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Recent expansion of Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean populations of Melicertus (Penaeus) kerathurus (Crustacea: Decapoda)

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We analysed the genetic diversity of Melicertus kerathurus (Penaeidae), a commercially valuable penaeid shrimp that is distributed in the Mediterranean Sea and eastern Atlantic Ocean. We examined the polymorphism of a 494 bp DNA segment of the mitochondrial COI region in 173 individuals, sampled in nine Mediterranean and two Atlantic samples, covering the whole range of the species from the tropical waters of the Gulf of Guinea to the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea. The mean nucleotide and haplotype diversities were π = 0.00275 and h = 0.718, respectively, for the global data set, with the highest values occurring in the African samples and the lowest in the Adriatic Sea. A clear sample differentiation was found (F st = 0.194), but this did not reflect a geographical pattern and there were only faint traces of an Atlantic–Mediterranean subdivision. Mismatch analysis and a high significant negative value of Tajima’s D suggested that M. kerathurus is not at mutation drift-equilibrium, but underwent a recent expansion after a period of low effective sample size. A postglacial recolonisation of the Mediterranean from an Atlantic refuge could be hypothesised based on these data.

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This research was supported by Università di Palermo (ex 60%), CORI and MiPAF projects. We are grateful to V. Balsamo, A. Belluscio, L. Cannizzaro, J.D. Durand, B. Adépo-Gourène, H. Kara, F. Maltagliati, M. Koutrakis and F. Lumare for collecting samples.

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    Rosalia Pellerito & Marco Arculeo

  2. Département Biologie Intégrative, ISEM, CNRS, Université de Montpellier II, Station Méditerranéenne de l’Environnement Littoral, 1 quai de la Daurade, 34200, Sète, France

    Francois Bonhomme

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Appendix: Polymorphic nucleotide sites in a partial cytochrome c oxidase gene of 51 haplotypes

Appendix: Polymorphic nucleotide sites in a partial cytochrome c oxidase gene of 51 haplotypes

Identity with the top reference sequence is indicated by a dot.

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Pellerito, R., Arculeo, M. & Bonhomme, F. Recent expansion of Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean populations of Melicertus (Penaeus) kerathurus (Crustacea: Decapoda). Fish Sci 75, 1089–1095 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12562-009-0131-z

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