ELECTROPHORETIC IDENTIFICATION OF PORITID SPECIES (ANTHOZOA, SCLERACTINIA)

Authors
GARTHWAITE RL POTTS DC VERON JEN DONE TJ
Citation
Rl. Garthwaite et al., ELECTROPHORETIC IDENTIFICATION OF PORITID SPECIES (ANTHOZOA, SCLERACTINIA), Coral reefs, 13(1), 1994, pp. 49-56
Citations number
48
Categorie Soggetti
Marine & Freshwater Biology
Journal title
Coral reefs → ACNP
ISSN journal
07224028
Volume
13
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
49 - 56
Database
ISI
SICI code
0722-4028(1994)13:1<49:EIOPS(>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
Electrophoretic surveys of 13 enzyme-coding loci distinguished unambig uously five morphologically defined species of Porites and two species of Goniopora. Each species was identifiable solely by unique, qualita tive banding patterns at 1-6 loci. Genetic distances give preliminary estimates that these Porites species diverged from common ancestors 8- 22 Ma during the Miocene, and that the two Goniopora species diverged about 3.5 Ma in the Pliocene, assuming Porites evolved from Goniopora 55 million years ago (Ma).