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Matoo OB, Neiman M. Bringing Disciplines and People Together to Characterize the Plastic and Genetic Responses of Molluscs to Environmental Change. Integr Comp Biol 2021; 61:1689-1698. [PMID: 34435639 PMCID: PMC8699093 DOI: 10.1093/icb/icab186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Molluscs are remarkably diverse and are found across nearly all ecosystems, meaning that members of this ancient animal phylum provide a powerful means to study genomic-phenotype connections in a climate change framework. Recent advances in genomic sequencing technologies and genome assembly approaches finally allow the relatively cheap and tractable assembly of high-quality mollusc genome resources. After a brief review of these issues and advances, we use a case-study approach to provide some concrete examples of phenotypic plasticity and genomic adaptation in molluscs in response to environmental factors expected to be influenced by climate change. Our goal is to use molluscs as a "common currency" to demonstrate how organismal and evolutionary biologists can use natural systems to make phenotype-genotype connections in the context of changing environments. In parallel, we emphasize the critical need to collaborate and integrate findings across taxa and disciplines in order to use new data and information to advance our understanding of mollusc biology in the context of global environmental change. We end with a brief synthetic summary of the papers inspired by the 2021 SICB Symposium "Genomic Perspectives in Comparative Physiology of Molluscs: Integration across Disciplines".
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- Omera B Matoo
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln 68588, NE, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242, IA, USA.,Department of Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242, IA, USA
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Stuckas H, Knöbel L, Schade H, Breusing C, Hinrichsen HH, Bartel M, Langguth K, Melzner F. Combining hydrodynamic modelling with genetics: can passive larval drift shape the genetic structure of Baltic Mytilus populations? Mol Ecol 2017; 26:2765-2782. [PMID: 28238204 DOI: 10.1111/mec.14075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2015] [Revised: 01/28/2017] [Accepted: 01/30/2017] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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While secondary contact between Mytilus edulis and Mytilus trossulus in North America results in mosaic hybrid zone formation, both species form a hybrid swarm in the Baltic. Despite pervasive gene flow, Baltic Mytilus species maintain substantial genetic and phenotypic differentiation. Exploring mechanisms underlying the contrasting genetic composition in Baltic Mytilus species will allow insights into processes such as speciation or adaptation to extremely low salinity. Previous studies in the Baltic indicated that only weak interspecific reproductive barriers exist and discussed the putative role of adaptation to environmental conditions. Using a combination of hydrodynamic modelling and multilocus genotyping, we investigate how oceanographic conditions influence passive larval dispersal and hybrid swarm formation in the Baltic. By combining our analyses with previous knowledge, we show a genetic transition of Baltic Mytilus species along longitude 12°-13°E, that is a virtual line between Malmö (Sweden) and Stralsund (Germany). Although larval transport only occurs over short distances (10-30 km), limited larval dispersal could not explain the position of this genetic transition zone. Instead, the genetic transition zone is located at the area of maximum salinity change (15-10 psu). Thus, we argue that selection results in weak reproductive barriers and local adaptation. This scenario could maintain genetic and phenotypic differences between Baltic Mytilus species despite pervasive introgressive hybridization.
