Analysis of complete mitochondrial DNA sequences of three members of the Montastraea annularis coral species complex (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Scleractinia)

By H. Fukami, Nancy Knowlton. Coral reefs, 2005

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The new systematics of scleractinia: Integrating molecular and morphological evidence (2016, background): “While mitochondrial genes typically evolve faster than nuclear genes in metazoans, anthozoans show an opposite pattern (van Oppen et al. 1999; Shearer et al. 2002; Fukami and Knowlton 2005; Tseng et al. 2005; Hellberg 2006; Huang et al. 2008; Chen et al. 2009).”
Deep-sea octocorals and antipatharians show no evidence of seamount-scale endemism in the NW Atlantic (2009, background): “Fukami & Knowlton (2005) estimated the overall rate of mt genome evolution within the Montastrea annularis species complex (Scleractinia) at only 0.03 to 0.04% per million yr, and Lepard (2003) estimated the mutation rate of msh1 to range between 0.14 and 0.25% per million yr, which renders it…”
Long-term reduced spawning in Orbicella coral species due to temperature stress (2014, background): “The 3 species are distinguished by slight differences in morpho logy, ecology, aggressive behavior, and genetics (Lopez et al. 1999, Fukami et al. 2004, Fukami & Knowlton 2005, Pandolfi & Budd 2008).”
Evolution of the mitochondrial genome of Metazoa as exemplified by comparison of congeneric species (2008, methodology): “, 2006; Wang and Lavrov, 2007), has made the mtDNA useless for species definition in both Montastraea and Pocillopora genera (Fukami and Knowlton, 2005; Flot and Tillier, 2007).”