Mitogenomic phylogenetic analyses of Leptogorgia virgulata and Leptogorgia hebes (Anthozoa: Octocorallia) from the Gulf of Mexico provides insight on Gorgoniidae divergence between Pacific and Atlantic lineages [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2019 The use of genetics in recent years has brought to light the need to reevaluate the classification of many gorgonian octocorals. This study focuses on two Leptogorgia species—Leptogorgia virgulata and Leptogorgia hebes—from the northwestern Gulf of ...
Samantha Silvestri +3 more
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Phylogeography of Cold Water Soft Coral Alcyonium spp. (Anthozoa, Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) Between South America and the West Antarctic Peninsula [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionThe Antarctic marine environment has a unique geologic and climatic history that has contributed to the evolution of high species diversity. Given the current trend of environmental warming, understanding the history of Antarctic species is crucial for ...
Paulina Bruning +7 more
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Skimming genomes for systematics and DNA barcodes of corals. [PDF]
Ecol EvolBioinformatically pulling UCEs, exons, mitochondrial genomes, and nuclear rRNA genes from genome skimming is a viable and low‐cost option for phylogenetic studies. The mean number of UCE and exon loci extracted from the genome skimming data was 1837 ± 662 SD for octocorals and 1379 ± 476 loci for hexacorals; phylogenetic relationships were well ...
Quattrini AM +10 more
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Selection in coral mitogenomes, with insights into adaptations in the deep sea [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Corals are a dominant benthic fauna that occur across a vast range of depths from just below the ocean’s surface to the abyssopelagic zone. However, little is known about the evolutionary mechanisms that enable them to inhabit such a wide range of ...
Nina I. Ramos +4 more
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Efficacy of the 28S rDNA barcode in differentiating Caribbean octocorals [PDF]
Biodiversity Data JournalThe ecological landscape of Caribbean reefs is rapidly changing as octocorals fill the void left by declining scleractinian populations. Effective molecular barcodes are necessary to accurately identify these octocorals and monitor this shifting ...
Sloan Senofsky +3 more
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Three new species of the sea fan genus Muricea (Cnidaria, Octocorallia, Plexauridae) from the northwest region of Mexico [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2023 Twenty-one nominal species of Muricea have been reported in the Eastern Pacific with nine of them reported in the Mexican Pacific. We describe three new species of Muricea: Muricea ambarae sp. nov. and Muricea cacao sp.
Osvaldo Hernández +3 more
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Morphology and phylogenetic analysis of five deep-sea golden gorgonians (Cnidaria, Octocorallia, Chrysogorgiidae) in the Western Pacific Ocean, with the description of a new species [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2020 Explorations of seamounts in the Western Pacific Ocean and South China Sea resulted in collecting 18 specimens of golden gorgonians. Based on the morphology and the genetic analysis of mtMutS, they are described as one new species, Chrysogorgia ...
Yu Xu, Zifeng Zhan, Kuidong Xu
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Morphological and Molecular Characterization of Five Species Including Three New Species of Golden Gorgonians (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) from Seamounts in the Western Pacific [PDF]
Biology, 2021 Members of genus Iridogorgia Verrill, 1883 are the typical deep-sea megabenthos with only seven species reported. Based on an integrated morphological-molecular approach, eight sampled specimens of Iridogorgia from seamounts in the tropical Western ...
Yu Xu, Zifeng Zhan, Kuidong Xu
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A next generation approach to species delimitation reveals the role of hybridization in a cryptic species complex of corals [PDF]
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2019 Background Our ability to investigate processes shaping the evolutionary diversification of corals (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) is limited by a lack of understanding of species boundaries.
Andrea M. Quattrini +5 more
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A new gorgonian Pseudopterogorgia nanjiensis sp. nov. (Cnidaria, Octocorallia, Gorgoniidae) from the Nanji Islands, China [PDF]
ZooKeysMembers of the genus Pseudopterogorgia Kükenthal, 1919 are widely distributed in shallow water of the Indo-West Pacific. During an investigation of benthic biodiversity in the subtidal zone surrounding the Nanji Islands in the East China Sea, two ...
Tingzai Sun +5 more
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