The Diversification of Acropora Corals (IMAGE)

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University

The Diversification of Acropora Corals

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This research showed that the ancestors of Acropora corals diverged from other corals around 120 million years ago and the Acropora genus gained 28 additional gene families before it underwent diversification around 60 million years ago.

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This figure appears in the publication in Molecular Biology and Evolution.

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