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Article

The First Record of Ocypode sinensis (Decapoda: Ocypodidae) from the Korean Peninsula: How the Complete Mitochondrial Genome Elucidates the Divergence History of Ghost Crabs

by
Da-In Kim
1,2,†,
Sook-Jin Jang
3,4,† and
Taewon Kim
1,2,*
1
Program in Biomedical Science & Engineering, Inha University, Incheon 22212, Republic of Korea
2
Department of Ocean Sciences, Inha University, Incheon 22212, Republic of Korea
3
BK21 Center for Precision Medicine & Smart Engineering, Inha University, Incheon 22212, Republic of Korea
4
Ocean Georesources Research Department, Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Busan 49111, Republic of Korea
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
†
These authors contributed equally to this work.
J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2023, 11(12), 2348; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse11122348
Submission received: 1 November 2023 / Revised: 8 December 2023 / Accepted: 11 December 2023 / Published: 12 December 2023
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evolution and Ecology of Crustaceans and Their Applications)
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Abstract

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Ghost crabs, as a species of the Ocypode within the subfamily Ocypodinae, are distributed in the upper intertidal zone worldwide and are ecologically remarkable. They play an important role in the energy circulation in the intertidal zone and are used as an ecological indicator to predict the impacts of environmental change or anthropogenic activities on the marine ecosystem. In this study, we provide the first evidence for the distribution of O. sinensis in Jeju Island and the southern coastal area on the Korean Peninsula. We generated a high-fidelity mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) for the species. The mitogenome was assembled into a circular chromosome of 15,589 bp, including 13 protein-coding genes, two ribosomal RNA genes, and twenty-two transfer RNA genes. High genetic variation compared with closely related species enabled the precise reconstruction of phylogenetic relationships and an estimation of the divergence times among the Ocypode species. The phylogenetic inference indicated that O. sinensis forms a monophyletic clade with O. cordimanus and diverged from ancestral species approximately 20.41 million years ago.

1. Introduction

Changes in ocean and air temperatures, ocean circulation, and ocean chemistry caused by climate change affect the coastal marine ecosystems [1,2]. Modeling approaches have predicted the future loss of biodiversity and habitat shifts for many marine species globally [3,4]. The impact of climate change is expected to be particularly significant for species that are endemic to sandy beach habitats [5,6]. Ghost crabs of the genus Ocypode occur in the intertidal zone in the subtropics and tropics and serve as an ecological indicator species to assess the global warming effects of climate change [7,8]. Recently, the habitat extension of O. cordimanus to the south (poleward) was observed in Australia in response to ocean and coastal air temperatures warming [7].
In Northeast Asia, six species of the genus Ocypode were observed, including O. stimpsoni (Ortmann, 1897), O. ceratophthalma (Pallas, 1772), O. cordimanus (Latreille, 1818), O. sinensis (Dai & Yang, 1985), O. mortoni (George, 1982), and O. pallidula (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1846) [9]. In the Korean Peninsula, only two species are reported: O. stimpsoni is mainly found in the western and southern regions of the mainland, and O. cordimanus occurs only at Jeju Island in the southernmost region [10,11]. In 2016, O. stimpsoni was designated as a protected marine species in Korea in response to a rapid decrease in the population size caused by habitat loss associated with coastal development [12].
Ghost crabs are commonly found on sandy beaches worldwide, and they play a crucial role in sediment circulation through their repetitive behavior of excavating and concealing burrows [13,14]. They engage in ecological roles as scavengers of dead organisms and intermediate trophic components within the food web [15,16]. To date, the behavioral ecology of ghost crabs has been primarily studied in relation to their sensitivity to environmental variation and anthropogenic disturbances [17,18,19,20,21]. The phylogeny and evolution of the ghost crabs remain poorly studied, and the availability of genetic data is considerably limited, though mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) sequences from ghost crab species have recently been published [11,22,23,24]. Complete mitogenomes improve the accuracy of phylogenetic analyses [25] and can expand knowledge of the evolution and speciation of Brachyura species by providing insights into the divergence history of the ghost crabs. In this study, we provide the first evidence for the distribution of O. sinensis on the Korean Peninsula based on morphological traits and mitochondrial sequences. Additionally, we describe the mitogenome of O. sinensis, providing a precise understanding of the divergence history of ghost crab species at a high resolution.

