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Five animal phyla in glacier ice reveal unprecedented biodiversity in New Zealand's Southern Alps

Glacier ice is an extreme environment in which most animals cannot survive. Here we report the colonization of high elevation, climate-threatened glaciers along New Zealand’s southwestern coast by species of Arthropoda, Nematoda, Platyhelminthes, Rotifera and Tardigrada. Based on DNA barcoding and h...

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Autores principales: Shain, Daniel H., Novis, Philip M., Cridge, Andrew G., Zawierucha, Krzysztof, Geneva, Anthony J., Dearden, Peter K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7887191/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33594128
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-83256-3