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Briones C, Nuñez JJ, Pérez M, Garrido O, Campos B, Godoy K, Hartley R, Oyarzún PA, Guiñez R. Linking Acrosome Size and Genetic Divergence in an Inter-Oceanic Mussel from the Pacific and Atlantic Coasts: A Case of Incipient Speciation? Animals (Basel) 2024; 14:674. [PMID: 38473058 DOI: 10.3390/ani14050674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2024] [Revised: 02/14/2024] [Accepted: 02/19/2024] [Indexed: 03/14/2024] Open
Abstract
In recent years, advances in analyses of the sperm morphology and genetics of Perumytilus purpuratus have allowed to two evolutionary scenarios for this mussel to be suggested: (1) the scenario of cryptic species and (2) the scenario of incipient or in progress speciation. For a better understanding of the evolutionary history of P. purpuratus, we performed extensive sampling along a latitudinal gradient of ca. 7180 km of coastline-from the Southern Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean-and we delved deeper into the sperm morphology of P. purpuratus, exploring its association with the phylogeny and population genetics to determine whether the variability in sperm traits between the northern and southern regions was a signal of cryptic or incipient species. Overall, our results showed that sperm sizes were strongly correlated with the genetic structure in males of P. purpuratus. We identified at 37° S on the Pacific coast a coincident break of both sperm size and genetic disruption that can be explained by historical events and postglacial recolonization as causal phenomena for the observed divergences. Furthermore, evidence of genetic admixture between lineages was found at 38° S, suggesting the presence of an introgressive hybridization zone and incomplete reproductive isolation in an in fraganti or incipient speciation process.
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- Carolina Briones
- Instituto de Ciencias Naturales Alexander von Humbodt, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar y de Recursos Biológicos, Universidad de Antofagasta, Angamos 601, Antofagasta 1270300, Chile
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- Instituto de Ciencias Marinas y Limnológicas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Austral de Chile, Casilla 567, Valdivia 5090000, Chile
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- AquaCOV, Centro Oceanográfico de Vigo, Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IEO, CSIC), 36390 Vigo, Spain
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- Instituto de Ciencias Marinas y Limnológicas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Austral de Chile, Casilla 567, Valdivia 5090000, Chile
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- Núcleo Científico y Tecnológico de Biorecursos (BIOREN), Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco 4811230, Chile
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- Instituto de Investigación y Postgrado, Facultad de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Central de Chile, Santiago 8330507, Chile
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- Centro de Investigación Marina Quintay (CIMARQ), Universidad Andrés Bello, Quintay 2340000, Chile
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- Instituto de Ciencias Naturales Alexander von Humbodt, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar y de Recursos Biológicos, Universidad de Antofagasta, Angamos 601, Antofagasta 1270300, Chile
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Lucentini L, Plazzi F, Sfriso AA, Pizzirani C, Sfriso A, Chiesa S. Additional taxonomic coverage of the doubly uniparental inheritance in bivalves: Evidence of sex‐linked heteroplasmy in the razor clam
Solen marginatus
Pulteney, 1799, but not in the lagoon cockle
Cerastoderma glaucum
(Bruguière, 1789). J ZOOL SYST EVOL RES 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Livia Lucentini
- Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnologies University of Perugia Perugia Italy
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- Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences University of Bologna Bologna Italy
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- Department of Chemical and Pharmaceuticals Sciences University of Ferrara Ferrara Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnologies University of Perugia Perugia Italy
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics Ca' Foscari University of Venice Venice Italy
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- Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems Ca' Foscari University of Venice Venice Italy
- ISPRA Institute for Environmental Protection and Research Rome Italy
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Passamonti M, Plazzi F. Doubly Uniparental Inheritance and beyond: The contribution of the Manila clamRuditapes philippinarum. J ZOOL SYST EVOL RES 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- Marco Passamonti
- Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences University of Bologna Bologna Italy
