Phylogeny of venus clams (Bivalvia: Venerinae) as inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial gene sequences

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Isabella Kappner, Rüdiger Bieler

Abstract

Venerinae (Heterodonta: Veneridae) is a diverse, commercially important, and cosmopolitan marine bivalve subfamily. Recent workers synonymized it with the subfamily Chioninae, due to their overall morphological similarity. The use of traditional shell-based characters alone, however, is questionable for resolving phylogenetic relationships of this group. A phylogenetic study was carried out, based on nucleotide sequences of the mitochondrial large ribosomal subunit (16S), cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI), and the nuclear protein-coding gene histone 3, to investigate the relationships and circumscription of Venerinae and the phylogenetic pattern of characters in this group. This study consists of a total of 55 taxa: 13 venerine genera, 24 chionine taxa, and 18 taxa of other venerid subfamilies. We analyzed the alignments using a Bayesian approach using Markov Chain Monte Carlo tree sampling and maximum parsimony methods. The resulting phylogenetic hypothesis suggests that Chioninae and Venerinae are actually discrete taxa, but that the circumscription suffered from misplacement of some genera. Our analysis showed that the former chionine genera Chamelea and Clausinella should be placed in Venerinae, as sister taxa to Venus. We...Continue Reading

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