Although Acropora is the most species‐rich genus of the scleractinian (stony) corals, only
three species occur in the Caribbean: A. cervicornis, A. palmata and A. prolifera. Based on …

Species boundaries remain unresolved in many scleractinian corals. In this study, we
examine evolutionary boundaries of species in the Acropora humilis species group. Five …

This study examines molecular relationships across a wide range of species in the mass
spawning scleractinian coral genus Acropora. Molecular phylogenies were obtained for 28 …

Chen (2006) Analyses of the ribosomal internal transcribed spacers (ITS) and the 5.8 S
gene indicate that extremely high rDNA heterogeneity is a unique feature in the scleractinian …

One of the key issues in coral evolutionary biology is the significance of interspecific
hybridisation in shaping modern reef corals. Despite this, few detailed studies of speciation …

The large coral genus Acropora occurs throughout the world's reefs and is potentially a
model for evolution and development of modern reef faunas. New research including …

Most scleractinian coral species are widely distributed across the tropical and subtropical
Indo-Pacific. However, the genetic connectivity between populations of corals separated by …

Aim Using high‐resolution genetic markers on samples gathered from across their wide
distributional range, we endeavoured to delimit species diversity in reef‐building Pocillopora …

The evolutionary history of scleractinian corals is based on knowledge of skeletal characters
and their 250 million yr fossil record. However, homologies of skeletal characters are not …

A major challenge for understanding the evolutionary genetics of mass‐spawning corals is
to explain the maintenance of discrete morphospecies in view of high rates of interspecific …