European freshwater mussels (Unio spp., Unionidae) in Siberia and Kazakhstan: Pleistocene relicts or recent invaders?

Babushkin, E. S.; Vinarski, Maxim V.; Kondakov, Alexander V.; Tomilova, Alena A.; Grebennikov, Maxim; Stolbov, Vitaly A.; Bolotov, Ivan N.

doi:10.1016/j.limno.2021.125903

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“…It was assumed that, in the territory of Siberia, mollusks of this genus, once very widespread, disappeared in the Pleistocene [57,58]. Despite this, there were a few references in the literature to the presence of Unio in the modern period in Western Siberia [42,59]; summarized in [16]. Since the end of the last century, different species of the genus have been registered both in the upper reaches of the Irtysh basin (Bukhtarma reservoir), and at the junction of the Irtysh and Volga-Kama basins in the Transuralian region [7,27] as well as in Transbaikalia (Lake Kenon).…”

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“…Some of these findings can be explained by human participation in the dispersal of mollusks, and some by the eastward natural expansion of the range [7]. Finally, molecular genetic studies of recent years have shown that some Unio are not "aliens" at all, since they disperse from the refugium located in the upper reaches of the Irtysh above Lake Zaisan [16]. Probably, this explains the discovery of Unio shells in the Altai region made in 1829 by the participants of the Siberian expedition of Alexander von Humboldt [16,42,60].…”

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“…The second group of neobiotic mollusk species can be considered as "the returnees" currently restoring the North Asian part of their historical range. This can occur both by natural dispersal from the East European water bodies or from some southern refugia, as in the case of the genus Unio [7,16,17].…”

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“…Since then, the volume of new information about aquatic mollusk species new to Siberia has grown significantly. In addition to the registration of new species in the malacofauna of Siberia and new localities of previously known species [11][12][13][14][15][16][17], there have been works devoted to the ecology of recent migrants in Siberian reservoirs [5,[18][19][20][21], as well as publications interpreting the problem from a broader point of view, in particular, raising the question of whether all newly registered species must be considered as "real" aliens, or whether one should rather speak about restoring a part of the original range once lost by some of these species, not about introductions and/or invasions in the commonly accepted sense of these terms [16,22].…”

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Aliens and Returnees: Review of Neobiotic Species of Freshwater Mollusks in Siberia from the Kazakhstan Steppe to the Arctic Tundra

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(1) This article reviews all available information on the species composition, current distribution, and origins of the neobiotic (non-indigenous and restoring the lost range) freshwater mollusks in Siberia. (2) An extensive literary search has been carried out, and virtually all existing publications of recent decades on the findings of freshwater mollusk species new to Siberia were taken into account. We examined extensive malacological collections of some of Russia’s and Kazakhstan’s scientific organizations. The core of the examined material is our own observations and collections made in various parts of Siberia and adjacent areas. (3) An annotated checklist of neobiotic species of mollusks reliably recorded in Siberia is presented, and probable mechanisms and “corridors” of infiltration of these species into the region are discussed. Most of the discovered snail species belong to a group popular among aquarists, and their source of introduction is obvious. Another large portion of species infiltrate into the region with the development of fish farming. A classification of species of neobiotic freshwater mollusks of Siberia was proposed and a forecast was made for changes in the Siberian freshwater malacofauna for the coming decades. (4) In our opinion, at present it is possible to accept the newest stage in the genesis of the freshwater malacofauna of Siberia, occurring in conditions specific to the Anthropocene.

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“…The Painter’s Mussel is the type species of the whole order Unionida and one of the most widespread freshwater mussel species in Europe. The species is found from Great Britain to the Ural River in Russia, and is also present in Asia on the upper tributaries of the Ob River basin, in Russia and Kazakhstan ( Lopes-Lima et al 2017a ; Vinarski et al 2020 ; Babushkin et al 2021 ; fig. 1 A ).…”

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A PacBio Hi-Fi Genome Assembly of the Painter’s Mussel Unio pictorum (Linnaeus, 1758)

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Machado

et al. 2023

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The highly diverse group of freshwater mussels from order Unionida, are found in the world's freshwater systems due to several fascinating evolutionary adaptations, including ‘parental care’, and most notably, an obligatory parasitic phase in their early life cycle, called glochidia, which infests and uses fish for nutrition and dispersal. Freshwater mussels play essential ecological roles in freshwater habitats, including water filtration, sediment bioturbation and nutrient cycling. However, these species are also highly threatened, being one of the faunal groups with the highest recorded extinction rate in the wild. Genomics methods have an incredible potential to promote biodiversity conservation, allowing characterisation of population health, identification of adaptive genetic elements, delineation of conservation units, and providing a framework for predictive assessments of the impact of anthropogenic threats and climate change. Unfortunately, only six freshwater mussel species have had their whole genomes sequenced to date, and only two of these are European species. Here, we present the first genome assembly of the Painter's Mussel, Unio pictorum (Linnaeus, 1758), the type species representative of the order and the most widespread species of the genus in Europe. We used long-read PacBio HiFi sequencing reads to produce a highly contiguous assembly that will pave the way for the study of European freshwater mussels in the Genome Era.

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Integrative phylogenetic, phylogeographic and morphological characterisation of the Unio crassus species complex reveals cryptic diversity with important conservation implications

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Geist,

Egg

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Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

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European freshwater mussels (Unio spp., Unionidae) in Siberia and Kazakhstan: Pleistocene relicts or recent invaders?

Cited by 9 publications

References 28 publications

Aliens and Returnees: Review of Neobiotic Species of Freshwater Mollusks in Siberia from the Kazakhstan Steppe to the Arctic Tundra

Aliens and Returnees: Review of Neobiotic Species of Freshwater Mollusks in Siberia from the Kazakhstan Steppe to the Arctic Tundra

A PacBio Hi-Fi Genome Assembly of the Painter’s Mussel Unio pictorum (Linnaeus, 1758)

Integrative phylogenetic, phylogeographic and morphological characterisation of the Unio crassus species complex reveals cryptic diversity with important conservation implications

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