The identification of sympatric cryptic free-living nematode species in the Antarctic intertidal.

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Matthew R Lee, Cristian B Canales-Aguirre, Daniela Nuñez, Karla Pérez, Crisitan E Hernández, Antonio Brante
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; Antarctic; The Antarctic; The Beaches; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0186140; https://doaj.org/article/c456f86db0024c2bab35d1dc0e3b01d5

The diversity of free-living nematodes in the beaches of two Antarctic islands, King George and Deception islands was investigated. We used morphological and molecular (LSU, and two fragments of SSU sequences) approaches to evaluate 236 nematodes. Specimens were assigned to at least genera using mor...