Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Marine Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia
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Interspecific hybridization can lead to a mosaic composition of the nuclear genome due to introgression and recombination. Cytoplasmic genomes, however, usually show clonal transmission and are predominantly maternally inherited. This allows for an accurate identification of ancestral sources. Moreover, the comparison of phylogenies based on nuclear (nDNA) versus cytoplasmic DNA markers should make it possible to identify cases of hybridization by focusing on the discrepancies between them (e.g., Avise 1994
and references therein; Parani et al. 1997
). In Helianthus sunflowers, for example, the chloroplast DNA (cpDNA)based phylogeny contrasts significantly with implied relationships based on morphological characters and nuclear ribosomal DNA (Rieseberg and Soltis 1991
). Each of 5 species (of the 11 species investigated) possesses two or more highly distinct cpDNA genotypes otherwise characteristic of different phylogenetic groups within the genus. Furthermore, some species seem to have captured the cpDNA of other species on multiple occasions. Several similar examples exist from animal systems, in which mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) capture was found to be due to introgression among closely related species (e.g., Lamb and Avise 1986
; Arnason et al. 1991
; Dowling and Hoeh 1991
; Dowling and DeMarais 1993
). In the cyprinid fish genus Gila, for instance, comparison of allozyme and mtDNA data showed that introgression not only has occurred in the past, but is still proceeding today (Dowling and DeMarais 1993
).
The genus Acropora (Scleractinia, Acroporidae) is one of the most widespread genera of corals, spanning the Indian and Pacific Oceans and the Caribbean Sea. It is also extremely speciose and the largest extant reef-building coral genus. Recent revisions of the genus recognize 113 (Wallace 1999
) or approximately 180 (Veron 2000
) Acropora species. The genus Acropora consists of two subgenera, A. Acropora and A. Isopora (Veron and Wallace 1984
), with 19 Indo-Pacific and 1 Caribbean species group being recognized on the basis of skeletal morphology within the former subgenus (Wallace 1999
). Some species have very restricted distributions, whereas others are found throughout large parts of the tropics, and up to 70 Acropora species can be found in sympatry (Veron 1993
). An enormous amount of intraspecific morphological variability exists, while at the same time similarities between species are striking; for example, intraspecific geographic differences in morphology can be as large as differences between species (J. E. N. Veron, personal communication). The fossil record shows that the genus probably originated during the Paleocene (Carbone et al. 1994
) or the Eocene (von Fritsch 1895; Latham 1929
) and became widely distributed in the early Miocene (Wells 1956
). Acropora thus provides an ideal model system for examining speciation and evolution of scleractinian reef coral species in general, on both temporal and spatial scales.
Here, we present molecular phylogenies of a wide range of species in the subgenus A. Acropora using DNA sequence analyses of two molecular markers, one nuclear and one mitochondrial. The nuclear intron was the Pax-C 46/47 intron. Acropora Pax-C is a Pax-6 homolog (Catmull et al. 1998
), and in almost every organism that has been studied, these are single-copy genes (Callaerts, Halder, and Gehring 1997
). The mitochondrial region examined here is the largest intergenic region identified so far in the Acropora tenuis mitochondrial genome and has several characteristics of a vertebrate control region (van Oppen et al. 1999
). The molecular phylogenies are compared with cladistic analyses of morphological features of the skeleton (Wallace 1999
) and discussed in the context of the fossil record, taxonomic uncertainty, lineage sorting, and interspecific hybridization.
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For the Pax-C intron, 27 clones were initially sequenced from a subset of coral colonies to verify that Pax-C was single-copy. Most coral colonies possessed only one or two different sequences. In those few instances in which more than two sequences per individual were found, these differed by only one or two point mutations which were not shared by other clones, suggesting that these were PCR errors and that no more than two alleles were present per diploid genome. After this initial screening, only two clones were sequenced per coral colony (one in both directions, one in only one direction). If the two sequences were identical, two more clones were sequenced to investigate whether the colony was heterozygous for Pax-C or not. For the mtDNA intergenic region, only one clone was sequenced for each coral colony.
