The male and female complete mitochondrial genome sequences of the Endangered freshwater mussel
            <i>Potomida littoralis</i>
            (Cuvier, 1798) (Bivalvia: Unionidae)

Froufe, Elsa; Gan, Han Ming; Carneiro, João; Varandas, Simone; Teixeira, Amílcar; Zieritz, Alexandra; Sousa, Ronaldo; Lopes‐Lima, Manuel

doi:10.3109/19401736.2015.1074223

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“…As a result, the nucleotide divergence between female and male mitochondrial genomes of the same species in the family Unionidae is no less than 40 % (e.g. Breton et al 2007;Huang et al 2013;Froufe et al 2016). In the present study, this value was used as a reference to assure that obtained COI sequences were indeed all F-type.…”

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Who lives where? Molecular and morphometric analyses clarify which Unio species (Unionida, Mollusca) inhabit the southwestern Palearctic

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Many doubts still exist about which freshwater mussel Unio species inhabit Northwest Africa. While some authors refer to the presence of Unio delphinus in the Atlantic North African basins of Morocco, a recent International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assessment performed on Moroccan Unio species, recognised the existence of a distinct species, Unio foucauldianus, with a critically endangered conservation status. The present study delivered new genetic, morphological, and geographical distribution data on two Unio species (i.e. U. delphinus and U. foucauldianus) greatly increasing the almost non-existent data on these taxa. Bayesian phylogenetic analysis revealed two highly supported geographically concordant clades, which diverged by 3.2 ± 0.6 % (uncorrected p distance): the first distributed across Iberia and corresponding to U. delphinus, and the second distributed across Morocco, corresponding to U. foucauldianus. These results were corroborated by the analysis of ten newly developed microsatellite loci as well as shell morphometry. We suggest that the IUCN critically endangered conservation status of U. foucauldianus should be revised and probably down-listed since its actual distribution is much wider than previously described. Phylogenetic relationships with the other Unio species were resolved, showing that U. delphinus and U. foucauldianus fall inside the pictorum lineage. The estimated molecular rate reported herein (0.265 ± 0.06 % per million years) represents the first for the Unionida and could be used as a reference in future studies.Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article

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Who lives where? Molecular and morphometric analyses clarify which Unio species (Unionida, Mollusca) inhabit the southwestern Palearctic

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“…As the divergence between female and male mitochondrial genomes of the same species in the family Unionidae is no less than 30% (e.g. Froufe et al 2016c), this threshold was used as a reference to assure that all obtained COI sequences were F-type. Considering common morphological misidentifications between A. anatina and A. cygnea, a phylogenetic analysis was carried out including (1) all Anodonta COI sequences obtained in the present study, (2) all available COI sequences of A. cygnea and (3) previously reported European and Ebro?Italian A. anatina clades ) (Online Resource 1), using Cristaria plicata (EU698940) as outgroup.…”

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Lifting the curtain on the freshwater mussel diversity of the Italian Peninsula and Croatian Adriatic coast

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Freshwater mussels of the order Unionida have been dramatically declining globally. Despite their ecological importance, conservation of these animals has been hindered by unresolved taxonomy and a lack of data on the distribution and status of populations, especially in southern Europe. Although the Italian Peninsula has been noted as a centre of endemism and one of the major refugia of the glacial ages for several taxa, few studies have been performed on the genetic diversity of Unionida. Most importantly, the taxonomic status of several freshwater mussel populations of the Italian Peninsula is still unresolved. Here we present the first comprehensive dataset for the Unionida of the region spanning Italy and the coastal Croatian region (west of the Dinaric Alps). In total, Communicated by Robert Cowie.This article belongs to the Topical Collection: Coastal and marine biodiversity. (COI, 16S and 28S). Genetic analyses were performed to understand major phylogenetic and phylogeographic patterns. Seven species were detected: three Anodonta species (A. anatina, A. cygnea and A. exulcerata), two Unio species (U. mancus and U. elongatulus), Microcondylaea bonellii, and the invasive Sinanodonta woodiana. The presence of three endemic species (A. exulcerata, U. elongatulus and M. bonellii) confirms the importance of the region as a centre of endemism for freshwater mussels. The Apennine Mountains act as an important biogeographic barrier. Electronic supplementary material

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“…The M-type and F-type mitochondrial lineages show high levels of divergence within species of Unionida freshwater mussels and even distinct gene order arrangements (Fonseca et al 2016;Froufe et al 2016;Guerra et al 2017). The Margaritiferidae also exhibit a unique M-type and F-type gene order (Lopes-Lima, Fonseca, et al 2017).…”

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The male and female complete mitochondrial genomes of the threatened freshwater pearl mussel Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) (Bivalvia: Margaritiferidae)

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The complete mitogenomes of one (M-)ale (North America), one Hermaphroditic (Europe), and two (F-)emale (North America and Europe) individuals of the freshwater pearl mussel Margaritifera margaritifera were sequenced. The M-type and F-type (Female and Hermaphroditic) mitogenomes have 17,421 and 16,122 nucleotides, respectively. All with the same content: 13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer RNA, two ribosomal RNA genes, and one sex-related ORF. The M-type is highly divergent (37.6% uncorrected p-distance) from the F-type mitogenomes. North American and European F-type mitogenomes exhibit low genetic divergence (68 nt substitutions), and the Female and Hermaphroditic European mitogenomes are almost identical, and matching sex-related ORFs.

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The male and female complete mitochondrial genome sequences of the Endangered freshwater mussel Potomida littoralis (Cuvier, 1798) (Bivalvia: Unionidae)

Cited by 23 publications

References 7 publications

Who lives where? Molecular and morphometric analyses clarify which Unio species (Unionida, Mollusca) inhabit the southwestern Palearctic

Who lives where? Molecular and morphometric analyses clarify which Unio species (Unionida, Mollusca) inhabit the southwestern Palearctic

Lifting the curtain on the freshwater mussel diversity of the Italian Peninsula and Croatian Adriatic coast

The male and female complete mitochondrial genomes of the threatened freshwater pearl mussel Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) (Bivalvia: Margaritiferidae)

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