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Global diversity of rotifers (Rotifera) in freshwater 总被引:5,自引:0,他引:5
Hendrik Segers 《Hydrobiologia》2008,595(1):49-59
Rotifera is a Phylum of primary freshwater Metazoa containing two major groups: the heterogonic Monogononta and the exclusively
parthenogenetic Bdelloidea. Monogononta contains 1,570 species-level taxa, of which a majority (1,488) are free-living fresh
or inland water taxa. Bdelloidea contains 461 “species,” only one of which is marine, but with many limnoterrestrial representatives
or animals of unknown ecology. Actual numbers may be much higher, considering the occurrence of cryptic speciation in Monogononta
and the unsatisfactory nature of taxonomic knowledge. Rotifers, mostly monogononts, occur in all types of water bodies, worldwide.
They are particularly diverse in the littoral zone of stagnant waterbodies with soft, slightly acidic water and under oligo-
to mesotrophic conditions. The rotifer record is highest in the Northern hemisphere, which may be due to the concentration
of studies in those regions. Diversity is highest in the (sub)tropics; hotspots are northeast North America, tropical South
America, Southeast Asia, Australia, and Lake Baikal, endemicity is low in Africa (including Madagascar), Europe, the Indian
subcontinent, and Antarctica. Although the lack of fossil evidence and of molecular phylogenetic studies are major hindrances,
contrasting hypotheses on the origin and evolutionary history of Brachionus, Macrochaetus, and Trichocerca are presented.
Guest editors: E. V. Balian, C. Lévêque, H. Segers & K. Martens
Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment 相似文献
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Murat Kaya Elisabeth A. Herniou Timothy G. Barraclough 《Organisms Diversity & Evolution》2009,9(1):3-12
Microscopic animals offer great potential in the analysis of spatial patterns of diversity, as they may provide different scenarios for biogeography and macroecology, but understanding diversity of microscopic animals is hampered by lack of comprehensive data on species distribution and by unreliable taxonomy. DNA taxonomy may prove useful in obtaining reliable data in the future, but we still do not know to what extent traditional and DNA taxonomy can be comparable for microscopic organisms. In this paper, we compare analyses and estimates of diversity at the level of species assemblage between traditional and DNA taxonomy for a group of moss-dwelling microscopic animals, bdelloid rotifers. The results are straightforward: Traditional species identification underestimates diversity by factors of 2 at the local and 2.5 at the regional scale. We discuss the results in the framework of current hypotheses on the distribution of microscopic animals. 相似文献
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Phylogenetic Relationships of Acanthocephala Based on Analysis of 18S Ribosomal RNA Gene Sequences 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
García-Varela M Pérez-Ponce de León G de la Torre P Cummings MP Sarma SS Laclette JP 《Journal of molecular evolution》2000,50(6):532-540
Acanthocephala (thorny-headed worms) is a phylum of endoparasites of vertebrates and arthropods, included among the most
phylogenetically basal tripoblastic pseudocoelomates. The phylum is divided into three classes: Archiacanthocephala, Palaeacanthocephala,
and Eoacanthocephala. These classes are distinguished by morphological characters such as location of lacunar canals, persistence
of ligament sacs in females, number and type of cement glands in males, number and size of proboscis hooks, host taxonomy,
and ecology. To understand better the phylogenetic relationships within Acanthocephala, and between Acanthocephala and Rotifera,
we sequenced the nearly complete 18S rRNA genes of nine species from the three classes of Acanthocephala and four species
of Rotifera from the classes Bdelloidea and Monogononta. Phylogenetic relationships were inferred by maximum-likelihood analyses
of these new sequences and others previously determined. The analyses showed that Acanthocephala is the sister group to a
clade including Eoacanthocephala and Palaeacanthocephala. Archiacanthocephala exhibited a slower rate of evolution at the
nucleotide level, as evidenced by shorter branch lengths for the group. We found statistically significant support for the
monophyly of Rotifera, represented in our analysis by species from the clade Eurotatoria, which includes the classes Bdelloidea
and Monogononta. Eurotatoria also appears as the sister group to Acanthocephala.
