Decrypting corals: Does regulatory evolution underlie environmental specialization of coral cryptic lineages?
Dominique N Gallery,
John P Rippe,
Mikhail V Matz
Abstract:A recent study has shown that two common Caribbean corals,Montastrea cavernosaandSiderastrea siderea, in the Florida Keys each consist of four genetically distinct lineages. These lineages are strongly specialized to a certain depth and, to a lesser extent, to nearshore or offshore habitat. We hypothesized that the lineages' environmental specialization is at least in part due to regulatory evolution, which would be manifested as the emergence of groups of coregulated genes ("modules") demonstrating lineage-sp… Show more
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