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Mitogenome phylogeographic analysis of a planktonic crustacean

Fields, Peter D. and Obbard, Darren J. and McTaggart, Seanna J. and Galimov, Yan and Little, Tom J. and Ebert, Dieter. (2018) Mitogenome phylogeographic analysis of a planktonic crustacean. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 129. pp. 138-148.

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Abstract

Phylogeography places population genetics in an explicitly spatial context, and in doing so attempts to reconstruct the historical and contemporary evolutionary processes acting across a species range through space and time. Here we present the phylogeographical structure of Daphnia magna as determined for full mitochondrial genomes from samples of 60 populations throughout much of the species known range, including Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Contrary to previous analyses, the present analysis of the mitochondrial genome reveals coarse-grained (continental scale) evidence for spatial structure, and in particular a deep split between Western Eurasia and East Asian D. magna lineages. In contrast to previous analyses with nuclear genetic markers, our mitogenomic analysis reveals much less structure within lineages. We quantify divergence between species using the full mitochondrial genome sequence of a closely related species, D. similis. The distribution of European and Middle Eastern genetic diversity is consistent with a rapid demographic expansion following the end of the most recent ice age about 10,000 years before present. By estimating species wide distributions of d(N)/d(S) in mtDNA, we provide evidence that the effectiveness of purifying selection on protein coding genes in the mitochondrial genome of coastal rock pool populations, which have pronounced extinction-colonization dynamics, is reduced compared to larger and more stable non-rock pool populations. The present study adds important insights into the evolutionary history of a widely used model organism in ecology, evolution and ecotoxicology, and highlights the utility of phylogeographic analysis of organellar genomes to understand evolutionary processes.
Faculties and Departments:05 Faculty of Science > Departement Umweltwissenschaften > Integrative Biologie > Evolutionary Biology (Ebert)
UniBasel Contributors:Ebert, Dieter and Fields, Peter
Item Type:Article, refereed
Article Subtype:Research Article
Publisher:Elsevier
ISSN:1055-7903
Note:Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article
Language:English
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Last Modified:05 Apr 2019 15:13
Deposited On:21 Feb 2019 16:40

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