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PubMed2006

Patterns of speciation in the Yucca moths: parallel species radiations within the Tegeticula yuccasella species complex.

The interaction between yuccas and yucca moths has been central to understanding the origin and loss of obligate mutualism and mutualism reversal. Previous systematic research using mtDNA sequence data and characters associated with genitalic morphology revealed that a widespread pollinator species in the genus Tegeticula was in fact a complex of pollinator species that differed in host use and the placement of eggs into yucca flowers. Within this mutualistic clade two nonpollinating "cheater" species evolved. Cheaters feed on yucca seeds but lack the tentacular mouthparts necessary for yucca pollination. Previous work suggested that the species complex formed via a rapid radiation within the last several million years. In this study, we use an expanded mtDNA sequence data set and AFLP markers to examine the phylogenetic relationships among this rapidly diverging clade of moths and compare these relationships to patterns in genitalic morphology. Topologies obtained from analyses of the mtDNA and AFLP data differed significantly. Both data sets, however, corroborated the hypothesis of a rapid species radiation and suggested that there were likely two independent species radiations. Morphological analyses based on oviposition habit produced species groupings more similar to the AFLP topology than the mtDNA topology and suggested the two radiations coincided with differences in oviposition habit. The evolution of cheating was reaffirmed to have evolved twice and the closest pollinating relative for one cheater species was identified by both mtDNA and AFLP markers. For the other cheater species, however, the closest pollinating relative remains ambiguous, and mtDNA, AFLP, and morphological data suggest this cheater species may be diverged based on host use. Much of the divergence in the species complex can be explained by geographic isolation associated with the evolution of two oviposition habits.

Animals↗
PubMed2005

Cryptic speciation and recombination in the fungus Paracoccidioides brasiliensis as revealed by gene genealogies.

Paracoccidioides brasiliensis is the etiologic agent of paracoccidioidomycosis, a disease confined to Latin America and of marked importance in the endemic areas due to its frequency and severity. This species is considered to be clonal according to mycological criteria and has been shown to vary in virulence. To characterize natural genetic variation and reproductive mode in this fungus, we analyzed P. brasiliensis phylogenetically in search of cryptic species and possible recombination using concordance and nondiscordance of gene genealogies with respect to phylogenies of eight regions in five nuclear loci. Our data indicate that this fungus consists of at least three distinct, previously unrecognized species: S1 (species 1 with 38 isolates), PS2 (phylogenetic species 2 with six isolates), and PS3 (phylogenetic species 3 with 21 isolates). Genealogies of four of the regions studied strongly supported the PS2 clade, composed of five Brazilian and one Venezuelan isolate. The second clade, PS3, composed solely of 21 Colombian isolates, was strongly supported by the alpha-tubulin genealogy. The remaining 38 individuals formed S1. Two of the three lineages of P. brasiliensis, S1 and PS2, are sympatric across their range, suggesting barriers to gene flow other than geographic isolation. Our study provides the first evidence for possible sexual reproduction in P. brasiliensis S1, but does not rule it out in the other two species.

Base Sequence↗
PubMed2006

Origin and domestication of the fungal wheat pathogen Mycosphaerella graminicola via sympatric speciation.

The Fertile Crescent represents the center of origin and earliest known place of domestication for many cereal crops. During the transition from wild grasses to domesticated cereals, many host-specialized pathogen species are thought to have emerged. A sister population of the wheat-adapted pathogen Mycosphaerella graminicola was identified on wild grasses collected in northwest Iran. Isolates of this wild grass pathogen from 5 locations in Iran were compared with 123 M. graminicola isolates from the Middle East, Europe, and North America. DNA sequencing revealed a close phylogenetic relationship between the pathogen populations. To reconstruct the evolutionary history of M. graminicola, we sequenced 6 nuclear loci encompassing 464 polymorphic sites. Coalescence analyses indicated a relatively recent origin of M. graminicola, coinciding with the known domestication of wheat in the Fertile Crescent around 8,000-9,000 BC. The sympatric divergence of populations was accompanied by strong genetic differentiation. At the present time, no genetic exchange occurs between pathogen populations on wheat and wild grasses although we found evidence that gene flow may have occurred since genetic differentiation of the populations.

