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Complete mitochondrial genome sequences and phylogenetic relationship of Elysia ornata (Swainson, 1840) (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Heterobranchia, Sacoglossa).

ABSTRACT: The sacoglossans are small sea slugs in the Heterobranchia. In this study, mitochondrial genome of a sacoglossan sea slug, Elysia ornata (Swainson, 1840) is analyzed and phylogenetic tree of the species in the Heterobranchia is reconstructed based on amino acid sequences of mitochondrial protein coding genes. The phylogenetic relationship analysis shows that E. ornata belongs to the monophyletic Sacoglossa in the Heterobranchia and the Sacoglossa shows sister group relationship with a lineage including Anaspidea and Siphonarioidea. This is the fourth record for the mitochondrial genome of sacoglossan sea slugs.

SUBMITTER: Karagozlu MZ

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7800206 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Complete mitochondrial genome sequences and phylogenetic relationship of Elysia ornata (Swainson, 1840) (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Heterobranchia, Sacoglossa).

Karagozlu Mustafa Zafer MZ Sung JinMo J Lee JeaHyun J Kwon Taehyung T Kim Chang-Bae CB

Mitochondrial DNA. Part B, Resources 20160328 1

The sacoglossans are small sea slugs in the Heterobranchia. In this study, mitochondrial genome of a sacoglossan sea slug, Elysia ornata (Swainson, 1840) is analyzed and phylogenetic tree of the species in the Heterobranchia is reconstructed based on amino acid sequences of mitochondrial protein coding genes. The phylogenetic relationship analysis shows that E. ornata belongs to the monophyletic Sacoglossa in the Heterobranchia and the Sacoglossa shows sister group relationship wit ...[more]

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Project description:Despite widespread interest in solar-powered sea slugs (Sacoglossa: Gastropoda), relatively little is know about how they actually perform functional kleptoplasty. Sister-taxa Elysia timida and E. cornigera provide an ideal model system for investigating this phenomenon, since they feed on the same algal genus and only E. timida is capable of long-term kleptoplasty. Recent research has explored factors regarding functional kleptoplasty in E. timida, including their starvation longevity, digestive activity, autophagal response and photosynthetic efficiency under two different temperature conditions (18 °C and 21 °C). These studies revealed the trends E. timida displays regarding each factor during starvation as well as influences temperature has on some aspects of functional kleptoplasty. This study examines E. cornigera regarding each of these factors in an attempt to elucidate differences between each species that could explain their differing kleptoplastic abilities. Since both species naturally occur in 25 °C seawater (E. timida peak summer temperature, E. cornigera low winter temperature), each species was acclimatized to 25 °C to facilitate comparison and determine if these species exhibit physiological differences to starvation when under the same environmental conditions.When comparing the different E. timida temperature treatments, it becomes clear that increased temperatures compromise E. timida's kleptoplastic abilities. Specimens acclimatized to 25 °C revealed shorter starvation longevities surviving an average 42.4 days compared to the 95.9 day average observed in specimens exposed to 18 °C. Each temperature treatment displayed a significantly different decrease throughout the starvation period in both, the rate of photosynthetic efficiency and in the decreasing functional kleptoplast abundance. Lysosomal abundances are assessed here as indicators of different aspects of metabolic activity, which could be correlated to temperature. E. cornigera, also acclimatized to 25 °C did not display significantly similar patterns as any of the E. timida temperature treatments, having fewer incorporated kleptoplasts, a higher lysosomal response to starvation, a faster decrease in photosynthetic efficiency and a lower starvation longevity.These results confirm that each species has different physiological reactions to starvation and kleptoplast retention, even under the same conditions. While temperature affects aspects of functional kleptoplasty, it is likely not responsible for the differences in kleptoplastic abilities seen in these species.

Project description:BACKGROUND: Reconstructing the higher relationships of pulmonate gastropods has been difficult. The use of morphology is problematic due to high homoplasy. Molecular studies have suffered from low taxon sampling. Forty-eight complete mitochondrial genomes are available for gastropods, ten of which are pulmonates. Here are presented the new complete mitochondrial genomes of the ten following species of pulmonates: Salinator rhamphidia (Amphiboloidea); Auriculinella bidentata, Myosotella myosotis, Ovatella vulcani, and Pedipes pedipes (Ellobiidae); Peronia peronii (Onchidiidae); Siphonaria gigas (Siphonariidae); Succinea putris (Stylommatophora); Trimusculus reticulatus (Trimusculidae); and Rhopalocaulis grandidieri (Veronicellidae). Also, 94 new pulmonate-specific primers across the entire mitochondrial genome are provided, which were designed for amplifying entire mitochondrial genomes through short reactions and closing gaps after shotgun sequencing. RESULTS: The structural features of the 10 new mitochondrial genomes are provided. All genomes share similar gene orders. Phylogenetic analyses were performed including the 10 new genomes and 17 genomes from Genbank (outgroups, opisthobranchs, and other pulmonates). Bayesian Inference and Maximum Likelihood analyses, based on the concatenated amino-acid sequences of the 13 protein-coding genes, produced the same topology. The pulmonates are paraphyletic and basal to the opisthobranchs that are monophyletic at the tip of the tree. Siphonaria, traditionally regarded as a basal pulmonate, is nested within opisthobranchs. Pyramidella, traditionally regarded as a basal (non-euthyneuran) heterobranch, is nested within pulmonates. Several hypotheses are rejected, such as the Systellommatophora, Geophila, and Eupulmonata. The Ellobiidae is polyphyletic, but the false limpet Trimusculus reticulatus is closely related to some ellobiids. CONCLUSIONS: Despite recent efforts for increasing the taxon sampling in euthyneuran (opisthobranchs and pulmonates) molecular phylogenies, several of the deeper nodes are still uncertain, because of low support values as well as some incongruence between analyses based on complete mitochondrial genomes and those based on individual genes (18S, 28S, 16S, CO1). Additional complete genomes are needed for pulmonates (especially for Williamia, Otina, and Smeagol), as well as basal heterobranchs closely related to euthyneurans. Increasing the number of markers for gastropod (and more broadly mollusk) phylogenetics also is necessary in order to resolve some of the deeper nodes -although clearly not an easy task. Step by step, however, new relationships are being unveiled, such as the close relationships between the false limpet Trimusculus and ellobiids, the nesting of pyramidelloids within pulmonates, and the close relationships of Siphonaria to sacoglossan opisthobranchs. The additional genomes presented here show that some species share an identical mitochondrial gene order due to convergence.

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Complete mitochondrial genome sequences and phylogenetic relationship of Elysia ornata (Swainson, 1840) (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Heterobranchia, Sacoglossa).

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Complete mitochondrial genome sequences and phylogenetic relationship of <i>Elysia ornata</i> (Swainson, 1840) (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Heterobranchia, Sacoglossa).

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