Over most of their natural northern Pacific Ocean range, pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) spawn in a habitat that was repeatedly and profoundly affected by Pleistocene glacial advances. A strictly two-year life cycle of pink salmon has resulted in two reproductively isolated broodlines, which spawn in alternating years and evolved as temporal replicates of the same species. To study the influence of historical events on phylogeographical and population genetic structure of the two broodlines, we first reconstructed a fine-scale mtDNA haplotype genealogy from a sample of 80 individuals and then determined the geographical distribution of the major genealogical assemblages for 718 individuals sampled from nine Alaskan and eastern Asian even- and nine odd-year pink salmon populations. Analysis of restriction site states in seven polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-amplified mtDNA regions (comprising 97% of the mitochondrial genome) using 13 endonucleases resolved 38 haplotypes, which clustered into five genealogical lineages that differed from 0.065 to 0.225% in net sequence divergence. The lineage sorting between broodlines was incomplete, which suggests a recent common ancestry. Within each lineage, haplotypes exhibited star-like genealogies indicating recent population growth. The depth of the haplotype genealogy is shallow ( approximately 0.5% of nucleotide sequence divergence) and probably reflects repeated decreases in population size due to Pleistocene glacial advances. Nested clade analysis (NCA) of geographical distances showed that the geographical distribution observed for mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplotypes resulted from alternating influences of historical range expansions and episodes of restricted dispersal. Analyses of molecular variance showed weak geographical structuring of mtDNA variation, except for the strong subdivision between Asian and Alaskan populations within the even-year broodline. The genetic similarities observed among and within geographical regions probably originated from postglacial recolonizations from common sources rather than extensive gene flow. The phylogeographical and population genetic structures differ substantally between broodlines. This can be explained by stochastic lineage sorting in glacial refugia and perhaps different recolonization routes in even- and odd-year broodlines.
Seven segments of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), comprising 97% of the mitochondrial genome, were amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and examined for restriction site variation using 13 restriction endonucleases in three species of Pacific salmon: pink (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha), chum (O. keta) and sockeye (O. nerka) salmon. The distribution of variability across the seven mtDNA segments differed substantially among species. Little similarity in the distribution of variable restriction sites was found even between the mitochondrial genomes of the even- and odd-year broodlines of pink salmon. Significantly different levels of nucleotide diversity were detected among three groups of genes: six NADH-dehydrogenase genes had the highest; two rRNA genes had the lowest; and a group that included genes for ATPase and cytochrome oxidase subunits, the cytochrome b gene, and the control region had intermediate levels of nucleotide diversity. Genealogies of mtDNA haplotypes were reconstructed for each species, based on the variation in all mtDNA segments. The contributions of variation within different segments to resolution of the genealogical trees were compared within each species. With the exception of sockeye salmon, restriction site data from different genome segments tended to produce rather different trees (and hence rather different genealogies). In the majority of cases, genealogical information in different segments of mitochondrial genome was additive rather than congruent. This finding has a relevance to phylogeographic studies of other organisms and emphasizes the importance of not relying on a limited segment of the mtDNA genome to derive a phylogeographic structure.
Both odd-and even-year pink salmon populations were sampled during the spawning runs in Firsovka and Bakhura rivers on Sakhalin Island. Four collections of 30 fish spaced at 2-week intervals were taken from each river in 2 consecutive years. Four restriction endonucleases were used to examine 2·15% of the mitochondrial genome. Eighteen variable sites and three types of insertion defined 37 haplotypes among 449 fish. Heterogeneity tests showed highly significant differences among temporal collections taken in the odd year from Bakhura River, and no significant differences among temporal collections from the other three spawning runs. However, probabilities of homogeneity among temporal collections were low in all tests, and an integral estimate of the probability of homogeneity for the total set of tests was less than 0·001, indicating highly significant overall temporal heterogeneity. Analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA), revealed that a small portion of the variance was distributed among temporal collections, and small ST values that differed significantly from zero only in the odd-year population in Bakhura River. Temporal differences in spawning are probably adapative, and allow greater productivity in areas of high spawning densities. 1999 The Fisheries Society of the British Isles
Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are useful genetic markers for the management and conservation of commercially important species such as salmon. Informative markers can be derived from data obtained for other purposes. We used restriction endonuclease data from earlier work to identify potentially useful restriction sites in chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta). With the aid of a newly generated complete mitochondrial DNA sequence (accession number AP010773), we identified the SNP responsible for each restriction site variant, designed rapid genotyping assays, and surveyed the SNPs in more than 400 individuals. The restriction site analysis and the SNP genotyping assays were almost perfectly concordant. Some reasons for the non-concordance were identified and discussed.
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