The Effects of Paleoclimatic Events on Mediterranean Trout: Preliminary Evidences from Ancient DNA

Overview

Journal PLoS One

Specialties General Medicine
Science

Date 2016 Jun 23

PMID 27331397

Citations 4

Authors

Andrea Splendiani

Tatiana Fioravanti

Massimo Giovannotti

Alessandra Negri

Paolo Ruggeri

Luigi Olivieri

Paola Nisi Cerioni

Massimo Lorenzoni

Vincenzo Caputo Barucchi

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Abstract

In this pilot study for the first time, ancient DNA has been extracted from bone remains of Salmo trutta. These samples were from a stratigraphic succession located in a coastal cave of Calabria (southern Italy) inhabited by humans from upper Palaeolithic to historical times. Seven pairs of primers were used to PCR-amplify and sequence from 128 to 410 bp of the mtDNA control region of eleven samples. Three haplotypes were observed: two (ADcs-1 and MEcs-1) already described in rivers from the Italian peninsula; one (ATcs-33) belonging to the southern Atlantic clade of the AT Salmo trutta mtDNA lineage (sensu Bernatchez). The prehistoric occurrence of this latter haplotype in the water courses of the Italian peninsula has been detected for the first time in this study. Finally, we observed a correspondence between frequency of trout remains and variation in haplotype diversity that we related with ecological and demographic changes resulting from a period of rapid cooling known as the Younger Dryas.

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