Existence of intra-colonial paralogues of the ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) impedes studies of intra-colonial genetic variation in the scleractinian coral Diploastrea heliopora (Lamark 1816)

Raffles Bulletin of Zoology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 485-489

  Lam, Kevin K Y ^a   Loo, Adrian H B ^a   Todd, Peter A ^a   Chew, Fook Tim ^a   Chou, Loke Ming ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Diploastrea heliopora; Intra colonial genetic variation; Paralogue; Singapore

Indexed keywords

ANTHOZOA; DIPLOASTREA HELIOPORA; SCLERACTINIA;

EID: 49749086903     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02172445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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