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Table 1 Rotifer samples used in the study

From: Multiple functionally divergent and conserved copies of alpha tubulin in bdelloid rotifers

Species

Taxonomy (Order/Family)

Sample location

Collector/ Publication

Date collected/ time propagated in lab

Habitat

Machrotrachela quadricornifera Milne, 1886

Bdelloidea Philodinidae

Fontaneto d’Agogna, Italy 45.6306, 8.4536

Diego Fontaneto

05-03-2006 3 months, to a population of ~100 individuals

Submerged moss in a stream, running water.

Philodina flaviceps Bryce, 1906

Bdelloidea Philodinidae

Fontaneto d’Agogna, Italy 45.6260, 8.4432

Diego Fontaneto

01-05-2005 3 months, to a population of ~100 individuals

Stream, running water.

Adineta vaga Davis, 1873

Bdelloidea Adinetidae

Bergen, Norway 60.3955, 5.3513

Timothy Barraclough

06-2004 3 months, to a population of ~100 individuals

Sphagnum in pond.

Adineta ricciae Segers & Shiel, 2005

Bdelloidea Adinetidae

Ryan’s billabong, Victoria, Australia

Segers and Shiel 2005

26-06-1998

Dry pond (billabong).

clonal population propagated for years

−36.1086, 146.9777

Brachionus plicatilis Muller, 1786

Monogononta Brachionidae

Lab strain NH1L

Suga et al. 2007

Hagiwara et al. 1993 in Suga et al. 2007

Seawater

Brachionus quadridentatus Hermann, 1783

Monogononta Brachionidae

Japanese pond, Silwood Park, UK

Diego Fontaneto

30-05-2007

Plankton

DNA extracted from a single animal

51.4074, -0.6405

Brachionus urceolaris Muller, 1773

Monogononta Brachionidae

Japanese pond, Silwood Park, UK

Diego Fontaneto

30-05-2007

Plankton

DNA extracted from a single animal

51.4074, -0.6405

Synchaeta pectinata Ehrenberg, 1832

Monogononta Synchaetidae

Japanese pond, Silwood Park, UK

Diego Fontaneto

30-05-2007

Plankton

DNA extracted from a single animal

51.4074, -0.6405