| Budget Amount *help |
¥18,720,000 (Direct Cost: ¥14,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,320,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥10,920,000 (Direct Cost: ¥8,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,520,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The classical morphological-based taxonomy of the reef-building corals, which play an important role in forming the coral reefs, is in chaos at present because the skeletal characters, which are key characters for the classification of species and higher taxonomic ranks, are quite variable and instable. Therefore, new approach to revise the classical taxonomy of the corals has been required. In this study, we focused on the three families, “Faviidae” (=Merulinidae), Poritidae, and Dendrophylliidae, which taxonomy is much confusion in comparison with other families. Molecular phylogenetic analyses were applied into these families, and then based on the molecular data obtained, we searched which morphological key characters reflect on the molecular data. As the results, we succeeded the revision of the genus and family level of these corals, although it remains still many problems to resolve to define the species boundary.
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