The Role of Hybridization in the Evolution of Reef Corals

By B. Willis, M. Oppen, David J. Miller, Steven V. Vollmer, D. Ayre. 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Molecular Biology, Oceanography

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In Ecology

1. O. Hoegh‐Guldberg
2. Todd C. LaJeunesse
3. Chaolun Allen Chen
4. Francesca Benzoni
5. H. Fukami
6. Danwei Huang
7. L. Chauka
8. E. Cox

In Molecular Biology

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2. Chaolun Allen Chen
3. Danwei Huang
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5. Gert Wörheide
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7. Eugenia M. Sampayo
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In Oceanography

1. O. Hoegh‐Guldberg
2. Todd C. LaJeunesse
3. Chaolun Allen Chen
4. Maria Byrne
5. Eugenia M. Sampayo
6. Francesca Benzoni
7. H. Fukami
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Citations in the corpus

• Assessing the ‘deep reef refugia’ hypothesis: focus on Caribbean reefs (2010, background): “franksi, and Diploria strigosa; Vize 2006), and mixing of sperm and eggs from the entire depth range is expected to occur at the surface (Willis et al. 2006).”
• Blind to morphology: genetics identifies several widespread ecologically common species and few endemics among Indo‐Pacific cauliflower corals (Pocillopora, Scleractinia) (2013, background): “Acropora (Willis et al., 2006).”
• A molecularly based phylogeny reconstruction of mushroom corals (Scleractinia: Fungiidae) with taxonomic consequences and evolutionary implications for life history traits (2011, background): “In corals this has often been referred to as reticulate evolution, but so far there is no indication from Fungiidae (Kenyon, 1997; Veron, 2001; Willis et al., 2006; Stefani et al., 2007).”
• Coral restoration research and technical developments: what we have learned so far (2019, background): “Hybridization of Acropora sometimes occurs in nature (e.g. Willis et al. 2006; Isomura et al. 2013b).”
• Hybridisation on coral reefs and the conservation of evolutionary novelty (2015, background): “In the Caribbean Acropora system, hybrids were documented previously as being rarer than the parental species (Goreau, 1959; Lang et al., 1998; Cortes, 2003; Willis et al., 2006).”
• The new systematics of scleractinia: Integrating molecular and morphological evidence (2016, background): “Nevertheless, interspecific fertilisation rates tend to be lower than intraspecific ones (Wei et al. 2012), allowing species boundaries to be defined (Willis et al. 2006).”
• Beyond corals and fish: the effects of climate change on noncoral benthic invertebrates of tropical reefs (2008, background): “Current research on the impacts of climate change on tropical fauna is biased toward corals (Hoegh-Guldberg, 1999, 2004; Reaser et al., 2000; Willis et al., 2006; Smith et al., 2007; Lough, 2008) and fishes (Roessig et al.”