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| Marques, Virginie; Guérin, Pierre-édouard; Rocle, Mathieu; Valentini, Alice; Manel, Stéphanie; Mouillot, David; Dejean, Tony. |
| Human activities impact all ecosystems on Earth, which urges scientists to better understand biodiversity changes across temporal and spatial scales. Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is a promising non‐invasive method to assess species composition in a wide range of ecosystems. Yet, this method requires the completeness of a reference database, i.e. a list of DNA sequences attached to each species of the regional pool, which is rarely met. As an alternative, molecular operational taxonomic units (MOTUs) can be extracted as clusters of sequences. However, the extent to which the diversity of MOTUs can predict the diversity of species across spatial scales is unknown. Here, we used 196 samples along the Rhone river (France) for which the reference... |
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Palavras-chave: 12S primer; Alpha-beta-delta-diversity; Clustering; Metabarcoding; MOTUs; Reference database. |
| Ano: 2020 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00643/75506/76373.pdf |
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| Morard, Raphael; Escarguel, Gilles; Weiner, Agnes K. M.; Andre, Aurore; Douady, Christophe J.; Wade, Christopher M.; Darling, Kate F.; Ujiie, Yurika; Seears, Heidi A.; Quillevere, Frederic; De Garidel-thoron, Thibault; De Vargas, Colomban; Kucera, Michal. |
| Investigations of biodiversity, biogeography, and ecological processes rely on the identification of "species" as biologically significant, natural units of evolution. In this context, morphotaxonomy only provides an adequate level of resolution if reproductive isolation matches morphological divergence. In many groups of organisms, morphologically defined species often disguise considerable genetic diversity, which may be indicative of the existence of cryptic species. The diversity hidden by morphological species can be disentangled through genetic surveys, which also provide access to data on the ecological distribution of genetically circumscribed units. These units can be identified by unique DNA sequence motifs and allow studies of evolutionary and... |
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Palavras-chave: Cryptic species; Genetic diversity; Planktonic foraminifera; Molecular nomenclature; MOTUs. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00383/49408/49900.pdf |
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