Article
Variation in the ribosomal internal transcribed spacers and 5.8S rDNA among five species of Acropora (Cnidaria; Scleractinia): patterns of variation consistent with reticulate evolution.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 May 1997
Odorico D M, Miller D J
Abstract excerpt
The ITS sequences of Acropora spp. are the shortest so far identified in any metazoan and are among the shortest seen in eukaryotes; ITS1 was 70-80 bases, and ITS2 was 100-112 bases. The ITS sequences were also highly variable, but base composition and secondary structure prediction indicate that...
Topics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Cnidaria
- DNA Primers
- DNA, Ribosomal
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genetic Variation
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Nucleic Acid Conformation
- Phylogeny
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- RNA, Ribosomal, 5.8S
- Species Specificity