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Ciliate Morpho-Taxonomy and Practical Considerations before Deploying Metabarcoding to Ciliate Community Diversity Surveys in Urban Receiving Waters. Microorganisms 2022; 10:microorganisms10122512. [PMID: 36557765 PMCID: PMC9787992 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms10122512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2022] [Revised: 12/12/2022] [Accepted: 12/12/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Disentangling biodiversity and community assembly effects on ecosystem function has always been an important topic in ecological research. The development and application of a DNA metabarcoding method has fundamentally changed the way we describe prokaryotic communities and estimate biodiversity. Compared to prokaryotes (bacteria and archaea), the eukaryotic microbes (unicellular eukaryotes) also fulfill extremely important ecological functions in different ecosystems regarding their intermediate trophic positions. For instance, ciliated microbes (accounting for a substantial portion of the diversity of unicellular eukaryotes) perform pivotal roles in microbial loops and are essential components in different ecosystems, especially in water purification processes. Therefore, the community composition of ciliated species has been widely utilized as a proxy for water quality and biological assessment in urban river ecosystems and WWTPs (wastewater treatment plants). Unfortunately, investigating the dynamic changes and compositions in ciliate communities relies heavily on existing morpho-taxonomical descriptions, which is limited by traditional microscopic approaches. To deal with this dilemma, we discuss the DNA-based taxonomy of ciliates, the relative merits and challenges of deploying its application using DNA metabarcoding for surveys of ciliate community diversity in urban waterbodies, and provide suggestions for minimizing relevant sources of biases in its implementation. We expect that DNA metabarcoding could untangle relationships between community assembly and environmental changes affecting ciliate communities. These analyses and discussions could offer a replicable method in support of the application of evaluating communities of ciliated protozoa as indicators of urban freshwater ecosystems.
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Paramecium bursaria—A Complex of Five Cryptic Species: Mitochondrial DNA COI Haplotype Variation and Biogeographic Distribution. DIVERSITY 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/d13110589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Ciliates are a diverse protistan group and many consist of cryptic species complexes whose members may be restricted to particular biogeographic locations. Mitochondrial genes, characterized by a high resolution for closely related species, were applied to identify new species and to distinguish closely related morphospecies. In the current study, we analyzed 132 sequences of COI mtDNA fragments obtained from P. bursaria species collected worldwide. The results allowed, for the first time, to generate a network of COI haplotypes and demonstrate the relationships between P. bursaria strains, as well as to confirm the existence of five reproductively isolated haplogroups. The P. bursaria haplogroups identified in the present study correspond to previously reported syngens (R1, R2, R3, R4, and R5), thus we decided to propose the following binominal names for each of them: P. primabursaria, P. bibursaria, P. tribursaria, P. tetrabursaria, and P. pentabursaria, respectively. The phylogeographic distribution of P. bursaria species showed that P. primabursaria and P. bibursaria were strictly Eurasian, except for two South Australian P. bibursaria strains. P. tribursaria was found mainly in Eastern Asia, in two stands in Europe and in North America. In turn, P. tetrabursaria was restricted to the USA territory, whereas P. pentabursaria was found in two European localities.
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Flöder S, Yong J, Klauschies T, Gaedke U, Poprick T, Brinkhoff T, Moorthi S. Intraspecific trait variation alters the outcome of competition in freshwater ciliates. Ecol Evol 2021; 11:10225-10243. [PMID: 34367571 PMCID: PMC8328434 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.7828] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2020] [Accepted: 06/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Trait variation among heterospecific and conspecific organisms may substantially affect community and food web dynamics. While the relevance of competition and feeding traits have been widely studied for different consumer species, studies on intraspecific differences are more scarce, partly owing to difficulties in distinguishing different clones of the same species. Here, we investigate how intraspecific trait variation affects the competition between the freshwater ciliates Euplotes octocarinatus and Coleps hirtus in a nitrogen-limited chemostat system. The ciliates competed for the microalgae Cryptomonas sp. (Cry) and Navicula pelliculosa (Nav), and the bacteria present in the cultures over a period of 33 days. We used monoclonal Euplotes and three different Coleps clones (Col 1, Col 2, and Col 3) in the experiment that could be distinguished by a newly developed rDNA-based molecular assay based on the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions. While Euplotes feeds on Cry and on bacteria, the Coleps clones cannot survive on bacteria alone but feed on both Cry and Nav with clone-specific rates. Experimental treatments comprised two-species mixtures of Euplotes and one or all of the three different Coleps clones, respectively. We found intraspecific variation in the traits "selectivity" and "maximum ingestion rate" for the different algae to significantly affect the competitive outcome between the two ciliate species. As Nav quickly escaped top-down control and likely reached a state of low food quality, ciliate competition was strongly determined by the preference of different Coleps clones for Cry as opposed to feeding on Nav. In addition, the ability of Euplotes to use bacteria as an alternative food source strengthened its persistence once Cry was depleted. Hence, trait variation at both trophic levels codetermined the population dynamics and the outcome of species competition.