Ascomycota↗
PubMed2006

Innovation in anti-herbivore defense systems during neopolypoloidy - the functional consequences of instantaneous speciation.

Allopolyploid hybridization instantly merges two differentially adapted genomes into one individual. Allopolyploids are often evolutionarily successful, undergoing adaptive radiations despite the genetic and physiological challenges of merging genomes. We examine a suite of induced herbivore resistance traits in three independent lines of the synthetic allopolyploid Nicotianaxmierata (Nma) and its parent species, N. miersii (Nmi) and N. attenuata (Na), to determine how a complex polygenetic adaptation fares during the early stages of neoallopolyploid formation. All species responded to Manduca sexta oral secretions (OS) with a temporally prolonged jasmonate (JA) burst. In one parent (Na), the JA burst was additionally amplified and associated with the elicitation of direct and indirect defenses. In the other parent (Nmi), OS neither amplified the JA burst nor elicited defense responses, although applied MeJA confirmed the inducibility of the defense responses. All lines of Nma retained enough aspects of Na's JA signaling to recognize OS and to accumulate sufficient direct defenses to impair the growth of Manduca larvae. Most defense-related metabolites were retained in Nma even if inherited from only one parent; however, OS-elicited volatiles, trypsin protease inhibitors (TPIs) and chlorogenic acid were lost in some lines, even though MeJA treatment elicited similar responses in all lines. Herbivore defense systems are flexibly inherited in allopolyploids, causing individuals to diverge over only a few generations; for example, line 1 of Nma could not produce TPIs after OS elicitation, whereas lines 2 and 3 could. This flexible integration of defense signaling systems with a diversity of elicited responses may explain why adaptive radiations are commonly found in allopolyploid lineages.

Adaptation, Physiological↗
PubMed2005

Chromosome inversions, local adaptation and speciation.

We study the evolution of inversions that capture locally adapted alleles when two populations are exchanging migrants or hybridizing. By suppressing recombination between the loci, a new inversion can spread. Neither drift nor coadaptation between the alleles (epistasis) is needed, so this local adaptation mechanism may apply to a broader range of genetic and demographic situations than alternative hypotheses that have been widely discussed. The mechanism can explain many features observed in inversion systems. It will drive an inversion to high frequency if there is no countervailing force, which could explain fixed differences observed between populations and species. An inversion can be stabilized at an intermediate frequency if it also happens to capture one or more deleterious recessive mutations, which could explain polymorphisms that are common in some species. This polymorphism can cycle in frequency with the changing selective advantage of the locally favored alleles. The mechanism can establish underdominant inversions that decrease heterokaryotype fitness by several percent if the cause of fitness loss is structural, while if the cause is genic there is no limit to the strength of underdominance that can result. The mechanism is expected to cause loci responsible for adaptive species-specific differences to map to inversions, as seen in recent QTL studies. We discuss data that support the hypothesis, review other mechanisms for inversion evolution, and suggest possible tests.

Adaptation, Physiological↗
PubMed2006

Migration, isolation, and speciation of hydrothermal vent limpets (Gastropoda; Lepetodrilidae) across the Blanco Transform Fault.

The Sovanco Fracture Zone and Blanco Transform Fault separate the Explorer, Juan de Fuca, and Gorda ridge systems of the northeastern Pacific Ocean. To test whether such offsets in the ridge axis create barriers to along-axis dispersal of the endemic hydrothermal vent animals, we examined the genetic structure of limpet populations previously identified as Lepetodrilus fucensis McLean, 1988 (Gastropoda, Lepetodrilidae). Mitochondrial DNA sequences and patterns of allozyme variation revealed no evidence that the 150-km-long Sovanco Fracture Zone impeded gene flow between the Explorer and Juan de Fuca populations. In contrast, the 450-km-long Blanco Transform Fault separates the limpets into highly divergent northern and southern lineages that we recognize as distinct species. We describe southern populations from the Gorda Ridge (Seacliff) and Escanaba Trough as Lepetodrilus gordensis new species and refer northern populations from the Explorer and Juan de Fuca ridge systems to L. fucensis sensu stricto. The species are similar morphologically, but L. gordensis lacks a sensory neck papilla and has a more tightly coiled teleconch. To assess the degree of isolation between these closely related species, we used the Isolation with Migration method to estimate the time of population splitting, effective sizes of the ancestral and derived populations, and rates of migration across the Blanco Transform Fault.

