Soil rotifer communities are extremely diverse globally but spatially autocorrelated locally.

ABSTRACT: Bdelloid rotifers are important contributors to biogeochemical cycling and trophic dynamics of both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, but little is known about their biogeographic distribution and community structure in terrestrial environments. This lack of knowledge stems from a lack of phylogenetic information and assumptions that microbial eukaryotes are globally distributed and have very limited diversity across vast geographic distances. However, these assumptions have been based more on assessments of their morphology than any measure of their true genetic diversity and biogeographic distribution. We developed specific primers for the cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (cox1) gene of bdelloid rotifers and amplified and cloned sequences using a nested sampling scheme that represented l

SUBMITTER: Robeson MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3060258 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature