Taxonomic status of Euphylliidae corals in Peninsular Malaysia based on morphological structures and phylogenetic analyses using Mitochondrial COI Gene1

The morphological and molecular studies provide greater taxonomic resolution for the scleractinian coral identification. The Euphylliidae corals are among the scleractinian family for which their corallite and polyp morphologies have been examined for species identification. However, knowledge on th...

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Main Authors:	Khodzori, Mohd. Fikri Akmal, Saad, Shahbudin, Nordin, Noor Faizul Hadry, Ku Sulong, Ku Abdullah Ulwan, Mat Zain, Khairul Amira
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Language:	English
Published:	Pleiades Publishing, Ltd., 2017
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spelling	iium-568632017-05-15T07:51:06Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/56863/ Taxonomic status of Euphylliidae corals in Peninsular Malaysia based on morphological structures and phylogenetic analyses using Mitochondrial COI Gene1 Khodzori, Mohd. Fikri Akmal Saad, Shahbudin Nordin, Noor Faizul Hadry Ku Sulong, Ku Abdullah Ulwan Mat Zain, Khairul Amira Q Science (General) The morphological and molecular studies provide greater taxonomic resolution for the scleractinian coral identification. The Euphylliidae corals are among the scleractinian family for which their corallite and polyp morphologies have been examined for species identification. However, knowledge on the molecular study for coral identification in Malaysia is very limited. Therefore, this study aimed to examine the morphological structures and phylogenetic analyses for six Euphylliidae coral species using the mitochondrial gene of cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI). The results showed that the Euphylliidae corals are present under both “complex” and “robust” coral clades as supported by many researchers. The result also revealed that the species phylogeny of Euphylliidae corals is in concordances with its morphological structures of corallites. It can be concluded the combination between morphological structures and phylogenetic analyses provide more accurate identification than relying on morphological study alone. Hence, it provides a future direction for the scleractinian research progress in species identification. Pleiades Publishing, Ltd., 2017 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/56863/1/2017%20Fikri%20et%20al%20Taxonomic%20status%20Euphylliidae%20corals.pdf Khodzori, Mohd. Fikri Akmal and Saad, Shahbudin and Nordin, Noor Faizul Hadry and Ku Sulong, Ku Abdullah Ulwan and Mat Zain, Khairul Amira (2017) Taxonomic status of Euphylliidae corals in Peninsular Malaysia based on morphological structures and phylogenetic analyses using Mitochondrial COI Gene1. Russian Journal of Marine Biology, 43 (2). pp. 118-126. ISSN 1063-0740 10.1134/S1063074017020055
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spellingShingle	Q Science (General) Khodzori, Mohd. Fikri Akmal Saad, Shahbudin Nordin, Noor Faizul Hadry Ku Sulong, Ku Abdullah Ulwan Mat Zain, Khairul Amira Taxonomic status of Euphylliidae corals in Peninsular Malaysia based on morphological structures and phylogenetic analyses using Mitochondrial COI Gene1
description	The morphological and molecular studies provide greater taxonomic resolution for the scleractinian coral identification. The Euphylliidae corals are among the scleractinian family for which their corallite and polyp morphologies have been examined for species identification. However, knowledge on the molecular study for coral identification in Malaysia is very limited. Therefore, this study aimed to examine the morphological structures and phylogenetic analyses for six Euphylliidae coral species using the mitochondrial gene of cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI). The results showed that the Euphylliidae corals are present under both “complex” and “robust” coral clades as supported by many researchers. The result also revealed that the species phylogeny of Euphylliidae corals is in concordances with its morphological structures of corallites. It can be concluded the combination between morphological structures and phylogenetic analyses provide more accurate identification than relying on morphological study alone. Hence, it provides a future direction for the scleractinian research progress in species identification.
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author	Khodzori, Mohd. Fikri Akmal Saad, Shahbudin Nordin, Noor Faizul Hadry Ku Sulong, Ku Abdullah Ulwan Mat Zain, Khairul Amira
author_facet	Khodzori, Mohd. Fikri Akmal Saad, Shahbudin Nordin, Noor Faizul Hadry Ku Sulong, Ku Abdullah Ulwan Mat Zain, Khairul Amira
author_sort	Khodzori, Mohd. Fikri Akmal
title	Taxonomic status of Euphylliidae corals in Peninsular Malaysia based on morphological structures and phylogenetic analyses using Mitochondrial COI Gene1
title_short	Taxonomic status of Euphylliidae corals in Peninsular Malaysia based on morphological structures and phylogenetic analyses using Mitochondrial COI Gene1
title_full	Taxonomic status of Euphylliidae corals in Peninsular Malaysia based on morphological structures and phylogenetic analyses using Mitochondrial COI Gene1
title_fullStr	Taxonomic status of Euphylliidae corals in Peninsular Malaysia based on morphological structures and phylogenetic analyses using Mitochondrial COI Gene1
title_full_unstemmed	Taxonomic status of Euphylliidae corals in Peninsular Malaysia based on morphological structures and phylogenetic analyses using Mitochondrial COI Gene1
title_sort	taxonomic status of euphylliidae corals in peninsular malaysia based on morphological structures and phylogenetic analyses using mitochondrial coi gene1
publisher	Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.,
publishDate	2017
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/56863/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/56863/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/56863/1/2017%20Fikri%20et%20al%20Taxonomic%20status%20Euphylliidae%20corals.pdf
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Taxonomic status of Euphylliidae corals in Peninsular Malaysia based on morphological structures and phylogenetic analyses using Mitochondrial COI Gene1

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