The Gulf: a young sea in decline.
- C. Sheppard, Mohsen Al-Husiani, K. Zainal
- Environmental ScienceMarine Pollution Bulletin
- 2010
A Holistic Approach to Marine Eco-Systems Biology
- E. Karsenti, S. Acinas, P. Wincker
- Environmental SciencePLoS Biology
- 1 October 2011
The structure, robustness, and dynamics of ocean plankton ecosystems remain poorly understood due to sampling, analysis, and computational limitations. The Tara Oceans consortium organizes…
Debating phylogenetic relationships of the scleractinian Psammocora: molecular and morphological evidences
- F. Benzoni, F. Stefani, J. Stolarski, M. Pichon, G. Mitta, P. Galli
- Biology
- 2007
The results show that neither Psammocora nor Coscinaraea are monophyletic genera, and the high genetic distances between the species of Siderastreidae, especially between Pseudosiderastrea tayamai and SiderASTrea savignyana on one side and the other genera on the other, suggest a deep divergence in the phylogenetic structure of the family.
A phylogeny reconstruction of the Dendrophylliidae (Cnidaria, Scleractinia) based on molecular and micromorphological criteria, and its ecological implications
- R. Arrigoni, Yuko F. Kitano, F. Benzoni
- Biology
- 1 November 2014
A robust molecular phylogeny reconstruction based on two mitochondrial markers (COI and the intergenic spacer between COI and 16S) and one nuclear (rDNA) is used as basis to compare micromorphogical and microstructural character states within the Dendrophylliidae.
The name game: morpho‐molecular species boundaries in the genus Psammocora (Cnidaria, Scleractinia)
- F. Benzoni, F. Stefani, M. Pichon, P. Galli
- Biology
- 1 November 2010
The phylogenetic relationships of a representative subset of specimens were reconstructed based on rDNA and COI, thus allowing a direct link between morphologic and genetic information.
Taxonomic classification of the reef coral families Merulinidae, Montastraeidae, and Diploastraeidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia)
- Danwei Huang, F. Benzoni, H. Fukami, N. Knowlton, N. Smith, A. Budd
- Biology
- 1 June 2014
The integrative classification system proposed here will form the framework for more accurate biodiversity estimates and guide the taxonomic placement of extinct species.
Systematics of the coral genus Craterastrea (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Scleractinia) and description of a new family through combined morphological and molecular analyses
- F. Benzoni, R. Arrigoni, F. Stefani, J. Stolarski
- Biology
- 1 December 2012
The genus Craterastrea is restored, the new family Coscinaraeidae is described due to its deep evolutionary divergence from the Siderastreidae, and revised diagnoses of the four genera in the family are provided.
DNA barcoding reveals the coral “laboratory-rat”, Stylophora pistillata encompasses multiple identities
- S. Keshavmurthy, Sung-Yin Yang, Chaolun Allen Chen
- Environmental Science, BiologyScientific Reports
- 22 March 2013
It is shown that Stylophora pistillata comprises four deeply divergent clades corresponding to the Pacific-Western Australia, Chagos-Madagascar-South Africa, Gulf of Aden-Zanzibar-Mad Madagascar, and Red Sea-Persian/Arabian Gulf-Kenya, and should be recognised as four distinct species.
Comparison of morphological and genetic analyses reveals cryptic divergence and morphological plasticity in Stylophora (Cnidaria, Scleractinia)
- F. Stefani, F. Benzoni, S.-Y. Yang, M. Pichon, P. Galli, C. A. Chen
- Biology, Environmental ScienceCoral reefs
- 16 July 2011
The combined use of morphological and molecular approaches, so far proved to be a powerful tool for the re-delineation of species boundaries in corals, provided novel evidence of cryptic divergence in this group of marine metazoans.
Taxonomic classification of the reef coral family Lobophylliidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia)
- Danwei Huang, R. Arrigoni, A. Budd
- Environmental Science
- 1 November 2016
The authors thank M. Baird and M. Dreyfus (IRD) for collections in New Caledonia, and the Niugini Biodiversity Expedition and P. Dutrieux (CREOCEAN) and C. Chaineau (Total SA) for samples from Yemen.
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