Distribution and genetic lineages of the Craspedacusta sowerbii species complex (Cnidaria, Olindiidae) in Italy
Olindiid freshwater jellyfishes of the genus Craspedacusta Lankester, 1880 are native to eastern Asia; however, some species within the genus have been introduced worldwide and are nowadays present in all continents except Antarctica. To date, there is no consensus regarding the taxonomy within the...
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ftiasma:oai:openpub.fmach.it:10449/84675 2024-06-23T07:46:19+00:00 Distribution and genetic lineages of the Craspedacusta sowerbii species complex (Cnidaria, Olindiidae) in Italy Morpurgo, Massimo Marrone, Federico Ciutti, Francesca Cappelletti, Cristina Vorhauser, Samuel Alber, Renate Dossena, Matteo Salmaso, Nico Fontaneto, Diego Caputo, Luciano Vecchioni, Luca Morpurgo, M. Marrone, F. Ciutti, F. Cappelletti, C. Vorhauser, S. Alber, R. Dossena, M. Salmaso, N. Fontaneto, D. Caputo, L. Vecchioni, L. 2024 https://hdl.handle.net/10449/84675 https://doi.org/10.3390/biology13040202 eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/wos/WOS:001211249100001 volume:13 issue:4 journal:BIOLOGY https://hdl.handle.net/10449/84675 doi:10.3390/biology13040202 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/scopus/2-s2.0-85191357673 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Hydrozoa Freshwater jellyfish Invasive species Genetic lineages COI Environmental DNA Settore BIO/07 - ECOLOGIA info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2024 ftiasma https://doi.org/10.3390/biology13040202 2024-06-04T14:23:26Z Olindiid freshwater jellyfishes of the genus Craspedacusta Lankester, 1880 are native to eastern Asia; however, some species within the genus have been introduced worldwide and are nowadays present in all continents except Antarctica. To date, there is no consensus regarding the taxonomy within the genus Craspedacusta due to the morphological plasticity of the medusa stages. The species Craspedacusta sowerbii Lankester, 1880 was first recorded in Italy in 1946, and until 2017, sightings of the jellyfish Craspedacusta were reported for 40 water bodies. Here, we shed new light on the presence of the freshwater jellyfishes belonging to the genus Craspedacusta across the Italian peninsula, Sardinia, and Sicily. First, we report 21 new observations of this non-native taxon, of which eighteen refer to medusae sightings, two to environmental DNA sequencing, and one to the finding of polyps. Then, we investigate the molecular diversity of collected Craspedacusta specimens, using a Bayesian analysis of sequences of the mitochondrial gene encoding for Cytochrome c Oxidase Subunit I (mtDNA COI). Our molecular analysis shows the presence of two distinctive genetic lineages: (i) a group that comprises sequences obtained from populations ranging from central to northern Italy; (ii) a group that comprises three populations from northern Italy—i.e., those from the Lake Levico, the Lake Santo of Monte Terlago, and the Lake Endine—and the single known Sicilian population. We also report for the first time a mtDNA COI sequence obtained from a Craspedacusta medusa collected in Spain Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica Fondazione Edmund Mach: IRIS-OpenPub Lankester ENVELOPE(160.483,160.483,-79.267,-79.267) Medusa ENVELOPE(157.417,157.417,-79.633,-79.633) Biology 13 4 202 |
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Hydrozoa Freshwater jellyfish Invasive species Genetic lineages COI Environmental DNA Settore BIO/07 - ECOLOGIA Morpurgo, Massimo Marrone, Federico Ciutti, Francesca Cappelletti, Cristina Vorhauser, Samuel Alber, Renate Dossena, Matteo Salmaso, Nico Fontaneto, Diego Caputo, Luciano Vecchioni, Luca Distribution and genetic lineages of the Craspedacusta sowerbii species complex (Cnidaria, Olindiidae) in Italy |
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Olindiid freshwater jellyfishes of the genus Craspedacusta Lankester, 1880 are native to eastern Asia; however, some species within the genus have been introduced worldwide and are nowadays present in all continents except Antarctica. To date, there is no consensus regarding the taxonomy within the genus Craspedacusta due to the morphological plasticity of the medusa stages. The species Craspedacusta sowerbii Lankester, 1880 was first recorded in Italy in 1946, and until 2017, sightings of the jellyfish Craspedacusta were reported for 40 water bodies. Here, we shed new light on the presence of the freshwater jellyfishes belonging to the genus Craspedacusta across the Italian peninsula, Sardinia, and Sicily. First, we report 21 new observations of this non-native taxon, of which eighteen refer to medusae sightings, two to environmental DNA sequencing, and one to the finding of polyps. Then, we investigate the molecular diversity of collected Craspedacusta specimens, using a Bayesian analysis of sequences of the mitochondrial gene encoding for Cytochrome c Oxidase Subunit I (mtDNA COI). Our molecular analysis shows the presence of two distinctive genetic lineages: (i) a group that comprises sequences obtained from populations ranging from central to northern Italy; (ii) a group that comprises three populations from northern Italy—i.e., those from the Lake Levico, the Lake Santo of Monte Terlago, and the Lake Endine—and the single known Sicilian population. We also report for the first time a mtDNA COI sequence obtained from a Craspedacusta medusa collected in Spain |
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Morpurgo, M. Marrone, F. Ciutti, F. Cappelletti, C. Vorhauser, S. Alber, R. Dossena, M. Salmaso, N. Fontaneto, D. Caputo, L. Vecchioni, L. |
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Morpurgo, Massimo Marrone, Federico Ciutti, Francesca Cappelletti, Cristina Vorhauser, Samuel Alber, Renate Dossena, Matteo Salmaso, Nico Fontaneto, Diego Caputo, Luciano Vecchioni, Luca |
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Morpurgo, Massimo Marrone, Federico Ciutti, Francesca Cappelletti, Cristina Vorhauser, Samuel Alber, Renate Dossena, Matteo Salmaso, Nico Fontaneto, Diego Caputo, Luciano Vecchioni, Luca |
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Distribution and genetic lineages of the Craspedacusta sowerbii species complex (Cnidaria, Olindiidae) in Italy |
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Distribution and genetic lineages of the Craspedacusta sowerbii species complex (Cnidaria, Olindiidae) in Italy |
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Distribution and genetic lineages of the Craspedacusta sowerbii species complex (Cnidaria, Olindiidae) in Italy |
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Distribution and genetic lineages of the Craspedacusta sowerbii species complex (Cnidaria, Olindiidae) in Italy |
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Distribution and genetic lineages of the Craspedacusta sowerbii species complex (Cnidaria, Olindiidae) in Italy |
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distribution and genetic lineages of the craspedacusta sowerbii species complex (cnidaria, olindiidae) in italy |
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