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Near TJ, Dornburg A, Harrington RC, Oliveira C, Pietsch TW, Thacker CE, Satoh TP, Katayama E, Wainwright PC, Eastman JT, Beaulieu JM. Identification of the notothenioid sister lineage illuminates the biogeographic history of an Antarctic adaptive radiation. BMC Evol Biol 2015; 15:109. [PMID: 26062690 PMCID: PMC4461946 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-015-0362-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2014] [Accepted: 04/27/2015] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Antarctic notothenioids are an impressive adaptive radiation. While they share recent common ancestry with several species-depauperate lineages that exhibit a relictual distribution in areas peripheral to the Southern Ocean, an understanding of their evolutionary origins and biogeographic history is limited as the sister lineage of notothenioids remains unidentified. The phylogenetic placement of notothenioids among major lineages of perciform fishes, which include sculpins, rockfishes, sticklebacks, eelpouts, scorpionfishes, perches, groupers and soapfishes, remains unresolved. We investigate the phylogenetic position of notothenioids using DNA sequences of 10 protein coding nuclear genes sampled from more than 650 percomorph species. The biogeographic history of notothenioids is reconstructed using a maximum likelihood method that integrates phylogenetic relationships, estimated divergence times, geographic distributions and paleogeographic history. RESULTS Percophis brasiliensis is resolved, with strong node support, as the notothenioid sister lineage. The species is endemic to the subtropical and temperate Atlantic coast of southern South America. Biogeographic reconstructions imply the initial diversification of notothenioids involved the western portion of the East Gondwanan Weddellian Province. The geographic disjunctions among the major lineages of notothenioids show biogeographic and temporal correspondence with the fragmentation of East Gondwana. CONCLUSIONS The phylogenetic resolution of Percophis requires a change in the classification of percomorph fishes and provides evidence for a western Weddellian origin of notothenioids. The biogeographic reconstruction highlights the importance of the geographic and climatic isolation of Antarctica in driving the radiation of cold-adapted notothenioids.
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- Thomas J Near
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA.
- Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA.
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA.
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- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3AN, UK.
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- Department Morfologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil.
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- School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences and Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98105, USA.
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- Research and Collections, Section of Ichthyology, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90007, USA.
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- National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba City, Ibaraki, 305-0005, Japan.
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- National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba City, Ibaraki, 305-0005, Japan.
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- Section of Evolution & Ecology, University of California, Davis, CA, 95616, USA.
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, OH, 45701-2979, USA.
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- National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, University of Tennessee, 1122 Volunteer Blvd, Ste. 106, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA.
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La Mesa M, Caputo V, Eastman JT. Some reproductive traits of the Tristan klipfish, Bovichtus diacanthus (Carmichael 1819) (Notothenioidei: Bovichtidae) from Tristan da Cunha (South Atlantic). Polar Biol 2009. [DOI: 10.1007/s00300-009-0710-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Giordano D, Boechi L, Vergara A, Martí MA, Samuni U, Dantsker D, Grassi L, Estrin DA, Friedman JM, Mazzarella L, di Prisco G, Verde C. The hemoglobins of the sub-Antarctic fishCottoperca gobio, a phyletically basal species - oxygen-binding equilibria, kinetics and molecular dynamics. FEBS J 2009; 276:2266-77. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2009.06954.