Setting evolutionary-based conservation priorities for a phylogenetically data-poor taxonomic group (Scleractinia)
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1 Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, UK 2 Zoological Society of London, London, UK 3 Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 4 Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore 5 Institute of Biomedical and Environmental Science and Technology, Faculty of Creative Arts, Technologies and Science, University of Bedfordshire, Luton, UK 6 Department of Marine Zoology, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands 7 Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, UK 8 Coastal Oceans Research and Development in the Indian Ocean (CORDIO) East Africa, Mombasa, Kenya 9 Coral Reef Research Unit, University of Essex, Colchester, UK 10 School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University, Anglesey, UK 11 Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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