Ciliate diversity in rodrigo de freitas lagoon (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) from an integrative standpoint.

ABSTRACT: The Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon is a highly eutrophic lacustrine system and has one of the longest histories of exploration and anthropic alteration in Brazil. Despite its relevance, limited studies explored the diversity of micro-eukaryotes in the lagoon. Ciliates (Alveolata, Ciliophora) are overlooked in environmental microbiology, especially in tropical and subtropical ecosystems, resulting in limited knowledge about their diversity and functional relevance in South American habitats, particularly in coastal lagoons. To fill this gap, here we investigated the diversity of ciliates in a brackish coastal lagoon in an urban area of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, applying and comparing the performance of morphological and metabarcoding approaches. The metabarcoding analysis, based on high-throughput

SUBMITTER: Campello-Nunes PH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11153468 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature