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- Title
Phylogeography of the Brittle Star Ophiura sarsii Lütken, 1855 (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from the Barents Sea and East Atlantic.
- Authors
Genelt-Yanovskiy, Evgeny; Li, Yixuan; Stratanenko, Ekaterina; Zhuravleva, Natalia; Strelkova, Natalia; Xu, Qinzeng; Nazarova, Sophia
- Abstract
Ophiura sarsii is a common brittle star species across the Arctic and Sub-Arctic regions of the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. Ophiurasarsii is among the dominant echinoderms in the Barents Sea. We studied the genetic diversity of O.sarsii by sequencing the 548 bp fragment of the mitochondrial COI gene. Ophiurasarsii demonstrated high genetic diversity in the Barents Sea. Both major Atlantic mtDNA lineages were present in the Barents Sea and were evenly distributed between the northern waters around Svalbard archipelago and the southern part near Murmansk coast of Kola Peninsula. Both regions, and other parts of the O.sarsii range, were characterized by high haplotype diversity with a significant number of private haplotypes being mostly satellites to the two dominant haplotypes, each belonging to a different mtDNA clade. Demographic analyses indicated that the demographic and spatial expansion of O.sarsii in the Barents Sea most plausibly has started in the Bølling–Allerød interstadial during the deglaciation of the western margin of the Barents Sea.
- Subjects
ARCTIC regions; MURMANSK (Russia); ECHINODERMATA; GENES; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; GLACIAL melting
- Publication
Diversity (14242818), 2021, Vol 13, Issue 2, p40
- ISSN
1424-2818
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/d13020040