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Early Pleistocene divergence of Pelagia noctiluca populations (Cnidaria, Medusozoa) between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2019

Ezequiel Ale ,
Andreja Ramšak ,
David Stanković ,
André Carrara Morandini ,
Diogo Meyer  and
Antonio C. Marques
Ezequiel Ale
Affiliation:
Departamento de Genética e Biologia Evolutiva, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Andreja Ramšak*
Affiliation:
National Institute of Biology, Marine Biology Station, Piran, Slovenia
David Stanković
Affiliation:
National Institute of Biology, Marine Biology Station, Piran, Slovenia
André Carrara Morandini
Affiliation:
Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, and Centro de Biologia Marinha, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Diogo Meyer
Affiliation:
Departamento de Genética e Biologia Evolutiva, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Antonio C. Marques
Affiliation:
Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, and Centro de Biologia Marinha, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
*
Author for correspondence: Andreja Ramšak, E-mail: andreja.ramsak@nib.si
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Abstract

A previous study detected mixing of two deeply split mtDNA clades (Clade I and Clade II) for Atlantic and Mediterranean populations of the medusozoan Pelagia noctiluca. The north hemisphere glaciations and the Messinian salinity crisis have been proposed as the two main biogeographic events related to the isolation between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. We tested if the splitting time between Clade I and Clade II of P. noctiluca was associated with one of these geological events. Our study was based on DNA sequence data of mitochondrial (COI and 16S ribosomal RNA) and nuclear (18S ribosomal RNA, internal transcribed spacer 1 and 5.8S ribosomal RNA) genes from populations of the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The rise of the Isthmus of Panama was used to calibrate substitution rates for COI. This calibration was based on the detection of a shallow but significant genetic structure between P. noctiluca populations from the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans. Considering our calibration for COI, we refute a possible origin of Clades I and II during the Messinian salinity crisis. Our estimates suggest the origin for a putative common ancestor of Clades I and II around 2.57 Ma (with 95% 2.91–2.22 HPD), roughly corresponding to the Gelasian stage of the early Pleistocene. These alterations include changes in the sea level and oceanic currents at the Strait of Gibraltar and other regions of the Mediterranean basin, and could explain the origin of the two P. noctiluca clades.

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Molecular clockPelagia noctilucaPleistocenesubstitution rates
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 99 , Issue 8 , December 2019 , pp. 1753 - 1764
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2019 

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