[Coral-List] karyotype of Porites spp.?

[Sylvia Galloway]

Kenyon, J. C. (1997). "Models of reticulate evolution in the coral genus 
Acropora based on chromosome numbers: Parallels with plants." Evolution 
51(3): 756-767.

On 11/21/2011 11:52 AM, Szmant, Alina wrote:
> 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
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> Subject: Re: [Coral-List] karyotype of Porites spp.?
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> 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
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>
> 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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