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Integrative description of a new Dactylobiotus (Eutardigrada: Parachela) from Antarctica that reveals an intraspecific variation in tardigrade egg morphology
Tardigrades constitute one of the most important group in the challenging Antarctic terrestrial ecosystem. Living in various habitats, tardigrades play major roles as consumers and decomposers in the trophic networks of Antarctic terrestrial and freshwater environments; yet we still know little abou...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7272612/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32499591 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-65573-1 |
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author | Kihm, Ji-Hoon Kim, Sanghee McInnes, Sandra J. Zawierucha, Krzysztof Rho, Hyun Soo Kang, Pilmo Park, Tae-Yoon S. |
author_facet | Kihm, Ji-Hoon Kim, Sanghee McInnes, Sandra J. Zawierucha, Krzysztof Rho, Hyun Soo Kang, Pilmo Park, Tae-Yoon S. |
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description | Tardigrades constitute one of the most important group in the challenging Antarctic terrestrial ecosystem. Living in various habitats, tardigrades play major roles as consumers and decomposers in the trophic networks of Antarctic terrestrial and freshwater environments; yet we still know little about their biodiversity. The Eutardigrada is a species rich class, for which the eggshell morphology is one of the key morphological characters. Tardigrade egg morphology shows a diverse appearance, and it is known that, despite rare, intraspecific variation is caused by seasonality, epigenetics, and external environmental conditions. Here we report Dactylobiotus ovimutans sp. nov. from King George Island, Antarctica. Interestingly, we observed a range of eggshell morphologies from the new species, although the population was cultured under controlled laboratory condition. Thus, seasonality, environmental conditions, and food source are eliminated, leaving an epigenetic factor as a main cause for variability in this case. |
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spelling | pubmed-72726122020-06-05 Integrative description of a new Dactylobiotus (Eutardigrada: Parachela) from Antarctica that reveals an intraspecific variation in tardigrade egg morphology Kihm, Ji-Hoon Kim, Sanghee McInnes, Sandra J. Zawierucha, Krzysztof Rho, Hyun Soo Kang, Pilmo Park, Tae-Yoon S. Sci Rep Article Tardigrades constitute one of the most important group in the challenging Antarctic terrestrial ecosystem. Living in various habitats, tardigrades play major roles as consumers and decomposers in the trophic networks of Antarctic terrestrial and freshwater environments; yet we still know little about their biodiversity. The Eutardigrada is a species rich class, for which the eggshell morphology is one of the key morphological characters. Tardigrade egg morphology shows a diverse appearance, and it is known that, despite rare, intraspecific variation is caused by seasonality, epigenetics, and external environmental conditions. Here we report Dactylobiotus ovimutans sp. nov. from King George Island, Antarctica. Interestingly, we observed a range of eggshell morphologies from the new species, although the population was cultured under controlled laboratory condition. Thus, seasonality, environmental conditions, and food source are eliminated, leaving an epigenetic factor as a main cause for variability in this case. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-06-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7272612/ /pubmed/32499591 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-65573-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Kihm, Ji-Hoon Kim, Sanghee McInnes, Sandra J. Zawierucha, Krzysztof Rho, Hyun Soo Kang, Pilmo Park, Tae-Yoon S. Integrative description of a new Dactylobiotus (Eutardigrada: Parachela) from Antarctica that reveals an intraspecific variation in tardigrade egg morphology |
title | Integrative description of a new Dactylobiotus (Eutardigrada: Parachela) from Antarctica that reveals an intraspecific variation in tardigrade egg morphology |
title_full | Integrative description of a new Dactylobiotus (Eutardigrada: Parachela) from Antarctica that reveals an intraspecific variation in tardigrade egg morphology |
title_fullStr | Integrative description of a new Dactylobiotus (Eutardigrada: Parachela) from Antarctica that reveals an intraspecific variation in tardigrade egg morphology |
title_full_unstemmed | Integrative description of a new Dactylobiotus (Eutardigrada: Parachela) from Antarctica that reveals an intraspecific variation in tardigrade egg morphology |
title_short | Integrative description of a new Dactylobiotus (Eutardigrada: Parachela) from Antarctica that reveals an intraspecific variation in tardigrade egg morphology |
title_sort | integrative description of a new dactylobiotus (eutardigrada: parachela) from antarctica that reveals an intraspecific variation in tardigrade egg morphology |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7272612/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32499591 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-65573-1 |
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