Genetic, Ecological and Morphological Distinctness of the Blue Mussels Mytilus trossulus Gould and M. edulis L. in the White Sea

Katolikova, Marina; Khaitov, Vadim; Väinölä, Risto; Ганцевич, М. М.; Strelkov, Petr

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0152963

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“…In the present study, the sample WS1 that contained M. trossulus and their hybrids were collected directly in the area of the White Sea Biological Station Kartesh, which has a regular ship connection with Chupa, a small town in Kandalaksha Bay. Recently, M. trossulus was found in the Chupa harbor (Katolikova, Khaitov, Vänölä, Gantsevich, & Strelkov, ), where ship traffic from the Barents Sea has been relatively intensive. In contrast, the WS2 site with pure M. edulis in the sample is located on an uninhabited island Kondostrov in the Onega Bay, which is far from the towns with intensive ship traffic.…”

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Genetic diversity and connectivity within Mytilus spp. in the subarctic and Arctic

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Thyrring

Hemmer‐Hansen

et al. 2016

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Climate changes in the Arctic are predicted to alter distributions of marine species. However, such changes are difficult to quantify because information on present species distribution and the genetic variation within species is lacking or poorly examined. Blue mussels, Mytilus spp., are ecosystem engineers in the coastal zone globally. To improve knowledge of distribution and genetic structure of the Mytilus edulis complex in the Arctic, we analyzed 81 SNPs in 534 Mytilus spp. individuals sampled at 13 sites to provide baseline data for distribution and genetic variation of Mytilus mussels in the European Arctic. Mytilus edulis was the most abundant species found with a clear genetic split between populations in Greenland and the Eastern Atlantic. Surprisingly, analyses revealed the presence of Mytilus trossulus in high Arctic NW Greenland (77°N) and Mytilus galloprovincialis or their hybrids in SW Greenland, Svalbard, and the Pechora Sea. Furthermore, a high degree of hybridization and introgression between species was observed. Our study highlights the importance of distinguishing between congener species, which can display local adaptation and suggests that information on dispersal routes and barriers is essential for accurate predictions of regional susceptibility to range expansions or invasions of boreal species in the Arctic.

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Genetic diversity and connectivity within Mytilus spp. in the subarctic and Arctic

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Thyrring

Hemmer‐Hansen

et al. 2016

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“…From our data, as well as from the literature [17,20,48], it is shown that while M. edulis is distributed mostly discontinuously along the coasts of Europe up to the very distribution border in the Pechora Sea (69.5 • N, [18,20]), the distribution of M. trossulus is sparse with one large population in the inner Baltic Sea and small outposts in Loch Etive in Northern Scotland (LET), the Bergen area in Western Norway (BER), and harbor areas in the White (CHU) and Barents (KOL) Seas in Russia. Several more M. trossulus outposts in the White and Barents Seas, all from harbor areas, were also reported [20,94]. Single locus-based data indicated that M. trossulus could be more widespread in Western Norway [95] and in North-western Scotland [96].…”

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Trans-Atlantic Distribution and Introgression as Inferred from Single Nucleotide Polymorphism: Mussels Mytilus and Environmental Factors

