Origin of the antitropical distribution pattern in marine mussels (Mytilus spp.): routes and timing of transequatorial migration

By T. J. Hilbish, A. Mullinax, S. I. Dolven, Axel Meyer, R. Koehn, P. Rawson. 2000

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Abstract Many marine species, including mussels in the Mytilus edulis species group (i.e. M. edulis L., M. galloprovincialis Lamarck, and M. trossulus Gould), have an antitropical distribution pattern, with closely related taxa occurring in high latitudes of the northern and southern hemispheres but being absent from the tropics. We tested four hypotheses to explain the timing and route of transequatorial migration by species with antitropical distributions. These hypotheses yield different predictions for the phylogenetic relationship of southern hemisphere taxa relative to their northern counter-parts. The three Mytilus species were used to test these hypotheses since they exhibit a typical antitropical distribution and representative taxa occur in both the Pacific and Atlantic. Two types of mtDNA lineages were found among populations of mussels collected from the southern hemisphere between 1988 and 1996; over 90% of the mtDNA lineages formed a distinct subclade which, on average, had 1.4% divergence from haplotypes found exclusively in northern Atlantic populations of M. galloprovincialis. These data indicate that southern hemisphere mussels arose from a migration event from the northern hemisphere during the Pleistocene via an Atlantic route. The remainder of the southern hemisphere lineages (<10%) were very closely related to mtDNA haplotypes found in both M. edulis and M. galloprovincialis in the northern hemisphere, suggesting a second, more recent migration to the southern hemisphere. There was no evidence that southern hemisphere mussels arose from Pacific populations of mussels.

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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• Down under the southeastern Pacific: marine non-indigenous species in Chile (2005, background): “…see Carlton and Scanlon 1985; Trowbridge 1995, 1998), that is affecting Gracilaria chilensis aquaculture, (3) the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis (Daguin 2000; Daguin and Borsa 2000; also see discussions in Toro 1998, Hilbish et al. 2000), reported for several localities in southern Chile.”
• Seasonal variation in the attachment strength of blue mussels: Causes and consequences (2002, background): “Morphologically similar species (e.g., M. trossulus and hybrids) have only been reported well to the north of Cape Cod (Hilbish et al. 2000).”
• No Longer The Pristine Confines of the World Ocean: A Survey of Exotic Marine Species in the Southwestern Atlantic (2002, background): “It is often the case that complex patterns can be explained by a mixture of the three hypotheses, as has been illustrated by the blue mussels (Mytilus spp.; Hilbish et al. 2000).”
• Jumping Ship: A Stepping Stone Event Mediating Transfer of a Non-indigenous Species Via a Potentially Unsuitable Environment (2000, background): “It is found naturally on Atlantic coasts of southwest Europe (Gardner 1992, 1994; Seed 1992), in the Mediterranean Sea (Quesada et al. 1995), and in Australia and New Zealand (McDonald et al. 1991; Hilbish et al. 2000).”
• Unexpected genetic structure of mussel populations in South Africa: indigenous Perna perna and invasive Mytilus galloprovincialis (2007, background): “As on the Namibian coast, this limit could be explained by the subtropical conditions found north of East London, indicating that M. galloprovincialis invasion in South Africa conforms to the antitropical distribution pattern typical of Mytilus spp. (Hilbish et al. 2000).”
• MINI-REVIEW: DISTRIBUTION OF THE MEDITERRANEAN MUSSEL MYTILUS GALLOPROVINCIALIS (BIVALVIA: MYTILIDAE) AND HYBRIDS IN THE NORTHEAST PACIFIC (2004, background): “…and M. galloprovincialis are the most closely related and M. trossulus is the most divergent according to genomic DNA (Beynon & Skibinski 1996, Eirin-Lopez et al. 2002, Martı́nez-Lage et al. 2002) and mtDNA analysis (Rawson & Hilbish 1995b, Quesada et al. 1998, Geller 1999, Hilbish et al. 2000).”
• Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean (2014, background): “Various authors have suggested that amphitropical patterns in genera of marine molluscs (Lindberg 1991; Vermeij 1992; Hilbish et al. 2000), crabs (Tam et al.”
• Hydrodynamic stress and habitat partitioning between indigenous (Perna perna) and invasive (Mytilus galloprovincialis) mussels: constraints of an evolutionary strategy (2006, unknown): “Received: 23 February 2006 / Accepted: 25 March 2006 / Published online: 29 April 2006 � Springer-Verlag 2006 from the tropics ( Hilbish et al. 2000 ).”