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Taxonomy, Distribution, and Evolution of the Percidae

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Abstract

The family Percidae exclusively is native to freshwaters of the Northern Hemisphere, with just two of its genera divided between Eurasia and North America. Percidae comprises 11 genera and an estimated 266–275 species, reaching tremendous species richness in the North American darters. We provide an up-to-date account relating the results of the latest DNA sequence and morphological analyses to resolve the relationships of the family Percidae, including its component genera and species. We provide newly assembled distribution maps for the taxa, and summarize their primary distinguishing morphological characters and life history. For each genus, the latest phylogenetic tree of species relationships is shown and explained. We relate these findings to historic biogeography and contemporary distributions. Just recently, tremendous inroads have been made using new molecular tools and analyses that allow us to begin to understand the tremendous evolutionary diversification of the Percidae, as well as the landscape and climate factors that have shaped these patterns. This information may provide an important indication of the future responses of percid taxa to continued anthropogenic influences.

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Acknowledgements

This is publication #2015–06 from the University of Toledo’s Lake Erie Research Center. Support for our research reported here came from the National Science Foundation NSF GK-12 DGE#0742395, the USEPA #CR-83281401-0, NOAA Ohio Sea Grant R/LR-013, and USDA ARS 3655-31000-020-00D funded to CAS. We greatly appreciate percid samples supplied to us by many collectors, including: the USGS (Bruce Manny, Patrick Kocovsky, Wendylee Stott, Edward Roseman, Jeffrey Williamson), Ohio DNR (Alexander Ford, Ann Marie Gorman, Kevin Kayle, Cary Knight, Roger Knight, Matthew Turner, Jeffrey Tyson, Christopher Vandergoot), Michigan DNR (David Clapp, Robert Haas, Michael Thomas), New York Department of Environmental Conservation (Brian Beckwith, Donald Einhouse), Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (Roger Kenyon), Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (Christopher Wilson, Timothy Johnson), and from various colleagues including Colin Adams, Louis Bernatchez, Neil Billington, Vasily Boldyrev, John Clay Bruner, Mary Burnham-Curtis, Thomas Busiahn, Igor Grigorovich, Daniel Grul’a, Jeffrey Gunderson, Eric Hallerman, Anjie Hintz, Shaig Ibrahimov, Wolfgang Jansen, Douglas Jensen, Vladimir Kovac, Brandon Kulik, Yuriy Kvach, Ellen Marsden, Christine Mayer, Gregory Moyer, Andrew Naffziger, Matthew Neilson, Douglas Nelson, Camille Nesbø, Vadim Panov, Alex Parker, Webb Pearsall, Lars Rudstam, Mariusz Sapota, Wayne Schaefer, Jim Selgeby, Predrag Simonovic, George Spangler, David L. Stein, Roy Stein, Matthew White, James Williams, Ian Winfield, and Christopher Yoder. The manuscript benefitted from careful critical reviews by John C. Bruner, Guillermo Orti, and William Leo Smith.

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Appendices

Appendices

1.1 Appendix 1

Locations sampled for the three species of Perca, including latitude (lat) and longitude (long), number of individuals (N), number of haplotypes (N H), and haplotypes recovered for mtDNA cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 and cytochrome b, and for nuclear recombination activating gene 1.

 

COI

Cyt b

RAG 1

Species

Location

Lat.

Long.