Data Analyses
Sequences were aligned manually using Sequencher 3.0 (Gene Codes Corporation). Maximum-likelihood (ML) analyses were performed in MOLPHY 2.3 (Adachi and Hasegawa 1996
), under the HKY85 model of sequence evolution. Analyses under a constraint topology were carried out in MOLPHY 2.3 and in PAUP* 4.0b2a (Swofford 1999
) to examine statistical significance of the difference in tree topologies using the Kishino-Hasegawa test (Kishino and Hasegawa 1989
). Neighbor-joining distance and parsimony (heuristic search) analyses were conducted in PAUP*. Gaps were either excluded or treated as fifth bases in parsimony analyses. Bootstrap analysis was performed with 1,000 replicates whenever possible, but with fewer replicates if computing time became excessive. Pairwise sequence distances were calculated in PAUP* 4.0b2a.
The Pax-C intron alignment contained several large indels. Parsimony analyses were performed with some of the large indels treated as single alignment positions with two character states (present/absent). To minimize loss of information, only indels where no or few informative sites were present among taxa that had an insert were removed from the alignment (and treated as single sites). Four Pax-C intron indels of 529, 403, 42, and 145 bp (in total, 1,119 positions) were excluded and recoded. These new positions were weighted according to their sizes, as follows: 47 ((529/1,119) x 100), 36, 4, and 13, respectively. The analyses were also carried out by assigning arbitrary weights of 10 or 25 to the recoded indel positions. The distance analyses were performed on the original alignment, with gaps treated as missing data. The mtDNA intergenic region contained several repeated sequences (the Acropora mtDNA intergenic region structure is discussed in detail elsewhere [van Oppen et al., unpublished data]). Since the precise processes by which these repeat arrays evolve are not well understood (Hoelzel, Hancock, and Dover 1993
; Broughton and Dowling 1994
; Fumagalli et al. 1996
), and hence their phylogenetic information content is dubious, phylogenetic analyses were performed with and without these regions.
Trees obtained from each of the two data sets (i.e., the Pax-C intron and the mtDNA intergenic region) were compared using the Kishino-Hasegawa test in PAUP* 4.0b2a.
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The length of the sequenced region of the intron (the last 32 bases at the 3' end were excluded because this sequence had not been obtained reliably for all taxa) varied from 212 to 827 bp (GenBank accession numbers AF344337AF344423). The complete Pax-C intron sequence alignment consisted of 1,613 positions, of which 1,381 were constant, 100 were variable but not parsimony-informative, and 132 were parsimony-informative (when gaps were treated as missing data). In some analyses, a total of 1,119 positions (comprising four large indels) were excluded and recoded as four new alignment positions (see Materials and Methods). This modified alignment consisted of 494 positions, of which 96 were constant, 97 were variable but parsimony-uninformative, and 301 were parsimony-informative (gaps treated as fifth bases). Phylogenetic signal in this modified data set was high, as indicated by relatively high consistency (CI) and retention (RI) indices (CI = 0.7140.733 and RI = 0.8520.872, depending on which weight was given to the recoded indels) of the resulting trees and a significantly left-skewed tree length distribution, which was tested by generating 10,000 random trees (g1 = -0.602) (Hillis and Huelsenbeck 1992
).
