Mitochondrial and Nuclear Genes Suggest that Stony Corals Are Monophyletic but Most Families of Stony Corals Are Not (Order Scleractinia, Class Anthozoa, Phylum Cnidaria)

• Hironobu Fukami,

  Affiliation Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, Field Science Education and Research Center, Kyoto University, Shirahama, Wakayama, Japan

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• Chaolun Allen Chen,

  Affiliations Biodiversity Research Centre, Academia Sinica, Nangang, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Ann F. Budd,

  Affiliation Department of Geoscience, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

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• Allen Collins,

  Affiliation National Systematics Laboratory, NOAA Fisheries Service, National Museum of Natural History, MRC 153, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., United States of America

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• Carden Wallace,

  Affiliation Museum of Tropical Queensland, Townsville, Australia

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• Yao-Yang Chuang,

  Affiliations Biodiversity Research Centre, Academia Sinica, Nangang, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Chienhsun Chen,

  Affiliations Biodiversity Research Centre, Academia Sinica, Nangang, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Chang-Feng Dai,

  Affiliation Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Kenji Iwao,

  Affiliation Akajima Marine Science Laboratory, Zamami-son, Okinawa, Japan

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• Charles Sheppard,

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

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• Nancy Knowlton

  * E-mail: knowlton@si.edu

  Affiliations Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, MRC 163, Washington, D. C., United States of America

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