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Using ISSR Genomic Fingerprinting to Study the
Genetic Differentiation of Artemia Leach, 1819
(Crustacea: Anostraca) from Iran and Neighbor
Regions with the Focus on the Invasive American
Artemia franciscana
Amin Eimanifar 1, *, Alireza Asem 2, * , Pei-Zheng Wang 3, Weidong Li 4and Michael Wink 1
1Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology (IPMB), Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld
364, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany; wink@uni-heidelberg.de
2College of Fisheries and Life Science, Hainan Tropical Ocean University, Sanya 572000, China
3College of Ecology and Environment, Hainan Tropical Ocean University, Sanya 572000, China;
condywpz@126.com
4College of Ecology and Environment, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China; lwd542148880@163.com
*Correspondence: amineimanifar1979@gmail.com (A.E.); asem.alireza@gmail.com (A.A.)
Received: 4 March 2020; Accepted: 26 March 2020; Published: 31 March 2020
Abstract: Due to the rapid developments in the aquaculture industry, Artemia franciscana, originally
an American species, has been introduced to Eurasia, Africa and Australia. In the present study,
we used a partial sequence of the mitochondrial DNA Cytochrome Oxidase subunit I (mt-DNA COI)
gene and genomic fingerprinting by Inter-Simple Sequence Repeats (ISSRs) to determine the genetic
variability and population structure of Artemia populations (indigenous and introduced) from 14
different geographical locations in Western Asia. Based on the haplotype spanning network, Artemia
urmiana has exhibited higher genetic variation than native parthenogenetic populations. Although
A. urmiana represented a completely private haplotype distribution, no apparent genetic structure
was recognized among the native parthenogenetic and invasive A. franciscana populations. Our
ISSR findings have documented that despite that invasive populations have lower variation than the
source population in Great Salt Lake (Utah, USA), they have significantly revealed higher genetic
variability compared to the native populations in Western Asia. According to the ISSR results, the
native populations were not fully differentiated by the PCoA analysis, but the exotic A. franciscana
populations were geographically divided into four genetic groups. We believe that during the
colonization, invasive populations have experienced substantial genetic divergences, under new
ecological conditions in the non-indigenous regions.
Keywords:
genetic variation; brine shrimp Artemia; invasive species; mt-DNA COI; Inter-Simple
Sequence Repeats (ISSRs) genomic fingerprinting; Western Asia
1. Introduction
The brine shrimp Artemia is a unique zooplankton that has a limited number of species, distributed
globally, except in Antarctica [
1
]. This tiny crustacean has potentially adapted to live in extreme
environmental conditions, such as hypersaline environments [2,3].
Artemia has been mainly used as live food in larviculture and fishery industries, especially
in Asia [
4
]. Artemia has been used to improve the quality of sodium chloride production in solar
salt-fields [
5
,
6
]. It was also introduced as a model organism in many bioscience studies, including
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cellular and molecular biology [
7
], phylogeography and asexual evolution [
8
], bioencapsulation [
9
]
and toxicity assessment [10].
The genus Artemia consists of seven bisexual species and a large number of parthenogenetic
populations with different ploidy levels [
3
,
11
]. It has been assumed that Asia is the origin of
Artemia urmiana Günther, 1899 (Lake Urmia, Iran), Artemia sinica Cai, 1989 (China), Artemia tibetiana
Abatzopoulos, Zhang and Sorgeloos, 1998 (Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China), and corresponding
parthenogenetic populations [
3
,
12
]. Recently, two new species, Artemia frameshifta and Artemia murae
have been described from Mongolia [
13
]. These species have been described using a single mitochondrial
DNA protein-coding Cytochrome Oxidase subunit I (COI) gene sequence without confirmation by any
morphometric and population genetic analyses [
11
]. A main problem in the submitted COI sequence
of A. frameshifta (LC195588) was detected in the protein sequence with several stop codon(s). In a
protein coding gene, this is an indication for a nuclear copy of this mtDNA gene. Sometimes, the
COI marker provides a sharp PCR amplified band on the agarose gel, but the sequence information
presents heterogeneities [
14
]. These kinds of results could mislead the interpretation of downstream
phylogenetic analyses. Therefore, the population would need more biosystematic evidences to
determine its taxonomical status. In A. murae, neither the existence of males nor the reproductive mode
has been revealed [
13
]. Based on the current information, we assume that A. murae is a parthenogenetic
population, which needs more investigations to confirm the biological status of the species.
Generally, the long-distance translocations of the American species Artemia franciscana to other
non-indigenous regions have occurred as a result of commercial activities, which have been fully
documented previously [
2
,
15
–
18
]. Artemia franciscana is a successful invader in saltwater ecosystems
due to its faster filter-feeding rate, a high potential of reproduction [
15
,
19
], and a better physiological
immune system, which is associated with nutritional behavior against cestode parasites [
15
] than the
native species. Asem et al. [
17
] have suggested that these biological characteristics could afford a
high level of adaptive potential of A. franciscana in the new non-indigenous habitats, which would
eventually result in the replacement with native species.
Lee [
20
] has documented that the genetic structure of introduced populations to the non-indigenous
habitats is one of the most determinative parameters in their successful establishment. Generally,
genetic diversity of the species could determine the potential of an exotic species to acclimatize in the
new environmental conditions [21].
