Oleg N Shchepin, Ángela López Villalba, Maho Inoue, Ilya S Prikhodko, Daria A Erastova, Mikhail V Okun, Jan Woyzichovski, Yuka Yajima, Vladimir I Gmoshinskiy, Gabriel Moreno, Yuri K Novozhilov, Martin Schnittler
The nivicolous species of the genus Diderma are challenging to identify, and there are several competing views on their delimitation. We analyzed 102 accessions of nivicolous Diderma spp. that were sequenced for two or three unlinked genes to determine which of the current taxonomic treatments is better supported by molecular species delimitation methods. The results of a haplotype web analysis, Bayesian species delimitation under a multispecies coalescent model, and phylogenetic analyses on concatenated alignments support a splitting approach that distinguishes six taxa: Diderma alpinum, D...
February 10, 2024: Protist