Examination of the Montastraea annularis species complex (Cnidaria: Scleractinia) using ITS and COI sequences

Marine Biotechnology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 89-97

  Medina, Monica ^a,b   Weil, Ernesto ^a,c   Szmant, Alina M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

COI; ITS; Montastraea; Speciation

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; GENOME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RNA ANALYSIS;

MONTASTRAEA FAVEOLATA; MONTASTRAEA FRANKSI; MONTASTREA ANNULARIS;

EID: 0032810241     PISSN: 14362228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00011756     Document Type: Article

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