Received: 12 October 1999 / Accepted: 8 February 2000 相似文献
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One of the difficulties in working with bdelloid rotifers is to extract them from the substratum. In the present paper a method is suggested to separate moss-dwelling bdelloids and other animals quantitatively from their habitat. By this procedure it is possible to identify the entire spectrum of species and to calculate exactly their individual densities per unit area or dry weight of moss. 相似文献
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Molecular evidence for broad-scale distributions in bdelloid rotifers: everything is not everywhere but most things are very widespread 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
The Baas-Becking's hypothesis, also known by the term 'everything is everywhere' (EisE), states that microscopic organisms such as bacteria and protists are globally distributed and do not show biogeographical patterns, due to their high dispersal potential. We tested the prediction of the EisE hypothesis on bdelloid rotifers, microscopic animals similar to protists in size and ecology that present one of the best cases among animals for the plausibility of global dispersal. Geographical range sizes and patterns of isolation by distance were estimated for global collections of the genera Adineta and Rotaria, using different taxonomic units: (i) traditional species based on morphology, (ii) the most inclusive monophyletic lineages from a cytochrome oxidase I phylogeny comprising just a single traditional species, and (iii) genetic clusters indicative of independently evolving lineages. Although there are cases of truly cosmopolitan distribution, even at the most finely resolved taxonomic level, most genetic clusters are distributed at continental or lower scales. Nevertheless, although 'everything is not everywhere', bdelloid rotifers do display broad distributions typical of those of other microscopic organisms. Broad dispersal and large population sizes might be factors lessening the evolutionary cost of long-term abstinence from sexual reproduction in this famous group of obligate parthenogens. 相似文献
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Do Rotifer Jaws Grow After Hatching? 总被引:3,自引:3,他引:0
The hard articulated jaws of some pseudocoelomate metazoans were recently used in reconstructing their phylogenetic relationships, but we still do not know if these structures could change in size and shape during the life of individuals, and experimental data are lacking on their post-embryonic development. Rotifers are one of the groups in which hard articulated jaws, called trophi, are well known, and are widely used taxonomically. Here we report on SEM study of trophi of rotifers of different ages, to determine if the trophi structures change in shape and/or in size during post-embryonic development. We used linear measurements and geometric morphometrics analyses from scanning electron microscopic pictures of trophi of Cupelopagis vorax, Dicranophorus forcipatus, Macrotrachela quadricornifera, Notommata glyphura, Rotaria macrura, R. neptunoida, and R. tardigrada. Results for these species show that trophi do not change after hatching, either in size or in shape. In contrast, data on Asplanchna priodonta reveal trophi growth after hatching. 相似文献
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A review of the literature on rotifers and crustacean zooplankton in highly acidic environments revealed that data from eleven aquatic environments on three continents (America, Europe, Japan) with a pH 3 are available. Seven sites are influenced by volcanism or weathering processes in the catchment area, four others originated from human mining activities. Species richness was generally low. Only 16 species are found and 1–11 species are reported for each area. These studies clearly show that small littoral or benthic rotifers predominate over crustaceans under highly acidic conditions. In the Lusatian mining area (Germany), all lakes are colonized by zooplankton, even the most acidic one with a pH of 2.3. The core community consists of the rotifers Cephalodella hoodi, C. gibba, Elosa worallii and Rotaria rotatoria, with C. hoodi and E. worallii the most abundant. Larger species, such as the rotifer Brachionus sericus or the cladoceran Chydorus sphaericus, occur at a pH close to 3. A similar pattern is reported from acidic mining lakes in Illinois, U.S.A. Many of these species can also be found in less acidic softwater or even alkaline environments due to the tolerance of a broad range of pH values. Elosa worallii and Brachionus sericus are probably the most acidophilic rotifer species, though at least the latter can also grow at neutral pH in the laboratory. Clear understanding of the pH limits of B. sericus in nature may also have been complicated by the fact that it has probably in the past been wrongly named as B. urceolaris (phenotype `sericus'). The typical B. urceolaris cannot tolerate extremely low pH. Overall, generalist species with a worldwide distribution seem to play the major role in the colonization of anthropogenic highly acidic lakes. 相似文献