Species delimitation of common reef corals in the genus Pocillopora using nucleotide sequence phylogenies, population genetics and symbiosis ecology

• Published in: Molecular ecology Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 311 - 325
• Main Authors: PINZÓN, JORGE H., LaJEUNESSE, TODD C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.01.2011
• Subjects: Animals; Anthozoa; Anthozoa - classification; Anthozoa - genetics; Atolls; Base Sequence; biogeography; branches; classification; Climate change; Coral Reefs; coral systematics; corals; Dinoflagellida; Dinoflagellida - classification; Dinoflagellida - genetics; Dinoflagellida - physiology; DNA, Chloroplast; DNA, Mitochondrial; DNA, Ribosomal; DNA, Ribosomal Spacer; Ecological research; Galapagos Islands; Genetic Markers; Genetic Variation; Genetics; Global warming; Hybridization; internal transcribed spacers; Marine; Marine ecology; Microsatellite Repeats; Molecular biology; Open Reading Frames; Pacific Ocean; Panama; Phylogeny; physiology; Pocillopora; Polymerase Chain Reaction; Population genetics; reciprocal monophyly; ribosomal DNA; Sequence Analysis, DNA; species boundaries; Species Specificity; stress response; Symbiodinium; Symbiosis; taxonomy; Thermal stress; Tropical Eastern Pacific; Pacific Ocean; Galapagos Islands; Panama; ISE, Mexico, Revillagigedo Is., Clipperton Atoll; ISE, Ecuador, Galapagos Is; IE, Pacific; I, Indo-Pacific; ISE, Panama; IS, Tropical Pacific

Stony corals in the genus Pocillopora are among the most common and widely distributed of Indo‐Pacific corals and, as such, are often the subject of physiological and ecological research. In the far Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP), they are major constituents of shallow coral communities, exhibiting...