Liu, Shang-Yin Vanson https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9472-3941
Cheng, Yu-Rong
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (MOST 104-2611-M-110-022-MY2)
Article History
Received: 3 September 2018
Accepted: 21 September 2018
First Online: 26 September 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
: Specimens used in this project were collected during the 2014 NanHai cruise supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (MOST), and operated by ocean research vessel No. 5. Corals were collected by either bean trawl or dredge, and all specimens expired during the sampling process and were preserved in 95% ETOH afterward. Sampling permission was under the authority of MOST and sampling strategies followed the animal ethics regulations of National Sun Yat-sen University.