Male and female mitochondrial DNA lineages in the blue mussel (Mytilus edulis) species group.

نویسندگان

  • D T Stewart
  • C Saavedra
  • R R Stanwood
  • A O Ball
  • E Zouros
چکیده

In blue mussels of the Mytilus edulis species complex, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) inheritance is coupled with gender. Females receive their mother's mtDNA and pass it on to both their daughters and sons. In addition, males receive mtDNA from their father and transmit this male mtDNA to their sons. If this pattern of "doubly uniparental inheritance" is older than the M. edulis species complex, then all members of this group must have two distinct mtDNA lineages: a maternal lineage that is transmitted through females and a paternal lineage that is transmitted through males. To test this hypothesis, we scored mtDNA variation in two taxa in this complex, M. edulis and M. trossulus, by means of restriction fragment profiles of whole-mtDNA genomes and DNA sequence of a region of the cytochrome c oxidase subunit III gene (COIII). The various mitotypes present in these mussels were classified as "male" or "female" based on their gender association and as belonging to M. edulis or M. trossulus based on species-specific allozymes. Both maximum parsimony and neighbor-joining phylogenies based on the COIII sequences grouped female and male mtDNAs into two distinct lineages irrespective of specific origin in accordance with the hypothesis that the origin of these lineages predates the divergence of M. edulis and M. trossulus.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Molecular biology and evolution

دوره 12 5  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1995