Pax-C Intron Phylogeny
Parsimony analysis using the modified alignment with gaps treated as fifth bases yielded 240 most-parsimonious trees (MPTs). The overall topology of the parsimony trees did not differ with different weighting of the four indels and identified four major clades within the A. Acropora subgenus. Neighbor-joining distance and ML analyses yielded trees similar to those of the parsimony analyses (fig. 2A
). The two most basal clades, clades I and II, were small, comprising three (Acropora longicyathus, Acropora intermedia, and A. tenuis) and one (Acropora latistella) species, respectively. The third clade was much larger and comprised 18 species in many well-supported terminal cladesincluding the Caribbean species (A. cervicornis and A. palmata)but showed limited resolution at its base. The fourth clade comprised two main subclades and only four species (Acropora aspera, Acropora florida, Acropora sarmentosa, and Acropora digitifera). All colonies of each species consistently clustered in the same major clade except for four colonies of A. longicyathus, which were split between clades II and III. Despite this, many species were not monophyletic. We tested whether species were truly nonmonophyletic (for those of which more than one colony was sampled) by enforcing species monophyly (one species at a time, as well as all species at a time) and comparing the resulting tree with the best tree (fig. 2A
). In 7 of the 10 species tested, a significantly worse tree was obtained by enforcing monophyly (table 4
), indicating that these species were not monophyletic. The most striking case of polyphyly was that of A. longicyathus, for which some alleles/haplotypes clustered in the basal clade I and some in the derived clade III. Note that the sample sizes were small for some species and that polyphyletic patterns like the one observed for A. longicyathus may possibly be found in other species with the addition of new samples. Trees that were forced to follow the topology based on morphological characters (Wallace 1999
; fig. 3
) were also significantly worse than the best tree (-ln L = 5,917.6 for the null hypothesis of monophyly of species and species groups, as compared with -ln L = 4,457.1 for that of the optimal tree, P < 0.0001), indicating that morphological species groups do not constitute natural groups.
mtDNA Intergenic Region
The complete mtDNA intergenic region alignment (both repeat and nonrepeat regions) consisted of 1,726 positions. This included nine bases of the upstream small subunit rRNA (rns), because the first repeat region started within this gene. The length of the whole mtDNA intergenic region (excluding the nine bases of the rns) varied between 999 and 1,222 bp (GenBank accession numbers AY026418AY026460). No size heteroplasmy was observed by PCR. As we sequenced only one clone per coral colony, small intraindividual length differences in the mtDNA intergenic region may have been overlooked. Because there was a much stronger phylogenetic structure in the data set when repeat regions were excluded, only this data set is discussed here. The alignment of nonrepeat regions consisted of 816 positions, of which 657 were constant, 47 were variable but parsimony-uninformative, and 112 were parsimony-informative (gaps treated as fifth bases). Treating gaps as missing or fifth bases did not lead to an altered tree topology. Parsimony analysis with gaps treated as fifth bases yielded 240 MPTs of 251 steps. A CI of 0.834, an RI of 0.921, and a g1 value of -0.865 are indicative of a strong phylogenetic signal in the data set. The analysis was also run while weighting transversions more heavily than transitions (1:0, 2:1 [within A. Acropora, approximately twice as many transitions as transversions have occurred; fig. 1
], and 10:1). The resulting tree topologies were very similar to each other and to the ones without ts/tv weighting.
mtDNA Intergenic Region Phylogeny
Neighbor-joining distance analyses produced tree topologies almost identical to those of the parsimony analyses, but with slightly more resolution in some of the terminal clades. ML analysis (HKY85 model) also yielded a similar tree but had the highest level of resolution (fig. 2B
). Bootstrap analysis showed that several robust clades could be distinguished. Two large and three relatively small clades were identified. Two of the small clades had identical species compositions, as was found with the nuclear marker (i.e., one clade was composed of A. longicyathus, A. intermedia, and A. tenuis, with the former species clustering separately from the latter two, and a second clade was composed solely of A. latistella). Again, different colonies of A. longicyathus clustered separately in two of the clades. However, the Caribbean species A. cervicornis formed a separate and most basal clade in the tree based on the mtDNA intergenic region, in contrast to its inclusion in the large clade in the Pax-C intron tree.
Congruent Phylogenetic Patterns Based on a Nuclear and a Mitochondrial Marker?