2. Materials and Methods

2.1. Sample Preparation, Morphological Characterization and Sediment Grain Analysis

We collected ghost crab specimens from two locations, Busan (BS) and Jeju (JJ), on the Korean Peninsula (Supplementary Figure S1 and Table 1). The specimens were preserved in 95% ethanol immediately after collection and stored at −20 °C. One specimen from JJ was deposited in the National Institute of Biological Resources (NIBR) with accession number NIBRIV0000907532. We identified species based on the morphological traits and genetic distances among the species of the genus Ocypode. Specimens from JJ were examined using a stereomicroscope (Leica M125, Leica, Singapore), and the morphological traits of carapace shape, suborbital shape, chela shape, and color, the existence of a stridulating ridge, and abdomen shape were described [26]. The specimen collected at BS was severely damaged during the collection process and was, therefore, excluded from the morphological analysis. Sediment samples were collected from two sampling sites and stored at −80 °C. We analyzed the sediment grain using five sieves to separate particles according to the following sizes: 0.5–1.0 mm, 0.25–0.5 mm, 0.12–0.25 mm, 0.06–0.12 mm, 0.03–0.06 mm, and particles <0.03 mm (AT center Inc., Incheon, Republic of Korea) [27].

2.2. Molecular Analysis for Genetically Identification

Genomic DNA was extracted from the muscle tissue of all three specimens to estimate the genetic distance using the QIAamp Fast DNA Tissue Kit (Qiagen, Valencia, CA, USA). Partial sequences of the cytochrome oxidase c subunit (cox1) gene were amplified via a PCR using the primers LCO1490 and HCO2198 [28] with IP-Taq polymerase (Labopass, Seoul, Republic of Korea). The PCR reaction contained 1.0 μL of template DNA, 1.0 μL of each primer (10 μM), 10.0 μL of the IP-Taq PCR mastermix (Labopass), and distilled water to give a total volume of 20 μL. PCR was performed under the following conditions: initial denaturation at 95 °C for 5 min; 35 cycles of denaturation at 94 °C for 50 s, annealing at 45 °C for 70 s, and elongation at 72 °C for 60 s; and final elongation at 72 °C for 10 min. Amplified products were sequenced using the Applied Biosystems 3730xl DNA Analyzer (Applied Biosystems Inc., Incheon, Republic of Korea). The interspecific genetic distances in the genus Ocypode were estimated based on cox1 sequences of the three specimens using Kimura’s two-parameter model in MEGA v. 11 [29].

2.3. Molecular Analysis for Mitogenome

The genomic DNA sequence was amplified from one of the specimens collected at Jeju (NIBRIV0000907532) using the REPLI-g Mitochondrial DNA Kit (Qiagen, Valencia, CA, USA) for the selective amplification of mitochondrial DNA. The genomic DNA sequence was generated based on the Illumina NovaSeq 6000 platform (DNA Link Inc., Seoul, Republic of Korea). The processing of raw sequences included quality checking using FastQC v.0.12.1 [30] and the trimming of adapters and low-quality reads using Trimmomatic v.0.39 [31]. Subsequently, reads were assembled using Novoplasty v.3.8.3 [32] and annotated using the GeSeq and MITOS tool automatic annotation programs [33,34]. Phylogenetic analyses were conducted using 13 mitochondrial protein-coding genes (PCGs), and mitogenome sequences from 29 species across nine families within Eurachyura were analyzed, including four species within the genus Ocypode. Moloha major from the Homoloida was used as an outgroup. The sequences of all species except for O. sinensis were obtained from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (Table 2). The sequences for each gene were aligned using RevTrans, informed by the amino acid sequences aligned with MAFFT v.7.490 [35] on Geneious Prime 2022.2. The best-fit models of nucleotide substitution were estimated using jModelTest2 [36] on the Cyberinfrastructure for Phylogenetic Research (CIPRES) web server [37], based on the Akaike information criterion: TIM2 + I for nd3, TIM2 + I + Г for atp6 and cytB, TIM3 + I + Г for atp8, TVM + I + Г for cox1, cox2, and cox3, and GTR + I + Г for nd1, nd2, nd4, nd4l, nd5, and nd6. A phylogenetic tree was reconstructed based on maximum likelihood (ML) and Bayesian inference (BI) approaches. The ML analysis was performed using IQ-Tree v. 2.2.2.7 [38] with 100,000 ‘ultrafast’ bootstrap approximation replicates. A substitution model for each gene was applied using a partition option. The BI analysis was performed using MrBayes v.3.2.7a [39] on the CIPRES web server. Two simultaneous and independent runs were carried out, each utilizing Metropolis coupled with Markov Chains Monte Carlo (MCMC) for 1 million generations with four heated chains and sampling for every 10 million generations following 25% burn-in. The GTR + I + Г substitution model was applied to all genes instead of the models unavailable in the MrBayes.

