Journal
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 280, Issue 1767, Pages -Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1248
Keywords
ecological species concept; lineages-through-time plots; adaptive dynamics; individual-based models; competition
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- European Community [308392]
- UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs [M1228]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/H02171X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/H02171X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The rapid advance in genetic sequencing technologies has provided an unprecedented amount of data on the biodiversity of meiofauna. It was hoped that these data would allow the identification and counting of species, distinguished as tight clusters of similar genomes. Surprisingly, this appears not to be the case. Here, we begin a theoretical discussion of this phenomenon, drawing on an individual-based ecological model to inform our arguments. The determining factor in the emergence (or not) of distinguishable genetic clusters in the model is the product of population size with mutation rate-a measure of the adaptability of the population as a whole. This result suggests that indeed one should not expect to observe clearly distinguishable species groupings in data gathered from ultrasequencing of meiofauna.
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