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- Sabine Flöder
- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM)University of OldenburgWilhelmshavenGermany
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- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM)University of OldenburgWilhelmshavenGermany
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- Ecology and Ecosystem ModellingUniversity of PotsdamPotsdamGermany
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- Ecology and Ecosystem ModellingUniversity of PotsdamPotsdamGermany
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- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM)University of OldenburgWilhelmshavenGermany
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- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM)University of OldenburgWilhelmshavenGermany
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- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM)University of OldenburgWilhelmshavenGermany
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An integrative approach sheds new light onto the systematics and ecology of the widespread ciliate genus Coleps (Ciliophora, Prostomatea). Sci Rep 2021; 11:5916. [PMID: 33723272 PMCID: PMC7960993 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-84265-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2020] [Accepted: 01/07/2021] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Species of the genus Coleps are one of the most common planktonic ciliates in lake ecosystems. The study aimed to identify the phenotypic plasticity and genetic variability of different Coleps isolates from various water bodies and from culture collections. We used an integrative approach to study the strains by (i) cultivation in a suitable culture medium, (ii) screening of the morphological variability including the presence/absence of algal endosymbionts of living cells by light microscopy, (iii) sequencing of the SSU and ITS rDNA including secondary structures, (iv) assessment of their seasonal and spatial occurrence in two lakes over a one-year cycle both from morphospecies counts and high-throughput sequencing (HTS), and, (v) proof of the co-occurrence of Coleps and their endosymbiotic algae from HTS-based network analyses in the two lakes. The Coleps strains showed a high phenotypic plasticity and low genetic variability. The algal endosymbiont in all studied strains was Micractinium conductrix and the mutualistic relationship turned out as facultative. Coleps is common in both lakes over the whole year in different depths and HTS has revealed that only one genotype respectively one species, C. viridis, was present in both lakes despite the different lifestyles (mixotrophic with green algal endosymbionts or heterotrophic without algae). Our results suggest a future revision of the species concept of the genus Coleps.
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Lu X, Gentekaki E, Xu Y, Huang L, Li Y, Lu X, Zhao Y, Lin X, Yi Z. Intra-population genetic diversity and its effects on outlining genetic diversity of ciliate populations: Using Paramecium multimicronucleatum as an example. Eur J Protistol 2018; 67:142-150. [PMID: 30616107 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejop.2018.12.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2018] [Revised: 12/16/2018] [Accepted: 12/21/2018] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Questions regarding ciliate distribution (endemism vs. cosmopolitanism) and degree of genetic diversity (high vs. low) remain unsettled, even when the same organism is under investigation. Presence of genes with high copy number and amplification of non-dominant haplotypes might account for the observed discordance in these studies. Herein, we used direct PCR and cloning sequencing to examine intra-population sequence diversity and its effect on assessments of phylogeography of Paramecium multimicronucleatum. Totally, 381 ITS1-5.8S rDNA-ITS2-28S rDNA and 304 mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) gene sequences were generated for 18 populations of P. multimicronucleatum. The following results were obtained: (1) Direct sequencing of PCR products captured the dominant ITS and LSU haplotypes, indicating that it is an appropriate strategy for constructing phylogeography of large-scale spatial populations. (2) Deep cloning was deemed more appropriate for the COI gene for population level studies, as direct sequencing could not easily capture the dominant haplotypes. (3) No endemic populations of P. multinucleatum were noted, indicating origin from a single founder population. (4) Nuclear genetic diversity within temporal populations was high, but only the dominant haplotypes seemed to be passed on to subsequent generations.
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- Xuefen Lu
- Laboratory of Protozoology, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Subtropical Biodiversity and Biomonitoring, School of Life Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
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- School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand
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- Laboratory of Protozoology, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Subtropical Biodiversity and Biomonitoring, School of Life Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
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- Laboratory of Protozoology, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Subtropical Biodiversity and Biomonitoring, School of Life Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
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- Laboratory of Protozoology, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Subtropical Biodiversity and Biomonitoring, School of Life Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
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- Laboratory of Protozoology, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Subtropical Biodiversity and Biomonitoring, School of Life Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
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- Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
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- Laboratory of Protozoology, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Subtropical Biodiversity and Biomonitoring, School of Life Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
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- Laboratory of Protozoology, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Subtropical Biodiversity and Biomonitoring, School of Life Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China.
