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Mitogenomics reveals high synteny and long evolutionary histories of sympatric cryptic nematode species
Grosemans, T.; Morris, K.; Thomas, W.; Rigaux, A.; Moens, T.; Derycke, S. (2016). Mitogenomics reveals high synteny and long evolutionary histories of sympatric cryptic nematode species. Ecol. Evol. 6(6): 1854-1870. dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1975
In: Ecology and Evolution. John Wiley & Sons: Chichester. ISSN 2045-7758; e-ISSN 2045-7758, meer
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Trefwoorden
    Litoditis marina (Bastian, 1865) Sudhaus, 2011 [WoRMS]
    Marien/Kust
Author keywords
    Adaptation; cryptic speciation; Litoditis marina; Miocene; Wolbachia

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  • Grosemans, T., meer
  • Morris, K.
  • Thomas, W.

Abstract
    Species with seemingly identical morphology but with distinct genetic differences are abundant in the marine environment and frequently co-occur in the same habitat. Such cryptic species are typically delineated using a limited number of mitochondrial and/or nuclear marker genes, which do not yield information on gene order and gene content of the genomes under consideration. We used next-generation sequencing to study the composition of the mitochondrial genomes of four sympatrically distributed cryptic species of the Litoditis marina species complex (PmI, PmII, PmIII, and PmIV). The ecology, biology, and natural occurrence of these four species are well known, but the evolutionary processes behind this cryptic speciation remain largely unknown. The gene order of the mitochondrial genomes of the four species was conserved, but differences in genome length, gene length, and codon usage were observed. The atp8 gene was lacking in all four species. Phylogenetic analyses confirm that PmI and PmIV are sister species and that PmIII diverged earliest. The most recent common ancestor of the four cryptic species was estimated to have diverged 16 MYA. Synonymous mutations outnumbered nonsynonymous changes in all protein-encoding genes, with the Complex IV genes (coxI-III) experiencing the strongest purifying selection. Our mitogenomic results show that morphologically similar species can have long evolutionary histories and that PmIII has several differences in genetic makeup compared to the three other species, which may explain why it is better adapted to higher temperatures than the other species.

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