Cryptic Diversity in Indo-Pacific Coral-Reef Fishes Revealed by DNA-Barcoding Provides New Support to the Centre-of-Overlap Hypothesis

Hubert, Nicolas; Meyer, Chris; Bruggemann, Henrich; Guérin, Fabien; J. L. Komeno, Roberto; Espiau, Benoît; Causse, Romain; T. Williams, Jeffrey; Planes, Serge

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0028987

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Cryptic Diversity in Indo-Pacific Coral-Reef Fishes Revealed by DNA-Barcoding Provides New Support to the Centre-of-Overlap Hypothesis

Published in PLoS ONE • Mar 15, 2012

Authors:

Nicolas Hubert

Chris Meyer

Henrich Bruggemann

Abstract

Diversity in coral reef fishes is not evenly distributed and tends to accumulate in the Indo-Malay-Philippines Archipelago (IMPA). The comprehension of the mechanisms that initiated this pattern is in its infancy despite its importance for the conservation of coral reefs. Considering the IMPA either...

Subject

Coral reef

Indo-Pacific

Reef

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