Rotifers from selected inland saline waters in the Chihuahuan Desert of México 英文参考文献.docVIP

Saline Systems BioMedCentral Research Open Access Rotifers from selected inland saline waters in the Chihuahuan Desert of México Elizabeth J Walsh*1, Thomas Schr?der1, Robert L Wallace2, Judith V Ríos- Arana3 and Roberto Rico-Martínez4 Address: 1Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas – El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA, 2Department of Biology, Ripon College, Ripon, WI 54971, USA, 3Instituto de Ingeniería y Tecnología, Universidad Autónoma de Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, México and 4Departamento de Química, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, México Email: Elizabeth J Walsh* - ewalsh@; Thomas Schr?der - tschroeder@; Robert L Wallace - wallacer@; Judith V Ríos- Arana - jrios@; Roberto Rico-Martínez - rrico@correo.uaa.mx * Corresponding author Published: 4 June 2008 Received: 20 December 2007 Accepted: 4 June 2008 Saline Systems 2008, 4:7 doi:10.1186 /1746 -1448-4-7 This article is available from: /content/4/1/7 ? 2008 Walsh et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: In spite of considerable efforts over past decades we still know relatively little regarding the biogeography of rotifers of inland waters in México. To help rectify this we undertook an extensive survey of the rotifer fauna of 48 water bodies in the Chihuahuan Desert of México. Results: Of the sites surveyed, 21 had salinities ≥ 2000 μS cm-1 and in these we found 57 species of monogonont rotifers and several bdelloids. Species richness in the saline sites varied widely, with a range in species richness of 1 to 27 and a mean (± 1SD) = 8.8 (± 6 .2). Collectively all sites possess relatively high percent single- and doubletons, 33.3 and 21.7%, respectively. Simpsons Asymme