[Coral-List] [Article] Octocoral mt genome variation

[Amy Baco-Taylor]

Dear Colleagues,

Since we are on the topic, I thought I'd add that we also have a paper 
in press that addresses gene orders in the deep-sea octocoral families 
Paragorgiidae and Coralliidae, that includes data on variation levels of 
complete mitochondrial genomes  between 2 individuals of 1 species of 
Corallium (0.3%), as well as among species within each family.

The reference,
Figueroa, D.F., and A.R. Baco.  Complete mitochondrial genomes elucidate 
phylogenetic relationships of the deep-sea octocoral families 
Coralliidae and Paragorgiidae.  Deep-Sea Research II In press.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967064513002312

Best wishes,
Amy



On 1/29/14 7:47 AM, Jean-François Flot wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> While reading Sérgio's email, I realized that I forgot to inform the
> List about an article I published some months ago with Mikael Dahl and
> Carl André. In this paper we reported a particularly striking example of
> stability of mitochondrial DNA sequences in corals: namely, the complete
> mitochondrial genomes of Lophelia pertusa cold-water corals from the
> Barents Sea (off Norway) and the Ionian Sea (off Italy) are nearly
> identical (only one base difference) despite a distance of over 7,500
> kilometers. As we wrote in this article: "Identical sequences of a
> 630-bp fragment of the cox1 gene was reported for populations of another
> azooxanthellate coral species, Balanophyllia elegans, sampled 3000 km
> apart [Hellberg M., BMC Evol Biol 2006, 6:24], but it is the first time
> that such an extremely low level of variation across several thousand
> kilometers is reported using complete mitochondrial genome sequences. In
> contrast, the only other study that compared complete mitogenomes from
> conspecific corals reported between 3 and 18 intraspecific nucleotide
> differences in three Montastraea species analyzed at a single location
> [Fukami H, Knowlton N., Coral Reefs 2005, 24:410–417]."
>
> Here is the reference:
> Flot J-F, Dahl M, André C (2013) Lophelia pertusa corals from the Ionian
> and Barents seas share identical nuclear ITS2 and near-identical
> mitochondrial genome sequences. BMC Research Notes 6:144
> Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-6-144 (the article is Open Access)
>
> Best regards,
> Jean-François
>
>
> P.S. some of you may also be interested in a recent coral paper I
> co-authored: Adjeroud M, Guérécheau A, Vidal-Dupiol J, Flot J-F,
> Arnaud-Haond S, Bonhomme F (in press) Genetic diversity, clonality and
> connectivity in the scleractinian coral Pocillopora damicornis: a
> multi-scale analysis in an insular, fragmented reef system. Marine
> Biology (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00227-013-2355-9).
>
>
> -------- Message original --------
> Sujet: [Coral-List] [Article] Fast-Evolving Mitochondrial DNA in
> Ceriantharia: A Reflection of Hexacorallia Paraphyly?
> Date : Tue, 28 Jan 2014 11:02:27 -0200
> De : Sérgio Stampar <sergiostampar at gmail.com>
> Pour : <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I'm sending this message to share our newly published article that
>> discusses some relevant issues within Anthozoa. The systematic position of
>> Ceriantharia and the use of DNA barcoding are the main topics.
>>
>> The article can be freely downloaded at this link -
>> http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0086612
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Sergio
>
>

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