2.4. Estimation Divergence Time

The divergence time was estimated using Beast v.2.7.3 [40] on the CIPRES web server based on the Bayesian tree topology reconstructed using MrBayes and the same partitioned concatenated dataset. Clock models and the tree were linked, and the optimized relaxed clock with a fossilized birth–death model [41] was employed. Two independent runs were conducted for 300 million generations and sampling every 1000 generations. These were combined using LogCombiner v.2.6.7 following the diagnostics of mixing using Tracer v.1.7.2. The maximum clade credibility tree, with median values of node heights, was estimated using TreeAnotator v.2.7.5 and visualized in R following the Beast Tutorial (https://taming-the-beast.org/tutorials/FBD-tutorial/, accessed on 2 November 2023). Diverging time calibration was calculated using fossils of Brachyura which were utilized, with the four oldest-known fossils selected as follows: (1) Rioarribia schrami of the infraorder Brachyura from the Upper Triassic (212–221.5 Mya) [42,43]; (2) Lithophylax trigeri of the superfamily Portunoidea from the Late Cretaceous (94.3–99.7 Mya) [44,45]; (3) Callinectes alabamensis fossil of the subfamily Portuninae dated to the Oligocene (28.4–33.9 Mya) [46]; and (4) Metapograpsus badenis of the superfamily Grapsoidea from the Early Miocene (12.7–13.7 Mya) [47].
Table 2. List of Brachyura species with their GenBank accession numbers.
Table 2. List of Brachyura species with their GenBank accession numbers.
FamilySpeciesSize (bp)GenBank IDReferences
BythograeidaeGandalfus yunohana15,567EU647222[48]
Austinograea rodriguezensis15,611JQ035658[49]
Austinograea alayseaea15,620JQ035660[49]
PortunidaeCallinectes sapidus16,263AY363392[50]
Charybdis japonica15,738FJ460517[51]
Scylla serrata15,721HM590866[52]
Portunus trituberculatus16,026NC_005037[53]
PotamidaeGeothelphusa dehaani18,197NC_007379[54]
PseudocarcinidaePseudocarcinus gigas15,515AY562127[55]
GrapsidaePachygrapsus crassipes15,652KC878511[56]
Grapsus tenuicrustatus15,858KT878721[57]
Metopograpsus frontalis15,587MH028874[58]
Metopograpsus quadridentatus15,517MH183127[59]
Grapsus albolineatus15,583MZ262276[60]
Pachygrapsus marmoratus15,406MF457403.1[61]
OcypodidaeTubuca capricornis15,629MF457401.1[61]
Cranuca inversa15,677MF457405.1[61]
Austruca lactea15,659KY865330[62]
Tubuca polita15,672MF457400[61]
Gelasimus borealis15,662MH796170[63]
Ocypode ceratophthalma15,564LN611669[24]
Ocypode stimpsoni15,557MN917464[11]
Ocypode cordimanus15,604NC_029725[23]
Xeruca formosensis15,684OL693688[64]
VarunidaeEriocheir sinensis16,335FJ455505[65]
Eriocheir japonica16,352FJ455506[65]
Eriocheir hepuensis16,353FJ455507[65]
XenograpsidaeXenograpsus testudinatus15,796EU727203[66]
HomolidaeMoloha majora16,084KT182069[67]

