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DIVERSITY-BASEL
Volume 13, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/d13110589
Keywords
ciliate protists; cryptic species; Paramecium bursaria complex; biogeography; COI haplotype variability
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- Pedagogical University of Krakow
- Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences
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Ciliates are a diverse protistan group with many cryptic species complexes. Mitochondrial genes have been utilized to identify new species and distinguish closely related morphospecies. Analysis of COI mtDNA fragments in P. bursaria species revealed five reproductively isolated haplogroups.
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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