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PLoS One ; 13(1): e0186464, 2018.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29329295

RESUMO

Traditionally, large planktivorous elasmobranchs have been thought to predominantly feed on surface zooplankton during daytime hours. However, the recent application of molecular methods to examine long-term assimilated diets, has revealed that these species likely gain the majority from deeper or demersal sources. Signature fatty acid analysis (FA) of muscle tissue was used to examine the assimilated diet of the giant manta ray Mobula birostris, and then compared with surface zooplankton that was collected during feeding and non-feeding events at two aggregation sites off mainland Ecuador. The FA profiles of M. birostris and surface zooplankton were markedly different apart from similar proportions of arachidonic acid, which suggests daytime surface zooplankton may comprise a small amount of dietary intake for M. birostris. The FA profile of M. birostris muscle was found to be depleted in polyunsaturated fatty acids, and instead comprised high proportions of 18:1ω9 isomers. While 18:1ω9 isomers are not explicitly considered dietary FAs, they are commonly found in high proportions in deep-sea organisms, including elasmobranch species. Overall, the FA profile of M. birostris suggests a diet that is mesopelagic in origin, but many mesopelagic zooplankton species also vertically migrate, staying deep during the day and moving to shallower waters at night. Here, signature FA analysis is unable to resolve the depth at which these putative dietary items were consumed and how availability of this prey may drive distribution and movements of this large filter-feeder.


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Ácidos Graxos Insaturados/metabolismo , Ácidos Graxos/metabolismo , Comportamento Alimentar/fisiologia , Rajidae/metabolismo , Animais , Equador , Músculos/metabolismo , Rajidae/fisiologia , Zooplâncton/metabolismo
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Mol Phylogenet Evol ; 64(1): 212-8, 2012 Jul.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22503670

RESUMO

Manta rays have been taxonomically revised as two species, Manta alfredi and M. birostris, on the basis of morphological and meristic data, yet the two species occur in extensive mosaic sympatry. We analysed the genetic signatures of the species boundary using a portion of the nuclear RAG1 (681 base pairs), mitochondrial CO1 (574 bp) and ND5 genes (1188 bp). The assay with CO1 sequences, widely used in DNA barcoding, failed to distinguish the two species. The two species were clearly distinguishable, however, with no shared RAG1 or ND5 haplotypes. The species were reciprocally monophyletic for RAG1, but paraphyletic for ND5 sequences. Qualitative evidence and statistical inferences using the 'Isolation-with-Migration models' indicated that these results were better explained with post-divergence gene flow in the recent past rather than incomplete lineage sorting with zero gene flow since speciation. An estimate of divergence time was less than 0.5 Ma with an upper confidence limit of within 1 Ma. Recent speciation of highly mobile species in the marine environment is of great interest, as it suggests that speciation may have occurred in the absence of long-term physical barriers to gene flow. We propose that the ecologically driven forces such as habitat choice played a significant role in speciation in manta rays.


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Ecossistema , Elasmobrânquios/genética , Especiação Genética , Variação Genética , Modelos Genéticos , Animais , Sequência de Bases , Teorema de Bayes , Primers do DNA/genética , DNA Mitocondrial/genética , Elasmobrânquios/classificação , Fluxo Gênico/genética , Genes RAG-1/genética , Genética Populacional , Haplótipos/genética , Indonésia , Japão , Funções Verossimilhança , México , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Moçambique , Análise de Sequência de DNA , África do Sul , Especificidade da Espécie , Austrália Ocidental
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