Genetic Insights into the Giant Keyhole Limpet (Megathura crenulata), an Eastern Pacific Coastal Endemic: Complete Mitogenome, Phylogenetics, Phylogeography, and Historical Demography.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The giant keyhole limpet Megathura crenulata is a gastropod mollusk (Fissurella superfamily) that is endemic to the eastern Pacific coast from southern California, USA, to Baja California Sur, Mexico. M. crenulata is socioeconomically important as it produces a potent immune-stimulating protein, called Keyhole Limpet Hemocyanin, which is extracted in vivo and utilized for vaccine development. However, ecological studies are scarce and genetic knowledge of the species needs to be improved. Our objectives were to assemble and annotate the mitogenome of M. crenulata, and to assess its phylogenetic relationships with other marine gastropods and to evaluate its population genetic diversity and structure.

Methods

Samples were collected for mitogenom

SUBMITTER: Bonett-Calzada B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11507411 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature