Extreme seascape drives local recruitment and genetic divergence in brooding and spawning corals in remote north-west Australia.

Management strategies designed to conserve coral reefs threatened by climate change need to incorporate knowledge of the spatial distribution of inter- and intra-specific genetic diversity. We characterized patterns of genetic diversity and connectivity using single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in two reef-building corals to explore the eco-evolutionary processes that sustain populations in north-west Australia. Our sampling focused on the unique reefs of the Kimberley; we collected the broadcast spawning coral ( = 534) and the brooding coral ( = 612) across inter-archipelago (tens to hundreds of kilometres), inter-reef (kilometres to tens of kilometres) and within-reef (tens of metres to a few kilometres) scales.

An examination of introgression and incomplete lineage sorting among three closely related species of chocolate-dipped damselfish (genus: ).

Aim: To determine the impact of ecological and environmental histories on the evolution of coral reef damselfishes at two adjacent marine biogeographic suture zones.

Location: Indo-West Pacific, notably including two suture zones: Socotra and Christmas and Cocos/Keeling Islands.

Taxon: , , and .