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Record W4408837060 · doi:10.4002/040.067.0112

Phylogenetic Analysis of the Freshwater Mussel Nephronaias tempisquensis (Bivalvia: Unionidae: Popenaiadini) from Costa Rica

2025· article· en· W4408837060 on OpenAlexaff
William G. Bauer, Russell H. Easy, Rebeca Quesada Céspedes, Sidey Arias Valverde, Donald T. Stewart

Bibliographic record

VenueMalacologia · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicAquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
Canadian institutionsAcadia University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsUnionidaeBivalviaBiologyMusselFisheryMolluscaPhylogenetic treeZoologyEcology

Abstract

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In a recent phylogenetic study of Mesoamerican freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionidae), new molecular support for the tribe Popenaiadini was presented. Several genera of Mesoamerican mussels, including Nephronaias Crosse & Fischer, 1894, were predicted to be within the Popenaiadini tribe based on morphology, but this hypothesis had not been tested with molecular data. Several freshwater mussel specimens were recently collected in Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica. Based on the morphology of the specimens, the known distribution of Nephronaias in Costa Rica, and examination of specimens in the Zoology Museum of the University of Costa Rica, this species was identified as Nephronaias tempisquensis Pilsbry, 1920. After amplifying a gene extension characteristic of the male-transmitted genomes of freshwater-mussel species exhibiting doubly uniparental inheritance (DUI) of mitochondrial DNA, it was concluded that N. tempisquensis exhibits DUI. Phylogenetic analyses of a combination of male- and female-transmitted mtDNA gene sequences and one nuclear gene region are consistent with the hypothesis that N. tempisquensis is a member of the Popenaiadini tribe and is closely related to the Mesoamerican Psoronaias/Psorula species complex. In addition to providing novel sex-related mtDNA data, the current study presents the first DNA sequence data for the genus Nephronaias and among the first molecular data published for native freshwater mussels from Costa Rica.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.012
Threshold uncertainty score0.025

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.229
Teacher spread0.221 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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