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| Title |
Comparison between Colony Morphology and Molecular Phylogeny in the Caribbean Scleractinian Coral Genus Madracis
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, August 2013
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0071287 |
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| Authors |
Maxim V. Filatov, Pedro R. Frade, Rolf P. M. Bak, Mark J. A. Vermeij, Jaap A. Kaandorp |
| Abstract |
A major challenge in coral biology is to find the most adequate and phylogenetically informative characters that allow for distinction of closely related coral species. Therefore, data on corallite morphology and genetic data are often combined to increase phylogenetic resolution. In this study, we address the question to which degree genetic data and quantitative information on overall coral colony morphologies identify similar groupings within closely related morphospecies of the Caribbean coral genus Madracis. Such comparison of phylogenies based on colony morphology and genetic data will also provide insight into the degree to which genotype and phenotype overlap. We have measured morphological features of three closely related Caribbean coral species of the genus Madracis (M. formosa, M. decactis and M. carmabi). Morphological differences were then compared with phylogenies of the same species based on two nuclear DNA markers, i.e. ATPSα and SRP54. Our analysis showed that phylogenetic trees based on (macroscopical) morphological properties and phylogenetic trees based on DNA markers ATPSα and SRP54 are partially similar indicating that morphological characteristics at the colony level provide another axis, in addition to commonly used features such as corallite morphology and ecological information, to delineate genetically different coral species. We discuss this new method that allows systematic quantitative comparison between morphological characteristics of entire colonies and genetic data. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 65 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 1 | 2% |
| Sweden | 1 | 2% |
| South Africa | 1 | 2% |
| Jamaica | 1 | 2% |
| Spain | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 60 | 92% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 17 | 26% |
| Student > Master | 13 | 20% |
| Researcher | 10 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 3 | 5% |
| Other | 7 | 11% |
| Unknown | 7 | 11% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 28 | 43% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 11 | 17% |
| Environmental Science | 7 | 11% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3 | 5% |
| Computer Science | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 5 | 8% |
| Unknown | 9 | 14% |
Attention Score in Context
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