A deep-sea slant on the molecular phylogeny of the Scleractinia

Goff-Vitry, Marie C. Le; Rogers, Alex D.; Baglow, D

doi:10.1016/s1055-7903(03)00162-3

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“…Nearly every genetic locus tested to date supports these latter groupings. The 28S rDNA (Chen et al 1995;Cuif et al 2003), 16S rDNA Palumbi 1996, 1997;Le Goff-Vitry et al 2004;Kitahara et al 2010a), 12S rDNA (Chen et al 2002), combined 16S rDNA and 28S rDNA (Romano and Cairns 2000), combined cytochrome b and COI, as well as β-tubulin (Fukami et al 2008) all support the split between the "complex" and "robust" clades. The sister relationship between the "basal" clade and the rest of Scleractinia has been recovered by 12S rDNA, COI, 28S rDNA (Kitahara et al 2010b;Stolarski et al 2011), and most other mitochondrial loci (Huang 2012;Huang andRoy 2013, 2015;Kitahara et al 2014;Lin et al 2014).…”

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“…The second limitation concerns traits that may evolve at distinct rates in different lineages. Not surprisingly, the small number of "reliable" macromorphological characters, as indicated by Cairns (2001), and the uncertain impact of environmental variables on skeletal morphology have severely hampered attempts to infer relationships among scleractinian suborders and families (Romano and Cairns 2000;Stolarski and Roniewicz 2001;Le Goff-Vitry et al 2004;Fukami et al 2008). As such, evolutionary hypotheses based on morphological characters have resulted in several different taxonomic schemes (e.g., Vaughan and Wells 1943;Alloiteau 1952;Wells 1956;Chevalier and Beauvais 1987;Veron 1995; for a review of the first four schemes, see Stolarski and Roniewicz 2001).…”

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The New Systematics of Scleractinia: Integrating Molecular and Morphological Evidence

Kitahara

Fukami

Benzoni

et al. 2016

The Cnidaria, Past, Present and Future

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The taxonomy of scleractinian corals has traditionally been established based on morphology at the "macro" scale since the time of Carl Linnaeus. Taxa described using macromorphology are useful for classifying the myriad of growth forms, yet new molecular and small-scale morphological data have challenged the natural historicity of many familiar groups, motivating multiple revisions at every taxonomic level. In this synthesis of scleractinian phylogenetics and systematics, we present the most current state of affairs in the field covering both zooxanthellate and azooxanthellate taxa, focusing on the progress of our phylogenetic understanding of this ecologically-significant clade, which today is supported by rich sets of molecular and morphological data. It is worth noting that when DNA sequence data was first used to investigate coral evolution in the 1990s, there was no concerted effort to use phylogenetic information to delineate problematic taxa. In the last decade, however, the incompatibility of coral taxonomy with their evolutionary history has become much clearer, as molecular analyses for corals have been improved upon technically and expanded to all major scleractinian clades, shallow and deep. We describe these methodological developments and summarise new taxonomic revisions based on robust inferences of the coral tree of life. Despite these efforts, there are still unresolved sections of the scleractinian phylogeny, resulting in uncertain taxonomy for several taxa. We highlight these and propose a way forward for the taxonomy of corals.

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Section: Integrating Molecular and Morphological Evidencementioning

confidence: 92%

Section: Integrating Molecular and Morphological Evidencementioning

confidence: 99%

The New Systematics of Scleractinia: Integrating Molecular and Morphological Evidence

Kitahara

Fukami

Benzoni

et al. 2016

The Cnidaria, Past, Present and Future

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100

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“…Using the primers developed by Le Goff-Vitry et al (2004) (LP16SF 5 -TTGACCGGTATGAATGGTGT and LP16SR 5 -TCCCCAGGGTAACTTTTATC) a fragment of the mitochondrial 16S rRNA ranging between 290 to 303 bp according to the species being amplified. Reactions were carried out in 50 µl, with 5 µl of 10× PCR Buffer, 5 µl of 2 mM dNTP, 3 µl of 25 mM MgCl2, 2 µl of each primer (10 mM each), 0.3 µl of Taq polymerase, and 5 µl of template.…”

