Examination of species boundaries in the Acropora cervicornis group (Scleractinia, Cnidaria) using nuclear DNA sequence analyses

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1363-1373

  Van Oppen, Madeleine J H ^a   Willis, B L ^a   Van Vugt, H W J A ^a   Miller, D J ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acropora; Caribbean; Coral; Hybridization; Nuclear intron; rDNA ITS

Indexed keywords

CARIBBEAN; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIANCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HYBRID; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; INTROGRESSION; INTRON; MORPHOLOGY; RIBOSOMAL DNA; SPECIES;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CNIDARIA; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0033824430     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294X.2000.01010.x     Document Type: Article

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