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Data from: Molecular evidence shows low species diversity of coral-associated hydroids in Acropora corals
Silvia Fontana, Shashank Keshavmurthy, Hernyi Justin Hsieh, Vianney Denis, Chao-Yang Kuo, Chia-Ming Hsu, Julia K. L. Leung, Wan-Sen Tsai, Carden C. Wallace & Chaolun Allen Chen
A novel symbiosis between scleractinians and hydroids (Zanclea spp.) was recently discovered using taxonomic approaches for hydroid species identification. In this study, we address the question whether this is a species-specific symbiosis or a cosmopolitan association between Zanclea and its coral hosts. Three molecular markers, including mitochondrial 16S and nuclear 28S ribosomal genes, and internal transcribed spacer (ITS), were utilized to examine the existence of Zanclea species from 14 Acropora species and 4 other Acroporidae...
Data from: Historical connectivity, contemporary isolation, and local adaptation in a widespread but discontinuously distributed species, Rhododendron oldhamii, endemic to Taiwan
Shih-Ying Hwang, Y-C Hsieh, J-D Chung, C-N Wang, C-T Chang & C-Y Chen
Elucidation of the evolutionary processes that constrain or facilitate adaptive divergence is a central goal in evolutionary biology, especially in non-model organisms. We tested whether changes in dynamics of gene flow (historical vs contemporary) caused population isolation and examined local adaptation in response to environmental selective forces in fragmented Rhododendron oldhamii populations. Variation in 26 expressed sequence tag-simple sequence repeat loci from 18 populations in Taiwan was investigated by examining patterns of genetic diversity, inbreeding,...
Data from: Molecular phylogeny of the cyprinid tribe Labeonini (Teleostei: Cypriniformes)
Lei Yang, M. Arunachalam, Tetsuya Sado, Boris A. Levin, Alexander S. Golubtsov, Jörg Freyhof, John P. Friel, Wei-Jen Chen, M. Vincent Hirt, Raja Manickam, Mary K. Agnew, Andrew M. Simons, Kenji Saitoh, Masaki Miya, Richard L. Mayden & Shunping He
The cyprinid tribe Labeonini (sensu Rainboth, 1991) is a large group of freshwater fishes containing around 40 genera and 400 species. They are characterized by an amazing diversity of modifications to their lips and associated structures. In this study, a total of 34 genera and 142 species of putative members of this tribe, which represent most of the generic diversity and more than one third of the species diversity of the group, were sampled and...
Affiliations
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National Taiwan University3
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University of Minnesota1
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Taiwan Forestry Research Institute1
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Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries1
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Saint Louis University1
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Manonmaniam Sundaranar University1
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Chinese Academy of Sciences1
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Natural History Museum and Institute1
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Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution1
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National Taiwan Normal University1