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Unassigned diversity of planktonic foraminifera from environmental sequencing revealed as known but neglected species.
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- Exploring the potential of the COI gene marker for DNA barcoding of planktonic foraminifera.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Two waves of photosymbiosis acquisition in extant planktonic foraminifera explained by ecological incumbency.The ISME journal · 2025Article
- Macroevolutionary patterns in intragenomic rDNA variability among planktonic foraminifera.PeerJ · 2023Article
- Renewal of planktonic foraminifera diversity after the Cretaceous Paleogene mass extinction by benthic colonizers.Nature communications · 2022Article
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- First report of mitochondrial COI in foraminifera and implications for DNA barcoding.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- High variability in SSU rDNA gene copy number among planktonic foraminifera revealed by single-cell qPCR.ISME communications · 2021Article
- Resolving cryptic species complexes in marine protists: phylogenetic haplotype networks meet global DNA metabarcoding datasets.The ISME journal · 2021Article
- Planktonic foraminifera eDNA signature deposited on the seafloor remains preserved after burial in marine sediments.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Planktonic foraminifera genomic variations reflect paleoceanographic changes in the Arctic: evidence from sedimentary ancient DNA.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Genetic and morphological divergence in the warm-water planktonic foraminifera genus Globigerinoides.PloS one · 2019Article
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Abstract
Most research on extant planktonic foraminifera has been directed towards larger species (>0.150 mm) which can be easily manipulated, counted and yield enough calcite for geochemical analyses. This has drawn attention towards the macroperforate clade and created an impression of their numerical and ecological dominance. Drawing such conclusions from the study of such "giants" is a dangerous path. There were times in the evolutionary history of planktonic foraminifera when all species were smaller than 0.1 mm and indeed numerous small taxa, mainly from the microperforate clade, have been formally described from the modern plankton. The significance of these small, obscure and neglected species is poorly characterized and their relationship to the newly discovered hyperabundant but uncharacterized lineages of planktonic foraminifera in metabarcoding datasets is unknown. To determine, who is hiding in the metabarcoding datasets, we carried out an extensive sequencing of 18S rDNA targeted at small and obscure species. The sequences of the newly characterized small and obscure taxa match many of the previously uncharacterized lineages found in metabarcoding data. This indicates that most of the modern diversity in planktonic foraminifera has been taxonomically captured, but the role of the small and neglected taxa has been severely underestimated.
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