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Antoniolli HR, Pita S, Deprá M, Valente VL. Horizontal transfer and the widespread presence of Galileo transposons in Drosophilidae (Insecta: Diptera). Genet Mol Biol 2024; 46:e20230143. [PMID: 38569056 PMCID: PMC10990002 DOI: 10.1590/1678-4685-gmb-2023-0143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2023] [Accepted: 01/30/2024] [Indexed: 04/05/2024] Open
Abstract
Galileo is a transposon notoriously involved with inversions in Drosophila buzzatii by ectopic recombination. Although widespread in Drosophila, little is known about this transposon in other lineages of Drosophilidae. Here, the abundance of the canonical Galileo and its evolutionary history in Drosophilidae genomes was estimated and reconstructed across genera within its two subfamilies. Sequences of this transposon were masked in these genomes and their transposase sequences were recovered using BLASTn. Phylogenetic analyses were employed to reconstruct their evolutionary history and compare it to that of host genomes. Galileo was found in nearly all 163 species, however, only 37 harbored nearly complete transposase sequences. In the remaining, Galileo was found highly fragmented. Copies from related species were clustered, however horizontal transfer events were detected between the melanogaster and montium groups of Drosophila, and between the latter and the Lordiphosa genus. The similarity of sequences found in the virilis and willistoni groups of Drosophila was found to be a consequence of lineage sorting. Therefore, the evolution of Galileo is primarily marked by vertical transmission and long-term inactivation, mainly through the deletion of open reading frames. The latter has the potential to lead copies of this transposon to become miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements.
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- Henrique R.M. Antoniolli
- Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Laboratório de
Drosophila, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Genética e Biologia Molecular, Porto
Alegre, RS, Brazil
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- Universidad de la República (UdelaR), Facultad de Ciencias, Sección
Genética Evolutiva, Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Laboratório de
Drosophila, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Genética e Biologia Molecular, Porto
Alegre, RS, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Laboratório de
Drosophila, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Genética e Biologia Molecular, Porto
Alegre, RS, Brazil
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Dionisio JF, Pezenti LF, de Souza RF, Sosa-Gómez DR, da Rosa R. Annotation of transposable elements in the transcriptome of the Neotropical brown stink bug Euschistus heros and its chromosomal distribution. Mol Genet Genomics 2023; 298:1377-1388. [PMID: 37646857 DOI: 10.1007/s00438-023-02063-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2023] [Accepted: 08/17/2023] [Indexed: 09/01/2023]
Abstract
Transposable elements (TEs) are DNA sequences capable of moving within the genome. Their distribution is very dynamic among organisms, and despite advances, there are still gaps in the understanding of the diversity and evolution of TEs in many insect species. In the case of Euschistus heros, considered the main stink bug in the soybean crop in Brazil, little is known about the participation of these elements. Therefore, the objective of the current work was to identify the different groups of transposable elements present in the E. heros transcriptome, evidencing their chromosomal distribution. Through RNA-Seq and de novo assembly, 60,009 transcripts were obtained, which were annotated locally via Blastn against specific databases. Of the 367 transcripts identified as TEs, 202 belong to Class II, with emphasis on the TIR order. Among Class I elements or retrotransposons, most were characterized as LINE. Phylogenetic analyses were performed with the protein domains, evidencing differences between Tc1-mariner sequences, which may be related to possible horizontal transfer events. The transposable elements that stood out in the transcriptome were selected for fluorescent in situ hybridization. DNA transposon probes hAT, Helitron, and Tc1-mariner showed mostly scattered signals, with the presence of some blocks. Retrotransposon probes Copia, Gypsy, Jockey, and RTE showed a more pulverized hybridization pattern, with the presence of small interstitial and/or terminal blocks. Studies like this one, integrating functional genomics and molecular cytogenetic tools, are essential to expanding knowledge about transcriptionally active mobile elements, and their behavior in the chromosomes.
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- Jaqueline Fernanda Dionisio
- Laboratório de Citogenética e Entomologia Molecular, Departamento de Biologia Geral, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Rodovia Celso Garcia Cid, PR 445 Km 350, Campus Universitário, Caixa Postal: 10.011, Londrina, PR, CEP:86.057-970, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Citogenética e Entomologia Molecular, Departamento de Biologia Geral, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Rodovia Celso Garcia Cid, PR 445 Km 350, Campus Universitário, Caixa Postal: 10.011, Londrina, PR, CEP:86.057-970, Brazil
- Laboratório de Bioinformática, Departamento de Biologia Geral, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Caixa Postal: 10.011, Londrina, PR, CEP:86.057-970, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Bioinformática, Departamento de Biologia Geral, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Caixa Postal: 10.011, Londrina, PR, CEP:86.057-970, Brazil
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- Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária/Centro Nacional de Pesquisa de Soja (Embrapa Soja), Caixa Postal: 4006, Londrina, PR, CEP: 86085-981, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Citogenética e Entomologia Molecular, Departamento de Biologia Geral, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Rodovia Celso Garcia Cid, PR 445 Km 350, Campus Universitário, Caixa Postal: 10.011, Londrina, PR, CEP:86.057-970, Brazil.
