Optimizing DNA extraction and PCR amplification conditions for establishing phylogenetic relationships of bubble corals (family Euphyllidae)

• Main Authors: Luzon, Katrina S., Lagman, Ma. Carmen A., Licuanan, Wilfredo Roehl Y.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2007
• Subjects: Scleractinia—Classification; Marine Biology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/7728
• Institution: De La Salle University

Coral taxonomy traditionally relies on skeletal morphology, a fact, which does not hold true in the case of the family Euphyllidae. Most of the 14 "bubble coral" species under this family are identified in a far more subjective way of visually inspecting their soft tissue features while in...