Sewage treatment plant associated genetic differentiation in the blue mussel from the Baltic Sea and Swedish west coast.

ABSTRACT: Human-derived environmental pollutants and nutrients that reach the aquatic environment through sewage effluents, agricultural and industrial processes are constantly contributing to environmental changes that serve as drivers for adaptive responses and evolutionary changes in many taxa. In this study, we examined how two types of point sources of aquatic environmental pollution, harbors and sewage treatment plants, affect gene diversity and genetic differentiation in the blue mussel in the Baltic Sea area and off the Swedish west coast (Skagerrak). Reference sites (REF) were geographically paired with sites from sewage treatments plant (STP) and harbors (HAR) with a nested sampling scheme, and genetic differentiation was evaluated using a high-resolution marker amplified fragment length p

SUBMITTER: Larsson J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5088577 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature