Extreme phenotypic polymorphism in the coral genus &lt;I&gt;Pocillopora;&lt;/I&gt; micro-morphology corresponds to mitochondrial groups, while colony morphology does not

Marti-Puig, Patricia; Forsman, Zac H.; Haverkort-Yeh, Roxanne D.; Knapp, Ingrid S.; Maragos, James E.; Toonen, Robert J.

doi:10.5343/bms.2012.1080

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“…Therefore, we considered these corals as members of one functional group; in Moorea, analyses of corallites (after [36]) indicated that 85% of these corals were P. lutea and 15% P. lobata. Similarly, recent genetic analyses of P. damicornis have detected variation throughout the Pacific that could reflect the presence of cryptic taxa [37,38]. Three out of the four study organisms precipitate calcium carbonate as aragonite (massive Porites spp., P. damicornis and H. macroloba) and one (P. onkodes) precipitates high-magnesium calcite.…”

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Pacific-wide contrast highlights resistance of reef calcifiers to ocean acidification

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Ocean acidification (OA) and its associated decline in calcium carbonate saturation states is one of the major threats that tropical coral reefs face this century. Previous studies of the effect of OA on coral reef calcifiers have described a wide variety of outcomes for studies using comparable partial pressure of CO 2 (pCO 2 ) ranges, suggesting that key questions remain unresolved. One unresolved hypothesis posits that heterogeneity in the response of reef calcifiers to high pCO 2 is a result of regional-scale variation in the responses to OA. To test this hypothesis, we incubated two coral taxa (Pocillopora damicornis and massive Porites) and two calcified algae (Porolithon onkodes and Halimeda macroloba) under 400, 700 and 1000 matm pCO 2 levels in experiments in Moorea (French Polynesia), Hawaii (USA) and Okinawa (Japan), where environmental conditions differ. Both corals and H. macroloba were insensitive to OA at all three locations, while the effects of OA on P. onkodes were locationspecific. In Moorea and Hawaii, calcification of P. onkodes was depressed by high pCO 2 , but for specimens in Okinawa, there was no effect of OA. Using a study of large geographical scale, we show that resistance to OA of some reef species is a constitutive character expressed across the Pacific.

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“…Larger geographic contrasts such as between Red Sea and Pacific Ocean populations of Dipsastraea and Stylophora have also revealed molecular separation between regions Arrigoni et al 2012;Keshavmurthy et al 2013). However, to reach a stage where taxonomic revisions can be attempted, broad geographic sampling across the Indo-Pacific and detailed studies of closely-related species are necessary, such as in the case of species in Astreopora (Suzuki and Nomura 2013), Pocillopora (Pinzón and LaJeunesse 2010;Pinzón et al 2012Pinzón et al , 2013Torda et al 2013a, b;Marti-Puig et al 2014;Schmidt-Roach et al 2013, 2014 and Psammocora (Benzoni et al 2010;Stefani et al 2008a). In particular, boundaries among Psammocora species were clarified through a series of rigorous molecular and morphological analyses (Stefani et al 2008a, b;Benzoni et al 2007Benzoni et al , 2010, which saw 24 nominal species reorganised as seven valid species-P. albopicta, P.…”

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The New Systematics of Scleractinia: Integrating Molecular and Morphological Evidence

Kitahara

Fukami

Benzoni

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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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“…al 2014). Underscoring the importance of genetics for revealing cryptic species (see von der Heyden et al 2014) a number of distinct cryptic lineages are described here from corals , giant clams (Deboer et al 2014a), andgoatfish (szabó et al 2014), as well promising approaches for using corallite morphology to identify genetic lineages in corals (Marti-Puig et al 2014).…”

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“…These include corals (concepcion et al 2014, Marti-Puig et al 2014), giant clams (Deboer et al 2014a, lobsters (Iacchei et al 2014), and a number of echinoderms (crandall et al , Liggins et al 2014(crandall et al , skillings et al 2014. Vertebrates are represented by sharks (Giles et al 2014), and a wide spectrum of bony fishes including sardinella (Willette et al 2014b), tuna and mackerel (Jackson et al 2014), and a veritable school of reef fishes (bernardi et al 2014, raynal et al 2014, szabo et.…”

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Magnificent dimensions, varied forms, and brilliant colors: the molecular ecology and evolution of the Indian and Pacific oceans

Crandall

Riginos²

2014

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Extreme phenotypic polymorphism in the coral genus <I>Pocillopora;</I> micro-morphology corresponds to mitochondrial groups, while colony morphology does not

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Pacific-wide contrast highlights resistance of reef calcifiers to ocean acidification

Pacific-wide contrast highlights resistance of reef calcifiers to ocean acidification

The New Systematics of Scleractinia: Integrating Molecular and Morphological Evidence

Magnificent dimensions, varied forms, and brilliant colors: the molecular ecology and evolution of the Indian and Pacific oceans

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