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| Title | Integrating DNA and morphological taxonomy to describe diversity in poorly studied microscopic animals: new species of the genus Abrochtha Bryce, 1910 (Rotifera: Bdelloidea: Philodinavidae) |
| Abstract | Specimens of the bdelloid rotifer genus Abrochtha were collected from mountain and desert sites in the western USA. All were morphologically distinct from the two previously described species of this genus. Barcode sequences of the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) gene were obtained from 14 specimens. These were shown to be samples from four different independently evolving populations or metapopulations, i.e. evolutionary species. Two different species criteria rooted in population and evolutionary genetic theory, the 4 rule and the generalized mixed yule coalescent (GMYC) method, agreed in the delimitation of the four species. Three of these evolutionary species are formally described as new species; two are cryptic species, differentiable only by statistical analysis of morphometric data. This is the first time that these species criteria have been used in new species descriptions, and the first formal descriptions of cryptic bdelloid species delimited by molecular analyses. (C) 2011 The Linnean Society of London, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2011, 161, 723-734. |
| Source | Zoological journal of the Linnean Society 161 (4), pp. 723–734 |
| Keywords | bdelloidcryptic speciesDNA barcodingevolutionary speciesrotiferspecies descriptionspecies discovery |
| Journal | Zoological journal of the Linnean Society |
| Editor | Academic Press.., [London], Regno Unito |
| Year | 2011 |
| Type | Articolo in rivista |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00674.x |
| Authors | Birky, C. William, Jr.; Ricci, Claudia; Melone, Giulio; Fontaneto, Diego |
| Text | 283517 2011 10.1111/j.1096 3642.2010.00674.x ISI Web of Science WOS 000288677700002 bdelloid cryptic species DNA barcoding evolutionary species rotifer species description species discovery Integrating DNA and morphological taxonomy to describe diversity in poorly studied microscopic animals new species of the genus Abrochtha Bryce, 1910 Rotifera Bdelloidea Philodinavidae Birky, C. William, Jr.; Ricci, Claudia; Melone, Giulio; Fontaneto, Diego University of Arizona; University of Milan; Swedish Museum Nat Hist Specimens of the bdelloid rotifer genus Abrochtha were collected from mountain and desert sites in the western USA. All were morphologically distinct from the two previously described species of this genus. Barcode sequences of the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I COI gene were obtained from 14 specimens. These were shown to be samples from four different independently evolving populations or metapopulations, i.e. evolutionary species. Two different species criteria rooted in population and evolutionary genetic theory, the 4 rule and the generalized mixed yule coalescent GMYC method, agreed in the delimitation of the four species. Three of these evolutionary species are formally described as new species; two are cryptic species, differentiable only by statistical analysis of morphometric data. This is the first time that these species criteria have been used in new species descriptions, and the first formal descriptions of cryptic bdelloid species delimited by molecular analyses. C 2011 The Linnean Society of London, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2011, 161, 723 734. 161 Articolo in rivista Academic Press.. 0024 4082 Zoological journal of the Linnean Society Zoological journal of the Linnean Society Zool. j. Linn. Soc. Zoological journal of the Linnean Society. diego.fontaneto FONTANETO DIEGO |