Biochemical genetic variation at a leucine aminopeptidase (LAP) locus in blue (Mytilus galloprovincialis) and greenshell (Perna canaliculus) mussel populations along a salinity gradient |
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Authors: | J P A Gardner G Kathiravetpillai |
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Institution: | (1) Island Bay Marine Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand, NZ |
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Abstract: | In several marine bivalve species, biochemical genetic variation at a leucine aminopeptidase (LAP) locus is associated with
environmental variability, primarily salinity fluctuation. Population genetic variation at a LAP locus was investigated here
in two sympatric mussel species (Mytilus galloprovincialis and Perna canaliculus) from three locations along a salinity gradient in Wellington Harbour, New Zealand. The data for M. galloprovincialis and P. canaliculus do not support the hypothesis that the LAP polymorphism in either species is associated with salinity variation among adult
mussels. Due to the absence of small mussels among the samples it is not possible to discount the hypothesis that selection
acts primarily against juveniles, as it does for M. edulis in Long Island Sound, USA. Wellington Harbour populations of M. galloprovincialis exhibited large and often highly significant heterozygote excesses at the LAP locus, whereas populations of P. canaliculus from the same locations exhibited large and highly significant heterozygote deficiencies. The reason for this inter-specific
difference in population structure is unknown. If it is the result of selection, this suggests that selection acts differentially
upon the two species, because demographic attributes and reproductive biology are very similar in the two species. For both
M. galloprovincialis and P. canaliculus, significant levels of population genetic heterogeneity were recorded among three locations separated by only 8 to 12 km.
Neither species exhibited shell length-dependent genetic variation at the LAP locus, suggesting that for these two species
the LAP polymorphism is not associated with variation in shell length.
Received: 30 December 1996 / Accepted: 6 January 1997 |
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