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Eastman JT, Lannoo MJ. Brain and sense organ anatomy and histology of the Falkland Islands mullet, Eleginops maclovinus (Eleginopidae), the sister group of the Antarctic notothenioid fishes (Perciformes: Notothenioidei). J Morphol 2008; 269:84-103. [PMID: 17902153 DOI: 10.1002/jmor.10571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The perciform notothenioid fish Eleginops maclovinus, representing the monotypic family Eleginopidae, has a non-Antarctic distribution in the Falkland Islands and southern South America. It is the sister group of the five families and 103 species of Antarctic notothenioids that dominate the cold shelf waters of Antarctica. Eleginops is the ideal subject for documenting the ancestral morphology of nervous and sensory systems that have not had historical exposure to the unusual Antarctic thermal and light regimes, and for comparing these systems with those of the phyletically derived Antarctic species. We present a detailed description of the brain and cranial nerves of Eleginops and ask how does the neural and sensory morphology of this non-Antarctic notothenioid differ from that seen in the phyletically derived Antarctic notothenioids? The brain of Eleginops is similar to those of visually oriented temperate and tropical perciforms. The tectum is smaller but it has well-developed olfactory and mechanoreceptive lateral line areas and a large, caudally projecting corpus cerebellum. Eye diameter is about twofold smaller in Eleginops than in many Antarctic species. Eleginops has a duplex (rod and cone) retina with single and occasional twin cones conspicuous centrally. Ocular vascular structures include a large choroid rete mirabile and a small lentiform body; a falciform process and hyaloid arteries are absent. The olfactory rosette is oval with 50-55 lamellae, a large number for notothenioids. The inconspicuous bony canals of the cephalic lateral line system are simple with membranous secondary branches that lack neuromasts. In Antarctic species, the corpus cerebellum is the most variable brain region, ranging in size from large and caudally projecting to small and round. "Stalked" brains showing reduction in the size of the telencephalon, tectum, and corpus cerebellum are present in the deep-living artedidraconid Dolloidraco longedorsalis and in most of the deep-living members of the Bathydraconini. Eye diameter is generally larger in Antarctic species but there is a phylogenetic loss of cellularity in the retina, including cone photoreceptors. Some deep-living Antarctic species have lost most of their cones. Mechanosensation is expanded in some species, most notably the nototheniid Pleuragramma antarcticum, the artedidraconid genera Dolloidraco and Pogonophryne, and the deep living members of the bathydraconid tribe Bathydraconini. Reduction in retinal cellularity, expansion of mechanoreception, and stalking are the most noteworthy departures from the morphology seen in Eleginops. These features reflect a modest depth or deep-sea effect, and they are not uniquely "Antarctic" attributes. Thus, at the level of organ system morphology, perciform brain and sensory systems are suitable for conditions on the Antarctic shelf, with only minor alterations in structure in directions exhibited by other fish groups inhabiting deep water. Notothenioids retain a relative balance among their array of senses that reflects their heritage as inshore perciforms.
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- Joseph T Eastman
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701-2979, USA.
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di Prisco G, Eastman JT, Giordano D, Parisi E, Verde C. Biogeography and adaptation of Notothenioid fish: hemoglobin function and globin-gene evolution. Gene 2007; 398:143-55. [PMID: 17553637 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2007.02.047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2006] [Revised: 02/19/2007] [Accepted: 02/21/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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The recognition of the important role of the polar habitats in global climate changes has awakened great interest in the evolutionary biology of polar organisms. They are exposed to strong environmental constraints, and it is important to understand how they have adapted to cope with these challenges and to what extent adaptations may be upset by current climate changes. We present an introductory overview of the evolution of the Antarctic fish fauna with emphasis on the dominant perciform sub-order Notothenioidei, as well as some specific comments on the biogeography of the three phyletically basal notothenioid families. The wealth of information on the ecology and biodiversity of the species inhabiting high-Antarctic and sub-Antarctic regions provides a necessary framework for better understanding the origin, evolution and adaptation of this unique group of fish. Notothenioidei offer opportunities for identification of the biochemical characters or the physiological traits responsible for thermal adaptation. The availability of phylogenetically related taxa in a wide range of latitudes has allowed to look into the molecular bases of environmentally driven phenotypic gain and loss of function. In the process of cold adaptation, the evolutionary trend of notothenioids has produced unique specialisations, including modification of hematological characteristics, e.g. decreased amounts and multiplicity of hemoglobins. The Antarctic family Channichthyidae (the notothenioid crown group) is devoid of hemoglobin. This loss is related to a single deletional event removing all globin genes with the exception of the inactive 3' end of adult alpha-globin. In reviewing hemoglobin structure, function and phylogeny, the evolution of the fish Root effect is analysed in detail. Adaptation of the oxygen-transport system in notothenioids seems to be based on evolutionary changes involving levels of biological organisation higher than the structure of hemoglobin.
