Revealing the Hyperdiverse Mite Fauna of Subarctic Canada through DNA Barcoding
Although mites are one of the most abundant and diverse groups of arthropods, they are rarely targeted for detailed biodiversity surveys due to taxonomic constraints. We address this gap through DNA barcoding, evaluating acarine diversity at Churchill, Manitoba, a site on the tundra-taiga transition...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:3487733 2023-05-15T15:55:06+02:00 Revealing the Hyperdiverse Mite Fauna of Subarctic Canada through DNA Barcoding Young, Monica R. Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M. Hebert, Paul D. N. 2012-11-02 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3487733 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23133656 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0048755 en eng Public Library of Science http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3487733 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23133656 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0048755 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. CC-BY Research Article Text 2012 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0048755 2013-09-04T15:22:03Z Although mites are one of the most abundant and diverse groups of arthropods, they are rarely targeted for detailed biodiversity surveys due to taxonomic constraints. We address this gap through DNA barcoding, evaluating acarine diversity at Churchill, Manitoba, a site on the tundra-taiga transition. Barcode analysis of 6279 specimens revealed nearly 900 presumptive species of mites with high species turnover between substrates and between forested and non-forested sites. Accumulation curves have not reached an asymptote for any of the three mite orders investigated, and estimates suggest that more than 1200 species of Acari occur at this locality. The coupling of DNA barcode results with taxonomic assignments revealed that Trombidiformes compose 49% of the fauna, a larger fraction than expected based on prior studies. This investigation demonstrates the efficacy of DNA barcoding in facilitating biodiversity assessments of hyperdiverse taxa. Text Churchill Subarctic taiga Tundra Mite PubMed Central (PMC) Canada PLoS ONE 7 11 e48755 |
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Although mites are one of the most abundant and diverse groups of arthropods, they are rarely targeted for detailed biodiversity surveys due to taxonomic constraints. We address this gap through DNA barcoding, evaluating acarine diversity at Churchill, Manitoba, a site on the tundra-taiga transition. Barcode analysis of 6279 specimens revealed nearly 900 presumptive species of mites with high species turnover between substrates and between forested and non-forested sites. Accumulation curves have not reached an asymptote for any of the three mite orders investigated, and estimates suggest that more than 1200 species of Acari occur at this locality. The coupling of DNA barcode results with taxonomic assignments revealed that Trombidiformes compose 49% of the fauna, a larger fraction than expected based on prior studies. This investigation demonstrates the efficacy of DNA barcoding in facilitating biodiversity assessments of hyperdiverse taxa. |
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