Reconstructing the lionfish invasion: Insights into Greater Caribbean biogeography

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1281-1293

  Ricardo, Betancur R ^a,b   Hines, Andrew ^c   Arturo, Acero P ^b   Ortí, Guillermo ^a   Wilbur, Ami E ^c   Freshwater, D Wilson ^c  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Greater Caribbean biogeography; Lionfish; Pterois miles; Pterois volitans; Western Atlantic

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CHRONOLOGY; DISPERSAL; FISH; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; HOMOGENEITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; ORNAMENTAL SPECIES; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RECONSTRUCTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BERMUDA; CARIBBEAN SEA; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

PISCES; PTEROIS; PTEROIS MILES; PTEROIS VOLITANS;

EID: 79959379434     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02496.x     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Albins, M.A. & Hixon, M.A. (2008) Invasive Indo-Pacific lionfish Pterois volitans reduce recruitment of Atlantic coral-reef fishes. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 367, 233-238.
2. Arenholz, D.W. & Morris, J.A. (2010) Larval duration of the lionfish, Pterois volitans along the Bahamian Archipelago. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 88, 305-309.
3. Avise, J.C. (1992) Molecular population structure and biogeographic history of a regional fauna - a case history with lessons for conservative biology. Oikos, 63, 62-76.
4. Baums, I.B., Miller, M.W. & Hellberg, M.E. (2005) Regionally isolated populations of an imperiled Caribbean coral, Acropora palmata. Molecular Ecology, 14, 1377-1390.
5. Betancur-R., R., Acero P, A., Duque-Caro, H. & Santos, S.R. (2010) Phylogenetic and morphologic analyses of a coastal fish reveals a marine biogeographic break of terrestrial origin in the southern Caribbean. PLoS ONE, 5, e11566.
6. Carlin, J.L., Robertson, D.R. & Bowen, B.W. (2003) Ancient divergences and recent connections in two tropical Atlantic reef fishes Epinephelus adscensionis and Rypticus saponaceous (Percoidei: Serranidae). Marine Biology, 143, 1057-1069.
7. Courtenay, W.R. (1995) Marine fish introductions in southeastern Florida. American Fisheries Society Introduced Fish Section Newsletter, 1995, 2-3.
8. Cowen, R.K., Paris, C.B. & Srinivasan, A. (2006) Scaling of connectivity in marine populations. Science, 311, 522-527.
9. Dlugosch, K.M. & Parker, I.M. (2008) Founding events in species invasions: genetic variation, adaptive evolution, and the role of multiple introductions. Molecular Ecology, 17, 431-449.
10. Dupanloup, I., Schneider, S. & Excoffier, L. (2002) A simulated annealing approach to define the genetic structure of populations. Molecular Ecology, 11, 2571-2581.
11. Excoffier, L., Smouse, P.E. & Quattro, J.M. (1992) Analysis of molecular variance inferred from metric distances among DNA haplotypes: application to human mitochondrial DNA restriction data. Genetics, 131, 479-491.
12. Excoffier, L., Laval, G. & Schneider, S. (2005) Arlequin (version 3.0): an integrated software package for population genetics data analysis. Evolutionary Bioinformatics Online, 2005, 47-50.
13. Freshwater, D.W., Hamner, R.M., Parham, S. & Wilbur, A.E. (2009a) Molecular evidence that the lionfishes Pterois miles and Pterois volitans are distinct species. Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Science, 125, 39-46.
14. Freshwater, D.W., Hines, A., Parham, S., Wilbur, A.E., Sabaoun, M., Woodhead, J., Akins, J.L., Purdy, B., Whitfield, P.E. & Paris, C.B. (2009b) Mitochondrial control region sequence analyses indicate dispersal from the US East Coast as the source of the invasive Indo-Pacific lionfish Pterois volitans in the Bahamas. Marine Biology, 156, 1213-1221.
