https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/629650
Title: | DNA barcoding reveals the coral "laboratory-rat", Stylophora pistillata encompasses multiple identities | Authors: | Keshavmurthy, Shashank Yang, Sung-Yin Alamaru, Ada Chuang, Yao-Yang Pichon, Michel Obura, David Fontana, Silvia De Palmas, Stephane Stefani, Fabrizio Benzoni, Francesca MacDonald, Angus Noreen, Annika M E Chen, Chienshun Wallace, Carden C Pillay, Ruby Moothein VIANNEY DENIS Amri, Affendi Yang Reimer, James D Mezaki, Takuma Sheppard, Charles Loya, Yossi Abelson, Avidor Mohammed, Mohammed Suleiman Baker, Andrew C Mostafavi, Pargol Ghavam Suharsono, Budiyanto A Chen, Chaolun Allen |
Keywords: | SCLERACTINIAN CORALS; MITOCHONDRIAL; PHYLOGENIES; EXTINCTION; DIVERGENCE; DIVERSITY; BOUNDARY; ANTHOZOA; CNIDARIA; HISTORY | Issue Date: | 2013 | Publisher: | NATURE RESEARCH | Journal Volume: | 3 | Journal Issue: | 1 | Source: | Scientific reports | Abstract: | Stylophora pistillata is a widely used coral "lab-rat" species with highly variable morphology and a broad biogeographic range (Red Sea to western central Pacific). Here we show, by analysing Cytochorme Oxidase I sequences, from 241 samples across this range, that this taxon in fact comprises four deeply divergent clades corresponding to the Pacific-Western Australia, Chagos-Madagascar-South Africa, Gulf of Aden-Zanzibar-Madagascar, and Red Sea-Persian/Arabian Gulf-Kenya. On the basis of the fossil record of Stylophora, these four clades diverged from one another 51.5-29.6 Mya, i.e., long before the closure of the Tethyan connection between the tropical Indo-West Pacific and Atlantic in the early Miocene (16-24 Mya) and should be recognised as four distinct species. These findings have implications for comparative ecological and/or physiological studies carried out using Stylophora pistillata as a model species, and highlight the fact that phenotypic plasticity, thought to be common in scleractinian corals, can mask significant genetic variation. |
URI: | https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/629650 | ISSN: | 2045-2322 | DOI: | 10.1038/srep01520 |
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