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- Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences University of Bologna Bologna Italy
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Plazzi F, Passamonti M. Footprints of unconventional mitochondrial inheritance in bivalve phylogeny: Signatures of positive selection on clades with doubly uniparental inheritance. J ZOOL SYST EVOL RES 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Federico Plazzi
- Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences University of Bologna Bologna Italy
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- Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences University of Bologna Bologna Italy
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Śmietanka B, Lubośny M, Przyłucka A, Gérard K, Burzyński A. Mitogenomics of Perumytilus purpuratus (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) and its implications for doubly uniparental inheritance of mitochondria. PeerJ 2018; 6:e5593. [PMID: 30245933 PMCID: PMC6149501 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.5593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2018] [Accepted: 08/14/2018] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
Abstract
Animal mitochondria are usually inherited through the maternal lineage. The exceptional system allowing fathers to transmit their mitochondria to the offspring exists in some bivalves. Its taxonomic spread is poorly understood and new mitogenomic data are needed to fill the gap. Here, we present for the first time the two divergent mitogenomes from Chilean mussel Perumytilus purpuratus. The existence of these sex-specific mitogenomes confirms that this species has the doubly uniparental inheritance (DUI) of mitochondria. The genetic distance between the two mitochondrial lineages in P. purpuratus is not only much bigger than in the Mytilus edulis species complex but also greater than the distance observed in Musculista senhousia, the only other DUI-positive member of the Mytilidae family for which both complete mitochondrial genomes were published to date. One additional, long ORF (open reading frame) is present exclusively in the maternal mitogenome of P. purpuratus. This ORF evolves under purifying selection, and will likely be a target for future DUI research.
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- Beata Śmietanka
- Department of Genetics and Marine Biotechnology, Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland
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- Department of Genetics and Marine Biotechnology, Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland
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- Department of Genetics and Marine Biotechnology, Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland
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- Centro de Investigacion Gaia-Antartica, Departamento de Recursos Naturales, Universidad de Magallanes, Punta Arenas, Chile.,Laboratorio de Ecosistemas Marinos Antárticos y Subantárticos, Universidad de Magallanes, Punta Arenas, Chile
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- Department of Genetics and Marine Biotechnology, Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland
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Mioduchowska M, Kaczmarczyk A, Zając K, Zając T, Sell J. Gender-Associated Mitochondrial DNA Heteroplasmy in Somatic Tissues of the Endangered Freshwater Mussel Unio crassus (Bivalvia: Unionidae): Implications for Sex Identification and Phylogeographical Studies. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017; 325:610-625. [PMID: 28102008 DOI: 10.1002/jez.2055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2016] [Revised: 10/11/2016] [Accepted: 10/24/2016] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Some bivalve species possess two independent mitochondrial DNA lineages: maternally (F-type) and paternally (M-type) inherited. This phenomenon is called doubly uniparental inheritance. It is generally agreed that F-type mtDNA is typically present in female somatic and gonadal tissues as well as in male somatic tissues, whereas the M-type mtDNA occurs only in male germ line and gonadal tissue. In the present study, the mtDNA heteroplasmy (for both F and M genomes) in male somatic tissues of Unio crassus (Philipsson, 1788), species threatened with extinction, has been confirmed. Taking advantage from the presence of Mcox1 marker only in male somatic tissues, we developed a new method of sex identification in this endangered species, using nondestructive tissue sampling. Probability of correct sex identification was estimated at 97.5%. The present study is the first report on gender-associated mitochondrial DNA heteroplasmy in male somatic tissues of thick-shelled river mussel and first approach to U. crassus sex identification at molecular level. Our study also confirmed the utility of paternally inherited Mcox1 gene fragment as a complementary molecular tool for resolving phylogeographical relationships among populations of thick-shelled river mussel.
