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Skazina M, Odintsova N, Maiorova M, Frolova L, Dolganova I, Regel K, Strelkov P. Two lineages of bivalve transmissible neoplasia affect the blue mussel Mytilus trossulus Gould in the subarctic Sea of Okhotsk. Curr Zool 2022; 69:91-102. [PMID: 36974151 PMCID: PMC10039180 DOI: 10.1093/cz/zoac012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2021] [Accepted: 02/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Abstract
There are increasing findings of the bivalve transmissible neoplasia derived from the Pacific mussel Mytilus trossulus (MtrBTN) in populations of different Mytilus species worldwide. The Subarctic is an area where this disease has not yet been sought despite the fact that Mytilus spp. are widespread there, and M. trossulus itself is a boreal species. We used flow cytometry of the hemolymph, hemocytology and histology to diagnose disseminated neoplasia in a sample of M. trossulus from Magadan in the subarctic Sea of Okhotsk. Neoplasia was identified in 11 of 214 mussels studied. Using mtDNA COI sequencing, we revealed genotypes identical or nearly identical to known MtrBTN ones in the hemolymph of most of the diseased mussels. Both MtrBTN evolutionary lineages have been identified, the widespread MtrBTN2, and MtrBTN1, so far only known from M. trossulus in British Columbia on the other side of the Pacific from Magadan. In addition, MtrBTN2 was represented by two common diverged mtDNA haplolineages. These conclusions were confirmed for selected cancerous mussels by molecular cloning of COI and additional nuclear and mtDNA genes. On the background of high genetic diversity, different cancers were similar in terms of ploidy (range 4.0 - 5.8n) and nuclear to cell ratio. Our study provides the first description of neoplasia and MtrBTN in mussels from the Sea of Okhotsk and from the Subarctic, of both MtrBTN1 and MtrBTN2 in the same mussel population, and the first direct comparison between these transmissible cancers.
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Affiliation(s)
- Maria Skazina
- Department of Applied Ecology, St Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia
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- National Scientific Center of Marine Biology, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok 690041, Russia
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- National Scientific Center of Marine Biology, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok 690041, Russia
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- National Scientific Center of Marine Biology, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok 690041, Russia
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- Department of Applied Ecology, St Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia
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- Institute of the Biological Problems of the North, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan 685000, Russia
| | - Petr Strelkov
- Department of Applied Ecology, St Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia
- Laboratory of Monitoring and Conservation of Natural Arctic Ecosystems,Murmansk Arctic State University, Murmansk 183038, Russia
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