Teske, PR;
Rius, M;
McQuaid, CD;
Styan, CA;
Piggott, MP;
Benhissoune, S;
Fuentes-Grünewald, C;
... Beheregaray, LB; + view all
(2011)
"Nested" cryptic diversity in a widespread marine ecosystem engineer: a challenge for detecting biological invasions.
BMC Evolutionary Biology
, 11
(June 2)
, Article 176. 10.1186/1471-2148-11-176.
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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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | "Nested" cryptic diversity in a widespread marine ecosystem engineer: a challenge for detecting biological invasions |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1186/1471-2148-11-176 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-11-176 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | PMCID: PMC3146881 © 2011 Teske et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Animals, Biodiversity, Biological Evolution, Ecosystem, Introduced Species, Marine Biology, Molecular Sequence Data, Phylogeny, Urochordata |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Engineering Science Faculty Office |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1363339 |
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