Red Lionfish DNA data collected from Florida, USA and around the invasive distribution from 2007 to 2016
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Publication Date
2021-10-04
Time Period
2010
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2011
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2013
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2014
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2015
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2016
Citation
Beaver, C.E., Johnson, N.A., Bors, E.K., Mignucci-Giannoni, A.A., Silliman, B., Buddo, D., Searle, L., Diaz-Ferguson, E., and Hunter, M.E., 2021, Red Lionfish DNA data collected from Florida, USA and around the invasive distribution from 2007 to 2016: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9YTIXSE.
Summary
Red lionfish (Pterois volitans) have become a successful invasive predator across the Northwestern Atlantic, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico (GoM). Previous investigations have identified the southeast coast of Florida as the original site of introduction, but no region-wide genetic study has directly addressed the question of introduction location(s). This dataset includes previously unpublished red lionfish samples (n = 237) from six locations: The Bahamas, Florida Keys, Northwest Florida, North Carolina, Panama, and Southeast Florida. Sequences archived in NCBI from other locations in the Northern Region, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico basins were used in the analyses (N = 1558). Previously published sequences were obtained from Freshwater [...]
Summary
Red lionfish (Pterois volitans) have become a successful invasive predator across the Northwestern Atlantic, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico (GoM). Previous investigations have identified the southeast coast of Florida as the original site of introduction, but no region-wide genetic study has directly addressed the question of introduction location(s). This dataset includes previously unpublished red lionfish samples (n = 237) from six locations: The Bahamas, Florida Keys, Northwest Florida, North Carolina, Panama, and Southeast Florida. Sequences archived in NCBI from other locations in the Northern Region, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico basins were used in the analyses (N = 1558). Previously published sequences were obtained from Freshwater et al. (2009) (N = 396), Sealy et al. (2013) (N = 178), Whitaker and Janosik (2020) (N = 80), Butterfield et al. (2015) (N = 214), Toledo-Hernandez et al. (2014) (N = 118), Betancur-R et al. (2011) (N = 337), and Johnson et al. (2016) (N = 235). Previously unpublished North Carolina lionfish sequences were also obtained from the collection held by D. Wilson Freshwater (n = 2). Additionally, 14 microsatellite loci were multiplexed to assess connectivity and invasion pathways on 393 samples from the region.
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Hunter, M.E., Beaver, C.E., Johnson, N.A., Bors, E.K., Mignucci-Giannoni, A.A., Silliman, B.R., Buddo, D., Searle, L., and Díaz-Ferguson, E., 2021, Genetic analysis of red lionfish Pterois volitans from Florida, USA, leads to alternative North Atlantic introduction scenarios: Marine Ecology Progress Series, v. 675, p. 133-151, https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13841.
The purpose of this study was to compare Red Lionfish genetic samples from the Northwestern Atlantic Ocean, Greater Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico waters with previously published lionfish samples to determine the validity of a South Florida introduction being the source of the invasive population in the Western Atlantic Ocean.
