Testing ecological theories with sequence similarity networks: Marine ciliates exhibit similar geographic dispersal patterns as multicellular organisms

BMC Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Forster, Dominik ^a   Bittner, Lucie ^a,b,c   Karkar, Slim ^b,c   Dunthorn, Micah ^a   Romac, Sarah ^c,d   Audic, Stéphane ^c,d   Lopez, Philippe ^b,c   Stoeck, Thorsten ^a   Bapteste, Eric ^b,c  

^a France   (Germany)

^b Département de Biologie   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d STATION BIOLOGIQUE DE ROSCOFF   (France)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Environmental rDNA sequencing; High throughput sequencing; Microbial diversity; Protist

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CILIOPHORA; EUKARYOTA; PROTISTA;

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CILIATE; ECOSYSTEM; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CILIOPHORA; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ECOSYSTEM; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 84925843159     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12915-015-0125-5     Document Type: Article

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