Data from the submitted manuscript: C. Ramírez-Portilla, A. H. Baird, P. F. Cowman, A. M. Quattrini, S. Harii, F. Sinniger, J. F. Flot (2021) Solving the coral species conundrum. Systematic Biology.
All in the information in this repository corresponds to the supplementary information for the manuscript. To see a detailed description per item, check the corresponding README file in each folder:
Morphology/
Contains datasets, information and examples of scripts used to perform the morphological assessment of the coral skeletons and the color information recorded in the field.
Breeding_trials/
Contains datasets and examples of R commands used to perform the statistical analyses of the fertilization success results obtained from the breeding experiments performed in vitro.
Molecular_approaches/
Contains examples of commands and scripts used to perform the analyses of both target-capture sequencing data from a subset of samples (n=9) and Sanger sequencing data from the complete set of individuals (n=36).
Summary figure | Graphical abstract of the submitted manuscript: Solving the coral species conundrum (2021)
Three independent lines of evidence – morphology, breeding trials and molecular approaches – yielded congruent species boundaries in a group of the ecologically important tabular Acropora. From left to right: Tabular Acropora at Sesoko Island outer reef (Okinawa, Japan) Photograph by Andrew H. Baird. Hierarchical clustering analysis of qualitative morphological traits. Results from breeding compatibility trials between different pairs of parental crosses. Molecular approaches to species delimitation based on the three target-enrichment defined markers after screening. NOTE: Figures correspond to those from the first submitted version. All colors in the revised version were modified by suggestion of one of the reviewers.