Animal Migration↗
PubMed2006

Ecological speciation in the East Maui-endemic Dubautia (Asteraceae) species.

Adaptive diversification can be viewed as a balance between the conservative force of interpopulation gene flow and selection for differential environments. In this paper, we examine ecological, morphological, and genetic differentiation in a small clade consisting of four East Maui-endemic species of Dubautia: D. menziesii, D. platyphylla, D. reticulata, and D. waianapanapaensis, in the Hawaiian silversword alliance (Asteraceae). The East Maui clade is apparently recently derived (less than 1 million years ago) and is geographically restricted yet displays significant ecological and morphological differences. We used geographic data from historical herbarium specimens, measurements of plant architecture and leaf morphometrics, and measures of genetic differentiation in both microsatellite and nuclear coding loci to examine the correlation of different forms of divergence in this small species flock. We found overlap in large-scale geographic distributions, significant differentiation in most habitat factors, significant microsatellite differentiation, and many shared alleles at nuclear coding loci suggesting on-going lineage sorting. Despite the presence of apparent hybrids in some populations, microsatellite variation is consistent with isolation among species. Using Mantel tests, we compared the direction and extent of diversification among different datasets, to determine whether ecological/morphological divergence was correlated with genetic divergence. Correlations among different datasets showed that habitat was strongly correlated with plant architecture but not leaf morphology. Taken together, these results indicate that ecological and morphological diversification has driven genetic divergence at rapidly evolving microsatellite loci, whereas there is continuing lineage sorting at neutral sites in nuclear coding loci.

Adaptation, Physiological↗
PubMed2000

Selenium speciation in animal tissues after enzymatic digestion by high-performance liquid chromatography coupled to inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry.

A procedure is described for the enzymatic digestion of tuna and mussel samples that allows the determination of selenium species by high-performance liquid chromatography in conjunction with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. The species were extracted by two-step enzymatic hydrolysis with a non-specific protease (subtilisin). The selenium species were separated on a Spherisorb 5 ODS/AMINO column using two different chromatographic conditions, namely phosphate buffers at pH 2.8 and pH 6.0 as mobile phases. The method determines organic (trimethylselenonium, selenocystine, selenomethionine and selenoethionine) and inorganic selenium species (selenite and selenate), but only organic selenium species were found in the samples. The sum of identified selenium species in the sample was about 30% of the total selenium present in the enzymatic extract despite the fact that recoveries of total hydrolysed selenium were 93-102%. Trimethylselenonium ion and selenomethionine were found in both tuna and mussel samples and an unknown selenium species was also found in tuna samples.

Animals↗
PubMed2001

Requirements for the application of protein sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analyses to product speciation.

Raw, cooked, fried, smoked and gravad (brine-cured) products were analyzed by Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) of proteins and by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) in order to identify the species used in their manufacture. The discriminatory power of SDS-PAGE was dependent primarily on the composition and secondarily on the size of the gels: the Laemmli buffer system with 15% acrylamide and 0.087% piperazine diacrylamide separating gels resolved more discriminant protein bands than any of the commercial gels tested. Some of the processing conditions induced alterations in the protein patterns that made identification dubious. Differentiation even between closely related species was easier by RAPD than by SDS-PAGE. Neither the processing conditions nor the tissue from which the DNA was extracted had a significant effect on the RAPD profiles. For identifications based on SDS-PAGE, one should use an optimized gel composition and separate the sample under analysis in the same gel as the references. For RAPD-based identifications, the unknown sample should be amplified together with reference samples and separated in the same gel.

Animals↗
PubMed2001

Metal speciation using capillary electrophoresis--inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry and polytetrafluoroethylene capillaries.

