Distribution and diversity of oligotrich and choreotrich ciliates across an environmental gradient in a large temperate estuary

Autor:	George B. McManus, Laura A. Katz, Maiko Tamura
Rok vydání:	2011
Předmět:	Abiotic component geography geography.geographical_feature_category biology Ecology Estuary Aquatic Science Plankton biology.organism_classification Choreotrich Oligotrich Rarefaction (ecology) Species richness Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Environmental gradient
Zdroj:	Aquatic Microbial Ecology. 64:51-67
ISSN:	1616-1564 0948-3055
DOI:	10.3354/ame01509
Popis:	Using a combination of clone library and DGGE analyses, we assessed the diversity of coastal planktonic ciliates from the oligotrich and choreotrich clades across environmental gradients in Long Island Sound, USA. We sampled fresh and saline, as well as stratified and well-mixed, waters and found that these ciliate assemblages consist of a few common haplotypes and numerous rare haplotypes. Rarefaction estimates of total richness indicated that our survey did not cover the full diversity of the samples, suggesting that there may be many more haplotypes present in the Sound than predicted by previous microscopic surveys. We also found that haplotype richness varied on small spatial scales (
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
Externí odkaz:	https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::afe132d42bdebb64c254ae3e3a7f7aa6 https://doi.org/10.3354/ame01509 Zobrazit plný text záznamu