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SUBMITTER: Pillet L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3290570 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pillet Loïc L Fontaine Delia D Pawlowski Jan J
PloS one 20120229 2
Elphidium macellum is a benthic foraminifer commonly found in the Patagonian fjords. To test whether its highly variable morphotypes are ecophenotypes or different genotypes, we analysed 70 sequences of the SSU rRNA gene from 25 specimens. Unexpectedly, we identified 11 distinct ribotypes, with up to 5 ribotypes co-occurring within the same specimen. The ribotypes differ by varying blocks of sequence located at the end of stem-loop motifs in the three expansion segments specific to foraminifera. ...[more]