3. Results

3.1. Sediment Analysis

Two new occurrence sites of O. sinensis were discovered at JJ and BS in the Korean Peninsula (Supplementary Figure S1 and Table 1). The sediment from the two sites had approximately the same proportion of sand and a uniform particle grain size in the range of sand (0.06–1.0 mm; 0–4 Ø). The sediment from JJ consisted of 99.91% sand (0.06–1.0 mm; 0–4 Ø) and 0.09% silt (0.03–0.06 mm), while the sediment from BS comprised 99.64% sand and 0.35% silt (Table 1). In terms of the relative composition of different particle sizes of sand, the sediment from JJ had 47.45% in the range of 0.25–0.5 mm (1–3 Ø) and 49.25% in the range of 0.12–0.25 mm (2–3 Ø), while the sediment from BS was mainly composed of sand particles in the range of 0.25–0.5 mm (1–2 Ø; 63.19%).

3.2. Morphological Characteristic

  • Systematics
Superfamily Ocypodoidea Rafinesque, 1815
Family Ocypodidae Rafinesque, 1815
Subfamily Ocypodinae Rafinesque, 1815
Genus Ocypode Weber, 1795
Ocypode sinensis Dai, Song & Yang, 1985 (Korean name: 도담달랑게 Dodam-dalang-ge).
  • The Material Examined
1 male (NIBRIV0000907532) (9.6 mm × 11.7 mm in carapace length, 0.78 g in body weight), JJ on 29 August 2022, and 1 male (11.2 mm × 13.0 mm in carapace length, 0.83 g in body weight), JJ on 30 August 2022. Sex was identified based on the abdomen shape according to previous studies (Figure 1a and Figure 2a) [9,26].
  • Diagnosis
Morphological characteristics were determined from the examination of two males. The diagnostic features included short eyestalks, a pale yellowish-gray body with anterior regions of the abdomen, and yellowish-brown dorsal parts of the carapace (Figure 2). The carapace was covered with randomly distributed spots that were olive yellow and dark brown. Two yellowish-orange spots were observed on the carapace, commonly from two specimens (Figure 1b and Figure 2b). The suborbital margin had no clefts (Figure 1c and Figure 2c), and the stridulating ridge was absent (Figure 2d). The color of the outer surface of the major palm (upper two-thirds) was yellowish-orange (Figure 2e). The immovable finger of the male’s major finger chela tip was slightly curved upward (Figure 2f).

3.3. Genetic Distance

The specimens collected from the Korean Peninsula exhibited a genetic distance of <1% (0.54–0.91%) when compared with O. sinensis (Table 3) and a genetic distance of >13% when compared with other species of the genus Ocypode. These data support the results of the morphological analysis and indicate that the ghost crabs collected on the Korean Peninsula can be genetically identified as O. sinensis.

3.4. Mitogenome Structure

A total of 28,076,175 sequences were generated, and after filtering, 24,602,264 sequences were used to assemble the whole mitogenome. The mitogenome of O. sinensis was 15,589 bp in length (GenBank accession number OR722672) and exhibited an AT bias (A = 32.7%, C = 20.7%, G = 11.5%, T = 35.1%) with an overall AT content of 67.8%. The mitogenome contained 13 PCGs, two rRNA genes, 22 tRNA genes, and a putative control region of 721 bp between nad1 and nad2 (Figure 3 and Table 4). We compared the mitogenome of O. sinensis with three other species of Ocypode, and the gene arrangement was found to be similar across the species. The 13 PCGs amounted to 11,179 bp, accounting for 71.7% of whole mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). Among the 13 PCGs, eight genes had the conventional start codons, ATG (atp8, cox1, cox2, cox3, cytB, and nad2) and ATT (atp6 and nad3), while the remaining genes utilized alternative start codons, TTA (nad1, nad4, nad4l, and nad5) and CTT (nd6; Table 4). Eight genes were terminated via the conventional stop codon TAA (atp6, atp8, cox1, cox3, nad3, and nad6) and TAG (cox2 and nad2), while the remaining genes used the alternative stop codons, CAT (nad1, nad4, nad4l, and nad5) and AAA (cytB; Table 4). The length of the 16S and 12S rRNA genes were 1371 bp and 833 bp, respectively, and the AT content of the rRNA genes was 72.3% (Table 4).

