Population genetics and demography of the coral-killing cyanobacteriosponge, Terpios hoshinota, in the Indo-West Pacific.

Autor: Chow SW; Department of Life Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan.; Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.; Department of Oceanography, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.; Biodiversity Program, Taiwan International Graduate Program, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan., Keshavmurthy S; Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan., Reimer JD; Department of Biology, Chemistry, and Marine Science, University of Ryukyus, Naha, Okinawa, Japan.; Tropical Biosphere Research Center, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan., de Voogd N; Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.; Institute of Environmental Sciences, Environmental Biology Department, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands., Huang H; CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China., Wang JT; Department of Oceanography, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan., Tang SL; Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan., Schupp PJ; Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany.; Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity at the, University of Oldenburg (HIFMB), Oldenburg, Germany., Tan CH; School of Marine and Environmental Sceinces, University of Malaysia Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia., Liew HC; Sdn Bhd. Jalan Hiliran, Kuala Terengganu, Alchemy Laboratory & Services, Terengganu, Malaysia., Soong K; Department of Oceanography, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan., Subhan B; Department of Marine Science & Technology, Faculty of Fisheries & Marine Sciences, IPB University, Bogor, Indonesia., Madduppa H; Department of Marine Science & Technology, Faculty of Fisheries & Marine Sciences, IPB University, Bogor, Indonesia., Chen CA; Department of Life Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan.; Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.; Biodiversity Program, Taiwan International Graduate Program, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.; Department of Life Science, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PeerJ [PeerJ] 2022 May 31; Vol. 10, pp. e13451. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 May 31 (Print Publication: 2022).
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.13451
Abstrakt: The first occurrence of the cyanobacteriosponge Terpios hoshinota was reported from coral reefs in Guam in 1973, but was only formally described in 1993. Since then, the invasive behavior of this encrusting, coral-killing sponge has been observed in many coral reefs in the West Pacific. From 2015, its occurrence has expanded westward to the Indian Ocean. Although many studies have investigated the morphology, ecology, and symbiotic cyanobacteria of this sponge, little is known of its population genetics and demography. In this study, a mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I (COI) fragment and nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) were sequenced to reveal the genetic variation of T. hoshinota collected from 11 marine ecoregions throughout the Indo-West Pacific. Both of the statistical parsimony networks based on the COI and nuclear ITS2 were dominated by a common haplotype. Pairwise F ST and Isolation-by-distance by Mantel test of ITS2 showed moderate gene flow existed among most populations in the marine ecoregions of West Pacific, Coral Triangle, and Eastern Indian Ocean, but with a restricted gene flow between these regions and Maldives in the Central Indian Ocean. Demographic analyses of most T. hoshinota populations were consistent with the mutation-drift equilibrium, except for the Sulawesi Sea and Maldives, which showed bottlenecks following recent expansion. Our results suggest that while long-range dispersal might explain the capability of T. hoshinota to spread in the IWP, stable population demography might account for the long-term persistence of T. hoshinota outbreaks on local reefs.
Competing Interests: James Reimer is an Academic Editor for PeerJ. Hock Chark Liew is employed by Alchemy Laboratory & Services.
(©2022 Chow et al.)
Databáze: MEDLINE