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| Title |
Cleaning up the 'Bigmessidae': Molecular phylogeny of scleractinian corals from Faviidae, Merulinidae, Pectiniidae and Trachyphylliidae
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| Published in |
BMC Ecology and Evolution, February 2011
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2148-11-37 |
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| Authors |
Danwei Huang, Wilfredo Y Licuanan, Andrew H Baird, Hironobu Fukami |
| Abstract |
Molecular phylogenetic studies on scleractinian corals have shown that most taxa are not reflective of their evolutionary histories. Based principally on gross morphology, traditional taxonomy suffers from the lack of well-defined and homologous characters that can sufficiently describe scleractinian diversity. One of the most challenging clades recovered by recent analyses is 'Bigmessidae', an informal grouping that comprises four conventional coral families, Faviidae, Merulinidae, Pectiniidae and Trachyphylliidae, interspersed among one another with no apparent systematic pattern. There is an urgent need for taxonomic revisions in this clade, but it is vital to first establish phylogenetic relationships within the group. In this study, we reconstruct the evolutionary history of 'Bigmessidae' based on five DNA sequence markers gathered from 76 of the 132 currently recognized species collected from five reef regions in the central Indo-Pacific and the Atlantic. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 142 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 3 | 2% |
| United States | 2 | 1% |
| Singapore | 2 | 1% |
| South Africa | 2 | 1% |
| Malaysia | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Kenya | 1 | <1% |
| New Caledonia | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 4 | 3% |
| Unknown | 124 | 87% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 37 | 26% |
| Researcher | 35 | 25% |
| Student > Master | 13 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 10 | 7% |
| Professor | 7 | 5% |
| Other | 21 | 15% |
| Unknown | 19 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 77 | 54% |
| Environmental Science | 26 | 18% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 7 | 5% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4 | 3% |
| Engineering | 2 | 1% |
| Other | 5 | 4% |
| Unknown | 21 | 15% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. 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 02 March 2020.
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#1,063
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#27,011
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#14
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