@article {4488, title = {Genetic diversity of soil invertebrates corroborates timing estimates for past collapses of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet}, journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences}, year = {2020}, month = {08/2020}, abstract = {

During austral summer field seasons between 1999 and 2018, we sampled at 91 locations throughout southern Victoria Land and along the Transantarctic Mountains for six species of endemic microarthropods (Collembola), covering a latitudinal range from 76.0\°S to 87.3\°S. We assembled individual mitochondrial cyto-chrome c oxidase subunit 1 (COI) sequences (n = 866) and found high levels of sequence divergence at both small (\<10 km) and large (\>600 km) spatial scales for four of the six Collembola species. We applied molecular clock estimates and assessed genetic divergences relative to the timing of past glacial cycles, including collapses of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS). We found that genetically distinct lineages within three species have likely been isolated for at least 5.54 My to 3.52 My, while the other three species diverged more recently (\<2 My). We suggest that Collembola had greater dispersal opportunities under past warmer climates, via flotation along coastal margins. Similarly increased opportunities for dispersal may occur under contemporary climate warming scenarios, which could influence the genetic structure of extant populations. As Collembola are a living record of past landscape evolution within Antarctica, these findings provide biological evidence to support geological and glaciological estimates of historical WAIS dynamics over the last ca. 5 My.

}, keywords = {LTER-MCM, climate change, microarthropods, molecular clock, phylogeography, terrestrial biodiversity}, doi = {10.1073/pnas.2007925117}, url = {https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/08/19/2007925117}, author = {Gemma E. Collins and Hogg, Ian D. and Convey, Peter and Sancho, Leopoldo G. and Cowan, Don A. and W. Berry Lyons and Byron Adams and Diana H. Wall and Allan Green, T. G.} } @article {4014, title = {Genetic diversity among populations of Antarctic springtails (Collembola) within the Mackay Glacier ecotone 1}, journal = {Genome}, volume = {59}, year = {2016}, month = {Jan-09-2016}, pages = {762 - 770}, keywords = {LTER-MCM}, issn = {0831-2796}, doi = {10.1139/gen-2015-0194}, url = {http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/10.1139/gen-2015-0194}, author = {Clare R. Beet and Hogg, Ian D. and Gemma E. Collins and Cowan, Don A. and Diana H. Wall and Byron Adams and John-James Wilson} }