Congruence between trees based on the Pax-C intron and the mtDNA intergenic region was assessed by the Kishino-Hasegawa test (Kishino and Hasegawa 1989
). Because a requirement of this test is that both data sets are derived from the same individuals, it was performed on the subset of samples (25 specimens) for which both regions were successfully amplified and sequenced (see table 1
). For these 25 specimens, the ML trees were first calculated based on the two markers independently, after which the Kishino-Hasegawa test was applied reciprocally (i.e., using each data set at a time) under the ML criterion. The trees were significantly different (P
0.0003 in all cases). Nevertheless, visual inspection of the trees based on the full data sets shows that the overall compositions of the four major clades are similar between the two trees. In both trees, (1) A. tenuis, clade IB samples of A. longicyathus, and A. intermedia form the basal taxa; (2) A. latistella is the next species to split off; (3) the remaining species fall into two clusters; and (4) these two clusters largely share species; for example, A. aspera, A. sarmentosa, A. florida, and A. digitifera occur in clade IV of both the mtDNA and the nDNA trees. However, there are also discrepancies between the trees: (1) A. loripes J147 falls within clade IV based on mtDNA, while it clusters in clade IIIB based on the Pax-C data, and (2) the Caribbean species form the most basal clade in the mtDNA tree but constitute a derived clade (IIID) based on the Pax-C data. In addition, one A. pulchra specimen (pulchra_M83) falls within clade IV in the mtDNA tree. Although no Pax-C sequences are available for this individual, rDNA ITS sequences have shown that it is likely to be a hybrid between A. aspera and A. pulchra (unpublished data), explaining its position in the mtDNA tree.
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Timing of Spawning, Reproductive Isolation, and Genetic Distinctness
Independent evidence from timing of spawning provides support for evolutionary relationships detected by the molecular analyses. Several of the basal species in the molecular phylogenies appear to be reproductively isolated from most other species in the A. Acropora subgenus through differences in spawning times. Acropora latistella typically spawns two weeks out of phase with most A. Acropora species (Willis et al. 1985
; Babcock et al. 1986
), supporting its isolated position in the molecular phylogenies. On the Great Barrier Reef, A. tenuis is likely to be effectively genetically isolated by a temporal separation in breeding, since it spawns 23 h earlier than its congeners (Babcock et al. 1986
). Although eggs and sperm may remain viable for 4.58 h after spawning (Heyward and Babcock 1986
; Oliver and Babcock 1992
; Willis et al. 1997
), it is unlikely that eggs would remain unfertilized or sperm densities would remain high enough in the intervening period to achieve high fertilization rates with later-spawning species. In the Caribbean, a difference in spawning time of 12 h appears to be sufficient to cause reproductive isolation between some species in the Montastrea annularis complex (Knowlton et al. 1997
). Moreover, A. tenuis displayed very low breeding compatibilities with other species in vitro (Willis et al. 1997
), also confirming its separate species status. In addition to differences in spawning times, transient reproductive barriers imposed by year-to-year variation in the date on which spawning occurs may also contribute to the relative genetic distinction of Acropora species.
Acropora aspera is genetically distinct from other species in the A. aspera group (e.g., A. millepora, A. spathulata, A. papillare, and A. pulchrawith the exception of F1 A. aspera x A. pulchra hybrids) in our analyses, as well as in an analysis of rDNA ITS regions (unpublished data), and has been observed to spawn one month before most of its congeners in some years (unpublished data). The exception of F1 A. aspera x A. pulchra hybrids is consistent with evidence that these two species are capable of successful cross-fertilization in years when they spawn synchronously (unpublished data). Note that a Pax-C tree in which monophyly of A. aspera was enforced was not significantly worse than the tree shown in figure 2A
(table 4
). Acropora intermedia also shows some temporal variation in the date of spawning and has spawned before other congener species around the Palm Islands in the central Great Barrier Reef in some years (unpublished data), suggesting that, at least in some years, it may be reproductively isolated through differences in the timing of spawning. It also displayed very low breeding compatibilities with other species in vitro (Willis et al. 1997
).
The phylogenetic isolation of species with different spawning times and limited cross-fertility provides evidence that hybridization is likely to be responsible for the nonmonophyly of sympatric species which spawn synchronously. Of the 21 Indo-Pacific species that group in the two large clusters, all have been recorded to spawn on the same night as 212 other species in these clades (Harrison et al. 1984
; Willis et al. 1985
; Babcock et al. 1986
), and 5 have been shown to successfully hybridize in vitro with one of these congeners (Willis et al. 1997
). Although A. nasuta, A. valida, and A. muricata spawn synchronously, they had very limited interspecific breeding compatibilities (Willis et al. 1997
). However, only a limited number of colony pairs were tested for these species (Willis et al. 1997
), and given the enormous variability in gamete compatibility in most interspecies pairings (Willis et al. 1997
), the low interspecific breeding compatibility indicated for these species may be an artifact of small sample size. Another possible explanation for this apparent discrepancy is that indirect introgression may occur in naturealleles may be exchanged between species that do not directly hybridize, via a third species with which both hybridize. Alternatively, some of these species may have become reproductively isolated in the recent past, and sharing of alleles may reflect shared ancestral polymorphisms.
