Tropical fishes in a temperate sea: evolution of the wrasse <Emphasis Type="Italic">Thalassoma pavo</Emphasis> and the parrotfish <Emphasis Type="Italic">Sparisoma cretense</Emphasis> in the Mediterranean and the adjacent Macaronesian and Cape Verde Archipelagos |
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Authors: | Vera S Domingues Markos Alexandrou Vitor C Almada D Ross Robertson Alberto Brito Ricardo S Santos Giacomo Bernardi |
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Institution: | 1.Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, Unidade de Investiga??o em Eco-Etologia,Lisbon,Portugal;2.Departamento de Oceanografia e Pescas,Universidade dos A?ores,Horta, Azores,Portugal;3.Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Long Marine Lab,University of California Santa Cruz,Santa Cruz,USA;4.Department of Biological and Chemical Sciences,University of London,London,UK;5.Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute,Balboa,Republic of Panama;6.Dpto. Biología Animal (Ciencias Marinas),Universidad de La Laguna,La Laguna, Tenerife,Spain |
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Abstract: | The northeastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea share geological histories and display great faunal affinities. The majority
of the Mediterranean species have Atlantic origins, with a few species with tropical affinities. These include the parrotfish
Sparisoma cretense and the wrasse Thalassoma pavo that are restricted to the subtropical northeastern Atlantic, the Macaronesian archipelagos (Azores, Madeira, and Canaries)
and the southern Mediterranean. The Pleistocene glaciations have been described as having different effects on the fauna of
the two regions. During glacial peaks, Mediterranean waters remained warmer than those of the adjacent Atlantic. Within the
eastern Atlantic, the effects of Pleistocene glaciations were differentiated. Here, we perform a comparative analysis focusing
on T. pavo and S. cretense populations from the northeastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean to assess the effects of Pleistocene glaciations in these
two species. Sequences from the mitochondrial control region were obtained and analyzed combining phylogeographic and demographic
approaches. Gene flow between Atlantic and Mediterranean populations was shown to be very high. The Mediterranean populations
of T. pavo and S. cretense showed high levels of genetic diversity, even in the eastern basin, pointing to an ancient colonization event. This suggests
that both species must have been able to persist in the Mediterranean during the cold Pleistocene periods. Historical migration
estimates revealed a Mediterranean towards Atlantic trend in the case of T. pavo, which may reflect the re-colonization of areas in the Atlantic by fish that survived the cold phases in relatively warmer
Mediterranean refugia. Our data also showed that within the Macaronesian Archipelagos, migrations occurred from Madeira towards
the Azores, for both T. pavo and S. cretense, thus supporting a post-glacial colonization of the Azores by fish that persisted in the warmer region of Madeira. Similar
geographic distributions, thermal affinities, and means of dispersion for T. pavo and S. cretense resulted in a similar response to the effects of Pleistocene glaciations, as evidenced by identical phylogeographic patterns. |
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