[HTML][HTML] A Darwinian laboratory of multiple contact zones

K Johannesson, A Le Moan, S Perini… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2020 - cell.com
Barriers to gene flow between divergent populations result in contact (hybrid) zones.
Locations where multiple contact zones overlap can be used in comparative studies asking …

Biparental inheritance through uniparental transmission: the doubly uniparental inheritance (DUI) of mitochondrial DNA

E Zouros - Evolutionary Biology, 2013 - Springer
Many bivalvian mollusks have a sperm-transmitted mitochondrial genome (M), along with
the standard egg-transmitted one (F). The phenomenon, known as doubly uniparental …

Mytilus trossulus in Northern Europe

R Väinölä, P Strelkov - Marine biology, 2011 - Springer
From data on allozyme, nuclear DNA and mitochondrial DNA markers, we show that the
originally North Pacific/Northwest Atlantic mussel Mytilus trossulus is widespread on North …

Water eDNA metabarcoding is effective in detecting non-native species in marinas, but detection errors still hinder its use for passive monitoring

M Couton, L Lévêque, C Daguin-Thiébaut, T Comtet… - Biofouling, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Marinas are high-priority targets for marine non-indigenous species (NIS), where they
compose a large portion of the biofouling communities. The practicality of water samples …

Opportunities and inherent limits of using environmental DNA for population genetics

M Couton, F Viard, F Altermatt - Environmental DNA, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular techniques using DNA retrieved from community or environmental samples, in
particular environmental DNA (eDNA), are becoming increasingly popular for detecting …

Trans-Atlantic Distribution and Introgression as Inferred from Single Nucleotide Polymorphism: Mussels Mytilus and Environmental Factors

R Wenne, M Zbawicka, L Bach, P Strelkov… - Genes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Large-scale climate changes influence the geographic distribution of biodiversity. Many taxa
have been reported to extend or reduce their geographic range, move poleward or displace …

Microsatellites as molecular markers with applications in exploitation and conservation of aquatic animal populations

R Wenne - Genes, 2023 - mdpi.com
A large number of species and taxa have been studied for genetic polymorphism.
Microsatellites have been known as hypervariable neutral molecular markers with the …

Structure, transcription, and variability of metazoan mitochondrial genome: perspectives from an unusual mitochondrial inheritance system

F Ghiselli, L Milani, D Guerra, PL Chang… - Genome biology and …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Despite its functional conservation, the mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) presents strikingly
different features among eukaryotes, such as size, rearrangements, and amount of …

A first report on coexistence and hybridization of Mytilus trossulus and M. edulis mussels in Greenland

R Wenne, L Bach, M Zbawicka, J Strand, JH McDonald - Polar Biology, 2016 - Springer
Semi-sessile Mytilus mussels are used as indicators of climate changes, but their
geographic distribution is not sufficiently known in the Arctic. The aim of this study was to …

Genetic, Ecological and Morphological Distinctness of the Blue Mussels Mytilus trossulus Gould and M. edulis L. in the White Sea

M Katolikova, V Khaitov, R Väinölä, M Gantsevich… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Two blue mussel lineages of Pliocene origin, Mytilus edulis (ME) and M. trossulus (MT), co-
occur and hybridize in several regions on the shores of the North Atlantic. The two species …