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Widen SA, Bes IC, Koreshova A, Pliota P, Krogull D, Burga A. Virus-like transposons cross the species barrier and drive the evolution of genetic incompatibilities. Science 2023; 380:eade0705. [PMID: 37384706 DOI: 10.1126/science.ade0705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2022] [Accepted: 05/17/2023] [Indexed: 07/01/2023]
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Horizontal gene transfer, the movement of genetic material between species, has been reported across all major eukaryotic lineages. However, the underlying mechanisms of transfer and their impact on genome evolution are still poorly understood. While studying the evolutionary origin of a selfish element in the nematode Caenorhabditis briggsae, we discovered that Mavericks, ancient virus-like transposons related to giant viruses and virophages, are one of the long-sought vectors of horizontal gene transfer. We found that Mavericks gained a novel herpesvirus-like fusogen in nematodes, leading to the widespread exchange of cargo genes between extremely divergent species, bypassing sexual and genetic barriers spanning hundreds of millions of years. Our results show how the union between viruses and transposons causes horizontal gene transfer and ultimately genetic incompatibilities in natural populations.
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- Sonya A Widen
- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA), Vienna BioCenter (VBC), 1030 Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA), Vienna BioCenter (VBC), 1030 Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA), Vienna BioCenter (VBC), 1030 Vienna, Austria
- Vienna BioCenter PhD Program, Doctoral School of the University of Vienna and Medical University of Vienna, A-1030 Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA), Vienna BioCenter (VBC), 1030 Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA), Vienna BioCenter (VBC), 1030 Vienna, Austria
- Vienna BioCenter PhD Program, Doctoral School of the University of Vienna and Medical University of Vienna, A-1030 Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA), Vienna BioCenter (VBC), 1030 Vienna, Austria
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Tomar SS, Hua-Van A, Le Rouzic A. A population genetics theory for piRNA-regulated transposable elements. Theor Popul Biol 2023; 150:1-13. [PMID: 36863578 DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2023.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2022] [Revised: 02/16/2023] [Accepted: 02/21/2023] [Indexed: 03/04/2023]
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Transposable elements (TEs) are self-reproducing selfish DNA sequences that can invade the genome of virtually all living species. Population genetics models have shown that TE copy numbers generally reach a limit, either because the transposition rate decreases with the number of copies (transposition regulation) or because TE copies are deleterious, and thus purged by natural selection. Yet, recent empirical discoveries suggest that TE regulation may mostly rely on piRNAs, which require a specific mutational event (the insertion of a TE copy in a piRNA cluster) to be activated - the so-called TE regulation "trap model". We derived new population genetics models accounting for this trap mechanism, and showed that the resulting equilibria differ substantially from previous expectations based on a transposition-selection equilibrium. We proposed three sub-models, depending on whether or not genomic TE copies and piRNA cluster TE copies are selectively neutral or deleterious, and we provide analytical expressions for maximum and equilibrium copy numbers, as well as cluster frequencies for all of them. In the full neutral model, the equilibrium is achieved when transposition is completely silenced, and this equilibrium does not depend on the transposition rate. When genomic TE copies are deleterious but not cluster TE copies, no long-term equilibrium is possible, and active TEs are eventually eliminated after an active incomplete invasion stage. When all TE copies are deleterious, a transposition-selection equilibrium exists, but the invasion dynamics is not monotonic, and the copy number peaks before decreasing. Mathematical predictions were in good agreement with numerical simulations, except when genetic drift and/or linkage disequilibrium dominates. Overall, the trap-model dynamics appeared to be substantially more stochastic and less repeatable than traditional regulation models.
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- Siddharth S Tomar
- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, IRD, UMR EGCE, 12 Route 128, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91190, France.
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, IRD, UMR EGCE, 12 Route 128, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91190, France.
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, IRD, UMR EGCE, 12 Route 128, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91190, France.
