@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref19211,
author = {Adriaan Gittenberger and Edmund Gittenberger},
title = {Cryptic, adaptive radiation of endo-parasitic snails: sibling Leptoconchus species in corals},
year = {2010},
keywords = {Parasitic snails ∙ Coral reefs ∙ Coralliophilidae ∙ Leptoconchus ∙ Fungiidae ∙ Indo-Pacific ∙ DNA barcoding},
doi = {},
url = {http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/ecology/journal/13127},
pmid = {},
journal = {Organisms Diversity & Evolution},
volume = {},
number = {},
pages = {},
abstract = {Coral reefs are renowned as complex ecosystems with an extremely large biodiversity. Parasite-host relationships contribute substantially to this, but are poorly known. We describe the results of a study in which approximately 60,000 corals were searched for parasitic Leptoconchus snails (Gastropoda: Coralliophilidae) in the Indo-West Pacific of Egypt, Maldives, Thailand, Palau and Indonesia. We discovered an adaptive radiation of 14 snail species that live in association with 24 mushroom coral species. The former 14 species are described as new to science. Our molecular data are indisputable, but the species could not be identified after their rudimentary shell characters or impoverished anatomical details. Interestingly, the coral hosts also reveal their identities, since none of the host coral species was found with more than one snail species. The complexity of coral reefs is still underrated as is shown here by the application of DNA taxonomy as an indispensable approach to unravel cryptic radiations which should be known to understand the functioning of the ecosystem.}
}
Citation for Study 10876
Citation title:
"Cryptic, adaptive radiation of endo-parasitic snails: sibling Leptoconchus species in corals".
Study name:
"Cryptic, adaptive radiation of endo-parasitic snails: sibling Leptoconchus species in corals".
This study is part of submission 10866
(Status: Published).
Citation
Gittenberger A., & Gittenberger E. 2010. Cryptic, adaptive radiation of endo-parasitic snails: sibling Leptoconchus species in corals. Organisms Diversity & Evolution, .
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Gittenberger A.
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Gittenberger E.
Abstract
Coral reefs are renowned as complex ecosystems with an extremely large biodiversity. Parasite-host relationships contribute substantially to this, but are poorly known. We describe the results of a study in which approximately 60,000 corals were searched for parasitic Leptoconchus snails (Gastropoda: Coralliophilidae) in the Indo-West Pacific of Egypt, Maldives, Thailand, Palau and Indonesia. We discovered an adaptive radiation of 14 snail species that live in association with 24 mushroom coral species. The former 14 species are described as new to science. Our molecular data are indisputable, but the species could not be identified after their rudimentary shell characters or impoverished anatomical details. Interestingly, the coral hosts also reveal their identities, since none of the host coral species was found with more than one snail species. The complexity of coral reefs is still underrated as is shown here by the application of DNA taxonomy as an indispensable approach to unravel cryptic radiations which should be known to understand the functioning of the ecosystem.
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Parasitic snails ∙ Coral reefs ∙ Coralliophilidae ∙ Leptoconchus ∙ Fungiidae ∙ Indo-Pacific ∙ DNA barcoding
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@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref19211,
author = {Adriaan Gittenberger and Edmund Gittenberger},
title = {Cryptic, adaptive radiation of endo-parasitic snails: sibling Leptoconchus species in corals},
year = {2010},
keywords = {Parasitic snails ∙ Coral reefs ∙ Coralliophilidae ∙ Leptoconchus ∙ Fungiidae ∙ Indo-Pacific ∙ DNA barcoding},
doi = {},
url = {http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/ecology/journal/13127},
pmid = {},
journal = {Organisms Diversity & Evolution},
volume = {},
number = {},
pages = {},
abstract = {Coral reefs are renowned as complex ecosystems with an extremely large biodiversity. Parasite-host relationships contribute substantially to this, but are poorly known. We describe the results of a study in which approximately 60,000 corals were searched for parasitic Leptoconchus snails (Gastropoda: Coralliophilidae) in the Indo-West Pacific of Egypt, Maldives, Thailand, Palau and Indonesia. We discovered an adaptive radiation of 14 snail species that live in association with 24 mushroom coral species. The former 14 species are described as new to science. Our molecular data are indisputable, but the species could not be identified after their rudimentary shell characters or impoverished anatomical details. Interestingly, the coral hosts also reveal their identities, since none of the host coral species was found with more than one snail species. The complexity of coral reefs is still underrated as is shown here by the application of DNA taxonomy as an indispensable approach to unravel cryptic radiations which should be known to understand the functioning of the ecosystem.}
}
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TY - JOUR
ID - 19211
AU - Gittenberger,Adriaan
AU - Gittenberger,Edmund
T1 - Cryptic, adaptive radiation of endo-parasitic snails: sibling Leptoconchus species in corals
PY - 2010
KW - Parasitic snails ∙ Coral reefs ∙ Coralliophilidae ∙ Leptoconchus ∙ Fungiidae ∙ Indo-Pacific ∙ DNA barcoding
UR - http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/ecology/journal/13127
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