Previous studies on A. franciscana have documented that invasive populations demonstrated
genetic variations relative to the native American source populations [
2
,
17
,
18
,
22
–
24
]. The low genetic
diversity in the non-indigenous populations has been attributed to the founder effect [
22
] or population
bottleneck due to the decreasing of population size in introduced populations during the process
of establishment [
17
]. Moreover, high genetic variation could be a result of adaptive capacity and
physiological flexibility as a special biological trait observed in invasive populations [2,6,24–26].
Eimanifar et al. [
2
] have reported the existence of invasive A. franciscana in four sites from Iran
(three sites) and Iraq (one site) using the mitochondrial COI sequence marker. The aim of the present
study was to further perform an analysis based on population genetic approaches to determine the
intra- and inter-specific genetic variations of native and invasive Artemia populations from Iran and
neighboring regions (14 sites) using Inter-Simple Sequence Repeats (ISSRs) genomic fingerprinting.
Genomic fingerprinting by ISSR has been demonstrated to be a useful molecular tool to recognize
DNA polymorphisms among Artemia taxa [
27
–
30
]. We hypothesize that the establishment of an exotic
species in the new geographical habitats should be accompanied by intra-species genetic divergence to
better adapt to the new environmental conditions. Here, we utilized high-resolution ISSR genomic
fingerprinting to compare the genetic differentiation in native and colonizing populations of American
A. franciscana in the indigenous environments.
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2. Material and Methods
2.1. Sample Collection and DNA Extraction
Artemia cyst specimens were collected from 14 geographical localities across Iran and neighbor
countries (Figure 1). All studied populations had been confirmed to be bisexual or parthenogenetic
according to Asem et al. [
3
]. The sample localities with their geographical coordinates, abbreviations and
IPMB voucher are summarized in Table 1. Total genomic DNA was extracted from part of the antenna
of adult males and females using the Chelex
®
100 Resin method (6%, Bio-Rad Laboratories, Hercules,
CA, U.S.A.) [16]. All extracted DNA was stored at −80 ◦C for subsequent genetic characterization.
Figure 1.
Map of Artemia sampling sites (1 =URM, 2 =LAGW, 3 =LAGE, 4 =QOM, 5 =MIG, 6 =MSH,
7=MAH, 8 =NOG, 9 =INC, 10 =CAM, 11 =ABG, 12 =GAA, 13 =KBG, 14 =KOC; Abbreviations are
listed in Table 1).
2.2. Population Identification and Phylogenetic Analyses
A partial sequence of the mitochondrial marker cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) was utilized to
identify the taxonomical status of the studied populations using phylogenetic analyses as implemented
in the MEGA X program (Temple University, Philadelphia, USA) [
2
,
17
,
18
]. To identify the taxonomical
status of the studied populations, the COI reference sequences from the recognized bisexual species and
parthenogenetic populations were downloaded from GenBank (Table 2). Sequences were aligned using
MEGA X with default settings [
31
]. Phylogenetic trees were reconstructed based on the Maximum
Likelihood approach included in the MEGA X program. To reveal the genealogical and geographical
relationships, a median haplotype network was established, following the median-joining algorithm in
the Network program ver. 5.0.1.1 (Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany) [32].
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Table 1.
Origin of Artemia samples from Iran and neighbor regions. (IPMB =Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology, Heidelberg University,
Abb. =Abbreviation).
No. Voucher Number
(IPMB) Abb. Species/Population Locality Country Geographic
Coordinates
COI
Accession Numbers
1 57211 URM A. urmiana Urmia Lake Iran 37◦200E–45◦400NJX512748-808 [28]
2 57223 LAGW Parthenogenetic
Western Lagoon
around Urmia
Lake
Iran 37◦150E–45◦850NKF691338-342 [2]
3 57224 LAGE Parthenogenetic
Eastern Lagoon
around
Urmia Lake
Iran 37◦500E–46◦400NKF691343-345 [2]
4 57225 QOM Parthenogenetic Qom Salt Lake Iran 34◦400E–51◦800NKF691367-372 [2]
5 57226 MIG Parthenogenetic Mighan Salt Lake Iran 34◦200E–49◦800NKF691357-361 [2]
6 57230 MSH A. franciscana Mahshar port Iran 49◦110E–30◦330NKF691351-356 [2]
7 57228 MAHR A. franciscana Maharlu Lake Iran 29◦570E–52◦140NKF691347, 349-350 [2]
8 57229 NOG A. franciscana Nough Catchment Iran 30◦600E–56◦500NKF691362-366 [2]
9 57227 INC Parthenogenetic Incheh Lake Iran 37◦240E–54◦360NKF691333-337 [2]
10 57292 CAM Parthenogenetic Camalti Lake Turkey 27◦080E–38◦250NKF691520-525; 527-529 [2]
11 57255 ABG Parthenogenetic Abu-Ghraib Iraq 44◦300E–33◦200NKF691373-375 [2]
12 57256 GAA A. franciscana Garmat Ali Iraq 47◦490E–30◦300NKF691376-383 [2]
13 57258 KBG Parthenogenetic Kara Bogaz Gol Turkmenistan 53◦330E–41◦170NKF691530-532,534 [2]
14 57257 KOC Parthenogenetic Korangi Creek
(Karachi coast) Pakistan 67◦100E–24◦480NKF691442-445; 447-448
JX512748 [2]
[28] Eimanifar and Wink (2013); [2] Eimanifar et al. (2014).
