[Coral-List] karyotype of Porites spp.?

[Szmant, Alina]

There is a paper published back in mid 1990s in Evolution that presents chromosome numbers for a bunch of Acropora species in which polyploidy of various types were reported.  Can't remember the author just now.

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From: coral-list-bounces at coral.aoml.noaa.gov [mailto:coral-list-bounces at coral.aoml.noaa.gov] On Behalf Of Jean-François Flot
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 10:51 AM
To: Carly Kenkel
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Subject: Re: [Coral-List] karyotype of Porites spp.?

Dear Carly,

To the best of my knowledge, the only poritid species that was karyotyped so far is Goniopora lobata (2n=28). The reference is Heyward AJ (1985) Chromosomes of the coral Goniopora lobata (Anthozoa: 
Scleractinia). Heredity 55:269-271.
You may find other useful references in my paper entitled "Comparative coral cytogenetics" in the proceedings of the 10th ICRS (the PDF is accessible online at http://www.mnhn.fr/jfflot/publications/Flot2006ICRS1.pdf).

Best regards,
Jean-François


Le 21/11/2011 15:53, Carly Kenkel a écrit :
> Dear Listers,
>
> I'm wondering if anyone knows the karyotype of Porites astreoides 
> (actually, information on the karyotype of any species of Poritid 
> would be helpful).  So far, I haven't been able to find any 
> publications with this information, and before I spend time tackling 
> the problem myself, I thought I'd ask.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Carly Kenkel
> Graduate Student
> Dept of Integrative Biology
> The Univ of Texas at Austin
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