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GENETIC DIVERSITY, MORPHOMETRIC CHARACTERIZATION, AND CONSERVATION REASSESSMENT OF THE CRITICALLY ENDANGERED FRESHWATER SNAIL, HELEOBIA ATACAMENSIS, IN THE ATACAMA SALTPAN, NORTHERN CHILE

dc.creatorMOISÉS ALBERTO VALLADARES CORTÉS
dc.creatorCRISTIAN RODRIGO TORRES DÍAZ
dc.creatorMARCELA ALEJANDRA VIDAL MALDONADO
dc.creatorGONZALO ANDRÉS COLLADO INZULZA
dc.date2023
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-10T15:39:31Z
dc.date.available2025-01-10T15:39:31Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractEVAPORITIC ECOSYSTEMS OF THE ATACAMA DESERT CONTAIN A RICH ENDEMIC FAUNA, INCLUDING MOLLUSK SPECIES. A RECENT STUDY PERFORMED IN THE FRESHWATER SNAIL HELEOBIA ATACAMENSIS, ENDEMIC TO THE ATACAMA SALTPAN, REVEALED A STRONG INTERDEPENDENCE OF GENETIC PATTERNS WITH CLIMATIC FLUCTUATIONS AND LANDSCAPE PHYSIOGRAPHY. THE SPECIES IS CURRENTLY LISTED AS CRITICALLY ENDANGERED AT REGIONAL SCALE AND AS DATA DEFICIENT ON THE INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE (IUCN) RED LIST. HERE, WE STUDIED GENETIC DIVERSITY AND DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF SEVERAL POPULATIONS OF THE SPECIES OCCURRING ON A CONNECTIVITY GRADIENT, INCLUDING SNAILS FROM NEW PERIPHERICAL LOCALITIES (PEINE AND TILOMONTE), WHICH WERE COMPARED WITH TOPOTYPE SPECIMENS. IN ADDITION, WE REASSESSED THE CONSERVATION STATUS USING THE IUCN RED LIST CATEGORIES AND CRITERIA CONSIDERING SPECIES-SPECIFIC IDIOSYNCRASY. PHYLOGENETIC AND PHYLOGEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSES INDICATED THAT SNAILS FROM PEINE AND TILOMONTE BELONG TO H. ATACAMENSIS. WE DISCOVERED SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENTIATION IN SHELL MORPHOLOGY, WHICH WAS GENERALLY GREATER IN GEOGRAPHICALLY ISOLATED POPULATIONS. WE ALSO INFERRED SIX GENETIC CLUSTERS AND A DEMOGRAPHIC EXPANSION CONGRUENT WITH THE WET PERIODS THAT OCCURRED AT THE END OF THE PLEISTOCENE. CONSIDERING THE HIGHEST RISK CATEGORY OBTAINED, H. ATACAMENSIS WAS REASSESSED AS ENDANGERED AT REGIONAL SCALE. FUTURE CONSERVATION PLANS SHOULD CONSIDER THE GENETIC ASSEMBLAGES AS CONSERVATION UNITS.
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dc.identifier.doi/10.3390/biology12060791
dc.identifier.issn2079-7737
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.ubiobio.cl/handle/123456789/13053
dc.languagespa
dc.publisherBIOLOGY-BASEL
dc.relation.uri/10.3390/biology12060791
dc.rightsPUBLICADA
dc.subjectspring snails
dc.subjectisolated populations
dc.subjectgenetic clusters
dc.subjectfreshwater gastropods
dc.subjectendangered species
dc.subjectChile
dc.subjectAtacama Desert
dc.titleGENETIC DIVERSITY, MORPHOMETRIC CHARACTERIZATION, AND CONSERVATION REASSESSMENT OF THE CRITICALLY ENDANGERED FRESHWATER SNAIL, HELEOBIA ATACAMENSIS, IN THE ATACAMA SALTPAN, NORTHERN CHILE
dc.typeARTÍCULO
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ubb.EstadoPUBLICADA
ubb.Otra ReparticionRECTORIA
ubb.Otra ReparticionDEPARTAMENTO DE CIENCIAS BASICAS
ubb.Otra ReparticionDEPARTAMENTO DE CIENCIAS BASICAS
ubb.Otra ReparticionDEPARTAMENTO DE CIENCIAS BASICAS
ubb.SedeCONCEPCIÓN
ubb.SedeCHILLÁN
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