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Table 2. Species information and GenBank accession numbers for COI reference sequences.
Species/Population Abbreviation Individual Accession
Numbers Ref.
A.urmiana URM 4 JX512748-751 [28]
A.sinica SIN 4 KF691298-301 [2]
A.tibetiana TIB 4 KF691215-218 [2]
A.salina SAL 4 KF691512-515 [2]
A.persimilis PER 4
DQ119647
HM998992
EF615594
EF615593
[27]
[33]
[14]
[14]
A.franciscana FRA 4 KJ863440-443 [2]
Diploid Pop. DI 4 KU183949-952 [3]
Triploid Pop. TRE 3 HM998997-999 [33]
Tetraploid Pop. TETR 4 KU183954-957 [3]
Pentaploid Pop. PEN 4 KU183968-971 [3]
Ref: [
28
] Eimanifar and Wink 2013; [
2
] Eimanifar et al. 2014; [
27
] Hou et al. 2006; [
33
] Maniatsi et al. 2011; [
14
] Wang
et al. 2008; [3] Asem et al. 2016.
2.3. Genomic Fingerprinting by ISSR-PCR
Genomic variability was examined by inter simple sequence repeat ISSR-PCR using the same
DNA template used for phylogenetic analyses. Initially, 15 ISSR primers were analyzed to distinguish
the intra- and inter-specific genetic variability within and among 83 randomly selected individuals,
belonging to 14 geographically different localities of Artemia. Out of 15 tested ISSR primers, five were
selected because of unambiguous banding patterns of the PCR products (Table 3).
Table 3. List of primers screened for Inter-Simple Sequence Repeats (ISSR) analysis.
Primer Sequence GC (%) Annealing
Temperature (◦C)
Amplification
Pattern
ISSR1 (AC)8T 47.1 48–54 Smear
ISSR2 (CAC)5 66.7 48–54 Smear
ISSR3 (GACA)4 50 48–54 Smear
ISSR4 (AG)12 50 48–54 Poor
ISSR5 (TC)9 50 48–54 Poor
ISSR6 (GT)10 50 48–54 Smear
ISSR7 (CA)10A 47.6 48–54 Poor
ISSR8 (GAA)5 33.3 48–54 No amplification
ISSR9 (CAG)6 66.7 48–54 No amplification
ISSR10 (GCCG)4 100 48–54 No amplification
ISSR11 (AG)8C 52.9 48 Good and sharp
ISSR12 (AG)8YTa 50 48 Good and sharp
ISSR13 (GA)9T 47.4 50 Good and sharp
ISSR14 (TG)8G 52.9 50 Good and sharp
ISSR15 (AC)8C 52.9 49 Good and sharp
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PCR was carried out in a 25
µ
l volume consisting of 40 ng template DNA, 2.5
µ
l 10
×
PCR buffer
(160 mM (NH
4
)
2
SO
4
, 670 mM Tris-HCl pH 8.8, 0.1% Tween-20, 25 mM MgCl
2
), 10 pmol primer, 2
µ
g/
µ
l
bovine serum albumin (BSA), 0.5 units Taq DNA polymerase (Bioron), 0.1 mM dGTP, dCTP, and dTTP,
0.045 mM dATP, 1
µ
Ci [
α
-33P]-dATP (Perkin Elmer, LAS, Rodgau, Germany). PCR amplifications were
executed in a thermal cycler based on the following conditions: 94
◦
C denaturation for 1 min, 35 cycles
of 46–54
◦
C annealing for 50 s and 72
◦
C extension for 2 min. The final cycle was continued for 7-min
at 72
◦
C. Final PCR products were mixed with 8
µ
l bromophenol blue and run on high-resolution
denaturing polyacrylamide gels 6% (0.2 mm) for 3 h at 65 W (size 45
×
30 cm) including 1
×
TBE
buffer. The gels were dried and exposed for 2 days to X-ray hyperfilm (Kodak, Taufkirchen, Germany)
and subsequently developed. Finally, the autoradiograms were scanned to identify the polymorphic
bands [25].
2.4. ISSR Statistics
The quality and quantity of ISSR bands were inspected visually. Ambiguous and smeared bands
were excluded from the analysis, and only unequivocally reproducible bands were scored for each
individual as present (1) or absent (0). The binary data matrix (presence =1; absence =0) was
formulated in MS Excel v.2016 and used for subsequent genetic analyses.
ISSR data were analyzed via the Bayesian model-based clustering algorithm as implemented
in the STRUCTURE v. 2.3 program (University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom) [
34
,
35
]. We
analyzed the genetic structure among populations by assigning individuals into potential numbers
of clusters (K=1
−
10). ISSR genotypes were processed with a period of burn-in 50,000 and 100,000
MCMC repetitions [
34
]. The CLUMPAK online program was employed to identify the pattern of
clustering modes and packaging population structure [
35
]. The online programs, CLUMPAK [
36
]
and STRUCTURE HARVESTER [
37
] were implemented to assess and visualize the most appropriate
number of Kby calculating the likelihood of the posterior probability [38].