3.5. Phylogeny of the Genus Ocypode

The ML and BI analyses revealed consistent tree topologies, with each family demonstrating clear evolutionary divergence (Figure 4). Within the Ocypodidae, species distinctly diverged into different lineages within the subfamilies Gelasiminae and Ocypodinae, supported by high probability and bootstrap values. BI supported the idea that Ocypodidae appeared during the Cretaceous period and survived during the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event. Subsequently, the extant species diversified from the Eocene to the Miocene (Figure 4), which is a pattern consistent with broader taxonomic analyses of the Brachyuran crabs through the analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear genes [49,68]. Molecular data were used to reassess the divergence time of the genus Ocypode. The oldest fossil record of the Ocypodidae and the Ocypode is Afruca tangeri from the lower middle Miocene (13.82–15.97 Mya) [69] and O. vericoncava from the Miocene (7.25–11.61 Mya) [70]. Due to the unsuitable habitat environment for fossil preservation among Ocypodidae crabs, estimating their divergence times based on fossils remains uncertain. Our results suggest that the divergence of the Ocypodidae occurred approximately 80.31 Mya (95% highest posterior density (HPD): 55.04–110.85 Mya), which is markedly older than that indicated by the fossil records.

4. Discussion

Here, we provide the first evidence for the occurrence and distribution of O. sinensis in the Korean Peninsula, based on morphological and molecular analyses, along with characterization of the habitat in terms of sediment composition. The sediment grain size of O. sinensis habitats reported in the present study was similar to the habitats of O. cordimanus, O. gaudichaudii, and O. quadrata [72,73,74]. According to a review by Sakai & Türkay (2013), O. sinensis and O. cordimanus cannot be distinguished morphologically [9]. However, our specimens of O. sinensis exhibited several characteristics distinguishing the species from O. cordimanus, as described by Huang et al. 1998 [26]. We observed three distinguishing features in our specimens of O. sinensis as follows: (1) the absence of suborbital margins, (2) a yellowish-orange color on the outer surface of the major palm, and (3) an upward curved immovable fingertip.
In addition, we verified the morphological identification of specimens with molecular phylogenetic analysis based on the mitogenome. O. sinensis and O. cordimanus formed a monophyletic lineage, which was consistent with the observation of a relatively close genetic distance in cox1 sequences between Ocypode species, and two species were found to be sisters to the monophyletic group comprising O. stimpsoni and O. ceratophthalma. This divergence pattern was consistent with the previous study based on partial sequences of the cox1 gene [75]. Small differences were observed between the mitogenomes of Ocypode species. The mitogenome of O. sinensis (15,589 bp) was shorter than that of O. cordimanus (15,604 bp) and longer than that of O. stimpsoni (15,557 bp) and O. ceratophthalma (15,564 bp) [11,23,24]. The mitogenome of O. sinensis exhibited an AT bias, consistent with the O. stimpsoni mitogenome (67.8%; MN917464), yet the AT content was lower than that of the O. ceratophthalmus mitogenome (76.5%; LN611669) and higher than that of the O. cordimanus mitogenome (66.3%; NC_029725).
The divergence time between O. sinensis and O. cordimanus was estimated to be approximately 20.41 Mya (95% HPD: 9.58–33.90 Mya). The mitogenome data support the hypothesis that these two species underwent evolutionary divergence during the early Miocene and or the Eocene period. Ocypode sinensis has a broader distribution covering the Indo-Pacific, including Japan, China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Peninsular Malaysia, and India [26,76], and recently this species was reported in Iran [76]. Considering the current overlap in habitat use between O. sinensis and O. cordimanus in the Indo-Pacific, it is hard to interpret whether geographic separation contributed to the divergence of O. sinensis. The distribution range of O. sinensis may have expanded because of climate change. The branch of the Kuroshio Current, particularly expanding to the East Sea, known as the Tsushima Current, for example, is a warm ocean current, and it could have transported O. sinensis to the northern regions, including Korea [77,78]. The recent first sighting of O. sinensis in Shinonsen-cho, Hyogo Prefecture, in the west of Japan was relatively far north of previous known locations, which lends support to this prediction [79].
However, considering that O. sinensis and O. cordimanus have previously not been easily distinguished by morphological features [9,26,76], re-evaluations based on molecular data to clarify geographic distributions and divergence history are required. This necessity arises from the fact that previous studies are based on morphological characters. In light of this, the previous identifications of O. sinensis based on only morphological features in the regions of Madras (India) and Iran [9,26,76] necessitate additional investigations utilizing genetic data to elucidate its broad distribution, which extends to the coast of the Indian Ocean. Additionally, future in-depth analysis using an extensive dataset of high-resolution data characterizing genetic variation, such as SNPs, is crucial for a comprehensive understanding of the dispersal pathways of O. sinensis and O. cordimanus. For example, it is essential to determine whether these two species had secondary contact post-speciation or if other mechanisms related to environmental adaptation were involved in species divergence.
Meanwhile, the divergence of O. stimpsoni from its respective ancestral lineage was estimated to have occurred at approximately 28.27 Mya (95% HPD: 13.69–55.76 Mya). Tectonic activity in the western Pacific became notably active at approximately 45 Mya as the topology of the continent settled into its present form, Australia began to drift northward, and a new subduction zone emerged around Sundaland (Figure 4) [71,80,81]. Remarkably, the collision of Australia with the Asian margin after 25 Mya drove the biogeographic separation (Figure 4) [71,82]. Given the restricted area of suitable habitat for O. stimpsoni in the northwestern Pacific region, especially in Northeast Asia [9], we infer that dynamic changes in the coastline in the western Pacific also contributed to geographic divergence.

