Contemporary habitat discontinuity and historic glacial ice drive genetic divergence in Chilean kelp
dc.contributor.author | Fraser, Ceridwen | |
dc.contributor.author | Thiel, Martin | |
dc.contributor.author | Spencer, Hamish G. | |
dc.contributor.author | Waters, Jonathan M. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-12-23T03:30:05Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-12-23T03:30:05Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010-07-01 | |
dc.date.updated | 2016-02-24T09:37:18Z | |
dc.description.abstract | BACKGROUND South America's western coastline, extending in a near-straight line across some 35 latitudinal degrees, presents an elegant setting for assessing both contemporary and historic influences on cladogenesis in the marine environment. Southern bull-kelp (Durvillaea antarctica) has a broad distribution along much of the Chilean coast. This species represents an ideal model taxon for studies of coastal marine connectivity and of palaeoclimatic effects, as it grows only on exposed rocky coasts and is absent from beaches and ice-affected shores. We expected that, along the central Chilean coast, D. antarctica would show considerable phylogeographic structure as a consequence of the isolating effects of distance and habitat discontinuities. In contrast, we hypothesised that further south--throughout the region affected by the Patagonian Ice Sheet at the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM)--D. antarctica would show relatively little genetic structure, reflecting postglacial recolonisation. RESULTS Mitochondrial (COI) and chloroplast (rbcL) DNA analyses of D. antarctica from 24 Chilean localities (164 individuals) revealed two deeply divergent (4.5 - 6.1% for COI, 1.4% for rbcL) clades from the centre and south of the country, with contrasting levels and patterns of genetic structure. Among populations from central Chile (32 degrees-44 degrees S), substantial phylogeographic structure was evident across small spatial scales, and a significant isolation-by-distance effect was observed. Genetic disjunctions in this region appear to correspond to the presence of long beaches. In contrast to the genetic structure found among central Chilean populations, samples from the southern Chilean Patagonian region (49 degrees-56 degrees S) were genetically homogeneous and identical to a haplotype recently found throughout the subantarctic region. CONCLUSIONS Southern (Patagonian) Chile has been recolonised by D. antarctica relatively recently, probably since the LGM. The inferred trans-oceanic ancestry of these Patagonian populations supports the notion that D. antarctica is capable of long-distance dispersal via rafting. In contrast, further north in central Chile, the correspondence of genetic disjunctions in D. antarctica with long beaches indicates that habitat discontinuity drives genetic isolation among established kelp populations. We conclude that rafting facilitates colonisation of unoccupied shores, but has limited potential to enhance gene-flow among established populations. Broadly, this study demonstrates that some taxa may be considered to have either high or low dispersal potential across different temporal and geographic scales. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | This work was funded by Marsden contract 07-UOO-099, Department of Zoology and University of Otago Research grants to JMW; a Department of Zoology funding allocation to CIF; and Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution funds to HGS. | en_AU |
dc.identifier.issn | 1471-2148 | en_AU |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/95185 | |
dc.publisher | BioMed Central | |
dc.rights | © Fraser et al. 2010 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | |
dc.source | BMC Evolutionary Biology | |
dc.subject | bayes theorem | |
dc.subject | chile | |
dc.subject | dna, algal | |
dc.subject | dna, chloroplast | |
dc.subject | dna, mitochondrial | |
dc.subject | geography | |
dc.subject | haplotypes | |
dc.subject | ice cover | |
dc.subject | kelp | |
dc.subject | likelihood functions | |
dc.subject | molecular sequence data | |
dc.subject | sequence analysis, dna | |
dc.subject | ecosystem | |
dc.subject | genetic speciation | |
dc.subject | phylogeny | |
dc.title | Contemporary habitat discontinuity and historic glacial ice drive genetic divergence in Chilean kelp | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
local.bibliographicCitation.issue | 1 | en_AU |
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 12 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 203 | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Fraser, Ceridwen, College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, CMBE Fenner School of Environment and Society, FSES General, The Australian National University | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Thiel, Martin, Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Spencer, Hamish, University of Otago, New Zealand | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Waters, Jonathan, University of Otago, New Zealand | en_AU |
local.contributor.authoremail | ceridwen.fraser@anu.edu.au | en_AU |
local.contributor.authoruid | u3234933 | en_AU |
local.description.notes | Imported from ARIES. At the time of publication the author Fraser was affiliated with Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, Department of Zoology, University of Otago, New Zealand. | en_AU |
local.identifier.absfor | 060302 | en_AU |
local.identifier.absfor | 060306 | en_AU |
local.identifier.absseo | 960802 | en_AU |
local.identifier.ariespublication | f5625xPUB7794 | en_AU |
local.identifier.citationvolume | 10 | en_AU |
local.identifier.doi | 10.1186/1471-2148-10-203 | en_AU |
local.identifier.essn | 1471-2148 | en_AU |
local.identifier.scopusID | 2-s2.0-77954052336 | |
local.identifier.thomsonID | 000280369500001 | |
local.identifier.uidSubmittedBy | u3488905 | en_AU |
local.publisher.url | http://www.biomedcentral.com/ | en_AU |
local.type.status | Published Version | en_AU |
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