Population genetic structure of the stalked barnacle <Emphasis Type="Italic">Pollicipes pollicipes</Emphasis> (Gmelin, 1789) in the northeastern Atlantic: influence of coastal currents and mesoscale hydrographic structures |
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Authors: | J Quinteiro J Rodríguez-Castro M Rey-Méndez |
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Institution: | 1.Departamento de Bioquímica e Bioloxía Molecular, Facultade de Bioloxía,Santiago de Compostela, A Coru?a Galicia,Spain |
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Abstract: | Within its distribution range in the northeastern Atlantic, the stalked barnacle Pollicipes pollicipes shows a well-defined pattern of genetic variation, comprising (a) a subtropical/temperate northern assemblage, made up of
populations distributed between 47°N and 28°N along the French, Iberian, North African and Canary Islands coastlines, and
(b) a single isolated and highly divergent tropical population in the Cape Verde Islands (16°N), at the southernmost limit
of the species’ distribution. However, within the northern assemblage several populations show a level of genetic differentiation
that allows rejection of the hypothesis of genetic homogeneity. The congruence observed between genetic and hydrographic patterns
suggests a crucial role of hydrodynamics, and of the dispersal of the planktonic larvae, in the determination of population
structure. Along the southern European Atlantic coast, the Iberian Poleward Current and mesoscale hydrographic structures
are, respectively, facilitating gene flow at the regional level and genetic differentiation at the local level. On the Atlantic
coast of North Africa, the homogenizing equatorward flow of the Canary Current does not extend as far as the Cape Verde Islands.
A demographic expansion is dated to the late Pleistocene, preceding the Eemian interglacial, and is oldest in the case of
the long-standing Cape Verde population, sustained by a stable tropical habitat. The divergence between the Cape Verde population
and the remaining populations is thus ancient, and suggests that oceanic current patterns may constitute a generalized physical
barrier to the dispersal of marine organisms between Cape Verde and the rest of Macaronesia. |
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