Survey of harbours in Newfoundland for indigenous and non-indigenous ascidians and an analysis of their cytochrome c oxidase I gene sequences
Survey of harbours in Newfoundland for indigenous and non-indigenous ascidians and an analysis of their cytochrome c oxidase I gene sequences
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DOI:
10.3391/ai.2010.5.1.5
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发表时间:
2010-03-01
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1.6
通讯作者:
Rise, Matthew L.
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作者:
Callahan, Ashley G.;Deibel, Don;Rise, Matthew L.
Invasive, non-indigenous ascidians have been a significant biofouling problem for the aquaculture industry in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island since the mid-1990's. The problematic species in Atlantic Canada include Styela clava, Ciona intestinalis, Botryllus schlosseri and Botrylloides violaceus. Newfoundland harbour surveys that we have performed over the past three years revealed the presence of B. schlosseri and B. violaceus. As of yet, neither of these species has reached invasive abundance in Newfoundland.Portions of the COI genes of two non-indigenous ascidians (Botryllus schlosseri and Botrylloides violaceus) and two indigenous ascidians (Boltenia echinata and Halocynthia pyriformis) were cloned and sequenced. We then determined intraspecific and interspecific COI sequence variation. The BLASTN results showed that Botryllus schlosseri and Halocynthia pyriformis match the other listings for these species in GenBank. However, the BLAST results from Botrylloides violaceus were more similar to B. schlosseri than B. violaceus. While there were no other entries for Boltenia echinata, it was similar to other species in the Pyuridae family.Intraspecific similarity in the COI sequence for Newfoundland populations was >99.7% for B. violaceus, H. pyriformis and B. echinata, and 86.5-96.6% for B. schlosseri. Interspecific similarities among all four species were