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Phylogeographic and evolutionary history analyses of the warty crab Eriphia verrucosa (Decapoda, Brachyura, Eriphiidae) unveil genetic imprints of a late Pleistocene vicariant event across the Gibraltar Strait, erased by postglacial expansion and admixture among refugial lineages

BACKGROUND: The Pleistocene cyclic sea-level fluctuations are thought to have markedly affected the distribution and genetic architecture of Atlanto-Mediterranean biota. Despite the acknowledged key role played by these historical events in shaping population genetic structure of marine species, lit...

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Autores principales: Deli, Temim, Kiel, Christina, Schubart, Christoph D.
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6525375/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31101005
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-019-1423-2
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description BACKGROUND: The Pleistocene cyclic sea-level fluctuations are thought to have markedly affected the distribution and genetic architecture of Atlanto-Mediterranean biota. Despite the acknowledged key role played by these historical events in shaping population genetic structure of marine species, little is still known about the processes involved in shaping the spatial distribution of genetic variation within intertidal species. We intended in this study to reconstruct the phylogeography of a common and widely distributed coastal species across the East Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea (the warty crab Eriphia verrucosa), aiming to unravel potential microevolutionary processes likely involved in shaping its genetic polymorphism. For this purpose, a total of 155 specimens of E. verrucosa from 35 locations across the entire distribution range were analyzed by comparing a 453 basepairs region of the mitochondrial gene cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 (Cox1). RESULTS: Our results unveiled the prevalence of high genetic connectivity among East Atlantic and Mediterranean populations, with noticeable genetic distinctiveness of the peripheral population from the Azores. Spatio-temporal patterns of genetic diversification and demographic history allowed retrieving genetic imprints of late Pleistocene vicariant event across the Gibraltar Strait followed by subsequent postglacial expansion events for both the East Atlantic and Mediterranean regions. Integrative evidences from the outcomes of comparison of regional genetic diversification, as well as evolutionary and biogeographic histories reconstructions, support the existence of potential glacial refugia for E. verrucosa in the East Atlantic and western Mediterranean. Our results also revealed low levels of genetic variability along with recent demographic and spatial expansion events for eastern Mediterranean warty crabs, suggesting that the eastern areas within the distribution range of the species might have been recently colonized from putative glacial refugia. CONCLUSIONS: These findings provide new insights into the phylogeography and evolutionary history of a common but poorly studied Atlanto-Mediterranean decapod species. Specifically, they contribute to the understanding of the impact of historical processes on shaping contemporary population genetic structure and diversity in intertidal marine species. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s12862-019-1423-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-65253752019-05-24 Phylogeographic and evolutionary history analyses of the warty crab Eriphia verrucosa (Decapoda, Brachyura, Eriphiidae) unveil genetic imprints of a late Pleistocene vicariant event across the Gibraltar Strait, erased by postglacial expansion and admixture among refugial lineages Deli, Temim Kiel, Christina Schubart, Christoph D. BMC Evol Biol Research Article BACKGROUND: The Pleistocene cyclic sea-level fluctuations are thought to have markedly affected the distribution and genetic architecture of Atlanto-Mediterranean biota. Despite the acknowledged key role played by these historical events in shaping population genetic structure of marine species, little is still known about the processes involved in shaping the spatial distribution of genetic variation within intertidal species. We intended in this study to reconstruct the phylogeography of a common and widely distributed coastal species across the East Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea (the warty crab Eriphia verrucosa), aiming to unravel potential microevolutionary processes likely involved in shaping its genetic polymorphism. For this purpose, a total of 155 specimens of E. verrucosa from 35 locations across the entire distribution range were analyzed by comparing a 453 basepairs region of the mitochondrial gene cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 (Cox1). RESULTS: Our results unveiled the prevalence of high genetic connectivity among East Atlantic and Mediterranean populations, with noticeable genetic distinctiveness of the peripheral population from the Azores. Spatio-temporal patterns of genetic diversification and demographic history allowed retrieving genetic imprints of late Pleistocene vicariant event across the Gibraltar Strait followed by subsequent postglacial expansion events for both the East Atlantic and Mediterranean regions. Integrative evidences from the outcomes of comparison of regional genetic diversification, as well as evolutionary and biogeographic histories reconstructions, support the existence of potential glacial refugia for E. verrucosa in the East Atlantic and western Mediterranean. Our results also revealed low levels of genetic variability along with recent demographic and spatial expansion events for eastern Mediterranean warty crabs, suggesting that the eastern areas within the distribution range of the species might have been recently colonized from putative glacial refugia. CONCLUSIONS: These findings provide new insights into the phylogeography and evolutionary history of a common but poorly studied Atlanto-Mediterranean decapod species. Specifically, they contribute to the understanding of the impact of historical processes on shaping contemporary population genetic structure and diversity in intertidal marine species. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s12862-019-1423-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2019-05-17 /pmc/articles/PMC6525375/ /pubmed/31101005 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-019-1423-2 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Deli, Temim
Kiel, Christina
Schubart, Christoph D.
Phylogeographic and evolutionary history analyses of the warty crab Eriphia verrucosa (Decapoda, Brachyura, Eriphiidae) unveil genetic imprints of a late Pleistocene vicariant event across the Gibraltar Strait, erased by postglacial expansion and admixture among refugial lineages
title Phylogeographic and evolutionary history analyses of the warty crab Eriphia verrucosa (Decapoda, Brachyura, Eriphiidae) unveil genetic imprints of a late Pleistocene vicariant event across the Gibraltar Strait, erased by postglacial expansion and admixture among refugial lineages
title_full Phylogeographic and evolutionary history analyses of the warty crab Eriphia verrucosa (Decapoda, Brachyura, Eriphiidae) unveil genetic imprints of a late Pleistocene vicariant event across the Gibraltar Strait, erased by postglacial expansion and admixture among refugial lineages
title_fullStr Phylogeographic and evolutionary history analyses of the warty crab Eriphia verrucosa (Decapoda, Brachyura, Eriphiidae) unveil genetic imprints of a late Pleistocene vicariant event across the Gibraltar Strait, erased by postglacial expansion and admixture among refugial lineages
title_full_unstemmed Phylogeographic and evolutionary history analyses of the warty crab Eriphia verrucosa (Decapoda, Brachyura, Eriphiidae) unveil genetic imprints of a late Pleistocene vicariant event across the Gibraltar Strait, erased by postglacial expansion and admixture among refugial lineages
title_short Phylogeographic and evolutionary history analyses of the warty crab Eriphia verrucosa (Decapoda, Brachyura, Eriphiidae) unveil genetic imprints of a late Pleistocene vicariant event across the Gibraltar Strait, erased by postglacial expansion and admixture among refugial lineages
title_sort phylogeographic and evolutionary history analyses of the warty crab eriphia verrucosa (decapoda, brachyura, eriphiidae) unveil genetic imprints of a late pleistocene vicariant event across the gibraltar strait, erased by postglacial expansion and admixture among refugial lineages
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6525375/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31101005
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-019-1423-2
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