Genetic differentiation ofNiphargus rhenorhodanensis (Amphipoda) from interstitial and karst environments |
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| Authors: | Jacques Mathieu Fabrice Jeannerod Frédéric Hervant Thomas C Kane |
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| Institution: | (1) Laboratoire d’Hydrobiologie et Ecologie Souterraines, URA CNRS 1451, 43 Bd du 11 novembre 1918, F-69622 Villeurbanne cedex, France;(2) Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, 45221, OH, USA |
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| Abstract: | Electrophoretic variation in proteins encoded by seven presumptive gene loci was analyzed in four populations of the stygobiont amphipodNiphargus rhenorhodanensis. The four populations occur in different habitats, including one in drainage canals, another from sediments of the Ain River, a tributary of the Rhône River, and the remaining two occur in a karstic massif (Dorvan, Ain, France) in the epikarstic and at the base level of the massif, respectively. Six of the seven loci were polymorphic within or among populations, with as many as three electromorphs segregating at the most variable loci. Significant deficiencies in the frequency of heterozygotes were common. Genetic divergence between the two populations of the Dorvan Massif and between the two of the Ain River (forest and sediment habitats) was large. This was highly unexpected, particularly in the case of the two hydrologically connected populations of the Dorvan Massif. It is suggested that either low migration rates or the presence of ecological barriers to gene flow may result in strong genetic differention among local populations ofNiphargus. |
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| Keywords: | Genetic population Niphargus interstitial karst |
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