Germplasm labeling errors have impeded breeding and confounded the interpretation of diversity analyses.
These revolutionized interpretations of biological diversity, and the notion of evolution through natural selection rapidly became the dominant paradigm in biology.
However, other interpretations of the diversity of chemosynthetic habitats postulate relatively recent (late Cenozoic) in situ radiations, with taxa from shallow water repopulating these environments after global extinctions events in the late Cretaceous and Cenozoic [12], [13].
Interpretations of genetic diversity patterns are further confounded by changes in gene flow due to oscillations in population densities and by shifts in the connectivity of habitats.
The presence of immigrants and hybrids, not contributing to the reproductive population gene pool, can easily complicate interpretations of genetic diversity, N e and genetic differentiation.
In allopatry, however, isolation by distance and geography are known to cause differentiation between populations within species and can confound interpretations of species diversity because genetic clusters arising from these processes may be mistaken as separate species.
Liberalism, freedom of individual interpretation, tolerance of diversity, agreement on methods of approaching theological and church issues, and belief in the inherent dignity of man have been the strongest elements keeping the movement together.
Obtaining molecular data on a comprehensive sampling of described protists is thus of prime importance to avoid over-interpretation of the diversity revealed by EES.
Even though recent evidence point to a human explosive growth over the past 10,000 years leading to an increment in very low frequency variants (Keinan and Clark 2012), the significance of the negative Tajima's D values obtained under the best-fit models discourage a demographic interpretation of HBD diversity.
Further analyses and interpretations of the genetic diversity are, however, not the scope of this paper and data (including allele frequencies) will be presented elsewhere.
