Late Pleistocene Divergence and Subsequent Population Expansion of Two Closely Related Fish Species, Japanese Anchovy (Engraulis Japonicus) and Australian Anchovy (Engraulis Australis).
From: Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650223, China.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution
- Publish Date: Sep 2006
- ISSN: 1055-7903
- Volume: 40
- Issue: 3
- Pages: 712-23
- Medium: Print
- Language: English
- Citation (JAMA): Liu Jin-Xian, Gao Tian-Xiang, Zhuang Zhi-Meng, et al. Late Pleistocene Divergence and Subsequent Population Expansion of Two Closely Related Fish Species, Japanese Anchovy (Engraulis Japonicus) and Australian Anchovy (Engraulis Australis).. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. Sep 2006;40:712-23
Abstract
Climatic oscillations during the Pleistocene ice ages produced great changes in species’ geographical distribution and abundance, which could be expected to have genetic consequences. Living in the temperate upwelling zones of the northwestern Pacific, Japanese anchovy (Engraulis japonicus) might have been affected by these severe climatic oscillations. To investigate the effects of Pleistocene climatic changes on the evolution in Japanese anchovy, fragments of 522 bp at the 5’ end of mitochondrial DNA control region were sequenced for 241 individuals from 13 localities and 37 individuals of Australian anchovy. Japanese anchovy and Australian anchovy are reciprocally monophyletic and a late Pleistocene transequatorial divergence between the two species was indicated. High levels of haplotype diversity (>0.99) were found for all samples, indicating a high level of genetic diversity. Analyses of molecular variance and the conventional population statistic F(ST) revealed no significant genetic structure throughout the range of Japanese anchovy. Both mismatch distribution analyses and neutrality tests suggested a late Pleistocene population expansion for both Japanese anchovy (79,000-317,000 years ago) and Australian anchovy (45,000-178,000 years ago).
Mesh Headings (Keywords): Animals, China, DNA, Mitochondrial, Evolution, Molecular, Fishes, Gene Frequency, Genetic Speciation, Genetics, Population, Genome, Haplotypes, Japan, Locus Control Region, Phylogeny, Population Growth
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