The anthozoan sub-class Octocorallia includes over 3500 nominal species of soft corals and gorgonian sea fans, many of which serve as critical foundation species in benthic marine ecosystems in shallo
Maximum clade credibility trees (MCCT) obtained from strict-clock BEAST analyses applied to each of Murina gracilis and M. recondita. Tree files from analyses with a constant-sized population model an
BackgroundClassical morphological taxonomy places the approximately 1400 recognized species of Scleractinia (hard corals) into 27 families, but many aspects of coral evolution remain unclear despite t
