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David W Hicks

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

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GeneticsGenome Biology and EvolutionPeer-reviewedOct 30, 2026

The globally dispersed sun-coral species is _Tubastraea coccinea_ (Cnidaria: Anthozoa)

Angela Ferreira Portella, João Gabriel R. N. Ferreira, Giordano B. Soares‐Souza…·Mauro de Freitas Rebelo

The paper resolves taxonomic confusion in sun corals by combining molecular phylogenetics and genome assemblies, revealing T. coccinea as the cosmopolitan species and T. tagusensis as endemic to the Galapagos.

DOI 10.1093/gbe/evag255

non-human primateDNA methylation

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