Document Type
Dataset
Source Publication Title
Depositor
Jorge Pinzon
Deposit Date
7-29-2024
Abstract
Supporting data for the chapter entitled: "Insights from the application of genetics on Pocillopora-Symbiodinium associations in the eastern tropical Pacific."
As one of the most widely distributed and most studied scleractinian genera in the world, Pocillopora encompasses an important group of corals. In the eastern tropical Pacific, Pocillopora species thrive and are the major reef-building scleractinian taxon, even though conditions are considered suboptimal for coral growth and reef development. Early observations on reproduction and species distributions appear to be complicated by high phenotypic diversity and often inaccurate species identifications. New genetic-based evidence reorganizes species classifications within Pocillopora by delimiting boundaries to genetic recombination. Such improvements toward a natural and accurate taxonomy have further revealed important patterns in Symbiodinium diversity and distribution associated with Pocillopora in the eastern Pacific. Here, I review work on genetic connectivity and symbiosis ecology that may explain physiological, ecological and evolutionary characteristics that account for the differential success of this coral genus in the marginal eastern tropical Pacific.
Disciplines
Biology
Publication Date
5-22-2014
Language
English
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Pinzon, Jorge, "Data Figure 3 in "Insights from the application of genetics on Pocillopora-Symbiodinium associations in the eastern tropical Pacific."" (2014). Biology Datasets. 2.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/biology_datasets/2
Comments
Note: This item was originally deposited in UTA's repository for Department of Biology faculty publications. However, due to relevance was moved to Department of Biology datasets.