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Zbawicka

Bach

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Large-scale climate changes influence the geographic distribution of biodiversity. Many taxa have been reported to extend or reduce their geographic range, move poleward or displace other species. However, for closely related species that can hybridize in the natural environment, displacement is not the only effect of changes of environmental variables. Another option is subtler, hidden expansion, which can be found using genetic methods only. The marine blue mussels Mytilus are known to change their geographic distribution despite being sessile animals. In addition to natural dissemination at larval phase—enhanced by intentional or accidental introductions and rafting—they can spread through hybridization and introgression with local congeners, which can create mixed populations sustaining in environmental conditions that are marginal for pure taxa. The Mytilus species have a wide distribution in coastal regions of the Northern and Southern Hemisphere. In this study, we investigated the inter-regional genetic differentiation of the Mytilus species complex at 53 locations in the North Atlantic and adjacent Arctic waters and linked this genetic variability to key local environmental drivers. Of seventy-nine candidate single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), all samples were successfully genotyped with a subset of 54 SNPs. There was a clear interregional separation of Mytilus species. However, all three Mytilus species hybridized in the contact area and created hybrid zones with mixed populations. Boosted regression trees (BRT) models showed that inter-regional variability was important in many allele models but did not prevail over variability in local environmental factors. Local environmental variables described over 40% of variability in about 30% of the allele frequencies of Mytilus spp. For the 30% of alleles, variability in their frequencies was only weakly coupled with local environmental conditions. For most studied alleles the linkages between environmental drivers and the genetic variability of Mytilus spp. were random in respect to “coding” and “non-coding” regions. An analysis of the subset of data involving functional genes only showed that two SNPs at Hsp70 and ATPase genes correlated with environmental variables. Total predictive ability of the highest performing models (r2 between 0.550 and 0.801) were for alleles that discriminated most effectively M. trossulus from M. edulis and M. galloprovincialis, whereas the best performing allele model (BM101A) did the best at discriminating M. galloprovincialis from M. edulis and M. trossulus. Among the local environmental variables, salinity, water temperature, ice cover and chlorophyll a concentration were by far the greatest predictors, but their predictive performance varied among different allele models. In most cases changes in the allele frequencies along these environmental gradients were abrupt and occurred at a very narrow range of environmental variables. In general, regions of change in allele frequencies for M. trossulus occurred at 8–11 psu, 0–10 °C, 60%–70% of ice cover and 0–2 mg m−3 of chlorophyll a, M. edulis at 8–11 and 30–35 psu, 10–14 °C and 60%–70% of ice cover and for M. galloprovincialis at 30–35 psu, 14–20 °C.

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“…trossulus into the Atlantic 59 – 61 . Nowadays this species is widespread in the North Atlantic from the Gulf of Maine to the Arctic along the North American coast, and within the Baltic Sea 62 , as well as along the North West Pacific from the East Bering Sea to California, and is an invader in other regions 38 . For its wide distribution it might be taken as a cryptogenic; however, its native distribution is well known and widely reported, and does not include Bay of Biscay, thus we did consider it a NIS.…”

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DNA barcodes of Antipode marine invertebrates in Bay of Biscay and Gulf of Lion ports suggest new biofouling challenges

Miralles

Ardura

Clusa

et al. 2018

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Marine biological invasions threaten global biodiversity nowadays. In this article, we have studied fouling communities from 10 port areas of south Bay of Biscay (Atlantic Ocean) and Gulf of Lion (Mediterranean Sea). A total of 834 individuals were genetically barcoded and corresponded to 95 different species. A total of 76 native species 8 genera and 1 family were identified, 58 from the Bay of Biscay and 23 from the Gulf of Lion. Furthermore, 19 species were identified as non-indigenous or cryptogenic (18 from the Bay of Biscay and 4 from the Gulf of Lion). We found a high proportion of Antipode non-indigenous species (NIS) that represented the 19.3% of all sampled individuals and the 54.21% of NIS specimens of this study. A framework for inference of donor regions based on a phylogenetic screening of genetic sequences was proposed as a proof of concept and tested, as well as models for the relationship between NIS introductions, maritime imports and distance to NIS native range and inferred donor areas. Consistent generalized linear models (GLM) with positive association between NIS genetic diversity and distance, not with maritime growth weight imports, strongly suggest that distant NIS could pose higher invasion risk than closer species. Selection for wider tolerance ranges during the long travel –direct or stepwise, as well as environmental similarity between donor and receiving regions, may explain these results.

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Genetic, Ecological and Morphological Distinctness of the Blue Mussels Mytilus trossulus Gould and M. edulis L. in the White Sea

Cited by 42 publications

References 72 publications

Genetic diversity and connectivity within Mytilus spp. in the subarctic and Arctic

Genetic diversity and connectivity within Mytilus spp. in the subarctic and Arctic

Trans-Atlantic Distribution and Introgression as Inferred from Single Nucleotide Polymorphism: Mussels Mytilus and Environmental Factors

DNA barcodes of Antipode marine invertebrates in Bay of Biscay and Gulf of Lion ports suggest new biofouling challenges

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