Data from: Exploring the impact of multidecadal environmental changes on the population genetic structure of a marine primary producer

• Main Authors: Lundholm, Nina, Ribeiro, Sofia, Godhe, Anna, Rostgaard Nielsen, Lene, Ellegaard, Marianne
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2017
• Subjects: resting stage; environmental change; microsatellite; phytoplankton; Sediment Core; Pentapharsodinium dalei; 1910-2006; population; Life sciences; medicine and health care; Koljö Fjord; Sweden; envir; archeo; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.195k3

Many marine protists form resting stages that can remain viable in coastal sediments for several decades. Their long-term survival offers the possibility to explore the impact of changes in environmental conditions on population dynamics over multidecadal time scales. Resting stages of the phototrophic dinoflagellate Pentapharsodinium dalei were isolated and germinated from five layers in dated sediment cores from Koljö fjord, Sweden, spanning ca. 1910–2006. This fjord has, during the last century, experienced environmental fluctuations linked to hydrographic variability mainly driven by the North Atlantic Oscillation. Population genetic analyses based on six microsatellite markers revealed high genetic diversity and suggested that samples belonged to two clusters of subpopulations that have persisted for nearly a century. We observed subpopulation shifts coinciding with changes in hydrographic conditions. The large degree of genetic diversity and the potential for both fluctuation and recovery over longer time scales documented here, may help to explain the long-term success of aquatic protists that form resting stages. microsatellite genotype data for Pentapharsodinium daleimicrosatellite genotypes for strains isolated from 5 depths (1, 10, 14, 20 and 34cm) corresponding to years 2006, 1985, 1970, 1960 and 1922 by six different markers (Pendals 3, 7, 14, 19, 23, 30)Pdalei_data_for dryad.txt