Maternal inheritance of F1 hybrid morphology and colony shape in the coral genus Acropora.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The coral genus Acropora contains more than 150 species with very high morphological diversity. This high diversity may have been caused by repeated hybridization via mass spawning. However, we have little information whether hybrids are formed in these corals. Identifying morphological differences between hybrids and their parental species would provide an opportunity to find wild hybrids in the field and to understand how colony shapes of Acropora have become highly diversified throughout evolutionary history. In the two morphologically distinctive coral species Acropora florida and A. intermedia in the Indo-Pacific, their gametes show high rates of bi-directional intercrossing in vitro, and thus these two species are ideal species to

SUBMITTER: Fukami H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6385702 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature