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The ancient evolutionary origins of Scleractinia revealed by azooxanthellate corals

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Ecology and Evolution, October 2011
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Title
The ancient evolutionary origins of Scleractinia revealed by azooxanthellate corals
Published in
BMC Ecology and Evolution, October 2011
DOI 10.1186/1471-2148-11-316
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Authors

Jarosław Stolarski, Marcelo V Kitahara, David J Miller, Stephen D Cairns, Maciej Mazur, Anders Meibom

Abstract

Scleractinian corals are currently a focus of major interest because of their ecological importance and the uncertain fate of coral reefs in the face of increasing anthropogenic pressure. Despite this, remarkably little is known about the evolutionary origins of corals. The Scleractinia suddenly appear in the fossil record about 240 Ma, but the range of morphological variation seen in these Middle Triassic fossils is comparable to that of modern scleractinians, implying much earlier origins that have so far remained elusive. A significant weakness in reconstruction(s) of early coral evolution is that deep-sea corals have been poorly represented in molecular phylogenetic analyses.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 4 2%
Germany 3 1%
United States 3 1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Kenya 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Mexico 1 <1%
New Zealand 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 241 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 62 24%
Researcher 52 20%
Student > Master 34 13%
Student > Bachelor 24 9%
Student > Postgraduate 14 5%
Other 35 14%
Unknown 37 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 112 43%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 38 15%
Environmental Science 31 12%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 23 9%
Computer Science 2 <1%
Other 15 6%
Unknown 37 14%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 January 2020.
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#7,355,485
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#1,676
of 3,714 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#43,133
of 152,776 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#37
of 74 outputs
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