High mitochondrial haplotype diversity of Coleps sp. (Ciliophora: Prostomatida)

Environmental Microbiology
Dana BarthThomas U Berendonk

Abstract

To date the awareness of the temporal population structure in eukaryotic microbes is very limited. This is exemplified in the scarce knowledge about the intraspecific genetic variation in ciliates. To elucidate the genetic variation of Coleps (Ciliophora: Prostomatida), we employed the analysis of the mitochondrial apocytochrome b gene of the Coleps community in a young lake in Germany. The analysis of 111 isolates, sampled from April 2005 to September 2006, revealed a high genetic variation for the two dominant Coleps species (11 mitochondrial haplotypes in Coleps spetai, nine in Coleps hirtus hirtus). The study represents one of the largest datasets of intraspecific diversity in a microbial eukaryote and demonstrates for the first time the suitability of a mitochondrial gene for the detection of genetic variation within populations of eukaryotic microbes. However, the results of our study warrant caution in the application of such an approach, as we amplified some non-orthologous cob-like sequences, whose uncritical acceptance would have led to the erroneous discovery of cryptic species.

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Sep 10, 2008·Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution·Dana BarthThomas U Berendonk
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