Molecular Data Are Inconsistent with Morphology and the Fossil Record
With the exception of the position of the Caribbean taxa and A. loripes J147, the compositions of the four major clades in phylogenetic trees based on a nuclear and a mitochondrial marker were similar, albeit the within cluster topologies varied (fig. 2A and B
). However, these phylogenies bear little similarity to a recent cladistic phylogeny based on skeletal morphology (fig. 3
; Wallace 1999
) and are at odds with the fossil record. Although the record for extant A. Acropora species is scant before the Plio-Pleistocene, two species (Acropora humilis and Acropora microphthalma) have been recorded from the Miocene (Wells 1964
). Both species would therefore be expected to have a basal position in the phylogenetic trees. However, rather than constituting a basal clade, members of the A. humilis group, as well as A. microphthalma, are scattered through different subgroups of the derived clades III and IV. Note that using midpoint (rather than outgroup) rooting did not affect the derived positions of these species (data not shown).
These inconsistencies between the different data sets can be explained in two ways. First, it is possible that different morphologies have independently evolved more than once, and second, skeletal morphology may have been effectively uncoupled from the genotype in the case of Acropora evolution. These hypotheses are not mutually exclusive and would be difficult to distinguishthe main difference between them is that the second is hybridization-dependent, whereas the first is not. The observation that presumed F1 hybrids between A. aspera and A. pulchra have morphological features of one of the parental species rather than an intermediate morphology (unpublished data) suggests that morphology is defined by a limited number of (closely linked) genes with dominant/recessive rather than codominant alleles. If this is generally true, then the particular combination of alleles determining, for example, the A. humilis morphology may have arisen several times independently; alternatively, that combination of alleles may have been transposed into different genetic backgrounds via introgressive hybridization. The differences between the mitochondrial and nuclear DNA phylogenies imply that introgressive hybridization may be occurring. However, the overall congruence between the four major clades suggests that hybridization between species from different main clades is limited. Many A. Acropora species are capable of successful interspecific hybridization in vitro (Willis et al. 1997
; Hatta et al. 1999
), and genetic data confirm that introgressive hybridization occurs in nature (Odorico and Miller 1997
; Hatta et al. 1999
; van Oppen et al. 2000
). Hence, the second hypothesis is the most plausible. Although no breeding trials have been performed using A. humilis or A. microphthalma, it is possible that these species are reproductively compatible with several other A. Acropora species.
The Effect of Major Vicariant Events on the Evolution of A. Acropora Species
Although no intraspecific biogeographic structure is obvious in the genetic data, we might expect to be able to detect the influence of major vicariant events on the evolution of the genus. Figure 4
summarizes a phylogenetic hypothesis in which the impact of geological and climatological events is superimposed onto a phylogenetic tree based on the sequence analyses presented in this study. The main difference among the nuclear and mitochondrial trees is the position of the Caribbean taxa, which are the most ancestral A. Acropora species in the mtDNA tree but are part of the large clade III in the Pax-C intron tree (fig. 2A and B
). As discussed before, this incongruence is possibly due to incomplete lineage sorting in one or both markers. The node from which the Caribbean species emerge is likely to coincide with the effective isolation between Caribbean and Indo-Pacific A. Acropora species. The earliest A. cervicornis and A. palmata fossils are approximately 6.6 Myr old (Budd and Johnson 1999
) and 3.62.6 Myr old (McNeill, Budd, and Borne 1997
), respectively. The third extant Caribbean Acropora specieswhich was not included in this study but has been found to have Pax-C intron sequences similar to those of A. palmata and A. cervicornis (and the three species constitute a monophyletic group) (van Oppen et al. 2000
)is of Holocene origin (Budd, Stemann, and Johnson 1994
). Hence, the internode denoting the emergence of the Caribbean species must represent a point in time before 6.6 MYA, which was well before the closure of the Isthmus of Panama (3.03.5 MYA; Keigwin 1982
; Duque-Caro 1990
; Coates and Obando 1996
). The Tethys Sea remained an open east-west connection between the present-day Atlantic and Pacific Oceans via the Mediterranean until approximately the mid-Miocene (ca. 12 MYA; Rögl and Steiniger 1984
; Por 1989
), although it seems likely that there were several closures and reopenings from the late Oligocene or early Miocene (Rosen 1988
). The latest possible date of contact between the Caribbean and Indo-Pacific taxa via the Middle East is approximately 12 MYA at the time of the final closure of the Tethys Sea. However, as with biota on both sides of the Isthmus of Panama (Knowlton et al. 1993
), the differentiation of Caribbean and Indo-West Pacific A. Acropora species may have preceded the actual closure of the Tethys Sea in the Middle East. If the Caribbean A. Acropora species really represent the most ancestral extant species in the genus, then this implies that most Indo-Pacific Acropora species have evolved over the last 10 Myr or so.