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- Heiko Stuckas
- Population Genetics, Museum of Zoology, Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden, Königsbrücker Landstrasse 159, 01109, Dresden, Germany
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- Population Genetics, Museum of Zoology, Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden, Königsbrücker Landstrasse 159, 01109, Dresden, Germany
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- Marine Ecology, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Düsternbrooker Weg 20, 24105, Kiel, Germany
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- Marine Ecology, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Düsternbrooker Weg 20, 24105, Kiel, Germany.,Evolutionary Ecology of Marine Fishes, Marine Ecology, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Düsternbrooker Weg 20, 24105, Kiel, Germany
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- Evolutionary Ecology of Marine Fishes, Marine Ecology, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Düsternbrooker Weg 20, 24105, Kiel, Germany
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- Population Genetics, Museum of Zoology, Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden, Königsbrücker Landstrasse 159, 01109, Dresden, Germany
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- Population Genetics, Museum of Zoology, Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden, Königsbrücker Landstrasse 159, 01109, Dresden, Germany
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- Marine Ecology, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Düsternbrooker Weg 20, 24105, Kiel, Germany
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Piwoni-Piórewicz A, Kukliński P, Strekopytov S, Humphreys-Williams E, Najorka J, Iglikowska A. Size effect on the mineralogy and chemistry of Mytilus trossulus shells from the southern Baltic Sea: implications for environmental monitoring. ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT 2017; 189:197. [PMID: 28361486 PMCID: PMC5374171 DOI: 10.1007/s10661-017-5901-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2016] [Accepted: 03/15/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Mussels have the ability to control biomineral production and chemical composition, producing shells with a range of functions. In addition to biological control, the environment also seems to influence the process of biomineralization; thus, shells can be used as archives of ambient water parameters during the calcium carbonate deposition. Past and present environmental conditions are recorded in the shells in the form of various proxies including Mg/Ca or Sr/Ca ratios. For such proxies to be accurate and robust, the influence of biological effects including the size of studied organism must be examined and eliminated or minimized, so that the environmental signal can be efficiently extracted. This study considers mineralogy and elemental composition of shells representing four size classes of Mytilus trossulus from the Baltic Sea. Obtained results suggest that mineralogy and chemical composition change throughout the shell development due to most likely a combination of environmental and biological factors. The content of aragonite increases with increasing shell size, while the bulk concentrations of Na, Cd, Cu, U, V, Zn and Pb were found to decrease with increasing height of the shells. Therefore, using mussels for environmental monitoring requires analysis of individuals in the same size range.
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- Anna Piwoni-Piórewicz
- Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Powstańców Warszawy 55, 81-712, Sopot, Poland.
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- Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Powstańców Warszawy 55, 81-712, Sopot, Poland
- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK
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- Imaging and Analysis Centre, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK
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- Imaging and Analysis Centre, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK
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- Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Powstańców Warszawy 55, 81-712, Sopot, Poland
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The underlying structure of adaptation under strong selection in 12 experimental yeast populations. EUKARYOTIC CELL 2014; 13:1200-6. [PMID: 25016004 DOI: 10.1128/ec.00122-14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The aims of this study were to determine (i) whether adaptation under strong selection occurred through mutations in a narrow target of one or a few nucleotide sites or a broad target of numerous sites and (ii) whether the programs of adaptation previously observed from three experimental populations were unique or shared among populations that underwent parallel evolution. We used archived population samples from a previous study, representing 500 generations of experimental evolution in 12 populations under strong selection, 6 populations in a high-salt environment and 6 populations in a low-glucose environment. Each set of six populations included four with sexual reproduction and two with exclusively asexual reproduction. Populations were sampled as resequenced genomes of 115 individuals and as bulk samples from which frequencies of mutant alleles were estimated. In a high-salt environment, a broad target of 11 mutations within the proton exporter, PMA1, was observed among the six populations, in addition to expansions of the ENA gene cluster. This pattern was shared among populations that underwent parallel evolution. In a low-glucose environment, two programs of adaptation were observed. The originally observed pattern of mutation in MDS3/MKT1 in population M8 was a narrow target of a single nucleotide, unique to this population. Among the other five populations, the three mutations were shared in a broad target, sensing/signaling genes RAS1 and RAS2. RAS1/RAS2 mutations were not observed in the high-salt populations; PMA1 mutations were observed only in a high-salt environment.
