Juan Sebastián Celis, David R. Edgell, Björn Stelbrink, Daniel Wibberg, Torsten Hauffe, Jochen Blom, Jörn Kalinowski, Thomas Wilke,
... of some sponges and cnidarians, including stony corals (Scleractinia) and mushroom corals (Corallimorpharia). Vertical and horizontal intron ... distribution of group I introns and HEGs in Scleractinia and Corallimorpharia, we examined intron/HEGs sequences within ... showed a high degree of degradation in complex Scleractinia and Corallimorpharia. Moreover, the two motifs lack the ... contrast, both motifs are highly conserved within robust Scleractinia, indicating a fully functional endonuclease capable of promoting ...
Tópico(s): Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
2017 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE
Ronald H. Karlson, Howard V. Cornell,
... 1988. Community dynamics of stony corals (Milleporina and Scleractinia) at Key Largo National Marine Sanctuary, Florida, during ... 312. Google Scholar Maragos, J. E. 1977. Order Scleractinia. Stony corals. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication ... Web of Science®Google Scholar Pichon, M. 1985. Scleractinia. General features of French Polynesian islands and their ... in the hard coral genus Acropora Oken, 1815 (Scleractinia: Astrocoeniina: Acroporidae) from south-east Africa. Zoological Journal ... of the hard coral genus Acropora Oken, 1815 (Scleractinia: Astrocoeniina: Acroporidae) in southeast Africa. Zoological Journal of ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
1998 - Wiley | Ecological Monographs
Abstract The Scleractinia, which are one of the most important builders of modern reefs, have been considered to have first appeared ... experiments) or Paleozoic progenitors of the post-Paleozoic Scleractinia. Permian scleractiniamorphs are characterized by “ancestral” features and ... their Triassic appearance. A Paleozoic origin for the Scleractinia is supported by morphological and molecular phylogenetic data. ... body plan, and a direct derivation of the Scleractinia from the Rugosa is not probable. The Anthozoa ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
1998 - Cambridge University Press | Paleobiology
... the success of corals is of paramount importance. Scleractinia stands out as one of the few orders ... an unsolved problem in paleontology. The idea that Scleractinia evolved from older Paleozoic rugose corals that somehow ... appearance of fossils currently classified within the order Scleractinia to be in the Middle Triassic. These earliest Scleractinia provide a picture of unexpectedly robust taxonomic diversity ... molecular biology support a polyphyletic evolution for living Scleractinia and the molecular clock, calibrated against the fossil ...
Tópico(s): Marine Biology and Ecology Research
2003 - Elsevier BV | Earth-Science Reviews
Marcelo Visentini Kitahara, Stephen D. Cairns, Jarosław Stolarski, David Blair, David J. Miller,
... taxonomy places the approximately 1400 recognized species of Scleractinia (hard corals) into 27 families, but many aspects ... on the reef-building (shallow water and zooxanthellate) Scleractinia, and largely ignoring the large number of deep- ... molecular phylogenetic analysis to date of the order Scleractinia. Methodology Partial (595 bp) sequences of the mitochondrial ... understanding anthozoan evolution and the origins of the Scleractinia.
Tópico(s): Marine and fisheries research
2010 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE
... candidate indicator taxa (gorgonians, Alcyonacea excluding gorgonians, Antipatharia, Scleractinia, Stylasterina, and Porifera) to represent the local benthic ... includes both sessile and mobile benthos: (1) gorgonians-Scleractinia community with many mobile benthic taxa and Pisces; ( ... reflecting the habitat-providing function of gorgonians and Scleractinia as well as the common environmental preferences of ... many effective association rules that include gorgonians or Scleractinia as the consequent and many benthic taxa as ...
Tópico(s): Isotope Analysis in Ecology
2017 - Elsevier BV | Ecological Indicators
... suggest a relatively derived position of the order Scleractinia within the class Anthozoa. Mitochondrial and nuclear DNA ... provided a new hypothesis for evolution within the Scleractinia that is different from hypotheses based on morphological ... taxonomy. This new molecular hypothesis suggests that the Scleractinia are represented by two major lineages that diverged ... This divergence time supports the hypotheses that the Scleractinia are not related to the Rugosa of the ... lineages may represent two architectural strategies within the Scleractinia that have led to their great morphological diversity.
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
1996 - Cambridge University Press | The Paleontological Society Papers
The Mesozoic-Cenozoic coral Order Scleractinia has been suggested to have originated or evolved (1) by direct descent from the Paleozoic Order Rugosa or (2) by the ... intermediate stages have been demonstrated. Apparent intermediates are Scleractinia having bilateral cyclic insertion or teratological Rugosa. (2) ... aragonitic. In contrast, the skeletons of all living Scleractinia are aragonitic and there is evidence that fossil Scleractinia were aragonitic also. The mineralogic difference is almost ...
Tópico(s): Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
1980 - Cambridge University Press | Paleobiology
The Mesozoic-Cenozoic coral Order Scleractinia has been suggested to have originated or evolved (1) by direct descent from the Paleozoic Order Rugosa or (2) by the ... intermediate stages have been demonstrated. Apparent intermediates are Scleractinia having bilateral cyclic insertion or teratological Rugosa. (2) ... aragonitic. In contrast, the skeletons of all living Scleractinia are aragonitic and there is evidence that fossil Scleractinia were aragonitic also. The mineralogic difference is almost ...