5. Conclusions

We compared O. sinensis with the genus Ocypode using the mitochondrial genome and provided evidence for the divergence time based on fossil data. According to a previous study, O. sinensis and O. cordimanus cannot be separated based on morphological characteristics. However, we confirmed the differences between O. sinensis and O. cordimanus based on both morphological and genetic analysis. Furthermore, phylogenetic reconstruction supports the divergence of these two species, suggesting that O. sinensis and O. cordimanus diverged from O. stimpsoni and O. ceratophthalma during the Eocene. To date, mitogenome research has been conducted only on O. sinensis, O. cordimanus, O. stimpsoni, and O. ceratophthalma among the 25 species in the Ocypode genus, including this study. Our results provide baseline data for future studies and provide insights into the speciation history of the genus Ocypode.

Supplementary Materials

The following supporting information can be downloaded at: https://www.mdpi.com/article/10.3390/jmse11122348/s1, Figure S1. Sampling sites of Ocypode sinensis. Map of the Korean Peninsula created using Ocean Data View v. 5.6.5. Yellow circles represent the sampling sites at Busan (BS) and Jeju Island (JJ). Scale bars 500 km.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization, D.-I.K., S.-J.J. and T.K.; formal analysis, D.-I.K. and S.-J.J.; investigation, D.-I.K. and S.-J.J.; resources, D.-I.K.; data curation, D.-I.K. and S.-J.J.; writing—original draft preparation, D.-I.K. and S.-J.J.; writing—review and editing, D.-I.K., S.-J.J. and T.K.; visualization, D.-I.K. and S.-J.J.; supervision, S.-J.J. and T.K.; project administration, T.K.; funding acquisition, T.K. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Funding

This research was supported by Inha University (70485-1).

Institutional Review Board Statement

As the animal handling involved only invertebrate crustaceans, no additional permission was required.

Informed Consent Statement

Not applicable.

Data Availability Statement

The sequence data are deposited in GenBank under the accession number: OR722672, OR729708–OR729709.

Acknowledgments

We thank Jiwon Heo in Molecular Ecology Lab (Ewha Womans university) for assisting with the analysis of mitogenome sequences. We also appreciate the valuable comments provided by four anonymous reviewers that improved this manuscript. This work was supported by the National Supercomputing Center with supercomputing resources including technical support (KSC-2023-CRE-0088).

