[Coral-List] ICRS mini-symposium
Nancy Knowlton
nknowlton at ucsd.edu
Mon Dec 15 20:27:17 EST 2003
Those of you who work with corals know that their systematics is
often a challenge regardless of whether one is working at the level
of species or higher taxonomic levels. Hence the following
mini-symposium for the upcoming Okinawa meetings.
1-1 Coral Taxonomy and Phylogeny: Integrating Molecular and
Morphological Approaches (Nancy Knowlton, Ann F. Budd, and Hironobu
Fukami)
At present, most coral scientists depend on classical morphological
taxonomy to identify the coral species and define higher groups.
However, recent studies using molecular techniques do not always
support conventional morphological assignments. Molecular results may
prompt reinterpretation of morphological characters, and molecular
results also need to be considered in light of morphological
characters and the fossil record of corals. Here we propose a
symposium whose goal is to further the integration of molecular and
morphological approaches, which is crucial because only morphology is
available for fossil material. We hope to bring together scientists
from a diverse array of disciplines (paleontology, systematics,
reproductive biology, molecular genetics) in order to define areas of
conflict in data sets and avenues of future collaborations.
We have made a good start on our program (summarized below), but
would like to persuade a few more of you to participate. Please let
us know if you would be interested in doing so, and send in your
abstract!! If you want to suggest someone that we should contact
directly please do so as well. The more diverse the participants,
the more we can learn about how to tackle this challenging but
central problem.
Many many thanks,
Nancy Budd, Nancy Knowlton and Hiro Fukami
PARTICIPANTS (some tentative) AND TITLES
1. Budd, AF: Reassessment of morphologic characters in the suborder Faviina
2. Carlon, D: Speciation in Caribbean Favia
3. Fukami, H: Molecular analyses of the suborder Faviina
4. Gameil, Mohammed: "Maastrichtian colonial corals from the Simsima
Formation, Al Faiyah Range, United Arab Emirates
5. Johnson, KG: Oligo-Miocene Caribbean coral turnover (tentative)
6. Kerr, Alexander M: "Combined "supertree" phylogeny of Scleractinia
using matrix representation parsimony"
7. Knowlton, N: The Montastraea annularis complex
8. McFadden, C: Molecular analyses of alcyonarians (tentative)
9. Romano, SL: Molecular analyses of scleractinians (tentative)
10. Rosen, Brian: Morphological analyses of fossil and living
scleractinians (tentative)
11. Sanchez, Juan:
(1) talk= "High morphological differentiation and overlapping
morphotypes in a Caribbean gorgonian coral: molecular approaches and
phenotypic plasticity". Juan Armando Sánchez;
(2) poster= "DNA sequences revealed a new shallow-water relative of
Atlantic gorgonian octocorals (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Gorgoniidae)".
Juan Armando Sánchez & Alison R. Acosta-de-Sánchez"
12. Stake, Joel: molecular-morphological study on Porites and Agaricia
13. Wallace, CC: "From Eocene fossils to modern genetics: Examining
the proposed Post-Miocene monophyletic origins of Acropora" (with
Allen Chen and Brian Rosen)
--
Nancy Knowlton
Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation
Marine Biology Research Division 0202
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0202
858-822-2486 (direct line)
858-822-1267 (fax)
http://cmbc.ucsd.edu/
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