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Evidence of mitochondrial capture in Australian glass shrimp (Paratya australiensis) in south-eastern Queensland

Sharmeen Rahman https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4826-3566 A B * , Daniel J. Schmidt A B and Jane M. Hughes A B
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A School of Environment and Science, Griffith University, Brisbane, Qld 4111, Australia.

B Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane, Qld 4111, Australia.


Handling Editor: Peter Unmack

Marine and Freshwater Research 73(8) 1098-1106 https://doi.org/10.1071/MF21304
Submitted: 15 October 2021  Accepted: 8 June 2022   Published: 18 July 2022

© 2022 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)

Abstract

Context: The Australian glass shrimp (Paratya australiensis) has been identified as a cryptic species complex and several lineages occur sympatrically in eastern Australia. In south-eastern Queensland, the predominant lineages are ‘4’ and ‘6’, although the only known area of sympatry in the Conondale Range is the result of a translocation.

Aim: Our aim was to determine any evidence of natural sympatry between the two lineages in the Mary River catchment area using polymerase chain reatction–restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) analysis.

Methods: Of six sites sampled, only one site showed sympatry between Lineage 4 and 6, so 39 individuals from this site were sequenced using fragment of the mtDNA COI gene and a neighbour joining tree revealed the existence of two lineages.

Results: On the basis of two sets of nuclear markers (allozymes and microsatellites), there was no evidence of two species, because all loci conformed to Hardy–Weinberg expectations and only Lineage 4 alleles were identified.

Conclusion: These results led to the inference that the existence of two mtDNA lineages could be due to mitochondrial capture.

Implication: The current situation in the Broken Bridge High site could be due to historical interbreeding between the two lineages reflected in the mtDNA data but not evident in the nuclear data.

Keywords: cryptic species, freshwater shrimp, historical interbreeding, hybridisation, lineages, mitochondrial DNA, nuclear DNA, sympatry.


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