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“…However, recent molecular studies (Romano & Palumbi, 1996;Romano & Cairns, 2000;Le Goff-Vitry et al, 2004) suggested that the family is unnatural or polyphyletic, having representatives grouping with the two big scleractinian clades: the robust and complex corals, in more than two separated clades.…”

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Monophyletic origin ofCaryophyllia(Scleractinia, Caryophylliidae), with descriptions of six new species

Kitahara

Cairns

Miller

2010

Systematics and Biodiversity

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The genus Caryophyllia Lamarck, 1816 is the most diverse genus within the azooxanthellate Scleractinia comprising 66 Recent species and a purported 195 nominal fossil species. Examination of part of the deep-sea scleractinian collection made by the Paris Museum off New Caledonia and part of the material collected by CSIRO off Australian waters revealed the occurrence of 23 species of Caryophyllia, of which six are new to science. All new records, including the new species, are described, and synonyms, distribution, type locality, type material and illustration are provided for each species. An identification key to all Recent species of Caryophyllia is presented. In addition, the validity of the genus Caryophyllia was investigated by phylogenetic analyses of a dataset consisting of partial mitochondrial 16S rRNA sequences from 12 species assigned to this genus together with seven species representing some of the most morphologically similar caryophylliid genera, and 14 non-caryophyllid species representing 14 scleractinian families. Irrespective of the method of analysis employed, all of the Caryophyllia species formed a well-supported clade together with Dasmosmilia lymani and Crispatotrochus rugosus. Although based on a subset of the Recent Caryophyllia species, these results are consistent with Caryophyllia being a valid genus, but call for a reexamination of Dasmosmilia and Crispatotrochus.

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“…To date, the majority of molecular phylogenetic works on deep-sea organisms focus on phylogeographic patterns or population genetics of single species (e.g. Creasey & Rogers 1999;Etter et al 2005;Zardus et al 2006;Raupach et al 2007), and only a few studies analyse deep-sea colonization patterns and events of more than one species (Shank et al 1999;Le Goff-Vitry et al 2004;Raupach et al 2004;Knudsen et al 2007).…”

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Multiple origins of deep-sea Asellota (Crustacea: Isopoda) from shallow waters revealed by molecular data

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The Asellota are a highly variable group of Isopoda with many species in freshwater and marine shallowwater environments. However, in the deep sea, they show their most impressive radiation with a broad range of astonishing morphological adaptations and bizarre body forms. Nevertheless, the evolution and phylogeny of the deep-sea Asellota are poorly known because of difficulties in scoring morphological characters. In this study, the molecular phylogeny of the Asellota is evaluated for 15 marine shallowwater species and 101 deep-sea species, using complete 18S and partial 28S rDNA gene sequences. Our molecular data support the monophyly of most deep-sea families and give evidence for a multiple colonization of the deep sea by at least four major lineages of asellote isopods. According to our molecular data, one of these lineages indicates an impressive radiation in the deep sea. Furthermore, the present study rejects the monophyly of the family Janiridae, a group of plesiomorphic shallow-water Asellota, and several shallow-water and deep-sea genera (Acanthaspidia, Ianthopsis, Haploniscus, Echinozone, Eurycope, Munnopsurus and Syneurycope).

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A deep-sea slant on the molecular phylogeny of the Scleractinia

Cited by 93 publications

References 23 publications

The New Systematics of Scleractinia: Integrating Molecular and Morphological Evidence

The New Systematics of Scleractinia: Integrating Molecular and Morphological Evidence

Monophyletic origin ofCaryophyllia(Scleractinia, Caryophylliidae), with descriptions of six new species

Multiple origins of deep-sea Asellota (Crustacea: Isopoda) from shallow waters revealed by molecular data

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