Molecular Biology and Evolution, Vol 15, 119-128, Copyright © 1998 by Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
MP Hare and JC Avise
Multiple haplotypes from each of three nuclear loci were isolated and
sequenced from geographic populations of the American oyster, Crassostrea
virginica. In tests of alternative phylogeographic hypotheses for this
species, nuclear gene genealogies constructed for these haplotypes were
compared to one another, to a mitochondrial gene tree, and to patterns of
allele frequency variation in nuclear restriction site polymorphisms
(RFLPs) and allozymes. Oyster populations from the Atlantic versus the Gulf
of Mexico are not reciprocally monophyletic in any of the nuclear gene
trees, despite considerable genetic variation and despite large allele
frequency differences previously reported in several other genetic assays.
If these populations were separated vicariantly in the past, either
insufficient time has elapsed for neutral lineage sorting to have achieved
monophyly at most nuclear loci, or balancing selection may have inhibited
lineage extinction, or secondary gene flow may have moved haplotypes
between regions. These and other possibilities are examined in light of
available genetic evidence, and it is concluded that no simple explanation
can account for the great variety of population genetic patterns across
loci displayed by American oysters. Regardless of the source of this
heterogeneity, this study provides an empirical demonstration that
different sequences of DNA within the same organismal pedigree can have
quite different phylogeographic histories.
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Population structure in the American oyster as inferred by nuclear gene genealogies
Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, USA.
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