Speciation among sympatric lineages in the genus Palythoa (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Zoantharia) revealed by morphological comparison, phylogenetic analyses and investigation of spawning period

Zoantharians are sessile marine invertebrates and colonial organisms possessing sexual and asexual reproductive ability. The zooxanthellate zoantharian genus Palythoa is widely distributed in coral reef ecosystems. In the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan, sympatric Palythoa tuberculosa and P. mutuki are th...

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Autores principales: Mizuyama, Masaru, Masucci, Giovanni D., Reimer, James D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2018
Materias:
Biodiversity
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6035721/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30013833
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5132

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6035721/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30013833
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5132

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