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Figure 1. Ocypode sinensis, male, collected at Jeju, South Korea (NIBRIV0000907532). (a) Ventral view, (b) dorsal view, and (c) front view. Scale bars 1 cm.
Figure 1. Ocypode sinensis, male, collected at Jeju, South Korea (NIBRIV0000907532). (a) Ventral view, (b) dorsal view, and (c) front view. Scale bars 1 cm.
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Figure 2. Ocypode sinensis, male, collected at Jeju, South Korea. (a) Ventral view, (b) dorsal view, (c) suborbital margins, (d) stridulating ridge, (e) outer surface of major palm, and (f) immovable fingertip. Scale bars 5 mm.
Figure 2. Ocypode sinensis, male, collected at Jeju, South Korea. (a) Ventral view, (b) dorsal view, (c) suborbital margins, (d) stridulating ridge, (e) outer surface of major palm, and (f) immovable fingertip. Scale bars 5 mm.
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Figure 3. Circular map of the mitochondrial genome of Ocypode sinensis. The arrows represent the direction of the DNA strands.
Figure 3. Circular map of the mitochondrial genome of Ocypode sinensis. The arrows represent the direction of the DNA strands.
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Figure 4. Reconstructed phylogenetic tree with estimated divergence times. Bayesian inference probabilities and maximum likelihood bootstrap values are shown at the nodes, and the mean divergence time is indicated below the nodes. The node bar represents the 95% highest posterior density (HPD), with details for the nodes of interest shown in the upper left corner. Geological periods and epochs are presented at the bottom: Quat, Quaternary; Pa, Paleocene; Eo, Eocene; Ol, Oligocene; Mi, Miocene; Pl, Pleistocene. Tectonic maps (referred from Hall 2012 [71]) describe several representative periods, indicated by double arrows on the time axis.
Figure 4. Reconstructed phylogenetic tree with estimated divergence times. Bayesian inference probabilities and maximum likelihood bootstrap values are shown at the nodes, and the mean divergence time is indicated below the nodes. The node bar represents the 95% highest posterior density (HPD), with details for the nodes of interest shown in the upper left corner. Geological periods and epochs are presented at the bottom: Quat, Quaternary; Pa, Paleocene; Eo, Eocene; Ol, Oligocene; Mi, Miocene; Pl, Pleistocene. Tectonic maps (referred from Hall 2012 [71]) describe several representative periods, indicated by double arrows on the time axis.
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Table 1. Characterization of the geographical and sediment attributes of two sites in the Korean Peninsula where O. sinensis specimens were collected.
Table 1. Characterization of the geographical and sediment attributes of two sites in the Korean Peninsula where O. sinensis specimens were collected.
JejuBusan
AbbreviationJJBS
Latitude33°12′39.16″ N35°15′43.26″ N
Longitude126°15′38.41″ E129°14′1.44″ E
Collection date29–30 August 202214 September 2021
Number of specimens21
Sediment
0.5–1 mm (%)3.1613.61
0.25–0.5 mm (%)47.4563.19
0.12–0.25 mm (%)49.2522.66
0.06–0.12 mm (%)0.050.18
0.03–0.06 mm (%)0.020.11
<0.03 mm (%)0.070.24
Table 3. Genetic distance of mitochondrial cox1 sequences (555 bp) among species within the genus Ocypode (%). The accession number of the GenBank database was parenthesized after species name.
Table 3. Genetic distance of mitochondrial cox1 sequences (555 bp) among species within the genus Ocypode (%). The accession number of the GenBank database was parenthesized after species name.
12345678910111213141516
1
20.36
30.360.00
40.910.540.54
513.4813.4813.4814.17
618.2217.7417.7417.9818.53
716.4115.9415.9416.1718.8612.66
817.2417.0017.0017.0017.986.6713.73
918.0318.0318.0318.2720.5514.9613.5515.12
