Title
A RAD-based phylogenetics for Orestias fishes from Lake Titicaca
Date Issued
01 December 2015
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Academic Press Inc.
Abstract
The fish genus Orestias is endemic to the Andes highlands, and Lake Titicaca is the centre of the species diversity of the genus. Previous phylogenetic studies based on a single locus of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA strongly support the monophyly of a group composed of many of species endemic to the Lake Titicaca basin (the Lake Titicaca radiation), but the relationships among the species in the radiation remain unclear. Recently, restriction site-associated DNA (RAD) sequencing, which can produce a vast number of short sequences from various loci of nuclear DNA, has emerged as a useful way to resolve complex phylogenetic problems. To propose a new phylogenetic hypothesis of Orestias fishes of the Lake Titicaca radiation, we conducted a cluster analysis based on morphological similarities among fish samples and a molecular phylogenetic analysis based on RAD sequencing. From a morphological cluster analysis, we recognised four species groups in the radiation, and three of the four groups were resolved as monophyletic groups in maximum-likelihood trees based on RAD sequencing data. The other morphology-based group was not resolved as a monophyletic group in molecular phylogenies, and some members of the group were diverged from its sister group close to the root of the Lake Titicaca radiation. The evolution of these fishes is discussed from the phylogenetic relationships.
Start page
307
End page
317
Volume
93
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Genética, Herencia Biología marina, Biología de agua dulce, Limnología Tecnología de modificación genética
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84940397165
PubMed ID
Source
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
ISSN of the container
10557903
Sponsor(s)
We thank T. Natsumeda for providing the opportunity to conduct this study, S. Atencio, M. Brabo, Y.C.C. Rojas, M.C. Vilca, J.M. Ochochoque, C. Mamani, K. Iguchi, H. Hata, M. Kanagawa and Y. Campos for their support in the field, M. Ravinet for advice on computer operating, and the associate editor, G. Orti, and two anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments that helped us to improve this manuscript. This study was partly supported by a project “knowledge and management of hydrobiological resources of Lake Titicaca in Peru” of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (No. 26291078) from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT), Japan.
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