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Tracing the first steps of American sturgeon pioneers in Europe
BACKGROUND: A Baltic population of Atlantic sturgeon was founded ~1,200 years ago by migrants from North America, but after centuries of persistence, the population was extirpated in the 1960s, mainly as a result of over-harvest and habitat alterations. As there are four genetically distinct groups...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2527320/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18664258 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-8-221 |
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author | Ludwig, Arne Arndt, Ursula Lippold, Sebastian Benecke, Norbert Debus, Lutz King, Timothy L Matsumura, Shuichi |
author_facet | Ludwig, Arne Arndt, Ursula Lippold, Sebastian Benecke, Norbert Debus, Lutz King, Timothy L Matsumura, Shuichi |
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description | BACKGROUND: A Baltic population of Atlantic sturgeon was founded ~1,200 years ago by migrants from North America, but after centuries of persistence, the population was extirpated in the 1960s, mainly as a result of over-harvest and habitat alterations. As there are four genetically distinct groups of Atlantic sturgeon inhabiting North American rivers today, we investigated the genetic provenance of the historic Baltic population by ancient DNA analyses using mitochondrial and nuclear markers. RESULTS: The phylogeographic signal obtained from multilocus microsatellite DNA genotypes and mitochondrial DNA control region haplotypes, when compared to existing baseline datasets from extant populations, allowed for the identification of the region-of-origin of the North American Atlantic sturgeon founders. Moreover, statistical and simulation analyses of the multilocus genotypes allowed for the calculation of the effective number of individuals that originally founded the European population of Atlantic sturgeon. Our findings suggest that the Baltic population of A. oxyrinchus descended from a relatively small number of founders originating from the northern extent of the species' range in North America. CONCLUSION: These results demonstrate that the most northerly distributed North American A. oxyrinchus colonized the Baltic Sea ~1,200 years ago, suggesting that Canadian specimens should be the primary source of broodstock used for restoration in Baltic rivers. This study illustrates the great potential of patterns obtained from ancient DNA to identify population-of-origin to investigate historic genotype structure of extinct populations. |
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spelling | pubmed-25273202008-08-30 Tracing the first steps of American sturgeon pioneers in Europe Ludwig, Arne Arndt, Ursula Lippold, Sebastian Benecke, Norbert Debus, Lutz King, Timothy L Matsumura, Shuichi BMC Evol Biol Research Article BACKGROUND: A Baltic population of Atlantic sturgeon was founded ~1,200 years ago by migrants from North America, but after centuries of persistence, the population was extirpated in the 1960s, mainly as a result of over-harvest and habitat alterations. As there are four genetically distinct groups of Atlantic sturgeon inhabiting North American rivers today, we investigated the genetic provenance of the historic Baltic population by ancient DNA analyses using mitochondrial and nuclear markers. RESULTS: The phylogeographic signal obtained from multilocus microsatellite DNA genotypes and mitochondrial DNA control region haplotypes, when compared to existing baseline datasets from extant populations, allowed for the identification of the region-of-origin of the North American Atlantic sturgeon founders. Moreover, statistical and simulation analyses of the multilocus genotypes allowed for the calculation of the effective number of individuals that originally founded the European population of Atlantic sturgeon. Our findings suggest that the Baltic population of A. oxyrinchus descended from a relatively small number of founders originating from the northern extent of the species' range in North America. CONCLUSION: These results demonstrate that the most northerly distributed North American A. oxyrinchus colonized the Baltic Sea ~1,200 years ago, suggesting that Canadian specimens should be the primary source of broodstock used for restoration in Baltic rivers. This study illustrates the great potential of patterns obtained from ancient DNA to identify population-of-origin to investigate historic genotype structure of extinct populations. BioMed Central 2008-07-29 /pmc/articles/PMC2527320/ /pubmed/18664258 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-8-221 Text en Copyright ©2008 Ludwig et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Ludwig, Arne Arndt, Ursula Lippold, Sebastian Benecke, Norbert Debus, Lutz King, Timothy L Matsumura, Shuichi Tracing the first steps of American sturgeon pioneers in Europe |
title | Tracing the first steps of American sturgeon pioneers in Europe |
title_full | Tracing the first steps of American sturgeon pioneers in Europe |
title_fullStr | Tracing the first steps of American sturgeon pioneers in Europe |
title_full_unstemmed | Tracing the first steps of American sturgeon pioneers in Europe |
title_short | Tracing the first steps of American sturgeon pioneers in Europe |
title_sort | tracing the first steps of american sturgeon pioneers in europe |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2527320/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18664258 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-8-221 |
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