@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref25856,
author = {Sylvain Foret},
title = {Corallimorpharians are not ?naked corals?: insights into relationships between Scleractinia and Corallimorpharia from phylogenomic analyses},
year = {2016},
keywords = {Scleractinia, Corallimorpharia, Cnidaria, corals},
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journal = {Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences},
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abstract = {Calcification is one of the most distinctive traits of scleractinian corals. Their hard skeletons form the substratum of reef ecosystems and confer on corals their remarkable diversity of shapes. Corallimorpharians are non-calcifying, close relatives of scleractinian corals, and the evolutionary relationship between these two groups is key to understanding the evolution of calcification in the coral lineage. One pivotal question is whether scleractinians are a monophyletic group, paraphyly being an alternative possibility if corallimorpharians are corals that have lost their ability to calcify, as is implied by the ?naked-coral? hypothesis. Despite major efforts, relationships between scleractinians and corallimorpharians remain equivocal and controversial. Although the complete mitochondrial genomes of a range of scleractinians and corallimorpharians have been obtained, heterogeneity in composition and evolutionary rates means that mitochondrial sequences are insufficient to understand the relationship between these two groups. To overcome these limitations, transcriptome data were generated for three representative corallimorpharians. These were used in combination with sequences available for a representative range of scleractinians to identify 291 orthologous single copy protein-coding nuclear markers. Unlike the mitochondrial sequences, these nuclear markers do not display any distinct compositional bias in their nucleotide or amino-acid sequences. A range of phylogenomic approaches congruently reveal a topology consistent with scleractinian monophyly and corallimorpharians as the sister clade of scleractinians. }
}
Citation for Study 19254
Citation title:
"Corallimorpharians are not ?naked corals?: insights into relationships between Scleractinia and Corallimorpharia from phylogenomic analyses".
Study name:
"Corallimorpharians are not ?naked corals?: insights into relationships between Scleractinia and Corallimorpharia from phylogenomic analyses".
This study is part of submission 19254
(Status: Published).
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Foret S. 2016. Corallimorpharians are not ?naked corals?: insights into relationships between Scleractinia and Corallimorpharia from phylogenomic analyses. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, .
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Abstract
Calcification is one of the most distinctive traits of scleractinian corals. Their hard skeletons form the substratum of reef ecosystems and confer on corals their remarkable diversity of shapes. Corallimorpharians are non-calcifying, close relatives of scleractinian corals, and the evolutionary relationship between these two groups is key to understanding the evolution of calcification in the coral lineage. One pivotal question is whether scleractinians are a monophyletic group, paraphyly being an alternative possibility if corallimorpharians are corals that have lost their ability to calcify, as is implied by the ?naked-coral? hypothesis. Despite major efforts, relationships between scleractinians and corallimorpharians remain equivocal and controversial. Although the complete mitochondrial genomes of a range of scleractinians and corallimorpharians have been obtained, heterogeneity in composition and evolutionary rates means that mitochondrial sequences are insufficient to understand the relationship between these two groups. To overcome these limitations, transcriptome data were generated for three representative corallimorpharians. These were used in combination with sequences available for a representative range of scleractinians to identify 291 orthologous single copy protein-coding nuclear markers. Unlike the mitochondrial sequences, these nuclear markers do not display any distinct compositional bias in their nucleotide or amino-acid sequences. A range of phylogenomic approaches congruently reveal a topology consistent with scleractinian monophyly and corallimorpharians as the sister clade of scleractinians.
Keywords
Scleractinia, Corallimorpharia, Cnidaria, corals
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@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref25856,
author = {Sylvain Foret},
title = {Corallimorpharians are not ?naked corals?: insights into relationships between Scleractinia and Corallimorpharia from phylogenomic analyses},
year = {2016},
keywords = {Scleractinia, Corallimorpharia, Cnidaria, corals},
doi = {},
url = {http://},
pmid = {},
journal = {Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences},
volume = {},
number = {},
pages = {},
abstract = {Calcification is one of the most distinctive traits of scleractinian corals. Their hard skeletons form the substratum of reef ecosystems and confer on corals their remarkable diversity of shapes. Corallimorpharians are non-calcifying, close relatives of scleractinian corals, and the evolutionary relationship between these two groups is key to understanding the evolution of calcification in the coral lineage. One pivotal question is whether scleractinians are a monophyletic group, paraphyly being an alternative possibility if corallimorpharians are corals that have lost their ability to calcify, as is implied by the ?naked-coral? hypothesis. Despite major efforts, relationships between scleractinians and corallimorpharians remain equivocal and controversial. Although the complete mitochondrial genomes of a range of scleractinians and corallimorpharians have been obtained, heterogeneity in composition and evolutionary rates means that mitochondrial sequences are insufficient to understand the relationship between these two groups. To overcome these limitations, transcriptome data were generated for three representative corallimorpharians. These were used in combination with sequences available for a representative range of scleractinians to identify 291 orthologous single copy protein-coding nuclear markers. Unlike the mitochondrial sequences, these nuclear markers do not display any distinct compositional bias in their nucleotide or amino-acid sequences. A range of phylogenomic approaches congruently reveal a topology consistent with scleractinian monophyly and corallimorpharians as the sister clade of scleractinians. }
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AU - Foret,Sylvain
T1 - Corallimorpharians are not ?naked corals?: insights into relationships between Scleractinia and Corallimorpharia from phylogenomic analyses
PY - 2016
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KW - Cnidaria
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