Mitochondrial control region sequence analyses indicate dispersal from the US East Coast as the source of the invasive Indo-Pacific lionfish Pterois volitans in the Bahamas

By D. Wilson Freshwater, A. Hines, S. Parham, A. Wilbur, Michelle Sabaoun, J. Woodhead, L. Akins, B. Purdy, Paula E. Whitfield, Claire B Paris-Limouzy. 2009

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Molecular Biology, Paleontology

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In Global and Planetary Change

1. C. Layman
2. Isabelle M. Côté
3. S. Green
4. J. Morris
5. M. Hixon
6. Z. Jud
7. M. Albins
8. J. L. Akins

In Molecular Biology

1. S. Green
2. M. Hixon
3. J. Morris
4. D. Steinke
5. M. Albins
6. Isabelle M. Côté
7. S. Sponaugle
8. R. Cowen

In Paleontology

1. C. Layman
2. S. Green
3. Isabelle M. Côté
4. Z. Jud
5. J. Morris
6. M. Hixon
7. M. Albins
8. J. L. Akins

Citations in the corpus

• Invasive species, climate change and ecosystem-based adaptation : addressing multiple drivers of global change (2010, background): “In the following decade, lionfish were sighted in the Caribbean Sea and northward along the eastern seaboard of North America where they threaten coastal habitats and fisheries (Whitfield et al. 2007, Freshwater et al. 2009).”
• Diet richness of invasive Indo-Pacific lionfish revealed by DNA barcoding (2013, background): “Lionfish Pterois volitans, released in Florida in the mid-1980s, were first reported on Bahamian coral reefs in 2004 (Whitfield et al. 2002, Freshwater et al. 2009, Schofield 2009).”
• Larval duration of the lionfish, Pterois volitans along the Bahamian Archipelago (2010, background): “Lionfish eggs and larvae might have crossed the Straits of Florida and invaded the Bahamas, in spite of the relatively low connectivity between these two areas, perhaps facilitated by episodic oceanographic conditions (Freshwater et al. 2009).”
• Predation rates of Indo-Pacific lionfish on Bahamian coral reefs (2010, background): “…WORDS: Behavioural observations · Biological invasions · Foraging strategies · Marine introductions · Predator–prey interactions · Turkeyfish Resale or republication not permitted without written consent of the publisher Mar Ecol Prog Ser 404: 219–225, 2010 (Freshwater et al. 2009).”
• Mangrove use by the invasive lionfish Pterois volitans (2010, background): “Environ Biol Fishes 50:391–403 Freshwater DW, Hines A, Parham S, Wilbur A and others (2009) Mitochondial control region sequence analyses indicate dispersal from the US East Coast as the source of the invasive Indo-Pacific lionfish Pterois volitans in the Bahamas.”
• Worst case scenario: potential long-term effects of invasive predatory lionfish (Pterois volitans) on Atlantic and Caribbean coral-reef communities (2011, background): “P. volitans occurs throughout the invaded range, whereas sibling species P. miles appears to be restricted to the U.S. mainland (Freshwater et al. 2009).”
• Site fidelity and movement patterns of invasive lionfish, Pterois spp., in a Florida estuary (2012, background): “The Indo-Pacific lionfish Pterois volitans and Pterois miles (morphologically indistinguishable species, hereafter referred to as lionfish) have spread rapidly throughout the western Atlantic and Caribbean (Freshwater et al., 2009; Hamner et al., 2007; Schofield, 2009; Whitfield et al., 2002).”
• Recent invasion of a Florida (USA) estuarine system by lionfish Pterois volitans / P. miles. (2011, background): “The spread of invasive lionfish in the western Atlantic and Carib bean has been well documented (Whitfield et al. 2002, Hamner et al. 2007, Freshwater et al. 2009, Schofield 2009), with the invasion considered 1 of the top 15 emerging environmental issues at a global scale (Suther land et ©…”
• Progression of invasive lionfish in seagrass, mangrove and reef habitats. (2012, background): “During 2005 and 2006, lionfish began to be found in new locations in the Bahamas, and, where documented, they were first observed in shallow habitats (Snyder & Burgess 2006, Albins & Hixon 2008, Smith & Sullivan Sealey 2008), but were absent from deeper sites (Lesser & Slattery 2011).”
• Distributions of Indo-Pacific lionfishes Pterois spp. in their native ranges : implications for the Atlantic invasion (2012, background): “…reproduction (Ruiz-Carus et al. 2006, Morris et al. 2011), larval duration (Ahrenholz & Morris 2010), population genetics (Hamner et al. 2007, Freshwater et al. 2009), food habits (Albins & Hixon 2008, Morris & Akins 2009, Côté & Maljković 2010, Muñoz et al. 2011), and ecological impacts…”
• Indo-Pacific lionfish are larger and more abundant on invaded reefs: a comparison of Kenyan and Bahamian lionfish populations (2011, background): “Given the result of genetic analyses of Bahamian lionfish (Freshwater et al. 2009; Morris et al. 2009), it is likely that most or all were Pterois volitans, although some may have been P. miles, a sister species that is visually identical to P. volitans.”
• Predatory fish invaders: Insights from Indo-Pacific lionfish in the western Atlantic and Caribbean (2013, background): “The genetic similarity between lionfish from The Bahamas and those from North Carolina (Freshwater et al., 2009) supports the idea that the source of Bahamian lionfish is egg and/or larval dispersal from one or more populations that were already established on the east coast of the United States…”