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"Nested" cryptic diversity in a widespread marine ecosystem engineer: a challenge for detecting biological invasions
Peter R Teske,
Marc Rius,
Christopher D McQuaid,
Craig A Styan,
Maxine P Piggott,
Saïd Benhissoune,
Claudio Fuentes-Grünewald,
Kathy Walls,
Mike Page,
Catherine RM Attard,
Georgina M Cooke,
Claire F McClusky,
Sam C Banks,
Nigel P Barker,
Luciano B Beheregaray,
Claudio Fuentes Grunewald 
BMC Evolutionary Biology, Volume: 11, Issue: 1
Swansea University Author:
Claudio Fuentes Grunewald
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DOI (Published version): 10.1186/1471-2148-11-176
Abstract
Ecosystem engineers facilitate habitat formation and enhance biodiversity, but when they become invasive, they present a critical threat to native communities because they can drastically alter the receiving habitat. Management of such species thus needs to be a priority, but the poorly resolved tax...
| Published in: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
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| ISSN: | 1471-2148 |
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2011
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa49754 |
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| Abstract: |
Ecosystem engineers facilitate habitat formation and enhance biodiversity, but when they become invasive, they present a critical threat to native communities because they can drastically alter the receiving habitat. Management of such species thus needs to be a priority, but the poorly resolved taxonomy of many ecosystem engineers represents a major obstacle to correctly identifying them as being either native or introduced. We address this dilemma by studying the sea squirt Pyura stolonifera, an important ecosystem engineer that dominates coastal communities particularly in the southern hemisphere. Using DNA sequence data from four independently evolving loci, we aimed to determine levels of cryptic diversity, the invasive or native status of each regional population, and the most appropriate sampling design for identifying the geographic ranges of each evolutionary unit. |
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| Keywords: |
Ecosystem Engineer Incomplete Lineage Sorting Chilean Population Adenine Nucleotide Transporter Combine Sequence Data |
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Faculty of Science and Engineering |
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1 |