RESEARCH ARTICLE Low Genetic Diversity and High Invasion Success of Corbicula fluminea (Bivalvia, Corbiculidae) (Müller, 1774) in Portugal Cidália Gomes1,2, Ronaldo Sousa1,3, Tito Mendes1,4, Rui Borges1,4, Pedro Vilares1,2, Vitor Vasconcelos1,4, Lúcia Guilhermino1,2, Agostinho Antunes1,4* 1 CIIMAR/CIMAR - Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixões, Av. General Norton de Matos, s/n, 4450–208, Porto, Portugal, 2 ICBAS - Institute of the Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar, University of Porto, Department of Populations a11111 Study, Laboratory of Ecotoxicology, Rua de Jorge Viterbo Ferreira, 228, 4050–313, Porto, Portugal, 3 CBMA - Centre of Molecular and Environmental Biology, Department of Biology, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710–057, Braga, Portugal, 4 FCUP - Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre, s/n Edifício FC5, 4169–007, Porto, Portugal *
[email protected] OPEN ACCESS Abstract Citation: Gomes C, Sousa R, Mendes T, Borges R, Vilares P, Vasconcelos V, et al. (2016) Low Genetic The Asian clam, Corbicula fluminea, is an invasive alien species (IAS) originally from Asia Diversity and High Invasion Success of Corbicula fluminea (Bivalvia, Corbiculidae) (Müller, 1774) in that has spread worldwide causing major ecological and economic impacts in aquatic eco- Portugal. PLoS ONE 11(7): e0158108. doi:10.1371/ systems. Here, we evaluated C. fluminea genetic (using COI mtDNA, CYTb mtDNA and journal.pone.0158108 18S rDNA gene markers), morphometric and sperm morphology variation in Portuguese Editor: Donald James Colgan, Australian Museum, freshwater ecosystems. The COI marker revealed a single haplotype, which belongs to the AUSTRALIA Asian FW5 invasive lineage, suggesting a common origin for all the 13 Portuguese C.