Integrating cryptic diversity into coral evolution, symbiosis and conservation

CGB Grupstra, M Gómez-Corrales, JE Fifer… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
Understanding how diversity evolves and is maintained is critical to predicting the future
trajectories of ecosystems under climate change; however, our understanding of these …

Cryptic diversity and spatial genetic variation in the coral Acropora tenuis and its endosymbionts across the Great Barrier Reef

AMA Matias, I Popovic, JA Thia, IR Cooke… - Evolutionary …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Genomic studies are uncovering extensive cryptic diversity within reef‐building corals,
suggesting that evolutionarily and ecologically relevant diversity is highly underestimated in …

Global phylogenomic assessment of Leptoseris and Agaricia reveals substantial undescribed diversity at mesophotic depths

JC Gijsbers, N Englebert, KE Prata, M Pichon… - BMC biology, 2023 - Springer
Background Mesophotic coral communities are increasingly gaining attention for the unique
biological diversity they host, exemplified by the numerous mesophotic fish species that …

Incorporating genetic measures of connectivity and adaptation in marine spatial planning for corals

C Riginos, M Beger - Coral Reef Conservation and Restoration in the …, 2022 - Springer
Marine protected areas are an important tool to recover and protect coral reef biodiversity.
Connected networks of individual marine protected areas enhance system-wide resilience …

Exploring coral speciation: Multiple sympatric Stylophora pistillata taxa along a divergence continuum on the Great Barrier Reef

Z Meziere, I Popovic, K Prata, I Ryan… - Evolutionary …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how biodiversity originates and is maintained are fundamental challenge in
evolutionary biology. Speciation is a continuous process and progression along this …

Some reef-building corals only disperse metres per generation

KE Prata, P Bongaerts, JM Dwyer, H Ishida… - …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Understanding the dispersal potential of different species is essential for predicting recovery
trajectories following local disturbances and the potential for adaptive loci to spread to …

Topology Testing and Demographic Modeling Illuminate a Novel Speciation Pathway in the Greater Caribbean Sea Following the Formation of the Isthmus of Panama

BM Titus, HL Gibbs, N Simões, M Daly - Systematic Biology, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Recent genomic analyses have highlighted the prevalence of speciation with gene flow in
many taxa and have underscored the importance of accounting for these reticulate …