The binary data matrix was employed to calculate the genetic diversity parameters of each
population using GenAlex ver. 6.5 (Australian National University, Acton, Australia) [
39
]. The
population genetic parameters were as follows: Na (number of different alleles), Ne (number of effective
alleles), I(Shannon’s information index), He (expected heterozygosity), uHe (unbiased expected
heterozygosity), PPL (percentage of polymorphic loci), NB (number of bands) and NPB (number of
private bands) and pairwise population matrix of Nei genetic distance [28,29].
Intra- and inter-specific molecular variations and genetic relationships among populations were
implemented by Principal Coordinate Analysis (PCoA) and Analysis of Molecular Variance (AMOVA)
as utilized by GenAlex ver. 6.5, respectively [39].
To better understand the population genetic variations, ISSR analyses were performed on three
platforms separately, as follows: whole populations, native populations and invasive American
A. franciscana.
3. Results
3.1. Phylogenetic Analyses and Haplotype Distribution
Our phylogenetic analyses provide evidence that the studied bisexual specimens from three
localities of Iran, Nough Catchment (NOG), Mahshar port (MSH) and Maharlu Lake (MAHR), and a
locality from Iraq, Garmat Ali (GAA), clustered in the clade of A.franciscana (Figure 2). In addition, all
parthenogenetic populations clustered in two separated clades that shared a common ancestor with
urmiana. Although most of the parthenogenetic populations were located in clade P1, the majority of
CAM specimens (eight out of nine). The clade P1 contained two sub-clades, consisting of diploids and
triploid populations.
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Figure 2.
Phylogenetic tree of Artemia using COI sequences based on the ML approach. The number
behind major nodes denotes bootstrap confidential values. Daphnia tenebrosa (HQ972028) was used as
an outgroup. (URM: Artemia urmiana, TIB: Artemia tibetiana, SIN: Artemia sinica, FRA: Artemia franciscana,
PER: Artemia prersimilis, SAL: Artemia salina, DI: Diploid parthenogenetic population, TRI: Triploid
parthenogenetic population, TETRA: Tetraploid parthenogenetic population, PENTA: Pentaploid
parthenogenetic population; abbreviations listed in Table 1).
Figure 3represents the haplotype spanning network of COI among native A. urmiana and
parthenogenetic populations. Results demonstrated that A. urmiana has wider genetic variation
compared to parthenogenetic ones. Genetic differentiation and a close relationship of Camalti Lake
(CAM) population (Turkey) with A. urmiana was clearly revealed in the tree. While COI sequences
of nine parthenogenetic populations were distributed in five Haplotypes (H2–6), A. urmiana showed
private haplotypes without a shared haplotype in other populations. The COI sequences of invasive A.
franciscana were grouped into six distinct haplotypes. No population with private haplotypes was
observed (Figure 4). The numbers of individuals and population composition were calculated for each
haplotype (Appendix A, Tables A1 and A2).
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3.2. ISSR Profiling
We have shown previously that ISSR can detect substantial genetic variation in the genus
Artemia [
28
,
29
]. ISSR fingerprints can differ within and among populations. Altogether, 152 observed
and unambiguously identified ISSR bands were analyzed. The total number of polymorphic loci
showed a mean value of 25.42
±
2.28%; the lowest number was seen in Camalti Lake (CAM) (7.24%)
and the highest in Nough Catchment (NOG) (38.82%). Generally, the lowest values of genetic indices
belonged to the parthenogenetic CAM, while the highest values were shared between the native
parthenogenetic population from Eastern lagoon around Urmia Lake (LAGE) (Ne =1.256
±
0.031,
I=0.208
±
0.024, He =0.143
±
0.017, uHe =0.171
±
0.020) and invasive A. franciscana from NOG
(Na =1.013
±
0.071, I=0.208
±
0.023) (Table 4). In summary, 134 and 126 distinguished ISSR bands were
examined for ten native and four American A. franciscana populations, respectively (Tables 5and 6).
According to the results of the Nei genetic matrix, parthenogenetic CAM from Turkey and invasive
GAA from Iraq showed the high genetic distance with parthenogenetic and invasive populations,
respectively (Tables 7and 8).
Table 4. Genetic indices among examined populations according to ISSR markers.
