Host shift and speciation in a coral-feeding nudibranch

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1606, 2007, Pages 111-119

  Faucci, Anuschka ^a   Toonen, Robert J ^b   Hadfield, Michael G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryptic species; Host shift; Nudibranchs; Phestilla; Speciation

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADAPTATION; CHEMICAL CUE; CORAL; CRYPSIS; GASTROPOD; HOST PREFERENCE; HOST SPECIFICITY; PHYLOGENETICS; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; CORAL; GASTROPOD; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC MARKER; GUAM; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NATURAL HOST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PALAU; PHESTILLA MINOR; PHYLOGENY; PORITES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TUBASTREA; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA GENE;

CAROLINE ISLANDS; GUAM; HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; MARIANA ISLANDS; MICRONESIA; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PALAU; UNITED STATES;

ANTHOZOA; GASTROPODA; GONIOPORA; INVERTEBRATA; NUDIBRANCHIA; OPISTHOBRANCHIA; PHESTILLA; PHESTILLA MINOR; PORITES; TUBASTRAEA;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GASTROPODA; GENES, RRNA; GENETIC SPECIATION; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 39049182756     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3685     Document Type: Article

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