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Worldwide sampling reveals low genetic variability in populations of the freshwater ciliate Paramecium biaurelia (P. aurelia species complex, Ciliophora, Protozoa). ORG DIVERS EVOL 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/s13127-017-0357-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Utility of combining morphological characters, nuclear and mitochondrial genes: An attempt to resolve the conflicts of species identification for ciliated protists. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2016; 94:718-729. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.10.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2015] [Revised: 10/08/2015] [Accepted: 10/16/2015] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Stoeck T, Przybos E, Dunthorn M. The D1-D2 region of the large subunit ribosomal DNA as barcode for ciliates. Mol Ecol Resour 2013; 14:458-68. [DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2013] [Revised: 10/20/2013] [Accepted: 10/21/2013] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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- T. Stoeck
- Department of Ecology; University of Kaiserslautern; 67663 Kaiserslautern Germany
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- Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals; Polish Academy of Sciences; 31-016 Kraków Poland
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- Department of Ecology; University of Kaiserslautern; 67663 Kaiserslautern Germany
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Zhao Y, Gentekaki E, Yi Z, Lin X. Genetic differentiation of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase C subunit I gene in genus Paramecium (Protista, Ciliophora). PLoS One 2013; 8:e77044. [PMID: 24204730 PMCID: PMC3812207 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2013] [Accepted: 09/05/2013] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Background The mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) gene is being used increasingly for evaluating inter- and intra-specific genetic diversity of ciliated protists. However, very few studies focus on assessing genetic divergence of the COI gene within individuals and how its presence might affect species identification and population structure analyses. Methodology/Principal findings We evaluated the genetic variation of the COI gene in five Paramecium species for a total of 147 clones derived from 21 individuals and 7 populations. We identified a total of 90 haplotypes with several individuals carrying more than one haplotype. Parsimony network and phylogenetic tree analyses revealed that intra-individual diversity had no effect in species identification and only a minor effect on population structure. Conclusions Our results suggest that the COI gene is a suitable marker for resolving inter- and intra-specific relationships of Paramecium spp.
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- Yan Zhao
- Laboratory of Protozoology, Institute of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China ; Laboratory of Protozoology, College of Life Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
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Stoeck T, Breiner HW, Filker S, Ostermaier V, Kammerlander B, Sonntag B. A morphogenetic survey on ciliate plankton from a mountain lake pinpoints the necessity of lineage-specific barcode markers in microbial ecology. Environ Microbiol 2013; 16:430-44. [PMID: 23848238 PMCID: PMC4208686 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2013] [Revised: 06/11/2013] [Accepted: 06/11/2013] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Analyses of high-throughput environmental sequencing data have become the 'gold-standard' to address fundamental questions of microbial diversity, ecology and biogeography. Findings that emerged from sequencing are, e.g. the discovery of the extensive 'rare microbial biosphere' and its potential function as a seed-bank. Even though applied since several years, results from high-throughput environmental sequencing have hardly been validated. We assessed how well pyrosequenced amplicons [the hypervariable eukaryotic V4 region of the small subunit ribosomal RNA (SSU rRNA) gene] reflected morphotype ciliate plankton. Moreover, we assessed if amplicon sequencing had the potential to detect the annual ciliate plankton stock. In both cases, we identified significant quantitative and qualitative differences. Our study makes evident that taxon abundance distributions inferred from amplicon data are highly biased and do not mirror actual morphotype abundances at all. Potential reasons included cell losses after fixation, cryptic morphotypes, resting stages, insufficient sequence data availability of morphologically described species and the unsatisfying resolution of the V4 SSU rRNA fragment for accurate taxonomic assignments. The latter two underline the necessity of barcoding initiatives for eukaryotic microbes to better and fully exploit environmental amplicon data sets, which then will also allow studying the potential of seed-bank taxa as a buffer for environmental changes.
