2013年
DNA barcoding reveals the coral "laboratory-rat", Stylophora pistillata encompasses multiple identities.
Scientific reports
- 巻
- 3
- 号
- 開始ページ
- 1520
- 終了ページ
- 1520
- 記述言語
- 英語
- 掲載種別
- 研究論文(学術雑誌)
- DOI
- 10.1038/srep01520
- 出版者・発行元
- NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
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.
- リンク情報
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- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/srep01520
- PubMed
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23519209
- PubMed Central
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3605610
- Web of Science
- https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000316544400003&DestApp=WOS_CPL
- ID情報
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- DOI : 10.1038/srep01520
- ISSN : 2045-2322
- PubMed ID : 23519209
- PubMed Central 記事ID : PMC3605610
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000316544400003