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- Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences, 31-120 Krakow, Poland
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- Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences, 31-120 Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Genetics, University of Gdansk, 80-308 Gdansk, Poland
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Gusman A, Lecomte S, Stewart DT, Passamonti M, Breton S. Pursuing the quest for better understanding the taxonomic distribution of the system of doubly uniparental inheritance of mtDNA. PeerJ 2016; 4:e2760. [PMID: 27994972 PMCID: PMC5157197 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.2760] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2016] [Accepted: 11/05/2016] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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There is only one exception to strict maternal inheritance of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in the animal kingdom: a system named doubly uniparental inheritance (DUI), which is found in several bivalve species. Why and how such a radically different system of mitochondrial transmission evolved in bivalve remains obscure. Obtaining a more complete taxonomic distribution of DUI in the Bivalvia may help to better understand its origin and function. In this study we provide evidence for the presence of sex-linked heteroplasmy (thus the possible presence of DUI) in two bivalve species, i.e., the nuculanoid Yoldia hyperborea(Gould, 1841)and the veneroid Scrobicularia plana(Da Costa,1778), increasing the number of families in which DUI has been found by two. An update on the taxonomic distribution of DUI in the Bivalvia is also presented.
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- Arthur Gusman
- Department of Biological Sciences, Université de Montréal , Montréal , Québec , Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Université de Strasbourg , Strasbourg , France
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- Department of Biology, Acadia University , Wolfville , Nova Scotia , Canada
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- Department of Biological Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna , Bologna , Italy
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Université de Montréal , Montréal , Québec , Canada
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Trovant B, Basso NG, Orensanz JM, Lessa EP, Dincao F, Ruzzante DE. Scorched mussels (Brachidontes spp., Bivalvia: Mytilidae) from the tropical and warm-temperate southwestern Atlantic: the role of the Amazon River in their speciation. Ecol Evol 2016; 6:1778-98. [PMID: 26929816 PMCID: PMC4758806 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2015] [Revised: 01/21/2016] [Accepted: 01/27/2016] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Antitropicality is a distribution pattern where closely related taxa are separated by an intertropical latitudinal gap. Two potential examples include Brachidontes darwinianus (south eastern Brazil to Uruguay), considered by some authors as a synonym of B. exustus (Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean), and B. solisianus, distributed along the Brazilian coast with dubious records north of the intertropical zone. Using two nuclear (18S and 28S rDNA) and one mitochondrial gene (mtDNA COI), we aimed to elucidate the phylogeographic and phylogenetic relationships among the scorched mussels present in the warm-temperate region of the southwest Atlantic. We evaluated a divergence process mediated by the tropical zone over alternative phylogeographic hypotheses. Brachidontes solisianus was closely related to B. exustus I, a species with which it exhibits an antitropical distribution. Their divergence time was approximately 2.6 Ma, consistent with the intensification of Amazon River flow. Brachidontes darwinianus, an estuarine species is shown here not to be related to this B. exustus complex. We suspect ancestral forms may have dispersed from the Caribbean to the Atlantic coast via the Trans-Amazonian seaway (Miocene). The third species, B rodriguezii is presumed to have a long history in the region with related fossil forms going back to the Miocene. Although scorched mussels are very similar in appearance, their evolutionary histories are very different, involving major historical contingencies as the formation of the Amazon River, the Panama Isthmus, and the last marine transgression.
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- Berenice Trovant
- Instituto de Diversidad y Evolución (IDEAus‐CONICET)Boulevard Brown 2915U9120ACFPuerto MadrynChubutArgentina
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- Instituto de Diversidad y Evolución (IDEAus‐CONICET)Boulevard Brown 2915U9120ACFPuerto MadrynChubutArgentina
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- Instituto de Diversidad y Evolución (IDEAus‐CONICET)Boulevard Brown 2915U9120ACFPuerto MadrynChubutArgentina
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- Departamento de Ecología y EvoluciónFacultad de CienciasUniversidad de la RepúblicaIguá 4225C.P. 11400MontevideoUruguay
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- Universidade Federal do Rio Grande – FURGAv. Itália km 8 Bairro Carreiros96203‐900Rio GrandeBrazil
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- Department of BiologyDalhousie University1355 Oxford St.HalifaxNova ScotiaB3H 4R2Canada
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