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| Dato | Valore |
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| Title | At least some protist species are not ubiquitous |
| Abstract | Body size is one of the main regulators of the ecological characteristics of living organisms, including their biogeography. The 'ubiquity hypothesis' for microorganisms states that they are widely distributed, if not cosmopolitan, due to their small size that allows passive dispersal, in contrast to large organisms that are limited by geographical barriers in their active dispersal. Such idea, summarized in the tenet 'Everything is everywhere, but the environment selects', has driven most of the research in biogeography for microscopic organisms in the last decades, spurring a debate on whether there are fundamental differences in the biogeography of small and large organisms or not (Fenchel & Finlay 2004; Foissner 2008; Hortal 2011). The strong focus on the ubiquity hypothesis may have been often abused to provide a rationale for otherwise descriptive work on the spatial distribution of microscopic organisms; nevertheless, such focus also provides a framework to understand the mechanisms originating and maintaining biodiversity in space. The reliability of the analyses on unknown and understudied organisms is improving, and Heger et al. (2013) is a splendid example on small unicellular eukaryotes of what should be done to overcome the major problems and ambiguities that heated the debate on the ubiquity hypothesis. © 2013 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. |
| Source | Molecular ecology (Print) 22 (20), pp. 5053–5055 |
| Keywords | DNA barcodingenvironmental DNAphylogeographyprotists |
| Journal | Molecular ecology (Print) |
| Editor | Blackwell Scientific Publications,, Oxford, Regno Unito |
| Year | 2013 |
| Type | Articolo in rivista |
| DOI | 10.1111/mec.12507 |
| Authors | Diego Fontaneto; Joaquin Hortal |
| Text | 281571 2013 10.1111/mec.12507 Scopus 2 s2.0 84885633139 DNA barcoding environmental DNA phylogeography protists At least some protist species are not ubiquitous Diego Fontaneto; Joaquin Hortal Joaquin Hortal CSIC Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales MNCN ; Diego Fontaneto CNR ISE Body size is one of the main regulators of the ecological characteristics of living organisms, including their biogeography. The ubiquity hypothesis for microorganisms states that they are widely distributed, if not cosmopolitan, due to their small size that allows passive dispersal, in contrast to large organisms that are limited by geographical barriers in their active dispersal. Such idea, summarized in the tenet Everything is everywhere, but the environment selects , has driven most of the research in biogeography for microscopic organisms in the last decades, spurring a debate on whether there are fundamental differences in the biogeography of small and large organisms or not Fenchel Finlay 2004; Foissner 2008; Hortal 2011 . The strong focus on the ubiquity hypothesis may have been often abused to provide a rationale for otherwise descriptive work on the spatial distribution of microscopic organisms; nevertheless, such focus also provides a framework to understand the mechanisms originating and maintaining biodiversity in space. The reliability of the analyses on unknown and understudied organisms is improving, and Heger et al. 2013 is a splendid example on small unicellular eukaryotes of what should be done to overcome the major problems and ambiguities that heated the debate on the ubiquity hypothesis. © 2013 John Wiley Sons Ltd. 22 Published version http //onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.12507/full Fontaneto Hortal 2013 2013_Molecular_ecology_22_5053_5055.pdf Articolo in rivista Blackwell Scientific Publications, 0962 1083 Molecular ecology Print Molecular ecology Print Mol. ecol. Print Molecular ecology. Print diego.fontaneto FONTANETO DIEGO TA.P04.016.004 Ecologia teorica e applicata degli ecosistemi acquatici |