Conventional taxonomy obscures deep divergence between Pacific and Atlantic corals

Nature

Volumn 427, Issue 6977, 2004, Pages 832-835

  Fukami, Hironobu ^a,b   Budd, Ann F ^c   Paulay, Gustav ^d   Solé Cava, Antonio ^e   Chen, Chaolun Allen ^f   Iwao, Kenji ^g   Knowlton, Nancy ^a,b  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^f INSTITUTE OF CELLULAR AND ORGANISMIC BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^g Akajima Marine Science Laboratory   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; GENES;

CORAL GENERA; EVOLUTIONARY DISTINCTIVENESS;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

CORAL; DIVERGENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; CORAL; CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MONOPHYLY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA;

EID: 1542319090     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02339     Document Type: Article

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