FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Strong population genomic structure of the toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium minutum inferred from meta‐transcriptome samples BT AF le Gac, Mickael Mary, Lou Metegnier, Gabriel Quéré, Julien Siano, Raffaele Rodríguez, Francisco Destombe, Christophe Sourisseau, Marc AS 1:1;2:1;3:1;4:1;5:1;6:2;7:3;8:1; FF 1:PDG-ODE-DYNECO-PELAGOS;2:PDG-ODE-DYNECO-PELAGOS;3:PDG-ODE-DYNECO-PELAGOS;4:PDG-ODE-DYNECO-PELAGOS;5:PDG-ODE-DYNECO-PELAGOS;6:;7:;8:PDG-ODE-DYNECO-PELAGOS; C1 Ifremer, Dyneco, Plouzané, France Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO, CSIC),Vigo ,Spain Station Biologique de Roscoff, IRL 3614, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Roscoff ,France C2 IFREMER, FRANCE IEO, SPAIN UNIV SORBONNE, FRANCE SI BREST SE PDG-ODE-DYNECO-PELAGOS IN WOS Ifremer UPR copubli-france copubli-europe copubli-univ-france IF 5.1 TC 1 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00800/91219/96948.pdf LA English DT Article AB Despite theoretical expectations, marine microeukaryote population are often highly structured and the mechanisms behind such patterns remain to be elucidated. These organisms display huge census population sizes, yet genotyping usually requires clonal strains originating from single cells, hindering proper population sampling. Estimating allelic frequency directly from population wide samples, without any isolation step, offers an interesting alternative. Here we validate the use of meta-transcriptome environmental samples to determine the population genetic structure of the dinoflagellate Alexandrium minutum. Strain and meta-transcriptome based results both indicated a strong genetic structure for A. minutum in Western Europe, to the level expected between cryptic species. The presence of numerous private alleles, and even fixed polymorphism, would indicate ancient divergence and absence of gene flow between populations. Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) displaying strong allele frequency differences were distributed throughout the genome, which might indicate pervasive selection from standing genetic variation (soft selective sweeps). However, a few genomic regions displayed extremely low diversity that could result from the fixation of adaptive de novo mutations (hard selective sweeps) within the populations. PY 2022 PD DEC SO Environmental Microbiology SN 1462-2912 PU Wiley VL 24 IS 12 UT 000880524200001 BP 5966 EP 5983 DI 10.1111/1462-2920.16257 ID 91219 ER EF