Deep-sea origin and in-situ diversification of chrysogorgiid octocorals. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 The diversity, ubiquity and prevalence in deep waters of the octocoral family Chrysogorgiidae Verrill, 1883 make it noteworthy as a model system to study radiation and diversification in the deep sea.
Eric Pante +6 more
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Molecular phylogeny and divergence time estimates in pennatulaceans (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Pennatulacea) [PDF]
Scientia Marina, 2020 Pennatulaceans are an important component of benthic marine communities usually related to soft bottoms. Despite their important ecological role, as yet little is known about their origin and divergence time.
Francisco J. García-Cárdenas +2 more
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New Records of the Cryptogenic Soft Coral Genus Stragulum (Tubiporidae) from the Eastern Caribbean and the Persian Gulf [PDF]
Diversity, 2022 The monotypic soft coral genus Stragulum van Ofwegen and Haddad, 2011 (Octocorallia: Malacalcyonacea: Tubiporidae) was originally described from Brazil, southwest Atlantic Ocean.
Kaveh Samimi-Namin +5 more
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A new species of Ovabunda (Octocorallia, Xeniidae) from the Andaman Sea, Thailand with notes on the biogeography of this genus [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2014 A survey of xeniid octocorals was carried out in the waters off Southwestern Thailand in September, 2007. Microscopic investigation of the colonies revealed that three specimens belonged to the genus Ovabunda. Gross morphological examination is presented
Michael Janes +2 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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Resurrection of the sea pen genus Ptilella Gray, 1870 and description of Ptilella grayi n. sp. from the NE Atlantic (Octocorallia: Pennatulacea) [PDF]
Scientia Marina, 2019 The order Pennatulacea covers a group of specialized and morphologically distinct octocorals found in all oceans from intertidal areas to more than 6000 m in depth.
Francisco J. García-Cárdenas +2 more
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A new genus and species of octocoral with aragonite calcium-carbonate skeleton (Octocorallia, Helioporacea) from Okinawa, Japan [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2015 A new genus and species of octocoral with a calcium-carbonate skeleton, Nanipora kamurai sp. n., is described from a shallow coral reef in Okinawa, Japan.
Yu Miyazaki, James D. Reimer
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The deepest record of the octocoral Acanthogorgia from the Red Sea [PDF]
Frontiers in Marine ScienceOctocorals (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) have a global distribution and form benthic assemblages along the depth gradient, from shallow to deep waters. They often occur below SCUBA diving limits, where they can become dominant habitat builders and aggregate ...
Laura Macrina +11 more
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Mitochondrial RNA processing in absence of tRNA punctuations in octocorals. [PDF]
BMC Mol Biol, 2017 BackgroundMitogenome diversity is staggering among early branching animals with respect to size, gene density, content and order, and number of tRNA genes, especially in cnidarians.
Shimpi GG +3 more
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Morphology and phylogenetic analysis of two new deep-sea species of Chrysogorgia (Cnidaria, Octocorallia, Chrysogorgiidae) from Kocebu Guyot (Magellan seamounts) in the Pacific Ocean [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2019 Two new species of Chrysogorgia Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 collected from Kocebu Guyot in the Magellan seamounts of the Pacific Ocean are described and illustrated: Chrysogorgia ramificans sp. nov.
Yu Xu, Yang Li, Zifeng Zhan, Kuidong Xu
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