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The molecular phylogenies presented here imply that many reef corals undergo reticulate evolution, as predicted by Veron (1995)
. Thus, clusters that comprise several morphospecies represent a syngameon, i.e., "the sum total of species or semispecies linked by frequent or occasional hybridization in nature; [hence] a hybridizing group of species ..." (Grant 1957
). A syngameon may consist of a large number of species (corresponding to morphospecies), each with varying levels of reproductive compatibilities with every other species. For example, the cluster IV comprising A. aspera, A. florida, A. sarmentosa, A. digitifera, and A. humilis may constitute a syngameon. Moreover, since A. aspera and A. pulchra are known to occasionally produce viable offspring, clades III and IV would represent a single syngameon according to the definition given above. Alternatively, morphospecies in clades III and IV could be incipient species that are still partly connected through occasional crossings. The molecular data presented here cannot distinguish between these two hypotheses, but a comparison with recently published molecular data on Acropora species off Japan support the reticulate-evolution hypothesis (see below).
Biogeographic Variation in the Composition of Syngameons
Hatta et al. (1999)
performed experimental breeding trials and DNA sequence analysis of the mini collagen second intron using A. nasuta, A. digitifera, A. muricata (=A. formosa), A. florida, and A. intermedia (=A. nobilis) from Okinawa, Japan. The results of this study are not concordant with our work; when we forced our data to follow their tree, the resulting ML tree was considerably worse (-ln L equals; 1,601.8, as compared with 1,467.6 for our optimal tree). In the Hatta et al. (1999)
tree, A. florida and A. intermedia were found to be genetically closely related, whereas in our study, A. florida and A. intermedia cluster in two of the most distinct clades of the tree (i.e., clades IV and I, respectively). A second clade in the Hatta et al. (1999)
study comprised A. digitifera, A. nasuta, and one morph of A. muricata. In contrast, our study suggests that although A. nasuta and A. muricata carry relatively closely related genomes, A. digitifera should be placed in a different subclade. The differences between these two studies may partly be related to sample sizes. These are small for some of the species (e.g., A. intermedia) investigated in our study. In the Hatta et al. (1999)
study, only one pair of colonies was crossed for each of the species/morph combinations, despite the fact that fertilization rates may vary widely in experimental crosses (Willis et al. 1997
). Alternatively, true differences may exist in the degree to which species hybridize in different biogeographic regions. Acroporid species composition in Japan differs from that on the GBR, as indicated by a Jaccard's similarity coefficient of 0.78 (Wallace 1999
), and this may affect patterns of interspecific hybridization in the two biogeographic regions.
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1 Present address: Tropical Environment Studies and Geography, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia.
1 Keywords: reticulate evolution
interspecific hybridization
Acropora
coral
mtDNA
nuclear DNA
2 Address for correspondence and reprints: Madeleine J. H. van Oppen, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, James Cook University, Townsville 4811, Australia. E-mail: madeleine.vanoppen{at}jcu.edu.au
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