DNA barcoding reveals the coral "laboratory-rat'', Stylophora pistillata encompasses multiple identities
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| Date | 2013-03 | ||||||||||||
| Language | English | ||||||||||||
| Author(s) | Keshavmurthy Shashank1, Yang Sung-Yin1, 2, Alamaru Ada3, Chuang Yao-Yang1, Pichon Michel4, 5, Obura David6, Fontana Silvia1, 7, 8, de Palmas Stephane1, Stefani Fabrizio9, Benzoni Francesca7, Macdonald Angus10, Noreen Annika M. E.11, Chen Chienshum12, Wallace Carden C.4, Pillay Ruby Moothein13, Denis Vianney1, Amri Affendi Yang14, 15, Reimer James D.16, Mezaki Takuma17, Sheppard Charles18, Loya Yossi3, Abelson Avidor3, Mohammed Mohammed Suleiman19, Baker Andrew C.20, Mostafavi Pargol Ghavam21, Suharsono Budiyanto A.22, Chen Chaolun Allen1, 8, 23 | ||||||||||||
| Affiliation(s) | 1 : Acad Sinica, Biodivers Res Ctr, Taipei 115, Taiwan. 2 : Univ Ryukyus, Grad Sch Engn & Sci, Okinawa 9030213, Japan. 3 : Tel Aviv Univ, George S Wise Fac Life Sci, Dept Zool, IL-69978 Tel Aviv, Israel. 4 : Queensland Museum, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia. 5 : James Cook Univ, Douglas, Qld, Australia. 6 : CORDIO, Mombasa, Kenya. 7 : Univ Milano Bicocca, Dept Biotechnol & Biosci, I-20126 Milan, Italy. 8 : Acad Sinica, Taiwan Int Grad Program TIGP Biodivers, Taipei 115, Taiwan. 9 : Natl Res Council IRSA CNR, Water Res Inst, I-20861 Brugherio, MB, Italy. 10 : Univ KwaZulu Natal, Sch Life Sci, ZA-4001 Durban, South Africa. 11 : So Cross Univ, Sch Environm Sci & Management, Coral Reef Res Ctr, Lismore, NSW 2480, Australia. 12 : Taiwan Ocean Res Inst, Natl Appl Res Labs, Kaohsiung 852, Taiwan. 13 : Mauritius Oceanog Inst, France Ctr, Quatre Bornes, Mauritius. 14 : Univ Malaya, Inst Biol Sci, Fac Sci, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia. 15 : Univ Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia. 16 : Univ Ryukyus, Rising Star Program, TRO SIS, Okinawa 9030213, Japan. 17 : Biol Inst Kuroshio, Kochi, Japan. 18 : Univ Warwick, Sch Life Sci, Coventry CV4 7AL, W Midlands, England. 19 : Univ Dar Es Salaam, Inst Marine Sci, Zanzibar, Tanzania. 20 : Univ Miami, Rosenstiel Sch Marine & Atmospher Sci, Div Marine Biol & Fisheries, Miami, FL 33149 USA. 21 : 3 Islamic Azad Univ, Sci & Res Branch, Grad Sch Marine Sci & Technol, Dept Marine Biol, Tehran, Iran. 22 : Indonesian Inst Sci LIPI, Res Ctr Oceanog, Ancol Timur Jakarta, Indonesia. 23 : Natl Taiwan Univ, Inst Oceanog, Taipei 106, Taiwan. |
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| Source | Scientific Reports (2045-2322) (Nature Publishing Group), 2013-03 , Vol. 3 , P. - | ||||||||||||
| DOI | 10.1038/srep01520 | ||||||||||||
| WOS© Times Cited | 81 | ||||||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||||||
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