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The first Margaritiferidae male (M-type) mitogenome: mitochondrial gene order as a potential character for determining higher-order phylogeny within Unionida (Bivalvia)

Lopes-Lima, Manuel; Fonseca, Miguel M.; Aldridge, David C.; Bogan, Arthur E.; Gan, Han Ming; Ghamizi, Mohamed; Sousa, Ronaldo; Teixeira, Am�lcar; Varandas, Simone; Zanatta, David; Zieritz, Alexandra; Froufe, Elsa

Authors

Manuel Lopes-Lima

Miguel M. Fonseca

David C. Aldridge

Arthur E. Bogan

Han Ming Gan

Mohamed Ghamizi

Ronaldo Sousa

Am�lcar Teixeira

Simone Varandas

David Zanatta

Elsa Froufe



Abstract

The unionid family Margaritiferidae, comprising 12 extant species, is widely distributed across the northern hemisphere in North America, Europe and Asia (Bolotov et al., 2016). Most species in this family have dramatically declined over the last century, with nine of the 12 species assessed as threatened in the most recent IUCN Red List (IUCN, 2016). Among these is the Moroccan pearl mussel Margaritifera marocana (Pallary, 1918), considered one of the 100 most threatened species on the planet (Baillie & Butcher, 2012). This species is now restricted to two small streams in the Oum Er Rbia and Sebou basins and conservation measures are urgently needed (Sousa et al., 2016). Beyond the conservation concern, Unionida are also biologically interesting. They present an unusual mechanism of mitochondrial inheritance called doubly uniparental inheritance (DUI), in which all individuals have the typical maternally transmitted mtDNA (F-type), but the males possess in their germ cells a paternally inherited mtDNA instead (M-type) (Zouros et al., 1994; Breton et al., 2009). So far, DUI has been observed in over 100 species from four bivalve orders (Gusman, Azuelos & Breton, 2017), including three families within Unionida, i.e. Unionidae, Hyriidae and Margaritiferidae (Walker et al., 2006). However, to date, no whole M-type mitogenome has been published for any species belonging to the last two of these families.

Citation

Lopes-Lima, M., Fonseca, M. M., Aldridge, D. C., Bogan, A. E., Gan, H. M., Ghamizi, M., …Froufe, E. (2017). The first Margaritiferidae male (M-type) mitogenome: mitochondrial gene order as a potential character for determining higher-order phylogeny within Unionida (Bivalvia). Journal of Molluscan Studies, 83(2), 249-252. https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyx009

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Feb 25, 2017
Online Publication Date Mar 3, 2017
Publication Date May 1, 2017
Deposit Date Feb 14, 2019
Journal Journal of Molluscan Studies
Print ISSN 0260-1230
Electronic ISSN 1464-3766
Publisher Oxford University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 83
Issue 2
Pages 249-252
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyx009
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1548560
Publisher URL https://academic.oup.com/mollus/article/83/2/249/3061120