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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Challenging species delimitation in Collembola: Cryptic diversity among common springtails unveiled by DNA barcoding
Invertebrate Systematics, Volume 26, No. 5-6, Year 2012
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Collembola is one of the major functional groups in soil as well as a model taxon in numerous disciplines. Therefore the accurate identification of specimens is critical, but could be jeopardised by cases of cryptic diversity. Several populations of six well characterised species of springtails were sequenced using the COI barcode fragment as a contribution to the global Collembola barcoding campaign. Each species showed high intraspecific divergence, comparable to interspecific sequence divergence values observed in previous studies and in 10 congeneric species barcoded here as a reference. The nuclear marker, 28S, confirmed all the intraspecific lineages found with COI, supporting the potential specific status of these entities. The implications of this finding for taxonomy and for disciplines relying on species names, such as evolution and ecology, are discussed. © CSIRO 2012 .
Authors & Co-Authors
Porco, D.
France, Mont-saint-aignan
Université de Rouen Normandie
Bedòs, Anne
France, Paris
Museum National D'histoire Naturelle
Greenslade, Penelope J.M.
Australia, Ballarat
Environmental Management
Janion-Scheepers, Charlene
South Africa, Stellenbosch
Stellenbosch University
Skarzyński, D.
Poland, Wroclaw
University of Wroclaw
Stevens, Mark I.
Australia, Adelaide
South Australian Museum
Jansen van Vuuren, Bettine
South Africa, Johannesburg
University of Johannesburg
Deharveng, Louis E.
France, Paris
Museum National D'histoire Naturelle
Statistics
Citations: 88
Authors: 8
Affiliations: 7
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1071/IS12026
ISSN:
14455226
Research Areas
Cancer
Genetics And Genomics