15. Galindo, H.M., Olson, D.B. & Palumbi, S.R. (2006) Seascape genetics: a coupled oceanographic-genetic model predicts population structure of Caribbean corals. Current Biology, 16, 1622-1626.
16. Geertjes, G.J., Postema, J., Kamping, A., van Delden, W., Videler, J.J. & van de Zande, L. (2004) Allozymes and RAPDs detect little genetic population substructuring in the Caribbean stoplight parrotfish Sparisoma viride. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 279, 225-235.
17. González, J., Grijalba-Bendeck, M., Acero P, A. & Betancur-R., R. (2009) The invasive Indo-Pacific lionfish, Pterois volitans/miles complex, in the southern Caribbean Sea. Aquatic Invasions, 4, 507-510.
18. Hamner, R.M., Freshwater, D.W. & Whitfield, P.E. (2007) Mitochondrial cytochrome b analysis reveals two invasive lionfish species with strong founder effects in the western Atlantic. Journal of Fish Biology, 71, 214-222.
19. Hare, J.A. & Walsh, H.J. (2007) Planktonic linkages among marine protected areas on the south Florida and southeast United States continental shelves. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 64, 1234-1247.
20. Hare, J.A., Churchill, J.H., Cowen, R.K., Berger, T.J., Cornillon, P.C., Dragos, P., Glenn, S.M., Govoni, J.J. & Lee, T.N. (2002) Routes and rates of larval fish transport from the southeast to the northeast United States continental shelf. Limnology and Oceanography, 47, 1774-1789.
21. Hepburn, R.I., Sale, P.F., Dixon, B. & Heath, D.D. (2009) Genetic structure of juvenile cohorts of bicolor damselfish (Stegastes partitus) along the Mesoamerican barrier reef: chaos through time. Coral Reefs, 28, 277-288.
22. Imamura, H. & Yabe, M. (1996) Larval record of a red firefish, Pterois volitans, from northwestern Australia (Pisces: Scorpaeniformes). Bulletin of the Faculty of Fisheries Hokkaido University, 47, 41-46.
23. Kochzius, M. & Blohm, D. (2005) Genetic population structure of the lionfish Pterois miles (Scorpaenidae, Pteroinae) in the Gulf of Aqaba and northern Red Sea. Gene, 347, 295-301.
24. Lasso-Alcalá, O. & Posada, J.M. (2010) Presence of the invasive red lionfish, Pterois volitans (Linnaeus, 1758), on the coast of Venezuela, southeastern Caribbean Sea. Aquatic Invasions, 5, S53-S59.
25. Librado, P. & Rozas, J. (2009) DnaSP v5: a software for comprehensive analysis of DNA polymorphism data. Bioinformatics, 25, 1451-1452.
26. Mack, R.N., Simberloff, D., Lonsdale, W.M., Evans, H., Clout, M. & Bazzaz, F.A. (2000) Biotic invasions: causes, epidemiology, global consequences, and control. Ecological Applications, 10, 689-710.
27. Mobley, K.B., Small, C.M., Jue, N.K. & Jones, A.G. (2010) Population structure of the dusky pipefish (Syngnathus floridae) from the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, as revealed by mitochondrial DNA and microsatellite analyses. Journal of Biogeography, 37, 1363-1377.
28. Morris, J.A. & Akins, J.L. (2009) Feeding ecology of invasive lionfish (Pterois volitans) in the Bahamian archipelago. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 86, 389-398.
29. Morris, J.A. & Whitfield, A.K. (2009) Biology, ecology, control and management of the invasive Indo-Pacific lionfish: an updated integrated assessment. NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS NCCOS, No. 99. NOAA, Beaufort, NC.
30. Morris, J.A., Shertzer, K.W. & Rice, J.A. (2011) A stage-based matrix population model of invasive lionfish with implications for control. Biological Invasions, 13, 7-12.
31. Nei, M. (1987) Molecular evolutionary genetics. Columbia University Press, New York.
32. Palumbi, S.R. (1994) Genetic divergence, reproductive isolation, and marine speciation. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 25, 547-572.