N

N H

Haplotype

N H

Haplotype

N H

Haplotype

P. flavescens

North America

12

6

11

4

Chattahoochee R. AL USA

32.6047

85.0808

1

1

Pflacoi5

1

Pflacb2

2

Pflarag1,2

Mobile Bay AL USA

30.7223

87.8745

1

1

Pflacoi3

1

Pflacb5

1

Pflarag3

Morgan Cr. NC USA

35.5336

79.1931

2

2

Pflacoi2,4

2

Pflacb3,4

1

Pflarag1

Muskegon L. MI USA

43.2324

86.2945

2

1

Pflacoi1

2

Pflacb6,7

2

Pflarag1,4

Hudson R. NY USA

43.1453

73.4946

2

2

Pflacoi1,6

2

Pflacb1,8

1

Pflarag1

L. Erie OH USA

41.8060

81.4180

2

1

Pflacoi1

2

Pflacb1,11

1

Pflarag1

Bush R. MD USA

37.2519

122.0506

2

1

Pflacoi2

2

Pflacb9,10

1

Pflarag1

P. fluviatilis

Europe

8

4

6

4

Volga R. Vinovka RUS

48.8708

44.6601

2

1

Pflucoi3

2

Pflucb2,3

2

Pflurag1,2

Volga R. Stupino RUS

48.3103

45.7973

1

1

Pflucoi1

0

0

Dojran L. Doirani GRC

41.1200

22.4500

1

1

Pflucoi2

1

Pflucb4

1

Pflurag3

Danube R. Vienna AUT

48.1383

16.2211

2

1

Pflucoi1

2

Pflucb1,5

1

Pflurag4

Lake Baikal Ust-Barguzin RUS

53.3000

108.0000

2

1

Pflucoi4

1

Pflucb6

2

Pflurag1,2

P. schrenkii

Europe

8

3

5

3

Alakol L. KAZ

46.1000

81.3500

4

3

Psccoi1,2,3

4

Psccb1,2,3,4

2

Pscrag1,2

1.2 Appendix 2

Comparison of Perca sequences from GenBank to those found in this study. NR=not recovered by us.

Gene/region

Species

Our haplotype

GenBank accession #

mtDNA COI

P. flavescens

Pflacoi1

KC819884 (Haponski and Stepien 2013), EU524238, EU524240-43 (Hubert et al. 2008), JX516851, JX516904, JX516930, JX516933, JX516938, JX516951, JX516977, JX516993, JX517139 (April et al. 2013)

Pflacoi2

EU524239, EU524244-45 (Hubert et al. 2008), HQ557132 (April et al. unpub.), JX516793, JX516848, JX517095, JX517165 (April et al. 2013)

NR

JX516865 (April et al. 2013)

P. fluviatilis

Pflucoi1

KC819887 (Haponski and Stepien 2013), EF609432 (Ward and Holmes 2007), HQ600747-49 (Triantafyllidis et al. 2011), HQ960502-04, HQ960529, HQ960564, HQ960575, HQ960578-79, HQ960620, HQ960725-27, HQ960979-80, HQ961086-88 (iBOL unpub.), JN027875-76 (April et al. 2011)

Pflucoi2

HQ600750-52 (Triantafyllidis et al. 2011)

NR

HQ960464, HQ960510, HQ960557, HQ960863, HQ960865, HQ960925, HQ960944 (iBOL unpub.)

NR

JN027871-74 (April et al. 2011)

NR

HQ960866 (iBOL unpub.); KJ128570-71 (Zuccon and Noren unpub.)

NR

HQ960653, HQ960670 (iBOL unpub.)

NR

HQ600745 (Triantafyllidis et al. 2011)

NR

HQ960864 (iBOL unpub.)

NR

HQ600746 (Triantafyllidis et al. 2011)

P. schrenkii

NR

JN027877 (April et al. 2011)

mtDNA cyt b

P. flavescens

NR

AF045357 (Song et al. 1998), AF546115 (Moyer et al. unpub.)

NR

AY374280 (Sloss et al. 2004)

NR

EU348833 (Hai et al. unpub.)

NR

EU348834 (Hai et al. unpub.)

NR

EU348835 (Hai et al. unpub.)

NR

EU348836 (Hai et al. unpub.)

NR

EU348837 (Hai et al. unpub.)

NR

EU348838 (Hai et al. unpub.)

P. fluviatilis

Pflucbh1

KC819836 (Haponski and Stepien 2013), FJ788392-93, FJ788400-04, FJ788406-10 (Kalous et al. unpub.)

