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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Comparing molecular variation to morphological species designations in the deep-sea coral Narella reveals new insights into seamount coral ranges. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Recent studies have countered the paradigm of seamount isolation, confounding conservation efforts at a critical time. Efforts to study deep-sea corals, one of the dominant taxa on seamounts, to understand seamount connectivity, are hampered by a lack of
Amy R Baco, Stephen D Cairns
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Megabenthic Diversity Patterns on a Seamount in the Philippine Sea: Implications for Conservation Planning on the Kyushu-Palau Ridge. [PDF]
Ecol EvolABSTRACT The oligotrophic tropical western Pacific region is characterized by a high density of seamounts, with the Kyushu‐Palau Ridge (KPR) being the longest seamount chain here. Effective spatial management plans for seamount ecosystems necessitate an understanding of distribution patterns and key environmental factors influencing benthic communities.
Lu X +6 more
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Global Cold-Water Coral Biodiversity Redistribution Under Projected Climate Change. [PDF]
Glob Chang BiolCold‐water corals are key habitat providers in the world's oceans, yet their global distribution, diversity patterns, and vulnerability to climate change remain poorly understood. Our study mapped the global distribution of 741 cold‐water coral species and showed that while the overall coral biome may persist in the future, many species will shift ...
Fragkopoulou E +4 more
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Primnoidae (Gorgonacea) de Nouvelle-Calédonie
Bulletin Du Muséum National D'histoire Naturelle Section A, Zoologie, Biologie Et écologie Animales, 1988 Frederick M. Bayer, Jeffrey Stefani
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Phylogeography of Cold Water Soft Coral Alcyonium spp. (Anthozoa, Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) Between South America and the West Antarctic Peninsula. [PDF]
Ecol EvolOur study on genetic diversity in Alcyonium species across the southern South American‐Antarctic region revealed significant genetic divergence, indicating long‐term persistence and adaptation to varied environmental conditions since their diversification approximately 41.1 million years ago, coinciding with the opening of the Drake Passage and the ...
Bruning P +7 more
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Hidden in Plain Sight: Integrative Taxonomy Discovers Two New Species of Digitate Soft Corals in the Urban Waters of China's Greater Bay Area. [PDF]
Ecol EvolThis article identified two novel soft coral species (Parasphaerasclera dimorpha sp. nov. and Paraminabea inflata sp. nov.) from urbanized South China Sea waters, distinct in morphology and genetics. Our study highlighted undocumented coral diversity in the hyper‐urbanized Greater Bay Area, emphasizing the need for cryptic species documentation in ...
Li YX, Ng JW, Loke H, Liu L, Qiu JW.
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Primnoidae (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) of the SW Indian Ocean: new species, genus revisions and systematics [PDF]
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2017 Michelle Taylor, Rogers A D
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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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An illustrated key to the species of the genus Narella (Cnidaria, Octocorallia, Primnoidae)
ZooKeysStephen Cairns, Michelle Taylor
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