33. Paris, C.B. & Cowen, R.K. (2004) Direct evidence of a biophysical retention mechanism for coral reef fish larvae. Limnology and Oceanography, 49, 1964-1979.
34. Posada, D. & Crandall, K.A. (1998) MODELTEST: testing the model of DNA substitution. Bioinformatics, 14, 817-818.
35. Purcell, J.F.H., Cowen, R.K., Hughes, C.R. & Williams, D.A. (2006) Weak genetic structure indicates strong dispersal limits: a tale of two coral reef fish. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 273, 1483-1490.
36. Ramachandran, S., Deshpande, O., Roseman, C.C., Rosenberg, N.A., Feldman, M.W. & Cavalli-Sforza, L.L. (2005) Support from the relationship of genetic and geographic distance in human populations for a serial founder effect originating in Africa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 102, 15942-15947.
37. Ruiz-Carus, R., Matheson, R.E., Roberts, D.E. & Whitfield, P.E. (2006) The western Pacific red lionfish, Pterois volitans (Scorpaenidae), in Florida: evidence for reproduction and parasitism in the first exotic marine fish established in state waters. Biological Conservation, 128, 384-390.
38. Salas, E., Molina-Urena, H., Walter, R.P. & Heath, D.D. (2010) Local and regional genetic connectivity in a Caribbean coral reef fish. Marine Biology, 157, 437-445.
39. Schlei, O.L., Crête-Lafrenière, A., Whiteley, A.R., Brown, R.J., Olsen, J.B., Bernatchez, L. & Wenburg, J.K. (2008) DNA barcoding of eight North American coregonine species. Molecular Ecology Resources, 8, 1212-1218.
40. Schofield, P.J. (2009) Geographic extent and chronology of the invasion of non-native lionfish (Pterois volitans [Linnaeus 1758] and P. miles [Bennett 1828]) in the Western North Atlantic and Caribbean Sea. Aquatic Invasions, 4, 443-449.
41. Schultz, E.T. (1986) Pterois volitans and Pterois miles: two valid species. Copeia, 3, 686-690.
42. Schultz, E.T. & Cowen, R.K. (1994) Recruitment of coral-reef fishes to Bermuda - local retention or long-distance transport. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 109, 15-28.
43. Semmens, B.X., Buhle, E.R., Salomon, A.K. & Pattengill-Semmens, C.V. (2004) A hotspot of non-native marine fishes: evidence for the aquarium trade as an invasion pathway. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 266, 239-244.
44. Shulman, M.J. & Bermingham, E. (1995) Early life histories, ocean currents and the population genetics of Caribbean reef fishes. Evolution, 49, 897-910.
45. Soltis, D.E., Morris, A.B., McLachlan, J.S., Manos, P.S. & Soltis, P.S. (2006) Comparative phylogeography of unglaciated eastern North America. Molecular Ecology, 15, 4261-4293.
46. Tajima, F. (1989) Statistical method for testing the neutral mutation hypothesis by DNA polymorphism. Genetics, 123, 585-595.
47. Taylor, M.S. & Hellberg, M.E. (2003) Genetic evidence for local retention of pelagic larvae in a Caribbean reef fish. Science, 299, 107-109.
48. Taylor, M.S. & Hellberg, M.E. (2006) Comparative phylogeography in a genus of coral reef fishes: biogeographic and genetic concordance in the Caribbean. Molecular Ecology, 15, 695-707.
49. Vandersea, M.W., Litaker, R.W., Marancik, K.E., Hare, J.A., Walsh, H.J., Lem, S., West, M.A., Wyanski, D.M., Labani, E.H. & Tester, P.A. (2008) Identification of larval sea basses (Centropristis spp.) using ribosomal DNA-specific molecular assays. Fishery Bulletin, 106, 183-193.
50. Whitfield, P.E., Gardner, T., Vives, S.P., Gilligan, M.R., Courtenay, W.R., Ray, G.C. & Hare, J.A. (2002) Biological invasion of the Indo-Pacific lionfish Pterois volitans along the Atlantic coast of North America. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 235, 289-297.
51. Whitfield, P.E., Hare, J.A., David, A.W., Harter, S.L., Munoz, R.C. & Addison, C.M. (2007) Abundance estimates of the Indo-Pacific lionfish Pterois volitans/miles complex in the Western North Atlantic. Biological Invasions, 9, 53-64.