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GARDNER JONATHANPA, THOMPSON RAYMONDJ. Influence of genotype and geography on shell shape and morphometric trait variation among North Atlantic blue mussel (Mytilus spp.) populations. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2009. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01166.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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SKIBINSKI DOF, RODERICK EE. Evidence of selective mortality in favour of the Mytilus galloprovincialis Lmk phenotype in British mussel populations. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2008. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.1991.tb00568.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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BEAUMONT ANDYR. Genetic studies of laboratory reared mussels, Mytilus edulis: heterozygote deficiencies, heterozygosity and growth. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2008. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.1991.tb00620.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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VÄINÖLÄ R, HVILSOM MM. Genetic divergence and a hybrid zone between Baltic and North Sea Mytilus populations (Mytilidae: Mollusca). Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2008. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.1991.tb00589.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Riginos C, Cunningham CW. INVITED REVIEW: Local adaptation and species segregation in two mussel (Mytilus edulis × Mytilus trossulus) hybrid zones. Mol Ecol 2004; 14:381-400. [PMID: 15660932 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2004.02379.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Few marine hybrid zones have been studied extensively, the major exception being the hybrid zone between the mussels Mytilus edulis and Mytilus galloprovincialis in southwestern Europe. Here, we focus on two less studied hybrid zones that also involve Mytilus spp.; Mytilus edulis and Mytilus trossulus are sympatric and hybridize on both western and eastern coasts of the Atlantic Ocean. We review the dynamics of hybridization in these two hybrid zones and evaluate the role of local adaptation for maintaining species boundaries. In Scandinavia, hybridization and gene introgression is so extensive that no individuals with pure M. trossulus genotypes have been found. However, M. trossulus alleles are maintained at high frequencies in the extremely low salinity Baltic Sea for some allozyme genes. A synthesis of reciprocal transplantation experiments between different salinity regimes shows that unlinked Gpi and Pgm alleles change frequency following transplantation, such that post-transplantation allelic composition resembles native populations found in the same salinity. These experiments provide strong evidence for salinity adaptation at Gpi and Pgm (or genes linked to them). In the Canadian Maritimes, pure M. edulis and M. trossulus individuals are abundant, and limited data suggest that M. edulis predominates in low salinity and sheltered conditions, whereas M. trossulus are more abundant on the wave-exposed open coasts. We suggest that these conflicting patterns of species segregation are, in part, caused by local adaptation of Scandinavian M. trossulus to the extremely low salinity Baltic Sea environment.
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- C Riginos
- Department of Biology, Box 90338, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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Bierne N, Daguin C, Bonhomme F, David P, Borsa P. Direct selection on allozymes is not required to explain heterogeneity among marker loci across a Mytilus hybrid zone. Mol Ecol 2003; 12:2505-10. [PMID: 12919488 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294x.2003.01936.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Unequal differentiation between two types of loci (allozyme and DNA markers) across a Mytilus hybrid zone has recently been claimed as evidence for direct selection on some allozyme loci. We provide here a counter-example: a noncoding DNA locus that exhibits as much differentiation as the incriminated allozymes do. The levels of genetic differentiation varied widely among both allozymes and noncoding DNA markers and no clear difference emerged between the two types of markers. This suggests that the strong interlocus variance in genetic differentiation has been confounded with a discrepancy between marker types as a result of an insufficient and unbalanced locus sampling. Heterogeneity in differentiation among neutral loci can be created by stochastic variance during the allopatric divergence preceding a secondary contact. In hybrid zones, a further source of variance is differential introgression among chromosomal regions after the secondary contact owing to the local influence of selected genes on more or less distant markers. However, the degree of differentiation alone gives no way to distinguish indirect pseudo-selection (a regular and ubiquitous feature of hybrid zones) from direct selection. More generally, we suggest that comparative neutrality tests based on discrepancies among marker types have to be applied with caution when the presence of semi-permeable genetic barriers to gene exchange is suspected.
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- N Bierne
- Laboratoire Génome, Populations, Interactions, Adaptation, UMR5000 Université Montpellier II--IFREMER--CNRS, Station Méditerranéenne de l'Environnement Littoral, 34200 Sète, France.
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Riginos C, Sukhdeo K, Cunningham CW. Evidence for selection at multiple allozyme loci across a mussel hybrid zone. Mol Biol Evol 2002; 19:347-51. [PMID: 11861894 DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a004088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Sanjuan A, Zapata C, Alvarez G. Genetic differentiation inMytilus galloprovincialisLmk. throughout the world. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1997. [DOI: 10.1080/00785326.1997.10433387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Gardner JPA. Mytilus Galloprovincialis(Lmk) (Bivalvia, Mollusca): The Taxonomic Status of the Mediterranean Mussel. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1992. [DOI: 10.1080/00785326.1992.10429929] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Sarver SK, Katoh M, Foltz DW. Apparent overdominance of enzyme specific activity in two marine bivalves. Genetica 1992. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00132275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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