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- Thorsten Stoeck
- Department of Ecology, Faculty of Biology, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
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Katz LA, DeBerardinis J, Hall MS, Kovner AM, Dunthorn M, Muse SV. Heterogeneous rates of molecular evolution among cryptic species of the ciliate morphospecies Chilodonella uncinata. J Mol Evol 2012; 73:266-72. [PMID: 22258433 DOI: 10.1007/s00239-011-9468-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2011] [Accepted: 10/24/2011] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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While molecular analyses have provided insight into the phylogeny of ciliates, the few studies assessing intraspecific variation have largely relied on just a single locus [e.g., nuclear small subunit rDNA (nSSU-rDNA) or mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I]. In this study, we characterize the diversity of several nuclear protein-coding genes plus both nSSU-rDNA and mitochondrial small subunit rDNA (mtSSU-rDNA) of five isolates of the ciliate morphospecies Chilodonella uncinata. Although these isolates have nearly identical nSSU-rDNA sequences, they differ by up to 8.0% in mtSSU-rDNA. Comparative analyses of all loci, including β-tubulin paralogs, indicate a lack of recombination between strains, demonstrating that the morphospecies C. uncinata consists of multiple cryptic species. Further, there is considerable variation in substitution rates among loci as some protein-coding domains are nearly identical between isolates, while others differ by up to 13.2% at the amino acid level. Combining insights on macronuclear variation among isolates, the focus of this study, with published data from the micronucleus of two of these isolates, indicates that C. uncinata lineages are able to maintain both highly divergent and highly conserved genes within a rapidly evolving germline genome.
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- Laura A Katz
- Department of Biological Sciences, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063, USA.
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Polymorphism of Paramecium pentaurelia (Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea) strains revealed by rDNA and mtDNA sequences. Eur J Protistol 2011; 47:138-43. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejop.2010.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2010] [Revised: 11/03/2010] [Accepted: 11/19/2010] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Intraspecific variability in several isolates of Philasterides dicentrarchi (syn. Miamiensis avidus), a scuticociliate parasite of farmed turbot. Vet Parasitol 2011; 175:260-72. [DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2010.10.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2010] [Revised: 09/28/2010] [Accepted: 10/08/2010] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Dunthorn M, Foissner W, Katz LA. Expanding character sampling for ciliate phylogenetic inference using mitochondrial SSU-rDNA as a molecular marker. Protist 2010; 162:85-99. [PMID: 20708960 DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2010.06.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2009] [Accepted: 06/12/2010] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Molecular systematics of ciliates, particularly at deep nodes, has largely focused on increasing taxon sampling using the nuclear small subunit rDNA (nSSU-rDNA) locus. These previous analyses have generally been congruent with morphologically-based classifications, although there is extensive non-monophyly at many levels. However, caution is needed in interpreting these results as nSSU-rDNA is just a single molecular marker. Here the mitochondrial small subunit rDNA (mtSSU-rDNA) is evaluated for deep ciliate nodes using the Colpodea as an example. Overall, well-supported nodes in the mtSSU-rDNA and concatenated topologies are well supported in the nSSU-rDNA topology; e.g., the non-monophyly of the Cyrtolophosidida. The two moderately- to well-supported incongruences between the loci are the placement of the Sorogenida andColpoda aspera.Our analyses of mtSSU-rDNA support the conclusion, originally derived from nSSU-rDNA, that the morphological characters used in taxonomic circumscriptions of the Colpodea represent a mixture of ancestral and derived states. This demonstration of the efficacy of the mtSSU-rDNA will enable phylogenetic reconstructions of deep nodes in the ciliate tree of life to move from a single-locus to a multi-locus approach.
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High-level genetic diversity but no population structure inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial markers of the peritrichous ciliate Carchesium polypinum in the Grand River basin (North America). Appl Environ Microbiol 2009; 75:3187-95. [PMID: 19304815 DOI: 10.1128/aem.00178-09] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Studies that assess intraspecific genetic variation in ciliates are few and quite recent. Consequently, knowledge of the subject and understanding of the processes that underlie it are limited. We sought to assess the degree of intraspecific genetic variation in Carchesium polypinum (Ciliophora: Peritrichia), a cosmopolitan, freshwater ciliate. We isolated colonies of C. polypinum from locations in the Grand River basin in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. We then used the nuclear markers--ITS1, ITS2, and the hypervariable regions of the large subunit rRNA--and an 819-bp fragment of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase I gene (cox-1) to investigate the intraspecific genetic variation of C. polypinum and the degree of resolution of the above-mentioned markers at the population level. We also sought to determine whether the organism demonstrated any population structure that mapped onto the geography of the region. Our study shows that there is a high degree of genetic diversity at the isolate level, revealed by the mitochondrial markers but not the nuclear markers. Furthermore, our results indicate that C. polypinum is likely not a single morphospecies as previously thought.
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Gilbert OM, Queller DC, Strassmann JE. Discovery of a large clonal patch of a social amoeba: implications for social evolution. Mol Ecol 2009; 18:1273-81. [PMID: 19243508 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2009.04108.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Owen M Gilbert
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA.
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Cytochrome b sequence data suggest rapid speciation within the Paramecium aurelia species complex. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2008; 49:669-73. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.08.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2008] [Revised: 08/12/2008] [Accepted: 08/12/2008] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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