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Assessing Intertidal Populations of the Invasive European Green Crab
Published on: September 16, 2020
Drastic bottlenecks in the endangered crayfish species Austropotamobius pallipes in Spain and implications for its
F Grandjean1, N Gouin, C Souty-Grosset
1Université de Poitiers, Laboratoire Génétique et Biologie des Crustacés, UMR 6556, 40 avenue du Recteur Pineau, F-86022 Poitiers cedex, Spain. frederic.grandjean@univ-poitiers.fr
Abstract:
Variation in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) was surveyed, using restriction endonucleases, in the white-clawed crayfish, Austropotamobius pallipes lusitanicus, from 14 populations sampled in Spain. Four additional samples from France (1), Slovenia (1) and Italy (2) were also analysed. Among the 11 haplotypes listed, only one was detected from the 154 animals sampled from Spanish populations. This haplotype was also recorded in the Fosso di Ferfereta population (Italy). Estimates of nucleotide sequence divergence among haplotypes ranged from 0.45% to 17.4%. Interpopulational genetic relationships showed that Spanish populations were closely related to those of Fosso di Ferfereta with a small genetic distance (0.0003) found between them. AMOVA revealed that most of the genetic variance (71.97%) was attributed to variation between European regions. These results are in accordance with a drastic bottleneck event during the history of the Spanish populations. Four suggestions, based on human introduction, selection and recent or ancient historical events are discussed in relation to the lack of genetic variation in the Spanish crayfish stock.
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