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Real-Time PCR Identification of Lake Whitefish Coregonus Clupeaformis in the Laurentian Great Lakes Journal of Fish Biology (2016) 88, 1460–1474 doi:10.1111/jfb.12922, available online at wileyonlinelibrary.com Real-time PCR identification of lake whitefish Coregonus clupeaformis in the Laurentian Great Lakes L. M. Overdyk*†,H.E.Braid‡, A. M. Naaum*, S. S. Crawford*§ and R. H. Hanner*‖ *Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1 Canada, ‡Institute for Applied Ecology New Zealand, Auckland University of Technology, Private Bag 92006, Auckland, New Zealand, §Chippewas of Nawash, Unceeded First Nation, 135 Lakeshore Blvd, Nevaashiinigmiing, ON, N1G 2W1 Canada and ‖Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1 Canada (Received 30 April 2015, Accepted 23 January 2016) The purpose of this study was to develop a real-time PCR assay to specifically identify lake whitefish Coregonus clupeaformis in larval fish assemblages based on a 122 bp amplicon from the mitochondrial genome. The efficiency of the reaction, as calculated from the standard curve,⋅ was90 77% with the standard curve having an r2 value of 0⋅998. Specificity of the assay provided single melt peakin a melt-curve analysis and amplification of only the target species. The assay successfully identified target DNA in as low as 0⋅1% proportion of a DNA mixture. This assay was designed on the portable Smart Cycler II platform and can be used in both field and laboratory settings to successfully identify C. clupeaformis. © 2016 The Fisheries Society of the British Isles Key words: Coregoninae; DNA barcoding; entrainment; species identification; TaqMan. INTRODUCTION Species-level identification of ichthyoplankton can be extremely challenging dueto the small size of larvae and lack of distinguishing morphometric and meristic char- acteristics (Scott & Crossman, 1973; Teletchea, 2009). The proper identification of ichthyoplankton is extremely important in fish ecology, especially for understanding important spawning and nursery habitats, life-history dynamics and year-class forecast- ing in fishery management (Ko et al., 2013). The classical method for identification of larval fish relies on morphology-based keys (Scott & Crossman, 1973;Ko et al., 2013), which can be highly unreliable and inaccurate (Hare et al., 1994; Kochzius et al., 2008). The morphological identification of larval fishes in the subfamily Coregoninae is particularly challenging because phenotypic characteristics often vary across environments, and there are few distinct morphological characteristics for species with †Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel. +1 519 824 4120 ext. 53594; email loverdyk@ uoguelph.ca 1460 © 2016 The Fisheries Society of the British Isles QPCR OF COREGONUS CLUPEAFORMIS IN LAKE HURON 1461 overlapping ranges (Scott & Crossman, 1973; Auer, 1982; Schlei et al., 2008). In the Laurentian Great Lakes, coregonines such as lake whitefish Coregonus clupeaformis (Mitchell 1818), lake herring Coregonus artedi Lesueur 1818, bloater Coregonus hoyi (Milner 1874), shortjaw cisco Coregonus zenithicus (Jordan & Evermann 1909) and round whitefish Prosopium cylindraceum (Pennant 1784) are important species socially, commercially and ecologically to both indigenous and non-indigenous human communities (S. Crawford, A. Muir & K. McCann, unpubl. data; Golder Associates, unpubl. data). Within the Great Lakes, other coregonids such as the deepwater ciscos Coregonus kiyi (Koelz 1921) and Coregonus johannae (Wagner 1910), the shortnose cisco Coregonus reighardi (Koelz1924), the blackfin cisco Coregonus nigripinnis (Milner 1874) and the longjaw cisco Coregonus alpenae (Koelz 1924) have been reported, with C. alpenae, C. nigripinnis, C. reighardi and C. johannae currently considered extinct (Todd & Smith, 1992; Davis & Todd, 1998; Roth et al., 2012). Coregonus kiyi and C. nigripinnis are reported as extirpated, and lavaret Coregonus lavaretus (L. 1758) and maraene Coregonus maraena (Bloch 1779) were introduced into Lake Huron but failed to establish (Roth et al., 2012). Among the commercially harvested species, larvae of C. artedi and C. clupeaformis have previously been reported as very difficult to differentiate on the basis of morphological characteristics (Todd & Stedman, 1989). Both C. clupeaformis and P. cylindraceum have been specifically classified as ‘Valued Ecosystem Components’ (VEC) in Lake Huron because of their ecological significance, economic value and presence of important spawning locations in Lake Huron (J. A. Holmes & D. I. G. Noakes, unpubl. data; T. Brown, unpubl. data). For the purpose of this proof-of-concept study, C. clupeaformis is the target species because it is the most intensively harvested species by the Lake Huron indigenous and non-Indigenous fisheries (Morh & Nalepa, 2005; LaRiviere & Crawford, 2013). Visual identification of larval C. clupeaformis relies on morphological keys, notably those prepared by Auer (1982) and Cucin & Faber (1985). Such visual identification, however, can be costly, labour intensive and unreliable for samples that contain multi- ple individuals and species (Pfrender et al., 2010). In addition, morphological species identification of larval samples can be particularly difficult because individuals may be badly damaged during sampling, and often only fragmentary remains are recovered (D. D. Ager, I. Cord & P. H. Patrick, unpubl. data). Genetic techniques, including DNA barcoding and restricted fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs), have the potential to greatly increase accuracy and reliability of larval fish identification (Hebert, 2003; Kochzius et al., 2010; Ko et al., 2013) as well as the identification of fragmentary remains (Quinteiro et al., 1998; Mackie et al., 1999). Several genetic methods have previously been applied to identify C. clupeaformis, including: allozymes to identify C. clupeaformis populations (Casselman et al., 1981); microsatellites to infer glacial lineages (Lu et al., 2001); RFLPs to evaluate genetic diversity and geographic structure (Bernatchez & Dodson, 1991); and DNA barcoding for species identification (Hubert et al., 2008). Although these genetic techniques are effective in identifying C. clu- peaformis, and provide some benefits over visual identification, they can still be very costly and time consuming for large-scale implementation. For these reasons, it is nec- essary to develop novel genetic methods for reliably identifying C. clupeaformis in large, mixed samples of wild ichthyoplankton. Real-time PCR (qPCR) has been proposed as an alternative method for species identification to address the issues of cost, time and handling of multispecies batch © 2016 The Fisheries Society of the British Isles, Journal of Fish Biology 2016, 88, 1460–1474 1462 L. M. OVERDYK ET AL. samples like the mashes (collection of multiple species and individuals) resulting from ichthyoplankton surveys (Bustin, 2005). Real-time PCR has proven to be a reliable method for species identification in many fields, including pest identification (Huang et al., 2010; Naaum et al., 2012) and seafood market fraud (Taylor et al., 2002; Rasmussen Hellberg & Morrissey, 2011). This method has also been applied successfully in several aspects of fish ecology including the identification of fish eggs (Taylor et al., 2002; Bayha et al., 2008; Gleason & Burton, 2011), the identification of marine fish parasites (McBeath et al., 2006) and the differentiation of commercially important salmonid species (Rasmussen Hellberg et al., 2010). Real-time PCR can also allow for relative quantification of individual larvae in ichthyoplankton samples (Pan et al., 2008). In terms of technical advantages, real-time PCR identification can be performed rapidly, producing results in as little as 1 h, and requires no post-PCR processing steps including gel electrophoresis. In addition, real-time PCR can also be performed onsite with portable platforms, providing enhanced flexibility and respon- siveness for field assessments of species identification (Naaum et al., 2012). This makes real-time PCR an ideal alternative to current methods for species identification of C. clupeaformis. In this study, genus-specific PCR primers and species-specific probe for real-time PCR were designed for C. clupeaformis using DNA barcode sequences. DNA bar- coding, a method of species identification that utilizes sequence variation inthe mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) gene to discriminate species (Hebert et al., 2003), has proven to be particularly useful for fishes (Ward et al., 2009) including those from North America (Hubert et al., 2008; April et al., 2012). Larval fishes have been successfully identified using DNA barcoding in Australia (Pegg et al., 2006), among coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific (Hubert et al., 2010), along the Caribbean coast of Panama (Victor et al., 2009), and along the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico (Valdez-Moreno et al., 2010). The DNA barcode region was used in the development of this assay because of the low intra-specific and high inter-specific variability of this region, and due to the high quality and availability of publicly available sequences in the Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (Ratnasingham & Hebert, 2007). Moreover, this facilitated the use of barcoding (i.e. Sanger sequencing) to verify species identifications. MATERIALS AND METHODS Larval samples were provided by third parties as preserved tissues in 95% ethanol. Larval specimens were first examined by visual identifiers. Caudal-fin clips were taken from eachlar-
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