Pop. N Na Ne I He uHe PPL NB NPB
KOC 70.645
(0.062)
1.102
(0.021)
0.090
(0.017)
0.059
(0.012)
0.064
(0.012) 17.76 71 0
ABG 70.743
(0.066)
1.149
(0.024)
0.131
(0.020)
0.088
(0.013)
0.095
(0.014) 23.68 77 0
LAGE 30.914
(0.072)
1.256
(0.031)
0.208
(0.024)
0.143
(0.017)
0.171
(0.020) 34.87 86 0
LAGW 70.829
(0.066)
1.157
(0.024)
0.140
(0.020)
0.093
(0.014)
0.100
(0.015) 25.66 87 0
KBG 70.743
(0.068)
1.161
(0.025)
0.139
(0.020)
0.094
(0.014)
0.101
(0.015) 25.00 75 0
QOM 70.638
(0.062)
1.097
(0.020)
0.087
(0.016)
0.058
(0.011)
0.062
(0.012) 17.11 71 0
MIG 50.678
(0.067)
1.150
(0.025)
0.128
(0.020)
0.087
(0.014)
0.096
(0.015) 23.03 68 0
CAM 70.559
(0.051)
1.041
(0.014)
0.036
(0.011)
0.024
(0.008)
0.026
(0.008) 7.24 74 0
INC 70.658
(0.064)
1.125
(0.022)
0.110
(0.018)
0.074
(0.013)
0.080
(0.014) 19.74 70 0
URM 50.783
(0.072)
1.200
(0.027)
0.173
(0.022)
0.117
(0.015)
0.130
(0.017) 30.26 73 0
MAH 20.822
(0.066)
1.181
(0.025)
0.155
(0.021)
0.106
(0.015)
0.142
(0.020) 25.66 86 1
NOG 71.013
(0.071)
1.244
(0.030)
0.208
(0.023)
0.140
(0.016)
0.151
(0.017) 38.82 95 0
MSH 71.066
(0.066)
1.223
(0.028)
0.193
(0.022)
0.129
(0.015)
0.139
(0.016) 36.84 106 0
GAA 50.921
(0.067)
1.206
(0.028)
0.172
(0.022)
0.117
(0.015)
0.130
(0.017) 30.26 94 0
Mean 5.9
(0.035)
0.787
(0.018)
1.164
(0.007)
0.141
(0.005)
0.095
(0.004)
0.106
(0.004)
25.42
(2.28%) - -
Pop. =Population, N =number of individuals, Na =number of Different Alleles, Ne =number of Effective
Alleles, I=Shannon’s Information Index, He =Expected Heterozygosity, uHe =Unbiased Expected Heterozygosity,
PPL =Percentage of Polymorphic Loci, NB =number of bands, NPB =number of private bands.
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Table 5. Genetic indices among native populations according to ISSR markers.
Population N Na Ne I He uHe PPL NB NPB
KOC 7.000 0.731
(0.067)
1.115
(0.023)
0.102
(0.019)
0.067
(0.013)
0.073
(0.014) 20.15 71 2
ABG 7.000 0.843
(0.071)
1.169
(0.027)
0.148
(0.022)
0.100
(0.015)
0.107
(0.016) 26.87 77 4
LAGE 3.000 1.037
(0.075)
1.291
(0.034)
0.236
(0.026)
0.162
(0.018)
0.195
(0.022) 39.55 86 1
LAGW 7.000 0.940
(0.069)
1.178
(0.027)
0.158
(0.022)
0.106
(0.015)
0.114
(0.016) 29.10 87 4
KBG 7.000 0.843
(0.073)
1.183
(0.028)
0.158
(0.023)
0.107
(0.015)
0.115
(0.017) 28.36 75 0
QOM 7.000 0.724
(0.066)
1.110
(0.023)
0.099
(0.018)
0.065
(0.013)
0.070
(0.014) 19.40 71 0
MIG 5.000 0.769
(0.073)
1.170
(0.027)
0.145
(0.022)
0.098
(0.015)
0.109
(0.017) 26.12 68 3
CAM 7.000 0.634
(0.055)
1.046
(0.016)
0.041
(0.013)
0.027
(0.009)
0.029
(0.009) 8.21 74 0
INC 7.000 0.746
(0.069)
1.142
(0.025)
0.125
(0.021)
0.084
(0.014)
0.091
(0.015) 22.39 70 1
URM 5.000 0.888
(0.077)
1.227
(0.029)
0.196
(0.024)
0.133
(0.017)
0.148
(0.018) 34.33 73 3
Mean 6.200
(0.036)
0.816
(0.022)
1.163
(0.008)
0.141
(0.007)
0.095
(0.005)
0.105
(0.005)
25.45
(2.74) - -
Pop. =Population, N =number of individuals, Na =number of Different Alleles, Ne =number of Effective
Alleles, I=Shannon’s Information Index, He =Expected Heterozygosity, uHe =Unbiased Expected Heterozygosity,
PPL =Percentage of Polymorphic Loci, NB =number of bands, NPB =number of private bands.
Table 6. Genetic indices among invasive A. franciscana populations according to ISSR markers.
Population N Na Ne I He uHe PPL NB NPB
MAH 2.000 0.992
(0.071)
1.219
(0.029)
0.187
(0.025)
0.128
(0.017)
0.171
(0.023) 30.95 86 3
NOG 7.000 1.222
(0.073)
1.295
(0.034)
0.251
(0.026)
0.169
(0.018)
0.182
(0.019) 46.83 95 6
MSH 7.000 1.286
(0.065)
1.269
(0.033)
0.233
(0.025)
0.156
(0.018)
0.168
(0.019) 44.44 106 8
GAA 5.000 1.111
(0.070)
1.249
(0.033)
0.207
(0.025)
0.141
(0.018)
0.157
(0.020) 36.51 94 5
Mean 5.250
(0.091)
1.153
(0.035)
1.258
(0.016)
0.220
(0.013)
0.149
(0.009)
0.169
(0.010)
39.68
(3.65) - -
Pop. =Population, N =number of individuals, Na =number of Different Alleles, Ne =number of Effective
Alleles, I=Shannon’s Information Index, He =Expected Heterozygosity, uHe =Unbiased Expected Heterozygosity,
PPL =Percentage of Polymorphic Loci, NB =number of bands, NPB =number of private bands.
