either sexual or asexual derived planula-larvae in various reef locations. Using microsatellite loci as markers, we documented the release of asexually derived chimeric larvae (CL), originating from mosaicked maternal colonies that were also chimeras, at Thai and Philippines reefs. The CL, each presenting different combinations of...
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