Characterization of metapopulation of Ellobium chinense through Pleistocene expansions and four covariate COI guanine-hotspots linked to G-quadruplex conformation

Please refer to the publication Shin et al. (2021): \"Shin CR, Choi EH, Kim G. et al. (2021). Characterization of metapopulation of Ellobium chinense through Pleistocene expansions and four covariate COI guanine-hotspots linked to G-quadruplex conformation. Scientific Reports 11: 12239.

The land snail Ellobium chinense (Pulmonata, Ellobiida, Ellobiidae), which inhabits the salt marshes along the coastal areas of northwestern Pacific, is an endangered species on the IUCN Red List. Over recent decades, the population size of E. chinense has consistently decreased due to environmental interference caused by natural disasters and human activities. Here, we provide the first assessment of the genetic diversity and population genetic structures of northwestern Pacific E. chinense based on COI and 10 microsatellite markers. The analyses of 140 COI data from South Korea and Japan and 54 microsatellite data from South Korea revealed that E. chinense has high haplotype and low nucleotide divers...