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Table 7.
Pairwise Population Matrix of Nei Genetic Distance among invasive A. franciscana populations.
Population KOC ABG LAGE LAGW KBG QOM MIG CAM INC
ABG 0.162 - - - - - - - -
LAGE 0.167 0.175 - - - - - - -
LAGW 0.193 0.127 0.190 - - - - - -
KBG1 0.156 0.117 0.142 0.111 - - - - -
QOM 0.182 0.131 0.171 0.135 0.099 - - - -
MIG 0.217 0.185 0.171 0.212 0.124 0.148 - - -
CAM 0.362 0.346 0.249 0.358 0.279 0.354 0.331 - -
INC 0.233 0.165 0.184 0.223 0.149 0.176 0.091 0.351 -
URM 0.219 0.194 0.165 0.190 0.141 0.174 0.194 0.351 0.211
Table 8. Pairwise Population Matrix of Nei Genetic Distance among native populations.
Population MAH NOG MAH
NOG 0.143 - -
MSH 0.145 0.144 -
GAA 0.198 0.170 0.152
Based on the total results of ISSR, the AMOVA analysis documented that most of the genetic
variations were attributed among native and invasive populations more than within populations (69%
vs. 31%). There was no indicative genetic variability observed in the midst of among- and within
variation (55% vs. 45%) in native populations. In contrast, the high differentiation was represented
within populations (71% vs. 29%) of non-indigenous A. franciscana in Asia (Table 9, Figure 5A–C).
Table 9.
Molecular variation (within and among populations) for examined populations by AMOVA
based on ISSR markers.
Whole Populations
Source df SS MS Est. Var. %
Among Pops 13 1673.318 128.717 20.265 69%
Within Pops 69 639.405 9.267 9.267 31%
Total 82 2312.723 - 29.532 100%
Source df SS MS Est. Var. %
Native Populations
Among Pops 9 627.912 69.768 10.006 55%
Within Pops 52 418.362 8.045 8.045 45%
Total 61 1046.274 - 18.052 100%
A. franciscana
Source df SS MS Est. Var. %
Among Pops 3 117.338 39.113 5.239 29%
Within Pops 17 221.043 13.003 13.003 71%
Total 20 338.381 - 18.241 100%
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Figure 5.
Contribution of genetic variation within and among populations for the examined populations
by AMOVA, based on ISSR markers (
A
=whole examined populations,
B
=native populations,
C=invasive A. franciscana).
Bayesian clustering analysis using STRUCTURE was performed to investigate the genetic patterns
of the studied populations. The optimum Kwas obtained at K=2 for the whole 14 populations
and ten native populations, and K=9 for four invasive A. franciscana, respectively. Figure 6showed
the clustering of genetic structures, where the first highest posterior probability (K) was represented
by different colors for each population. With regard to the genetic patterns of ISSR, native and
exotic populations could be completely divided into two groups (Figure 6A). The results of the
analysis for native populations documented that parthenogenetic CAM is a distinct population with
a differing clustering pattern. The STRUCTURE analysis could not fully distinguish A. urmiana and
parthenogenetic populations (Figure 6B). The high value of optimum K(K=9) was prominent in
the clustering analysis for A. franciscana populations, which generally revealed a complex pattern
(Figure 6C). Proportions of genetic clusters (percentage) for each locality were summarized in Figure 7
(see also Tables A3–A5).
Figure 6.
Clustering of genetic structures based on ISSR markers (
A
=whole examined populations,
B=native populations, C=invasive A. franciscana; abbreviations listed in Table 1).
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Figure 7.
Proportion of genetic clusters for each locality in the STRUCTURE analysis (
A
=whole
examined populations,
B
=native populations,
C
=invasive A. franciscana; abbreviations listed in
Table 1).
The first and second PCoA coordinates explained 64.66% and 7.00% of the variance, respectively
(overall, 71.66% of total variation). The results showed all populations clustered into three groups,
where invasive A. franciscana has been significantly separated from the native populations based on
the first coordinate. Ten native populations (including A. urmiana and parthenogenetics) were divided
into two distinct groups, G2 and G3. G2 included all of the CAM population and a single individual
of Eastern lagoon around Urmia Lake (LAGE). Bisexual A. urmiana and other parthenogenetics
were placed in G3 (Figure 8). The results of the separate analyses of PCoA for native and invasive
populations are shown in Figures 9and 10, which include overall 42.55% and 41.55% of the total
variation, respectively. Although native populations produced almost the same result with the “whole
populations” analysis (Figure 9), the separated analyses of PCoA for invasive A. franciscana could
separate all four populations in isolated groups (Figure 10).
Figure 8.
Principal Coordinates Analysis (PCoA) showing differentiation patterns among whole
examined populations based on ISSR markers (abbreviations listed in Table 1).
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Figure 9.
Principal Coordinates Analysis (PCoA) showing differentiation patterns among native
populations based on ISSR markers (abbreviations listed in Table 1).
Figure 10.
Principal Coordinates Analysis (PCoA) showing differentiation patterns among invasive A.
franciscana populations based on ISSR markers (abbreviations listed in Table 1).
