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+[[!meta title="Metabarcoding analysis on European coastal samples reveals new molecular metazoan diversity."]]
+[[!tag Oikopleura]]
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+Sci Rep. 2018 Jun 14;8(1):9106. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-27509-8
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+López-Escardó D, Paps J, de Vargas C, Massana R, Ruiz-Trillo I, Del Campo J.
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+Metabarcoding analysis on European coastal samples reveals new molecular metazoan diversity.
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+[[!pmid 29904074 desc="28% of the RNA reads in the oxic micro/mesoplanktonic samples originate from tunicates, mostly appendicularian. rRNA sequences with no known homologs suggest a new group of tunicates, “MAME 1”. However, given very long branches in the phylogenetic tree, this finding needs to be confirmed."]]
Ecology
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+ - In a rRNA metabarcoding study [[López-Escardó and coll, 2018|biblio/29904074]] report that 28 %
+ of the RNA reads in oxic micro/mesoplanktonic samples originate from tunicates, mostly appendicularian.
- _O. dioica_ populations may have a higher fitness in warmer and more acid oceans
([[Bouquet et al., 2018|biblio/29298334]]).
- In California, _O. dioica_ was reported by C. Essenberg