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- Guido di Prisco
- Institute of Protein Biochemistry, CNR, Via Pietro Castellino 111, I-80131 Naples, Italy
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Eastman JT, Lannoo MJ. Brain and sense organ anatomy and histology of two species of phyletically basal non-Antarctic thornfishes of the Antarctic suborder Notothenioidei (Perciformes: Bovichtidae). J Morphol 2007; 268:485-503. [PMID: 17417804 DOI: 10.1002/jmor.10534] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The predominantly non-Antarctic family Bovichtidae is phyletically basal within the perciform suborder Notothenioidei, the dominant component of the Antarctic fish fauna. In this article we focus on the South Atlantic bovichtids Bovichtus diacanthus, the klipfish from tide pools at Tristan da Cunha, and Cottoperca gobio, the frogmouth from the Patagonian shelf and Falkland Islands. We document the anatomy and histology of the brains, olfactory apparatus, retina, and cephalic lateral line system. We also use the microvascular casting agent Microfil to examine ocular vascular structures. We provide detailed drawings of the brains and cranial nerves of both species. Typical of perciforms, the brains of both species have a well-developed tectum and telencephalon and robust thalamic nuclei. The telencephalon of C. gobio is prominently lobed, with the dorsomedial nucleus more conspicuous than in any other notothenioid. The corpus cerebelli is relatively small and upright and, unlike other notothenioids, has prominent transverse sulci on the dorsal and caudal surfaces. Areas for lateral line mechanoreception (eminentia granularis and crista cerebellaris) are also conspicuous but olfactory, gustatory, and somatosensory areas are less prominent. The anterior lateral line nerve complex is larger than the posterior lateral line nerve in B. diacanthus, and in their cephalic lateral line systems both species possess branched membranous tubules (which do not contain neuromasts) with small pores. These are especially complex in B. diacanthus where they become increasingly branched and more highly pored in progressively larger specimens. Superficial neuromasts are sparse. Both species have duplex (cone and rod) retinae that are 1.25-fold thicker and have nearly 5-fold more photoreceptors and than those of most Antarctic notothenioids. Convergence ratios are also high for bovichtids. Bovichtus diacanthus has a yellow intraocular filter in the dorsal aspect of the cornea. Both species are unique among notothenioids in possessing all three vascular structures present in the generalized teleostean eye: the choroid rete mirabile, the lentiform body (also a rete), and the falciform process. When comparing the phyletically derived Antarctic clade exemplified by the families Artedidraconidae, Bathydraconidae, and Channichthyidae to the phyletically basal bovichtids, we observe phyletic regression and reduction in some regions of the brain and in some sensory modalities that are well displayed in bovichtids. In the phyletically derived families the brain is less cellular and nuclei are smaller and less prominent. In some species reduction in the size of the telencephalon, tectum, and corpus cerebelli imparts a "stalked" appearance to the brain with the neural axis visible between the reduced lobes. There is also a phyletic reduction in the number of ocular vascular structures from three in bovichtids to one or none in artedidraconids, bathydraconids, and channichthyids. There are no morphological features of bovichtid brains and sense organs that presage the divergence of the phyletically derived members of the clade in the Antarctic marine environment with its cold and deep continental shelves. We conclude that this environment does not require sensory or neural morphology or capabilities beyond those provided by the basic perciform body plan.
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- Joseph T Eastman
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701-2979, USA.
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Mazzei F, Ghigliotti L, Lecointre G, Ozouf-Costaz C, Coutanceau JP, Detrich W, Pisano E. Karyotypes of basal lineages in notothenioid fishes: the genus Bovichtus. Polar Biol 2006. [DOI: 10.1007/s00300-006-0151-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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