Similar to the phylogeny based on COI sequences, clustering analysis of ISSR sequences by
STRUCTURE has revealed a distinguished structure for non-indigenous A. franciscana populations. In
this analysis, all native populations (bisexual A. urmiana and parthenogenetic ones) have displayed
almost similar patterns, but a separated analysis for native populations has revealed a non-identical
structure for the CAM population. Additionally, an inconsistent pattern of the Eastern lagoon around
Urmia Lake (LAGE) was also observed. A separated analysis for invasive populations could not
reveal different patterns among examined populations by STRUCTURE (Figure 6A–C). On the other
hand, PCoA has divided A. franciscana from native populations. Although PCoAs could not branch off
natives by localities, the separated PCoA has divided invasive populations based on localities in the
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four groups. Contrary to COI haplotype distribution, the ISSR marker was unable to reveal a private
pattern for bisexual A. urmiana in comparison to native parthenogenetic populations.
4. Discussion
The present study was performed to compare the population structure and genetic differentiation
of native and invasive Artemia populations. The mitochondrial COI gene has been established as a
useful molecular marker to determine the intra- and inter-specific evolutionary associations [
2
,
3
,
17
,
18
].
Asem et al. [
2
] have documented that di- and triploid parthenogenetic brine shrimps are maternally
related to A. urmiana, while tetra- and pentaploid lineages shared a common maternal ancestor with A.
sinica. Based on the mitochondrial COI dataset, all examined parthenogenetic individuals have grouped
in a close evolutionary relationship with A. urmiana (Figure 2). Our results have demonstrated that
they should include di- and/or triploids. This observation has also been confirmed by the phylogenetic
tree. Although individuals of eight Artemia populations have been exactly located in sub-clades of di-
and/or triploid, eight out of nine specimens of CAM from Turkey have been placed in a particular
clade (P2), in a close connection with A. urmiana (Figure 2). This finding has also been confirmed by
haplotype distribution (Figure 3). Previously, Sayg [
40
] has confirmed that triploid and pentaploid
parthenogenetic populations coexisted in Camalti Lake (CAM). Our observation has confirmed that
Camalti Lake (CAM) populations had a parthenogenetic reproductive mode and those examined
specimens should be considered as a diploid and/or triploid population (see [
3
]). Despite the fact that A.
urmiana shared a common ancestor with di- and triploids, it has presented an unexpectedly high level
of haplotype diversity of the COI marker. These results have also been documented by Eimanifar and
Wink [
28
]. The high level of haplotype variation might be attributed to the evolutionary life history of
A. urmiana [
30
] and/or its large population size [
28
]. Urmia Lake has undergone considerable changes
in environmental conditions, such as salinity and temperature [
41
,
42
], which could have influenced
genetic variation and population size during evolution.
Although COI sequences should reveal a phylogeographic structure in the closely related
species [
43
], our results could not determine a level of geographical differentiation among native as
well as among invasive populations. Contrary to the results of the mitochondrial marker, genomic
fingerprinting ISSR could not reveal a significant high level of genetic variation in A. urmiana. This
result might be due to differences in the rate of variation of mitochondrial and nuclear genes and
potential hybridization events in the past.
The ISSR method had been utilized to study ten diploid parthenogenetic Artemia populations from
China by Hou et al. [
27
]. Their genetic variation was significantly higher than our examined
parthenogenetic populations. For example, the percentage of polymorphic loci ranged from
54.12–87.06% vs. 8.21–39.55%. Western Asia is the origin of di- and triploid parthenogenetic
populations [
3
], so high genetic diversity of Chinese populations could be the result of their adaptation
during colonization through biological dispersal to the new environments in East Asia under historical
evolutionary progress.
In general, it was reported that the invasive populations have lower genetic variation in the
new environments as compared with their origin populations [
44
]. The colonized population of
A.franciscana in Vietnam has a lower genetic diversity than its native source population from San
Francisco Bay (SFB) [
22
]. In contrast, Eimanifar et al. [
2
] have documented that Asian invasive
A.franciscana populations had higher genetic variation than the American Great Salt Lake (GSL)
population and native Asian species. Similar results have been reported for some invasive populations
from Mediterranean regions [
23
,
24
]. A recent study assumed that invasive populations of A. franciscana
show a wide degree of genetic differentiation in Australia [17].
Overall, our ISSR results have documented that invasive A. franciscana populations had distinctly
higher genetic variation than Western Asian native parthenogenetic populations. On the other hand,
native A. franciscana from Great Salt Lake (GSL) have represented higher variation than examined
invasive populations in this study, as the percentage of polymorphic loci differed from 67–81% vs.
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30.95–46.83% (see [
29
]). Additionally, all four invasive A. franciscana populations clearly revealed
a different genetic structure. Observation of low genetic diversity in native populations might be
attributed to the effect of asexual reproduction in parthenogenetic populations and/or critical climatic
conditions in West Asia, especially Urmia Lake in the last two decades (see [
3
,
30
]). We believe
that interactions between different ecological conditions in the new environments and the high
potential of physiological plasticity and genetic adaptation of A. franciscana could exert different
evolutionary pathways during the introduction of exotic populations, which would have ultimately
caused intra-specific variations and genetic divergence in the examined invasive populations.
