{"id":269,"date":"2023-01-09T12:36:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T12:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/?page_id=269"},"modified":"2025-03-26T23:54:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T23:54:24","slug":"a-prolifera","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/lit-links\/bb-links\/a-prolifera\/","title":{"rendered":"A prolifera links"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_266\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-8.27.26-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-266\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-266\" src=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-8.27.26-AM-300x266.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-8.27.26-AM-300x266.png 300w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-8.27.26-AM.png 724w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smithsonian collection<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/collections.nmnh.si.edu\/search\/iz\/?ark=ark:\/65665\/36aa53311167248c28925c21a98ce9af4\">A. G. Mayer 1915: Acropora prolifera<\/a><br \/>\nFrom Smithsonian Info:<br \/>\nTitle: Acropora prolifera<br \/>\nCreator: A. G. Mayer<br \/>\nDate Created: 1915<br \/>\nSpecimen Count: ca.60<br \/>\nLocation Created: Brighton, from reef exposed to sea, 1 mi off shore, 2-4m depth,\u00a0 Barbados, North Atlantic Ocean<br \/>\nPreparation: Dry<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bioone.org\/journals\/proceedings-of-the-biological-society-of-washington\/volume-132\/issue-1\/18-D-18-00011\/Fossil-Acropora-prolifera-Lamarck-1816-reveals-coral-hybridization-is-not\/10.2988\/18-D-18-00011.short#:~:text=Fossil%20Acropora%20prolifera%20(Lamarck%2C%201816,not%20only%20a%20recent%20phenomenon&amp;text=Acropora%20prolifera%20is%20an%20ecologically,cervicornis.\"><strong>Fossil Acropora prolifera (Lamarck, 1816) reveals coral hybridization is not only a recent phenomenon<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nWilliam F Precht et al., 2019 Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 132(1):40 DOI:10.2988\/18-D-18-00011 &#8220;Acropora prolifera is an ecologically distinctive western Atlantic reef-building coral that originates from hybridization and back-crossing between A. palmata and A. cervicornis. It has been suggested that A. prolifera might be a recent product of precipitous decline in the abundance of the two parent species, forcing hybridization where both it and its product might not otherwise be prevalent phenomena. We present evidence that A. prolifera has a fossil record dating back to at least the late Pleistocene, and that it was ecologically significant prior to the region-wide die-back of acroporid corals. These data, when taken collectively, reveal that hybridization in the Caribbean acroporids is historically rooted and not a recent artifact of changes in Caribbean reef ecology. It is becoming apparent that hybrid taxa likely play an important but underappreciated role in coral reef ecology and reef-building more generally. This is consistent with recent recognition that interspecific hybridization can drive evolutionary innovation and cladogenesis in animals as well as plants.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And view more links on this page: <a href=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/bb-observations\/acroporoids-on-vauxhall-reef\/a-prolifera\/\"><strong>A. prolifera<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A. G. Mayer 1915: Acropora prolifera From Smithsonian Info: Title: Acropora prolifera Creator: A. G. Mayer Date Created: 1915 Specimen Count: ca.60 Location Created: Brighton, from reef exposed to sea, 1 mi off shore, 2-4m depth,\u00a0 Barbados, North Atlantic Ocean &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/lit-links\/bb-links\/a-prolifera\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":88,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-269","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3931,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/269\/revisions\/3931"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}