Genetically Measured Coral Kinship
Text created by automatic translator Elia and has not been subsequently revised by translators. Elia Elhuyar
The corals that build the reefs of the Indo-Pacific and Atlantic provinces have so far considered that they have followed the same evolutionary line.
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However, after analyzing the genes of the mitochondria and nuclei of these corals, some researchers have stated that this view was wrong. Apparently, they have been two evolutionary lines that consider that the divergence occurred about thirty-four million years ago. Nine of the twenty-seven genera of Atlantic reef corals could belong to this second evolutionary line.
Researchers believe that morphological convergence has obscured evolutionary inequality between Atlantic corals. Some of the Atlantic genera have been classified into different families so far, but are genetically more related to each other than to Pacific relatives.
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