Genetic diversity and the biogeographical process of Acheilognathus macropterus revealed by sequence variations of mitochondrial cytochrome b gene
Genetic diversity and the biogeographical process of Acheilognathus macropterus revealed by sequence variations of mitochondrial cytochrome b gene
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10.1007/s11515-007-0069-4
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2007
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Yurong Zhu;Huanzhang Liu
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Yurong Zhu;Huanzhang Liu
In this study, thirty-six individuals ofAcheilognathus macropteruswere collected from the Heilongjiang River, the Yangtze River, and the Nandujiang River. Partial mitochondrial cytochromebgene region (636 base pair) was sequenced to these samples and 22 haplotypes were found. WithA. chankaensisandA. tokinensisas outgroups, their relationships were analyzed. Thep-distances were calculated with Mega software and a molecular phylogenetic tree was constructed using the neighbor-joining (NJ) method. The proportions of main morphological characters were compared as well.P-distances showed that the genetic differences inA. macropterussamples were far smaller than those between these samples and the outgroups. The molecular phylogenetic tree shows that samples with barbels and those without barbels were intermingled. There was no distinctive difference in proportions of morphological characteristics among them. These results suggested that samples with barbels and those without barbels (formally identified asA. taenianalis) are the same species;A. taenianalisis synonymous withA. macropterus. The thirtysix individuals were grouped into five clades and the positions of the samples in the clades were correspondingly grouped within their geographical distributions. Among the five clades, clades 1 and 5 included samples from the Heilongjiang River and Nandujiang River respectively. The samples from the Yangtze River scattered into clades 2, 3, and 4. There were distinctive genetic differences (>5%) among them. Interestingly, the distributions of the 21 samples in these three clades were not correlated to their geographical distributions. It is postulated that these genetic differences were due to the bitterlings’ mating choice mechanism, the prozygotic isolation. The genetic differences between the fish from Nandujiang River and those from the mainland indicated that they were separated early. However, the small genetic differences among the samples and the positions of the fish from the Heilonjiang River in the molecular phylogenetic tree indicate that fish in Heilongjiang River might have dispersed from the Yangtze River to that area much later.