A capillary electrophoresis--inductively coupled plasma atomic-emission spectrometry (CE-ICP-AES) system using a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) capillary has been developed. The CE-ICP interface was a modified concentric nebulizer. The PTFE capillary (50 microm internal diameter) was used as the central capillary of the nebulizer. Using the PTFE capillaries, the solution flow rate induced by the carrier gas flow was smaller than that of glass capillary. Solution flow was mainly induced by the CE electric field. Baseline separation of Ba2+/Mg2+ ion pair using simple buffer solution of 0.014 M sodium acetate was reported. Separation and correlation of metal species in metallothioneins (MT-1 and MT-2 in MT) of rabbit liver using the CE-ICP system were also discussed.

Electrophoresis, Capillary↗
PubMed1986

Sources and speciation of aluminium and silicon in natural waters.

The aluminosilicate minerals of igneous and metamorphic rocks are mostly unstable in earth-surface weathering conditions. In the tropics and subtropics, they are transformed to stable end-products (crystalline clay minerals, oxides and hydroxides) that largely conserve aluminium and iron. In noncalcareous soils in temperature and boreal climates, aluminium can be markedly mobile, and is precipitated as metastable products that include hydrous aluminosilicates, hydroxyaluminium polymers in or on 2:1 layer silicates, and complexes with soil organic matter. The aluminosilicate precipitates formed at pH less than 5.5 have structures related to imogolite, a unidimensional crystal in the form of a tube of 2.3 nm outer diameter. These metastable precipitates, both organic and inorganic, are readily remobilized on further acidification, and can release aluminium into streams if the solutions are not neutralized in the subsoil. Three classes of soluble aluminium species in natural waters have been distinguished by their rate of reaction with complexing reagents, and their rate of adsorption on cation-exchange columns. These are: (a) unreactive, acid-soluble, Al, (b) labile monomeric Al, and (c) non-liable monomeric Al. Group (b) includes simple inorganic species (e.g. Al3+, AlOH2+, AlF2+), and group (c) is thought to include organic complexes. In contrast, silicon occurs dominantly as Si(OH)4 monomers in natural water. Its metastable precipitates include hydrous aluminosilicates and biogenic opal.

Aluminum↗
PubMed1992

Aluminium speciation in biology.

Before we can understand the role of Al3+ in living organisms we need to learn how it interacts with molecules found in biological systems. The only aluminium oxidation state in biology is 3+. In aqueous solutions there are only two main Al(III) species: the hexahydrate Al3+ at pH < 5.5 and the tetrahedral aluminate at pH > 6.2. In the blood plasma, citrate is the main small molecule carrier and transferrin the main protein carrier of Al3+. In fluids where the concentrations of these two ligands are low, nucleoside di- and triphosphates become Al3+ binders. Under these conditions Al3+ easily displaces Mg2+ from nucleotides. When all three classes of ligands are at low concentrations, catecholamines become likely Al3+ binders. Double-helical DNA binds Al3+ weakly and under no conditions should it compete with other ligands. Al(III) in the cell nucleus probably binds to nucleotides or phosphorylated proteins. Al3+ undergoes ligand exchange much more slowly than most metal ions: 10(5) times slower than Mg2+.

Aluminum↗
PubMedDate not supplied

Importance and difficulties of research on metal speciation in the aquatic ecosystem: an ecologist's viewpoint.

Post-war research on the role of heavy metals in the environment was stimulated by a new sensitivity towards nature, the increasing impact of human activities on the environment, continuous progress in analytical chemistry and the development of radioecology. Nowadays, very low concentrations of total metal can be quantified in the various compartments of the ecosystem (e.g. water, sediment, suspended particles, plants and animals), and the physical and chemical forms of the metal identified. A current difficulty is how to evaluate the role of the various metal forms in the natural ecosystem. The major issues to be tackled are: variations over time of metal species in relation to the influence of environmental variables; the fact that the availability of the metal varies with the plant and animal species; the ability of the organism to select the metals and their forms; the influence of suspended particles and chelating substances on metal uptake, detoxification strategies and synergic and antagonistic effects. The advantages and disadvantages of monitoring using bioaccumulator organisms are discussed.

Animals↗