1015.7215.2615.2615.7221.3814.8314.1416.4214.38
1114.8314.3714.3714.3717.4116.1916.2616.6317.646.49
1217.4817.0117.0117.2519.1714.0014.0314.6616.0815.5015.30
1316.1415.6715.6715.4318.2417.4315.2018.8520.3816.9717.2418.14
1417.1716.9316.9317.1719.9421.5817.1419.8417.5216.7116.5116.9219.97
1517.7517.5117.5118.2319.9120.0918.4119.8418.7417.4517.9220.2921.6220.27
1615.9215.4615.4615.4618.0319.1419.5017.2520.2317.9515.6318.4020.1319.7215.88
1717.6817.6817.6818.1619.1217.7717.9219.4818.4414.9417.0420.3021.9720.9219.0017.82
1: O. sinensis_Jeju (OR722672), 2: O. sinensis_Jeju (OR729708), 3: O. sinensis_Busan (OR729709), 4: O. sinensis (AB751394), 5: O. cordimanus (NC_029725), 6: O. stimpsoni (MN917464), 7: O. ceratophthalmus (LN611669), 8: O. mortoni (AB751384), 9: O. platytarsis (MT590667), 10: O. africana (LC150409), 11: O. cursor (MH615039), 12: O. rotundata (LC150424), 13: O. kuhlii (LC150415), 14: O. ryderi (LC150425), 15: O. gaudichaudi (LC150414), 16: O. occidentalis (LC150419), 17: O. quadrata (KY568729).
Table 4. The arrangement and annotation of the mitogenome of Ocypode sinensis. CDS, coding sequence; rRNA, ribosomal RNA; tRNA, transfer RNA.
Table 4. The arrangement and annotation of the mitogenome of Ocypode sinensis. CDS, coding sequence; rRNA, ribosomal RNA; tRNA, transfer RNA.
GeneTypePositionStrandLength (bp)Intergenic SpaceStart CodonStop Codon
cox1CDS1–1534H15340ATGTAA
trnL2-taatRNA1535–1599H6510TCTGAA
cox2CDS1610–2299H6900ATGTAG
trnK-ttttRNA2298–2366H690AGTACT
trnD-gtctRNA2367–2430H640AAGTTA
atp8CDS2431–2589H159−5ATGTAA
atp6CDS2583–3257H675−1ATTTAA
cox3CDS3257–4048H792−1ATGTAA
trnG-tcctRNA4048–4110H63−1ATTATA
nd3CDS4111–4461H351−2ATTTAA
trnA-tgctRNA4460–4524H656AAGTTA
trnR-tcgtRNA4531–4593H630TATAAT
trnN-gtttRNA4594–4658H650TTGAAG
trnS1-tcttRNA4659–4724H661GAATCT
trnE-ttctRNA4726–4792H67−1GTTACT
trnH-gtgtRNA4792–4854L630TATAAT
trnF-gaatRNA4855–4918L64−1TATAAT
nd5CDS4918–6651L173446TTACAT
nd4CDS6698–8035L1338−7TTACAT
nd4lCDS8029–8328L3008TTACAT
trnT-tgttRNA8337–8402H660GTTACT
trnP-tggtRNA8403–8467L65−16TCACTG
nd6CDS8452–8967H5166CTTTAA
cytBCDS8974–10,107H11341ATGAAA
trnS-tgatRNA10,109–10,175H6716GATTCG
nd1CDS10,192–11,130L93931TTACAT
trnL-tagtRNA11,162–11,228L67−58TACAGT
rrn-16SrRNA11,171–12,541L13712TAGATA
trnV-tactRNA12,544–12,615L721TCATTG
rrn-12SrRNA12,617–13,449L833721TTATCT
trnl-gattRNA14,171–14,236H66−3AATTTA
trnQ-ttgtRNA14,234–14,302L695TTAATA
trnM-cattRNA14,308–14,377H700TAATTA
nd2CDS14,378–15,388H1011−2ATGTAG
trnW-tcatRNA15,387–15,455H691AGACTA
trnC-gcatRNA15,457–15,522L662AAAGTT
trnY-gtatRNA15,525–15,589L650TAAATC
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Kim, D.-I.; Jang, S.-J.; Kim, T. The First Record of Ocypode sinensis (Decapoda: Ocypodidae) from the Korean Peninsula: How the Complete Mitochondrial Genome Elucidates the Divergence History of Ghost Crabs. J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2023, 11, 2348. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse11122348

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Kim D-I, Jang S-J, Kim T. The First Record of Ocypode sinensis (Decapoda: Ocypodidae) from the Korean Peninsula: How the Complete Mitochondrial Genome Elucidates the Divergence History of Ghost Crabs. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 2023; 11(12):2348. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse11122348

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Kim, Da-In, Sook-Jin Jang, and Taewon Kim. 2023. "The First Record of Ocypode sinensis (Decapoda: Ocypodidae) from the Korean Peninsula: How the Complete Mitochondrial Genome Elucidates the Divergence History of Ghost Crabs" Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 11, no. 12: 2348. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse11122348

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