Population structure of the planktonic copepod Calanus pacificus in the North Pacific Ocean |
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Authors: | Mikelle L Nuwer Bruce W Frost and E Virginia Armbrust |
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Institution: | (1) School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA |
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Abstract: | The pelagic copepod Calanus pacificus ranges nearly continuously across temperate-boreal regions of the North Pacific Ocean and is currently divided into three
subspecies—C. pacificus oceanicus, C. pacificus californicus, C. pacificus pacificus—based on subtle morphological differences and geographic location. The relation between geography and genetic differentiation
was examined for 398 C. pacificus individuals sampled from six widely distributed locations across the North Pacific, including an open ocean site and coastal
sites on both sides of the North Pacific basin. For each individual copepod, the DNA sequence was determined for a 421-bp
region of the mitochondrial coxI gene (mtCOI). A total of sixty-three different mtCOI sequences, or haplotypes, were detected,
with a sequence divergence between haplotypes of 0.2–3.1%. The number and distribution of haplotypes varied with sampling
location; 12 haplotypes were distributed across multiple sampling locations, and 51 occurred at only one location. Five genetically
distinct populations were detected based on F
ST values. Haplotype minimum spanning networks, nucleotide divergence and F
ST values indicated that individuals from coastal sites in the North Pacific Ocean were more closely related to each other than
to individuals from the open ocean site at Station P. These results provide genetic support for the designation of two subspecies—a
coastal subspecies that consists of what is currently referred to as C. p. pacificus and C. p. californicus and an open ocean subspecies C. p. oceanicus. This work also indicates that planktonic copepods with potentially high dispersal capacity can develop genetically structured
populations in the absence of obvious geographic barriers between proximate locales within an ocean basin. |
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