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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A group of taxa that includes an ancestral taxon but not all descendants of that taxon.
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A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land masses, such as the isthmus of Panama.
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A sequence of DNA, bounded by start and stop codons, which consists of a series of nucleotide bases that gives rise to mrna (messenger RNA) that will be translated into the specific amino acids of the protein product.
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Annual normalized growth rate (measured as accretion or lengthening) of a branching coral caused by calcification .
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Deriving energy from a process that does not require free oxygen.
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In fishes, the cavity containing the gills on each side of the rear of the head, enclosed by the operculum and the branchiostegal membrane.
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