Tópico(s): Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
1980 - Cambridge University Press | Paleobiology
The azooxanthellate Scleractinia from Brazilian waters are reviewed based on examination of museum specimens and current literature, indicating the occurrence of ... and water masses within which Brazilian azoox-anthellate Scleractinia occur, are provided. An identification key is proposed ... briefly discussed, and a strong affinity with those Scleractinia from the Caribbean waters is demonstrated. A diagnosis ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2007 - Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science | Bulletin of Marine Science
... So defined, the group consists of seven taxa (Scleractinia, Antipatharia, Octocorallia, Stylasteridae, and Milleporidae, two zoanthids, and ... in the near future. The majority of azooxanthellate Scleractinia is solitary in form, firmly attached to a ... Literature helpful for the identification of deep-water Scleractinia is listed according to 16 geographic regions of ... to high diversity regions for shallow-water zooxanthellate Scleractinia. As suggested for shallow-water corals, the cause ...
Tópico(s): Marine Biology and Ecology Research
2007 - Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science | Bulletin of Marine Science
Jarosław Stolarski, Marcelo Visentini Kitahara, David J. Miller, Stephen D. Cairns, Maciej Mazur, Anders Meibom,
... known about the evolutionary origins of corals. The Scleractinia suddenly appear in the fossil record about 240 ... from Paleozoic soft-bodied ancestors. Modern shallow-water Scleractinia, which are dependent on symbionts, appear to have ... independent origins from solitary, non-symbiotic precursors. The Scleractinia have survived periods of massive climate change in ...
Tópico(s): Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
2011 - Springer Science+Business Media | BMC Evolutionary Biology
Produção Nacional
Mei‐Fang Lin, Marcelo Visentini Kitahara, Haiwei Luo, Dianne M. Tracey, Jonathan B. Geller, Hironobu Fukami, David J. Miller, Chaolun Allen Chen,
... is closely related to the reef-building corals (Scleractinia) and of fundamental interest in the context of ... The relationship between the nominal Orders Corallimorpharia and Scleractinia is controversial—the former is either the closest outgroup to the Scleractinia or alternatively is derived from corals via skeleton ...
Tópico(s): Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
2014 - Oxford University Press | Genome Biology and Evolution
Dimitris Vafidis, Athanasios Koukouras, Eleni Voultsiadou,
... Lo the orders Actiniaria (3), Corallirnorpharia (1), and Scleractinia (17) were collected in the North Aegean Sea. ... the order Acti niaria (78.5%) and in Scleractinia (70%). However, cosmopolitan species are more numerous among Scleractinia (25%) than among Actiniaria (3.6%); in the ...
Tópico(s): Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
2013 - | Israel Journal of Zoology
The order Scleractinia includes two distinct groups, which are termed "complex" and "robust" as indicated by the molecular phylogeny of mitochondrial ... for grouping this deep division in the order Scleractinia. Recently, morphological characteristics during embryogenesis that facilitate grouping ... reported, thus clarifying a deep division in the Scleractinia. In the present report, I establish two new ...
Tópico(s): Crustacean biology and ecology
2016 - Zoological Society of Japan | ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE
... valid, described Recent species (known species richness) of Scleractinia have been unsupported guesses ranging from 1000-2500 ... an average of 16.1 new species of Scleractinia have been described each year.Although the yearly ... perceived ratio of described to undescribed species of Scleractinia ascertained from the analysis of comprehensive faunistic analyses ...
Tópico(s): Connexins and lens biology
1999 - Smithsonian Institution | Atoll research bulletin
... in number of species and individuals. Of the Scleractinia known from the western Atlantic, there are over ... review of all known species of deep-water Scleractinia that occur in the Caribbean Sea and adjacent ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
1979 - | Studies on the fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean islands
... sp.n. from Cyphastrea ocellina and Montipora verrucosa (Scleractinia) in Hawaii, Tegastes paulipes sp.n. from Pocillopora verrucosa (Scleractinia) from Moorca, Parategastes conexus sp.n. from Stereonephthya ... and Alteuthellopsis corallina Humes, 1981, from Montipora verrilli (Scleractinia) at Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
Tópico(s): Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
1984 - Wiley | Zoologica Scripta
Ernesto Weil, Aldo Cróquer, I Urreiztieta,
... the Caribbean reef-building coral Montastraea faveolata (Anthozoa, Scleractinia) Ernesto Weil*, Aldo Cróquer, Isabel Urreiztieta Department of ... the Caribbean reef-building coral Montastraea faveolata (Anthozoa, Scleractinia). Dis Aquat Org 87:45-55. https://doi. ...
Tópico(s): Marine and coastal plant biology
2009 - Inter-Research | Diseases of Aquatic Organisms
L.A. Dodds, KD Black, Harry T. Orr, J. Murray Roberts,
... supply to the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa (Scleractinia) L. A. Dodds1,3, K. D. Black1, H. ... supply to the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa (Scleractinia). Mar Ecol Prog Ser 397:113-124. https:// ...
