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1 April 2007 PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS AMONG NINE SCALLOP SPECIES (BIVALVIA: PECTINIDAE) INFERRED FROM NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCES OF ONE MITOCHONDRIAL AND THREE NUCLEAR GENE REGIONS
CHULABHORN MAHIDOL, UTHAIRAT NA-NAKORN, SRIJANYA SUKMANOMON, WANTANA YOOSUK, NOBUHIKO TANIGUCHI, THUY T. T. NGUYEN
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Abstract

Current knowledge of the evolutionary relationships among scallop species (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinidae) in the Indo-Pacific region is rather scanty. To enhance the understanding of the relationships within this group, phylogenies of nine species of scallops with the majority from coastal regions of Thailand, were reconstructed by maximum parsimony, maximum likelihood, and Bayesian methods using sequences of the 16S rRNA of the mitochondrial genome, and a fragment containing the ITS1, 5.8S and ITS2 genes of the nuclear DNA. The trees that resulted from the three methods of analysis were topologically identical, however, gained different levels of support at some nodes. Nine species were clustered into two major clades, corresponding to two subfamilies (Pectininae and Chlamydinae) of the three currently recognized subfamilies within Pectinidae. Overall, the relationships reported herein are mostly in accordance with the previous molecular studies that used sequences of the mtDNA cytochrome oxidase subunit I, and the classification system based on microsculpture of shell features and morphological characteristics of juveniles. Levels of divergences were different among genes (i.e., the 5.8S gene showed the lowest levels of nucleotide divergence at all levels, whereas the 16S rRNA showed the highest level of variation within species, and ITS2 gene revealed the highest level of divergence at higher levels).

CHULABHORN MAHIDOL, UTHAIRAT NA-NAKORN, SRIJANYA SUKMANOMON, WANTANA YOOSUK, NOBUHIKO TANIGUCHI, and THUY T. T. NGUYEN "PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS AMONG NINE SCALLOP SPECIES (BIVALVIA: PECTINIDAE) INFERRED FROM NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCES OF ONE MITOCHONDRIAL AND THREE NUCLEAR GENE REGIONS," Journal of Shellfish Research 26(1), 25-32, (1 April 2007). https://doi.org/10.2983/0730-8000(2007)26[25:PRANSS]2.0.CO;2
Published: 1 April 2007
KEYWORDS
nucleotide sequences
Pectinidae
phylogeny
scallops
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