Molecular phylogeny of the Robust clade (Faviidae, Mussidae, Merulinidae, and Pectiniidae): An Indian Ocean perspective

Arrigoni, Roberto; Stefani, Fabrizio; Pichon, Michel; Galli, Paolo; Benzoni, Francesca

doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.06.001

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“…Therefore, these genes are more informative for reconstructing deep coral phylogenies. Other than the 16S rDNA that established widespread subordinal non-monophyly Palumbi 1996, 1997;Le GoffVitry et al 2004), 12S rDNA, cytochrome b and cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) were purposed for corals relatively early (Medina et al 1999;van Oppen et al 1999;Fukami et al 2000) and have been used for inferring large scleractinian trees effectively (Chen et al 2002;Fukami et al 2004bFukami et al , 2008Barbeitos et al 2010;Kitahara et al 2010bKitahara et al , 2013Stolarski et al 2011;Arrigoni et al 2012Arrigoni et al , 2014cHuang 2012;Huang andRoy 2013, 2015;Marcelino et al 2013;Curnick et al 2015; Fig. 4.1).…”

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“…Authors remain split between concatenating markers to obtain hidden support (Huang et al 2011;Addamo et al 2012;Arrigoni et al 2012Arrigoni et al , 2014aBenzoni et al 2012b) and making separate estimations of gene trees (Benzoni et al , 2012aGittenberger et al 2011;Bongaerts et al 2013;Kitano et al 2013Kitano et al , 2014Huang et al 2014a;Arrigoni et al 2015). With more markers available for inferring phylogenies, combined analyses of multilocus data may be the way forward.…”

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“…Most families composed exclusively of zooxanthellate species have been shown by molecular data to be polyphyletic (Fukami et al 2004b(Fukami et al , 2008Arrigoni et al 2012). Among these, the most poorly understood families were Faviidae, Merulinidae, Pectiniidae and Trachyphylliidae (sensu Veron 2000).…”

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“…There was widespread acknowledgement that reclassification was necessary (Fukami 2008;Budd 2009;Budd et al 2010), but the convergence of most macromorphological characters conventionally used to define genera and families hindered revisionary work. Many molecular (Huang et al 2009(Huang et al , 2011Benzoni et al 2011;Arrigoni et al 2012;Schwartz et al 2012) and morphological (Budd and Smith 2005;Stolarski 2009, 2011) studies identified problematic taxa and highlighted phylogenetically informative charactersincluding molecular markers, macromorphology, micromorphology and microstructure-before the first taxonomic monograph was published.…”

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“…In fact, intraspecific differentiation was detected between co-occurring populations of Cycloseris costulata in Indonesia (Gittenberger and Hoeksema 2006), P. daedalea in Kenya (Mangubhai et al 2007), and Favites valenciennesi in Japan (Fukami and Nomura 2009). 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).…”

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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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This work provides a comprehensive description of the Scleractinian family Merulinidae (Verrill, 1865) of the Red Sea at species level based on skeletal structure for helping in evaluating and estimation of actual species diversity, as well as predicting their response to environmental changes. The present study is a first attempt to describe and illustrate the coral species of the family Merulinidae in the Farasan Islands (Saudi Arabian Coast). Moreover, coral reef terraces are investigated around El Quseir‐Marsa Alam area on the Egyptian Red Sea Coast. Overall, 42 scleractinian coral species from the family Merulinidae (Verrill, 1865) have been identified. They belong to 14 genera: Dipsastraea, Favites, Echinopora, Goniastrea, Coelastrea, Paragoniastrea, Paramontastraea, Astrea, Cyphastrea, Erythrastrea, Merulina, Platygyra, Leptoria, and Hydnophora. About 37 species are recorded for the first time from the Farasan Islands and 26 species from El Quseir‐Marsa Alam area, among them three species are recognized as new records. Two species are added to coral communities of the Red Sea (Goniastrea favulus and Paragoniastrea deformis), and six species were added to the fossil record of the Red Sea. The terminology, systematic classification, and the criteria of identification for all studied coral taxa are generally updated according to recent results. The known age and all recorded stratigraphic range of these species are illustrated and discussed. From the results, most of the corals are still living in the present Red Sea except for three species: Favites micropentagonus, Goniastrea favulus, and Paragoniastrea deformis. All species are extended down to the Pleistocene and a few to the Pliocene and Miocene.

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Molecular phylogeny of the Robust clade (Faviidae, Mussidae, Merulinidae, and Pectiniidae): An Indian Ocean perspective

Cited by 69 publications

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The New Systematics of Scleractinia: Integrating Molecular and Morphological Evidence

The New Systematics of Scleractinia: Integrating Molecular and Morphological Evidence

Quaternary corals (Scleractinia: Merulinidae) from the Egyptian and Saudi Arabian Red Sea Coast

Corals of the Red Sea

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