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Evolution in action: allopatry, variable diversity and a stepping-stone model of migration among populations of the freshwater bivalve Triplodon corrugatus from the north-eastern Amazon

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Triplodon corrugatus is a freshwater bivalve (Hyriidae) endemic to the Amazon, Orinoco and Tocantins basins, and the Piriá river. Our understanding of hyriid diversity at, and below, the species level, remains poor. The genetic diversity of T. corrugatus from the Tapajós, Amazon, Tocantins, Irituia and Piriá rivers in the north-eastern Brazilian Amazon was investigated. Except for the Irituia, where a single COII–COI haplotype had been fixed, all the other populations had medium to high haplotype diversities, and all populations had low nucleotide diversities. Pairwise fixation indices indicated that all populations were structured, except for comparisons between the Tapajós and Amazon, and the Amazon and Tocantins rivers, which may be explained by a stepping-stone model of migration. AMOVA detected that 81.28% of the variation was among populations. However, STRUCTURE analyses corroborated only the Piriá river specimens as comprising a distinct population, which is being maintained by allopatry due to the current isolation between the Piriá, and the Amazon and Tocantins basins.

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Guilherme da Cruz Santos-Neto was supported by the Fundação Amazônia Paraense de Amparo a Pesquisa (FAPESPA). This paper was supported by grants from the Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Tecnológico (CNPq) – Universal/2006 and from FAPESPA/VALE S.A (Edital 001/2010, Process: 2010/110634; ICAAF 057/2011). We would like to thank João Miranda and his family, Leôncio Braz de Sousa Neto and his family and Ivoneide Ferreira da Silva for providing assistance during fieldwork. Bivalves were collected under licences 22204-1 and 21187-1 from the Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio).

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da Cruz Santos-Neto, G., da Silva Nunes, I.S., Beasley, C.R. et al. Evolution in action: allopatry, variable diversity and a stepping-stone model of migration among populations of the freshwater bivalve Triplodon corrugatus from the north-eastern Amazon. Hydrobiologia 810, 227–237 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-017-3323-z

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