Title
Self-fertilization, long-distance flash invasion and biogeography shape the population structure of Pseudosuccinea columella at the worldwide scale
Date Issued
01 February 2017
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Lounnas M.
Correa A.C.
Vázquez A.A.
Dia A.
Escobar J.S.
Nicot A.
Dubois M.P.
Gimenez T.
Gutiérrez A.
González-Ramírez C.
Noya O.
Prepelitchi L.
Uribe N.
Wisnivesky-Colli C.
Yong M.
David P.
Loker E.S.
Jarne P.
Pointier J.P.
Hurtrez-Boussès S.
Publisher(s)
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Abstract
Population genetic studies are efficient for inferring the invasion history based on a comparison of native and invasive populations, especially when conducted at species scale. An expected outcome in invasive populations is variability loss, and this is especially true in self-fertilizing species. We here focus on the self-fertilizing Pseudosuccinea columella, an invasive hermaphroditic freshwater snail that has greatly expanded its geographic distribution and that acts as intermediate host of Fasciola hepatica, the causative agent of human and veterinary fasciolosis. We evaluated the distribution of genetic diversity at the largest geographic scale analysed to date in this species by surveying 80 populations collected during 16 years from 14 countries, using eight nuclear microsatellites and two mitochondrial genes. As expected, populations from North America, the putative origin area, were strongly structured by selfing and history and harboured much more genetic variability than invasive populations. We found high selfing rates (when it was possible to infer it), none-to-low genetic variability and strong population structure in most invasive populations. Strikingly, we found a unique genotype/haplotype in populations from eight invaded regions sampled all over the world. Moreover, snail populations resistant to infection by the parasite are genetically distinct from susceptible populations. Our results are compatible with repeated introductions in South America and flash worldwide invasion by this unique genotype/haplotype. Our study illustrates the population genetic consequences of biological invasion in a highly selfing species at very large geographic scale. We discuss how such a large-scale flash invasion may affect the spread of fasciolosis.
Start page
887
End page
903
Volume
26
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Zoología, Ornitología, Entomología, ciencias biológicas del comportamiento
Biología reproductiva
Conservación de la Biodiversidad
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85011874579
PubMed ID
Source
Molecular Ecology
ISSN of the container
09621083
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