Deep-Sea Origin and In-Situ Diversification of Chrysogorgiid Octocorals

A unique horizontal gene transfer event has provided the octocoral mitochondrial genome with an active mismatch repair gene that has potential for an unusual self-contained function

(2011) Jaret P Bilewitch et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods

(2011) K. Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Pseudochrysogorgia bellonan. gen., n. sp.: a new genus and species of chrysogorgiid octocoral (Coelenterata, Anthozoa) from the Coral Sea

(2011) Eric Pante et al.   ZOOSYSTEMA

Limitations of mitochondrial gene barcoding in Octocorallia

(2010) CATHERINE S. McFADDEN et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

TranslatorX: multiple alignment of nucleotide sequences guided by amino acid translations

(2010) Federico Abascal et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Character lability in deep-sea bamboo corals (Octocorallia, Isididae, Keratoisidinae)

(2009) LF Dueñas et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Deep-sea octocorals and antipatharians show no evidence of seamount-scale endemism in the NW Atlantic

(2009) JN Thoma et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Molecular systematics of the bubblegum coral genera (Paragorgiidae, Octocorallia) and description of a new deep-sea species

(2009) Santiago Herrera et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Phenotypic plasticity or speciation? A case from a clonal marine organism

(2008) Carlos Prada et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Recent developments in the MAFFT multiple sequence alignment program

(2008) K. Katoh et al.   BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS

The Mitochondrial Genome of a Deep-Sea Bamboo Coral (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Octocorallia, Isididae): Genome Structure and Putative Origins of Replication Are Not Conserved Among Octocorals

(2008) Mercer R. Brugler et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

jModelTest: Phylogenetic Model Averaging

(2008) D. Posada   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

From Offshore to Onshore: Multiple Origins of Shallow-Water Corals from Deep-Sea Ancestors

(2008) Alberto Lindner et al.   PLoS One