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Rapid Turnover Of Ciliate Community Members In New England Tide Pools, Mary Badger, Sarah J. Tucker, Jean-David Grattepanche, Laura A. Katz
Rapid Turnover Of Ciliate Community Members In New England Tide Pools, Mary Badger, Sarah J. Tucker, Jean-David Grattepanche, Laura A. Katz
Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications
The rocky intertidal zone represents a dynamic habitat marked by considerable species richness, which has been well-documented for invertebrates and macroalgae. This high biodiversity exists in the context of extreme fluctuations in abiotic factors such as temperature, salinity and pH that occur during each tidal cycle. Despite these attributes, few studies have focused on microbial diversity in tide pools, including analyses of the ciliate communities that are the focus of this study. We investigated the spatial and temporal distributions of ciliate species across the intertidal environment at sites in Maine and Connecticut, USA. Our study used a DNA fingerprinting technique, …