Fifteen species in one: deciphering the Brachionus plicatilis species complex (Rotifera, Monogononta) through DNA taxonomy


Por: Mills S., Alcántara-Rodríguez J.A., Ciros-Pérez J., Gómez A., Hagiwara A., Galindo K.H., Jersabek C.D., Malekzadeh-Viayeh R., Leasi F., Lee J.-S., Mark Welch D.B., Papakostas S., Riss S., Segers H., Serra M., Shiel R., Smolak R., Snell T.W., Stelzer C.-P., Tang C.Q., Wallace R.L., Fontaneto D., Walsh E.J.

Publicada: 1 jul 2017
Categoría: Aquatic science

Resumen:
Understanding patterns and processes in biological diversity is a critical task given current and rapid environmental change. Such knowledge is even more essential when the taxa under consideration are important ecological and evolutionary models. One of these cases is the monogonont rotifer cryptic species complex Brachionus plicatilis, which is by far the most extensively studied group of rotifers, is widely used in aquaculture, and is known to host a large amount of unresolved diversity. Here we collate a dataset of previously available and newly generated sequences of COI and ITS1 for 1273 isolates of the B. plicatilis complex and apply three approaches in DNA taxonomy (i.e. ABGD, PTP, and GMYC) to identify and provide support for the existence of 15 species within the complex. We used these results to explore phylogenetic signal in morphometric and ecological traits, and to understand correlation among the traits using phylogenetic comparative models. Our results support niche conservatism for some traits (e.g. body length) and phylogenetic plasticity for others (e.g. genome size).

Filiaciones:
Mills S.:
 James Cook University, 1 James Cook Drive, Townsville, 4811, Australia

Alcántara-Rodríguez J.A.:
 Proyecto de Investigación en Limnología Tropical, FES Iztacala, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico

Ciros-Pérez J.:
 Proyecto de Investigación en Limnología Tropical, FES Iztacala, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico

Gómez A.:
 School of Biological, Biomedical and Environmental Sciences, University of Hull, Hull, HU6 7RX, United Kingdom

Hagiwara A.:
 Graduate School of Fisheries and Environmental Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, 852-8521, Japan

Galindo K.H.:
 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, United States

Jersabek C.D.:
 Department of Organismal Biology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, 5020, Austria

Malekzadeh-Viayeh R.:
 Artemia and Aquatic Research Institute, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran

Leasi F.:
 Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, United States

Lee J.-S.:
 Department of Biological Science, College of Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, 16419, South Korea

Mark Welch D.B.:
 Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, United States

Papakostas S.:
 Division of Genetics and Physiology, Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

Riss S.:
 Research Institute for Limnology, University of Innsbruck, Mondsee, 5310, Austria

Segers H.:
 OD Nature, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, 1000, Belgium

Serra M.:
 Institut Cavanilles de Biodiversitat i Biologia Evolutiva, Universitat de València, Valencia, 46071, Spain

Shiel R.:
 Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia

Smolak R.:
 Department of Ecology, Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences, Presov University, Presov, 081 16, Slovakia

Snell T.W.:
 School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0230, United States

Stelzer C.-P.:
 Research Institute for Limnology, University of Innsbruck, Mondsee, 5310, Austria

Tang C.Q.:
 Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, United Kingdom

Wallace R.L.:
 Department of Biology, Ripon College, Ripon, United States

Fontaneto D.:
 Institute of Ecosystem Study, National Research Council of Italy, Verbania Pallanza, 28922, Italy

Walsh E.J.:
 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, United States
ISSN: 00188158
Editorial
SPRINGER, VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS, Países Bajos
Tipo de documento: Article
Volumen: 796 Número: 1
Páginas: 39-58
WOS Id: 000403357600004

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