Genetic divergence and phylogenetic inferences in five species of Mugilidae (Pisces: Perciformes) |
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| Authors: | A. R. Rossi M. Capula D. Crosetti D. E. Campton L. Sola |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Animal and Human Biology, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Via A. Borelli 50, I-00161 Rome, Italy, IT;(2) ICRAM, Central Institute for Marine Research, Via di Casalotti 300, I-00166 Rome, Italy, IT;(3) Museum of Zoology of Rome, Viale del Giardino Zoologico 20, I-00197 Rome, Italy, IT;(4) Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, University of Florida, 7922 N.W. 71st Street, Gainesville, Florida 32653-3071, USA, US |
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| Abstract: | Allozyme electrophoresis was used to compare the genetic divergence of global populations of Mugil cephalus Linnaeus, 1758 and two congeneric [M.␣curema Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1836; M. gyrans (Jordan & Gilbert, 1885)] and two more distantly related [Liza ramada (Risso, 1826); Xenomugil thoburni (Jordan & Starks, 1896)] species on the basis of 18 enzyme loci. The amount of genetic divergence among the species examined is in agreement with their present systematic status, the differences being larger among non-congeneric species than among species of the same genus. Intraspecific genetic distances in M. cephalus (average Nei's D= 0.154), although higher than those reported for conspecific populations of fish, appear to be small when compared to the interspecific values among mugilid species (0.821 ≤ Nei's D ≤ 1.744). Phylogenetic trees obtained by genetic distance methods and discrete character parsimony analysis were of similar topology, except for the relationships within the genus Mugil and for the arrangement of M. cephalus populations. Received: 7 April 1997 / Accepted: 4 February 1998 |
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