NR

AF546116 (Moyer et al. unpub.), AY374281 (Sloss et al. 2004)

NR

AF045358 (Song et al. 1998)

NR

AF546117 (Moyer et al. unpub.)

NR

AY929376 (Noren unpub.)

NR

EU348839 (Hai et al. unpub.)

NR

EU348840 (Hai et al. unpub.)

NR

EU348841 (Hai et al. unpub.)

NR

EU348842 (Hai et al. unpub.)

NR

EU348843 (Hai et al. unpub.)

NR

EU348844 (Hai et al. unpub.)

NR

EU348845 (Hai et al. unpub.)

NR

EU348846 (Hai et al. unpub.)

NR

FJ788389 (Kalous et al. unpub.)

NR

FJ788391 (Kalous et al. unpub.)

NR

FJ788405 (Kalous et al. unpub.)

NR

FJ788411 (Kalous et al. unpub.)

P. schrenkii

NR

EU348848 (Hai et al. 2008)

NR

AF546118 (Moyer et al. unpub.)

NR

EU348847 (Hai et al. unpub.)

NR

EU348849 (Hai et al. 2008)

NR

EU348852 (Hai et al. 2008)

NR

EU348851 (Hai et al. 2008)

NR

AF546120 (Moyer et al. unpub.)

NR

AF546119 (Moyer et al. unpub.)

NR

EU348850 (Hai et al. unpub.)

Nuclear RAG 1

P. flavescens

Pflarag11

KC819906 (Haponski and Stepien 2013), AY308768 (Holcroft 2004), FJ381301 (Bossu and Near 2009), JX189840 (Wainwright et al. 2012)

NR

AY308768 (Holcroft 2004)

P. fluviatilis

Pflurag11

KC819904 (Haponski and Stepien 2013)

1.3 Appendix 3

GenBank sequences used to build phylogenetic trees for a. Zingel spp. and b. Gymnocephalus spp. Sequences include mtDNA cytochrome c oxidase I (COI) and NADH dehydrogenase 2 (ND2) for Zingel spp. and mtDNA control region and cytochrome (cyt) b and the nuclear DNA lactate dehydrogenase intron 6 (LdhA6) for Gymnocephalus.

a. Zingel spp.

Species

COI

ND2

Z. asper

KJ554652 (Geiger et al. 2014)

JQ088647 (Lang et al. unpub.)

Z. streber

JN028454 (April et al. 2011)

JQ088648 (Lang et al. unpub.)

JN028452 (April et al. 2011)

 

JN028453 (April et al. 2011)

 

Z. zingel

KC819882 (Haponski and Stepien 2013)

JQ088649 (Lang et al. unpub.)

b. Gymnocephalus spp.

Species

Control region

Cyt b

LdhA6

G. baloni

AF025360 (Faber and Stepien 1997)

AY374279 (Sloss et al. 2004)

AY034782 (Stepien et al. 2005)

G. cernua

AF025355-56 (Faber and Stepien 1997)

AF045356 (Song et al. 1998)

AY034781 (Stepien et al. 2005)

AF025357-58 (Faber and Stepien 1997)

AF386598 (Song et al. 1998)

 

KC819863 (Haponski and Stepien 2013)

KC819833 (Haponski and Stepien 2013)

 

U90620 (Faber and Stepien 1997)

  

G. schraetser

AF025361 (Faber and Stepien 1997)

AF546114 (Moyer et al. unpub.)

AY034783 (Stepien et al. 2005)

AF025362 (Faber and Stepien 1997)

HM049946 (Matschiner et al. 2011)

 

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Stepien, C.A., Haponski, A.E. (2015). Taxonomy, Distribution, and Evolution of the Percidae. In: Kestemont, P., Dabrowski, K., Summerfelt, R. (eds) Biology and Culture of Percid Fishes. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7227-3_1

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