Marta García-Cobo- PhD Student
- PhD Student at Complutense University of Madrid
Marta García-Cobo
- PhD Student
- PhD Student at Complutense University of Madrid
Spending an indefinite period at the Molecular Ecology Group - IRSA to advance on my thesis project.
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July 2024 - present
July 2021 - October 2021
The Danish Center for Hadal Research (HADAL)
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- Erasmus student
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Publications (20)
Nematodes typically comprise the most abundant phylum in meiofaunal communities. We aim to characterize the specific ecological conditions that influence Nematoda communities in Posidonia oceanica grasslands focusing on three habitats: leaves, matte, and unvegetated adjacent sediment. We hypothesized that the constant flux of nutrients under the ca...
Molecular techniques like metabarcoding, while promising for exploring diversity of communities, are often impeded by the lack of reference DNA sequences available for taxonomic annotation. Our study explores the benefits of combining targeted DNA barcoding and morphological taxonomy to improve metabarcoding efficiency, using beach meiofauna as a c...
Meiofauna are the most abundant and diverse animal group on beaches, encompassing 20 metazoan phyla and contributing to taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of beach ecosystems. Meiofauna react fast to environmental change and disturbance, and therefore, might represent a good sentinel to efficiently anticipate human-driven perturbatio...
Meiofauna are the most abundant and diverse animal group on beaches, encompassing 20 metazoan phyla and contributing to taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of beach ecosystems. Meiofauna react fast to environmental change and disturbance, and therefore, might represent a good sentinel to efficiently anticipate human-driven perturbatio...
Groundwater ecosystems are inhabited by unique assemblages of animals, often with restricted distributions and highly specialized traits. Those assemblages sustain ecosystem functioning and contribute to important ecosystem services. Knowledge of the species occurring in those habitats and the main ecological and historical drivers for their distri...
The Ibero-Balearic area is one of the richest European regions in animal species diversity. Since 1988, the
objective of the Spanish nationally funded “Fauna Ibérica” project has been to document the animal
biodiversity of the area. In the context of this project, our research group initiated in 2019 the taxonomic and
integrative study of the phylu...
Molecular techniques like metabarcoding, while promising for exploring diversity of communities, are often impeded by the lack of reference DNA sequences available for taxonomic annotation. Our study explores the benefits of combining targeted DNA barcoding and morphological taxonomy to improve metabarcoding efficiency, using beach meiofauna as a c...
Las asignaturas impartidas por la Unidad Docente de Zoología de la UCM cuentan con una aproximación teórico-práctica en la que se integran clases magistrales y prácticas de laboratorio y de campo. Una de las prácticas de campo que se lleva realizando desde hace más tiempo, y con excelentes resultados como indican las evaluaciones realizadas por los...
Molecular techniques like metabarcoding, while promising for exploring diversity of communities, are often impeded by the lack of reference DNA sequences available for taxonomic annotation. Our study explores the benefits of combining targeted DNA barcoding and morphological taxonomy to improve metabarcoding efficiency, using beach meiofauna as a c...
Six of the eight species of the genus Setaphyes have been described from Europe. In the present contribution, the European Setaphyes species are revised and two of them, S. dentatus (Reinhard, 1881) and S. kielensis (Zelinka, 1928), are redescribed following the current approaches of Kinorhyncha taxonomy. For this purpose, material from 17 localiti...
Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile 1813 is a marine phanerogam distributed along the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea. It constitutes meadows among which three main habitats are distinguishable: leaf stratum, rhizome stratum and sand tongues between bushes. These grasslands host a large number of living organisms, including marine meiofauna, which are p...
Marine meiofauna comprises microscopic animals that inhabit sediment´s particles. The most abundant meiofaunal taxa (50-90% of the whole meiofaunal community) is the phylum Nematoda. Despite the high abundance and importance, knowledge about nematodes inhabiting the deep-sea ecosystem is very limited. Thus, the aim of this study is to analyze and c...
The Invertebrate Collection is part of the 17 collections from the National Museum of Natural Science of Madrid (MNCN-CSIC). Up to now, this collection included specimens of 27 animal phyla. The present contribution determines the donation of 44 specimens belonging to 25 species, 13 genera and six families of the phylum Kinorhyncha, increasing the...
Marine meiofauna comprises microscopic animals that inhabit sediment´s particles. The most abundant meiofaunal taxa (50-90% of the whole meiofaunal community) is the phylum Nematoda. Despite the high abundance and importance, knowledge about nematodes inhabiting the deep-sea ecosystem is very limited. Thus, the aim of this study is to analyze and c...
The formal taxonomic descriptions of the phylum Kinorhyncha were standardized during the 60s in order to ease descriptions and comparison between congeners. Morphometric
measures have turned out to be useful not only in distinguishing between kinorhynch
species, but also explaining their biogeographic distribution; however, the measurement
uptake m...
Single-access keys are the basis of species identification in biology. Despite its usefulness, this method can become tedious due to the lack of guiding images representing each state of the characters. This can lead to several mistakes during the identification process, and the researcher only realizes, when it is possible to compare the studied s...
Marine meiofauna is constituted by microscopic animals that inhabit sediment´s particles and its presence is essential for a good environmental development. From the 24 taxa included in meiofauna, the most abundant (50-90% of the whole meiofaunal community) is Nematoda. Despite its high abundance and importance, knowledge about nematodes inhabiting...
