Journal
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
Volume 8, Issue 10, Pages 5069-5078Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4071
Keywords
COI; Daphnia; DNA taxonomy; Tibetan Plateau
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- National Basic Research Program of China [2012CB956100]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31670460]
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Daphnia on the Tibetan Plateau has been little studied, and information on species diversity and biogeography is lacking. Here, we conducted a 4-year survey using the barcoding fragment of the mitochondrial COI gene to determine the distribution and diversity of Daphnia species found across the Plateau. Our results show that species richness is higher than previously thought, with total described and provisional species number doubling from 5 to 10. Six of the taxonomic units recovered by DNA taxonomy agreed well with morphology, but DNA barcoding distinguished three clades each for the D.longispina (D.galeata, D.dentifera, and D.longispina) and D.pulex (D.pulex, D. cf. tenebrosa, and D.pulicaria) complexes. The sequence divergence between congeneric species varied within a large range, from 9.25% to 30.71%. The endemic D.tibetana was the most common and widespread species, occurring in 12 hyposaline to mesosaline lakes. The lineage of D.longispina is the first confirmed occurrence in west Tibet.
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