title: Utility of ITS1-5.8S-ITS2 sequences for species discrimination and phylogenetic inference of two closely related bucephalid digeneans (Digenea: Bucephalidae): Dollfustrema vaneyi and Dollfustrema hefeiensis.
abstract: The complete internal transcribed spacer 1 (ITS1), 5.8S ribosomal DNA, and ITS2 region of the ribosomal DNA from 60 specimens belonging to two closely related bucephalid digeneans (Dollfustrema vaneyi and Dollfustrema hefeiensis) from different localities, hosts, and microhabitat sites were cloned to examine the level of sequence variation and the taxonomic levels to show utility in species identification and phylogeny estimation. Our data show that these molecular markers can help to discriminate the two species, which are morphologically very close and difficult to separate by classical methods. We found 21 haplotypes defined by 44 polymorphic positions in 38 individuals of D. vaneyi, and 16 haplotypes defined by 43 polymorphic positions in 22 individuals of D. hefeiensis. There is no shared haplotypes between the two species. Haplotype rather than nucleotide diversity is similar between the two species. Phylogenetic analyses reveal two robustly supported clades, one corresponding to D. vaneyi and the other corresponding to D. hefeiensis. However, the population structures between the two species seem to be incongruent and show no geographic and host-specific structure among them, further indicating that the two species may have had a more complex evolutionary history than expected.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, and Laboratory of Fish Immunology and Parasitology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China.
authors.forename: Dali
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Guitang
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Weijian
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Yao
authors.forename: Pin
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Nie
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002681:China; D021903:DNA, Ribosomal Spacer / Q000032:analysis*; D005393:Fish Diseases / Q000469:parasitology; D005399:Fishes / Q000145:classification / Q000469:parasitology; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010274:Parasitology / Q000379:methods; D010802:Phylogeny; D012340:RNA, Ribosomal, 5.8S / Q000235:genetics*; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D013045:Species Specificity; D014200:Trematoda / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification
chemical_list: D021903:DNA, Ribosomal Spacer; D012340:RNA, Ribosomal, 5.8S