In conclusion, it is expected that the non-indigenous species should have a lower genetic variation
than their source populations [
25
,
44
,
45
]. However, non-indigenous A. franciscana populations gave
opposite results in comparison with native populations from GSL and SFB. Since there is neither a
taxonomical identification key nor morphological identifications to distinguish bisexual species and
parthenogenetic populations [
11
,
46
], it would not be possible to identify the exotic population at the
earliest time of invasion. Therefore, there is a lack of information to regularly determine the colonization
progress and evolutionary development of A. franciscana in the new habitats. We assume that differences
in the genetic variation of non-indigenous populations could be due to the study on different invasion
periods consisting of i) introduced, ii) establishing/colonizing, iii) established/colonized populations.
Author Contributions:
Research design, material preparation, and data collection were performed by A.E. Data
analysis was carried out by A.A. The first draft of the manuscript was written by A.A. and A.E. P.-Z.W., W.L. and
M.W. reviewed the draft. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding:
This study was carried out at IPMB, Department of Biology, University Heidelberg and A/10/97179.
Amin Eimanifar was supported by a Ph.D. fellowship from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD,
German Academic Exchange Service).
Acknowledgments:
We would like to express our appreciations to the Dr. Razia Sultana from the Food and
Marine Resources Research Center, PCSIR Laboratories Complex, Pakistan and Prof. Gilbert Van Stappen from
the Artemia Reference Center, Belgium for providing Artemia samples to this research project.
Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest. M.W. is Editor-in-Chief of Diversity.
Appendix A
Table A1. Information of network haplotype composition of native populations.
Haplotype Ind. Pop. (Ind.) Haplotype Ind. Pop. (Ind.)
H1 18 URM (18) H24 1 URM (1)
H2 7 CAM (7) H25 1 URM (1)
H3 16 KOC (6), LAGW (5)ABG (3), LAGE
(1), KBG (1) H26 1 URM (1)
H4 15 ING (5), MIG (4), KBG (3), LAGE (2) H27 1 URM (1)
H5 7 QOM (6), MIG (1) H28 1 URM (1)
H6 1 CAM (1) H29 1 URM (1)
H7 1 URM (1) H30 1 URM (1)
H8 1 URM (1) H31 2 URM (2)
H9 2 URM (2) H32 1 URM (1)
H10 1 URM (1) H33 1 URM (1)
H11 1 URM (1) H34 1 URM (1)
H12 3 URM (3) H35 1 URM (1)
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Table A1. Cont.
Haplotype Ind. Pop. (Ind.) Haplotype Ind. Pop. (Ind.)
H13 1 URM (1) H36 1 URM (1)
H14 1 URM (1) H37 1 URM (1)
H15 1 URM (1) H38 1 URM (1)
H16 1 URM (1) H39 1 URM (1)
H17 1 URM (1) H40 1 URM (1)
H18 1 URM (1) H41 1 URM (1)
H19 1 URM (1) H42 1 URM (1)
H20 1 URM (1) H43 1 URM (1)
H21 1 URM (1) H44 1 URM (1)
H22 1 URM (1) H45 1 URM (1)
H23 1 URM (1) - - -
Ind. =Individual, Pop. =Population.
Table A2. Information of network haplotype composition of invasive A. franciscana populations.
Haplotype Ind. Pop. (Ind.)
H1 8 GAA (4), MAH (2), MSH (2)
H2 7 NOG (4), MSH (3)
H3 4 GAA (4)
H4 1 NOG (1)
H5 1 MAH (1)
H6 1 MSH (1)
Ind. =Individual, Pop. =Population.
Table A3.
Proportion of genetic clusters for each locality in STRUCTURE analysis among whole
examined populations.
Population K1 (%) K2 (%)
KOC 0.1 99.9
ABG 0.2 99.8
LAGE 0.7 99.3
LAGW 0.3 99.7
KBG 0.1 99.9
QOM 0.1 99.9
MIG 1.9 98.1
CAM 0.1 99.9
INC 0.2 99.8
URM 3.6 96.4
MAH 98.7 1.3
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Table A3. Cont.
Population K1 (%) K2 (%)
NOG 99.9 0.1
MSH 99.9 0.1
GAA 99.9 0.1
Table A4.
Proportion of genetic clusters for each locality in STRUCTURE analysis among
native populations.
Population K1 (%) K2 (%)
KOC 000099.7 0.3
ABG 99.8 0.2
LAGE 72.1 27.9
LAGW 99.6 0.4
KBG 99.5 0.5
QOM 99.8 0.2
MIG 99.6 0.4
CAM 0.2 99.8
INC 99.7 0.3
URM 93.1 6.9
Table A5.
Proportion of genetic clusters for each locality in STRUCTURE analysis among invasive A.
franciscana populations.
Population K1 (%) K2 (%) K3 (%) K4 (%) K5 (%) K6 (%) K7 (%) K8 (%) K9 (%)
MAH 1.1 0.4 0.3 1.7 0.4 1.1 46 1.8 47.1
NOG 0.6 0.5 0.4 57 0.6 33.6 3.6 0.3 3.4
MSH 0.5 28.6 0.3 0.4 27.9 0.4 3.4 33.9 4.6
GAA 38.8 0.2 42.3 0.3 0.4 0.2 7 1.1 9.7
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