An alternative to ITS, a hypervariable, single-copy nuclear intron in corals, and its use in detecting cryptic species within the octocoral genus Carijoa

Coral Reefs

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 323-336

  Concepcion, G T ^a   Crepeau, M W ^a   Wagner, D ^a   Kahng, S E ^b   Toonen, R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Degenerate primer; Octocoral; Phylogeography; Population structure; Scleractinia; Variable sequence

Indexed keywords

CLONE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORAL; CRYPSIS; DETECTION METHOD; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; TAXONOMY;

ANTHOZOA; CARIJOA RIISEI; POCILLOPORA; SCLERACTINIA;

EID: 42549123193     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-007-0323-x     Document Type: Article

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