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Are there species smaller than 1 mm?

Proceedings. Biological sciences - 22 Sept 2013

Rossberg Axel G, Rogers Tim, McKane Alan J

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The rapid advance in genetic sequencing technologies has provided an unprecedented amount of data on the biodiversity of meiofauna. It was hoped that these data would allow the identification and counting of species, distinguished as tight clusters of similar genomes. Surprisingly, this appears not to be the case. Here, we begin a theoretical discussion of this phenomenon, drawing on an individual-based...

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PMID: 23884092
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1248
PMCID: PMC3735253

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