Genetic diversity of the non-native crab Rhithropanopeus harrisii (Brachyura: Panopeidae) in the Polish coastal waters - an example of patchy genetic diversity at a small geographic scale

Hegele-Drywa, Joanna and Thiercelin, Nicolas and Schubart, Christoph D. and Normant-Saremba, Monika (2015) Genetic diversity of the non-native crab Rhithropanopeus harrisii (Brachyura: Panopeidae) in the Polish coastal waters - an example of patchy genetic diversity at a small geographic scale. OCEANOLOGICAL AND HYDROBIOLOGICAL STUDIES, 44 (3). pp. 305-315. ISSN 1730-413X, 1897-3191

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Abstract

The American panopeid crab species Rhithropanopeus harrisii (Gould, 1841) is listed as an non-native species in European waters. In Poland, it occurred in the 1950s at two sites at the Baltic Sea coast, the Dead Vistula River (DVR) and the Vistula Lagoon (VL). Almost 50 years later, two additional populations were identified in the Gulf of Gdansk (GG) and its inner part, Puck Bay (PB). In the present study, we sequenced and analyzed part of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I gene of the four Polish populations of R. harrisii in order to assess their genetic diversity and connectivity. The analyzed sequences of a length of 989 base pairs revealed eight different haplotypes. The highest number of haplotypes (n=6) was observed in the population from GG, whereas the lowest (n=3) in VL. The most common haplotype was recorded in 37% of the analyzed individuals. Pairwise Phi(ST) values were mostly non-significant, with the exception of the comparison between DVR and VL (Phi(ST) =0.267; P < 0.05) and between PB and VL (Phi(ST)=0.194; P < 0.05), indicating a restricted gene flow or different sources of colonization.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: MUD CRAB; BALTIC SEA; POPULATION-GENETICS; LARVAL DISPERSAL; MITOCHONDRIAL-DNA; NORTHEAST PACIFIC; SPECIES INVASIONS; ODRA ESTUARY; GOULD; EVOLUTION; Rhithropanopeus harrisii; coastal waters; genetic diversity; restricted gene flow; invasion biology
Subjects: 500 Science > 590 Zoological sciences
Divisions: Biology, Preclinical Medicine > Institut für Zoologie
Depositing User: Dr. Gernot Deinzer
Date Deposited: 11 Jun 2019 13:48
Last Modified: 11 Jun 2019 13:48
URI: https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/4888

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