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From mutiny to murder, only 18 of the 270 seamen made it back to Seville 500 years ago – here's the horror behind the harrowing expedition
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From mutiny to murder, only 18 of the 270 seamen made it back to Seville 500 years ago – here's the horror behind the harrowing expedition
Recurring outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) severely damage healthy corals, especially in the Western Pacific Ocean. To obtain a better understanding of population genetics of COTS and historical colonization across the Pacific Ocean, complete mitochondrial genomes were sequenced from 243 individuals collected in 11 reef regions. Our results indicate that Pacific COTS (Acanthaster cf. solaris) comprise two major clades, an East-Central Pacific (ECP) clade and a Pan-Pacific (PP) clade, separation of which was supported by high bootstrap value. The ECP clade consists of COTS from Fren...