Contrasting quaternary histories in an ecologically divergent sister pair of low-dispersing intertidal fish (Xiphister) revealed by multilocus DNA analysis.
Recurrent glacial advances have shaped community histories across the planet. While biogeographic responses to glaciations likely varied with latitude, the consequences for temperate marine communities histories are less clear. By coalescent analyses of multiloci DNA sequence data (mitochondrial DNA control region, alpha-enolase intron, and alpha-tropomyosin intron) collected from a low-dispersing sister pair of rocky intertidal fishes commonly found from southeastern Alaska to California (Xiphister atropurpureus and X. mucosus), we uncover two very different responses to historical glaciations. A variety of methods that include a simulation analysis, coestimates of migration and divergence times, and estimates of minimum ages of populations sampled up and down the North American Pacific coast all strongly revealed a history of range persistence in X. atropurpureus and extreme range contraction and expansion from a southern refugium in X. mucosus. Furthermore, these conclusions are not sensitive to the independent estimates of the DNA substitution rates we obtain. While gene flow and dispersal are low in both species, the widely different histories are rather likely to have arisen from ecological differences such as diet breadth, generation time, and habitat specificity.
Hickerson
Michael J
MJ
Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 90338, USA. mhick@socrates.berkeley.edu
Cunningham
Clifford W
CW
D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002980:Climate; D003198:Computer Simulation; D017931:DNA Primers; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics; D003710:Demography; D004777:Environment; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D005787:Gene Frequency; D005828:Genetics, Population; D005843:Geography; D006239:Haplotypes / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010140:Pacific Ocean; D010473:Perciformes / Q000235:genetics*; D010751:Phosphopyruvate Hydratase / Q000235:genetics; D010802:Phylogeny; D011157:Population Dynamics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D013045:Species Specificity; D014335:Tropomyosin / Q000235:genetics
D017931:DNA Primers; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial; D014335:Tropomyosin; D010751:Phosphopyruvate Hydratase