[Taxacom] Are there species smaller than 1 mm?

[Dave Roberts]

Dear Doug,

that depends on what you mean by 'asexual'.  It is not a black and white delineation.  So do species become more 'real' as the organisms become more sexual?

Cheers, Dave
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On 22 Aug 2013, at 17:17, Doug Yanega <dyanega at ucr.edu> wrote:

> On 8/22/13 3:52 AM, Bob Mesibov wrote:
>> Title of a very interesting paper, open access at
>> 
>> http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/280/1767/20131248.full
> And the title is very misleading. If you read the proverbial fine print, 
> they eventually come out and admit that this model only applies to 
> asexual organisms. In essence, they are considering only things like 
> bacteria and protists (and, in essence, whether they exhibit niche 
> partitioning), rather than multicellular organisms (for which the 
> sub-millimeter biodiversity can be rather high, given things like mites, 
> nematodes, rotifers, aquatic crustaceans, collembolans, and parasitic 
> hymenopterans). Models are only as good as their underlying assumptions, 
> and I'm not much impressed by this model.
> 
> Peace,
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