Genetic variation and Phylogeography of Sinibrama Macrops (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) in Qiantang River Basin,China

A 924 bp segment of the mitochondrial control region (d-loop) was sequenced and analyzed in 334 specimens of Sinibrama macrops from 13 sites in Qiantang River Basin, China. Haplotype diversity (h = 0.724 ± 0.063) and nucleotide diversity (π = 0.00263 ± 0.00027) were lowest in Shengzhou population which had been separated from mainstream of Qiantang River Basin by seawater. The results of pairwise Fst values and average genetic distance revealed significant divergence between Shengzhou and other populations. No geographic clustering was observed in haplotype network, suggesting that there were gene flow among populations except Shengzhou. Pairwise mismatch distributions and Tajima's d-test showed demographic history of Shengzhou population was different from others. Base on the analysis of mitochondrial control region, the differentiation of Shengzhou population was considered to be the result of the transgression and regression in the last interglacial period.