Slow mitochondrial DNA sequence evolution in the Anthozoa (Cnidaria)

By T. Shearer, M. J. H. V. Oppen, Sandra L. Romano, Gert Wörheide. Molecular Ecology, 2002

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Debating phylogenetic relationships of the scleractinian Psammocora: molecular and morphological evidences (2007, background): “Moreover, the resolution power of mitochondrial markers is not suffi cient to reveal phylogenetic differences at inter-specifi c level (Shearer et al., 2002).”
Deep-sea octocorals and antipatharians show no evidence of seamount-scale endemism in the NW Atlantic (2009, background): “Short sequences (<1000 bp) of mtDNA have not been shown to be variable at the intraspecific level in most anthozoans and therefore are not suitable for population-level studies (France & Hoover 2001, 2002, Shearer et al. 2002, McFadden et al. 2004, but see Chen et al. 2008a,b for scleractinians).”
Analysis of complete mitochondrial DNA sequences of three members of the Montastraea annularis coral species complex (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Scleractinia) (2005, background): “2004a and references therein), but progress has been hindered by the poorly understood genetics of corals and anthozoans generally, and by low levels of mitochondrial genetic variability (Medina et al. 1999; van Oppen et al. 1999; Shearer et al. 2002).”
DNA barcoding reveals cryptic diversity in marine hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from coastal and deep‐sea environments (2007, background): “This is because studies have suggested that it evolves at a slow rate (Shearer et al. 2002), although in some cases the gene has been revealed as phylogenetically informative (see Govindarajan et al. 2005a for O. geniculata).”
Footprints on water: the genetic wake of dispersal among reefs (2007, background): “of nucleotide substitution are extremely slow for the mitochondrial DNA of corals, along with other anthozoans and sponges (Shearer et al. 2002; Hellberg 2006b; Wörheide 2006).”
The campaign to DNA barcode all fishes, FISH-BOL. (2009, background): “very slowly in certain groups of benthic Cnidaria (France & Hoover, 2002; Shearer et al., 2002) and hence does not deliver species-level resolution (Hebert et al.”
Toward a global reference database of COI barcodes for marine zooplankton (2021, background): “Cnidaria of the Class Anthozoa, which have planktonic larval stages, are known to have low COI sequence divergence between species (Shearer et al. 2002; Hellberg 2006), In contrast, medusozoan Cnidaria (Classes Hydrozoa, Scyphozoa, and Cubozoa) have COI distances between species more compatible with”
DNA barcoding as a tool for coral reef conservation (2007, background): “2006), and anthozoans (McFadden et al. 2000; Shearer et al. 2002; Hellberg 2006).”
DNA Barcoding the Medusozoa using mtCOI (2010, background): “They are distinguished from their sister group, the Class Anthozoa (Bridge et al., 1995; Collins, 1998, 2003), by a medusoid body form in the life-cycle of some species and a linear mitochondrial genome (Bridge et al., 1992).”
Low variation in partial cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) mitochondrial sequences in the coralline demosponge Astrosclera willeyana across the Indo-Pacific (2006, methodology): “Uncorrected nucleotide p-distances were calculated using PAUP*4 (Swofford 1998) and nucleotide diversities in DNAsp v4 ( Rozas and Rozas 1999 ).”
The name game: morpho‐molecular species boundaries in the genus Psammocora (Cnidaria, Scleractinia) (2010, background): “Conversely, COI showed better resolution at a higher systematic level due to the intrinsic slow evolutionary rate of mtDNA (Shearer et al., 2002; Hellberg, 2006; Shearer & Coffroth, 2008; Huang et al., 2008).”
The Parazoanthidae (Hexacorallia: Zoantharia) DNA taxonomy: description of two new genera (2010, background): “This may reflect the high conservation of mitochondrial genes in anthozoans (Shearer et al. 2002; Huang et al. 2008).”
Disease interaction and pathogens exchange between wild and farmed fish populations with special reference to Norway (2011, background): “Mitochondria have high mutation rate at the DNA level and they are maternally inherited and therefore very suitable for genetic studies (Shearer et al., 2002).”