Tópico(s): Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
2009 - Inter-Research | Marine Ecology Progress Series
Marymegan Daly, Daphne G. Fautin, Valerie A. Cappola,
... phylogenetic relationships. The relationship among stony corals (order Scleractinia), sea anemones (order Actiniaria), and corallimorpharians (order Corallimorpharia) ... We find that orders Actiniaria, Antipatharia, Ceriantharia, Corallimorpharia, Scleractinia, and Zoanthidea are monophyletic; Corallimorpharia is most closely related to Scleractinia. We infer that many traditional diagnostic characters are ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2003 - Oxford University Press | Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
Hironobu Fukami, Chaolun Allen Chen, Ann F. Budd, Allen G. Collins, Carden C. Wallace, Yao-Yang Chuang, Chienhsun Chen, Chang‐Feng Dai, Kenji Iwao, Charles Sheppard, Nancy Knowlton,
Modern hard corals (Class Hexacorallia; Order Scleractinia) are widely studied because of their fundamental role in reef building and their superb fossil record extending back to the Triassic. Nevertheless, ... Here we provide a more comprehensive analysis of Scleractinia (127 species, 75 genera, 17 families) and various ...
Tópico(s): Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
2008 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE
Marcos S. Barbeitos, Sandra Romano, Howard R. Lasker,
The combination of coloniality and symbiosis in Scleractinia is thought to confer competitive advantage over other benthic invertebrates, and it is likely the key factor for the dominance of corals in tropical reefs. However, the extant Scleractinia are evenly split between zooxanthellate and azooxanthellate species. ... and/or lost throughout the history of the Scleractinia. Using Bayesian ancestral state reconstruction, we found that ...
Tópico(s): Marine and fisheries research
2010 - National Academy of Sciences | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Jih‐Terng Wang, PJ Meng, Eugenia M. Sampayo, SL Tang, C.A. Chen,
... oxygen species in freshly-isolated Symbiodinium from Montipora (Scleractinia; Acroporidae) J.-T. Wang1,*, P.-J. Meng2,3, ... oxygen species in freshly-isolated Symbiodinium from Montipora (Scleractinia; Acroporidae). Mar Ecol Prog Ser 422:51-62. ...
Tópico(s): Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
2010 - Inter-Research | Marine Ecology Progress Series
Marcelo Visentini Kitahara, Stephen D. Cairns, Jarosław Stolarski, David J. Miller,
... an early‐diverging family of Robust corals (Anthozoa, Scleractinia). — Zoologica Scripta , 00 , 000–000. Over the last ... some fundamental aspects of coral systematics. Within the Scleractinia, most families composed exclusively by zooxanthellate species are ...
Tópico(s): Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
2012 - Wiley | Zoologica Scripta
... the Permian. A third major group, the living Scleractinia, range from Middle Triassic to Holocene. Additional groups ... over 100 years. Relations between the Rugosa and Scleractinia have attracted the greatest interest because of their ...
Tópico(s): Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
1996 - Cambridge University Press | The Paleontological Society Papers
... 3354/dao024061 Suspected neoplasms in deep-sea corals (Scleractinia: Oculinidae: Madrepora spp.) reinterpreted as galls caused by ... unusual kind of petrarcid 'internal gall.' Neoplasms . Galls . Scleractinia . Madrepora . Ascothoracida . Petrarcidae . Petrarca madreporae . KARUBAR expedition Full ...
Tópico(s): Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
1996 - Inter-Research | Diseases of Aquatic Organisms
Francesca Benzoni, Roberto Arrigoni, Zarinah Waheed, Fabrizio Stefani, Bert W. Hoeksema,
The Indo-Pacific coral genus Blastomussa (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia) includes three species, i.e., B. merleti, B. ... currently incertae sedis in the Robust clade of Scleractinia as a result of molecular coral systematics, and ...
Tópico(s): Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
2014 - Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum | The Raffles bulletin of zoology
Alejandro Terrón-Sigler, Patricio Peñalver-Duque, David León-Muez, FE Torre,
... associated with the endangered orange coral Astroides calycularis (Scleractinia: Dendrophylliidae) Alejandro Terrón-Sigler1,2,*, Patricio Peñalver-Duque2, ... associated with the endangered orange coral Astroides calycularis (Scleractinia: Dendrophylliidae). Aquat Biol 21:143-154. https://doi. ...
Tópico(s): Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
2014 - Inter-Research | Aquatic Biology
Chun Chen, Dimitri M. Odorico, M. Tenlohuis, J. E. N. Veron, David J. Miller,
... subclasses of Anthozoa, and especially among the orders Scleractinia, Actiniaria, and Corallimorpharia of subclass Zoantharia, were investigated ... distance analyses resolve three groups, one being the Scleractinia and the others containing both actiniarians and corallimorpharians. ... of actiniarians and corallimorphians; the monophyly of the Scleractinia, which is strongly supported by our analyses, is ...
Tópico(s): Vibrio bacteria research studies
1995 - Elsevier BV | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution