Population Genetics and Phylogeography of Collembola
A special issue of Genes (ISSN 2073-4425). This special issue belongs to the section "Population and Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 190
Special Issue Editors
Interests: systematics, phylogeny and evolution of basal hexapods; population genetics and phylogeography of Collembola; molecular evolution of the mitochondrial genome; origin and evolution of Antarctic Collembola; traceability of food product by molecular identification
Interests: systematics, phylogeny and evolution of basal hexapods; phylogenetic test of evolutionary hypotheses; origin, evolution and taxonomy of southern hemisphere Collembola; molecular and morphological evolution of Collembola; phylogeography and ecological adaptation of Collembola
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Collembola are a basal group of edaphic wingless hexapods with a long evolutionary history on Earth. They can be found in basically all ecosystems, including the most extreme ones, such as Antarctica, and play a fundamental ecological role in fragmenting organic matter in the soil.
Since the availability of increasingly accurate genetic and molecular tools to investigate the population genetics of living organisms, Collembola have been the subject of extensive and widespread studies that aim to assess the intimate genetic structure of their populations and species boundaries, as well as their distinctive biogeographic patterns and phylogenetic relationships.
The reasons for this interest are found in their crucial ecological role, their potential utility as indicators of soil quality (and can be used as laboratory test organisms for studies of soil pollution), and their physiological properties, characterized by a small size and reduced mobility. Their phylogenetic position is also of great interest, as they are commonly considered one of the earliest offshoots of the hexapod tree.
In this Special Issue, we aim to attract contributions using a variety of available molecular tools, with a focus on assessing the genetic structure of collembolan populations in a phylogeographic and phylogenetic framework.
Prof. Dr. Francesco Frati
Prof. Dr. Cyrille D’Haese
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biodiversity
- genetic diversity
- speciation
- systematics
- phylogenetics
- DNA sequencing
- molecular evolution