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Gasparotto E, Burattin FV, Di Gioia V, Panepuccia M, Ranzani V, Marasca F, Bodega B. Transposable Elements Co-Option in Genome Evolution and Gene Regulation. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:ijms24032610. [PMID: 36768929 PMCID: PMC9917352 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24032610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2022] [Revised: 01/26/2023] [Accepted: 01/28/2023] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
Abstract
The genome is no longer deemed as a fixed and inert item but rather as a moldable matter that is continuously evolving and adapting. Within this frame, Transposable Elements (TEs), ubiquitous, mobile, repetitive elements, are considered an alive portion of the genomes to date, whose functions, although long considered "dark", are now coming to light. Here we will review that, besides the detrimental effects that TE mobilization can induce, TEs have shaped genomes in their current form, promoting genome sizing, genomic rearrangements and shuffling of DNA sequences. Although TEs are mostly represented in the genomes by evolutionarily old, short, degenerated, and sedentary fossils, they have been thoroughly co-opted by the hosts as a prolific and original source of regulatory instruments for the control of gene transcription and genome organization in the nuclear space. For these reasons, the deregulation of TE expression and/or activity is implicated in the onset and progression of several diseases. It is likely that we have just revealed the outermost layers of TE functions. Further studies on this portion of the genome are required to unlock novel regulatory functions that could also be exploited for diagnostic and therapeutic approaches.
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- Erica Gasparotto
- Fondazione INGM, Istituto Nazionale di Genetica Molecolare “Enrica e Romeo Invernizzi”, 20122 Milan, Italy
- SEMM, European School of Molecular Medicine, 20139 Milan, Italy
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- Fondazione INGM, Istituto Nazionale di Genetica Molecolare “Enrica e Romeo Invernizzi”, 20122 Milan, Italy
- Department of Biosciences, University of Milan, 20133 Milan, Italy
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- Fondazione INGM, Istituto Nazionale di Genetica Molecolare “Enrica e Romeo Invernizzi”, 20122 Milan, Italy
- SEMM, European School of Molecular Medicine, 20139 Milan, Italy
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- Fondazione INGM, Istituto Nazionale di Genetica Molecolare “Enrica e Romeo Invernizzi”, 20122 Milan, Italy
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- Fondazione INGM, Istituto Nazionale di Genetica Molecolare “Enrica e Romeo Invernizzi”, 20122 Milan, Italy
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- Fondazione INGM, Istituto Nazionale di Genetica Molecolare “Enrica e Romeo Invernizzi”, 20122 Milan, Italy
- Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, 20122 Milan, Italy
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- Fondazione INGM, Istituto Nazionale di Genetica Molecolare “Enrica e Romeo Invernizzi”, 20122 Milan, Italy
- Department of Biosciences, University of Milan, 20133 Milan, Italy
- Correspondence:
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Zakharenko LP, Petrovskii DV, Bykov RA. The P-Element Has Not Significant Effect on the Drosophila simulans Viability. Mol Biol 2023. [DOI: 10.1134/s0026893323020231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Muller H, Heisserer C, Fortuna T, Mougel F, Huguet E, Kaiser L, Gilbert C. Investigating bracovirus chromosomal integration and inheritance in lepidopteran host and nontarget species. Mol Ecol 2022; 31:5538-5551. [PMID: 36070218 DOI: 10.1111/mec.16685] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2022] [Revised: 08/31/2022] [Accepted: 09/02/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
Abstract
Bracoviruses (BVs) are domesticated viruses found in braconid parasitoid wasp genomes. They are composed of domesticated genes from a nudivrius, coding viral particles in which wasp DNA circles are packaged. BVs are viewed as possible vectors of horizontal transfer of genetic material (HT) from wasp to their hosts because they are injected, together with wasp eggs, by female wasps into their host larvae, and because they undergo massive chromosomal integration in multiple host tissues. Here, we show that chromosomal integrations of the Cotesia typhae BV (CtBV) persist up to the adult stage in individuals of its natural host, Sesamia nonagrioides, that survived parasitism. However, while reproducing host adults can bear an average of nearly two CtBV integrations per haploid genome, we were unable to retrieve any of these integrations in 500 of their offspring using Illumina sequencing. This suggests either that host gametes are less targeted by CtBVs than somatic cells or that gametes bearing BV integrations are nonfunctional. We further show that CtBV can massively integrate into the chromosomes of other lepidopteran species that are not normally targeted by the wasp in the wild, including one which is divergent by at least 100 million years from the natural host. Cell entry and chromosomal integration of BVs are thus unlikely to be major factors shaping wasp host range. Together, our results shed new light on the conditions under which BV-mediated wasp-to-host HT may occur and provide information that may be helpful to evaluate the potential risks of uncontrolled HT associated with the use of parasitoid wasps as biocontrol agents.
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- Héloïse Muller
- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, IRD, UMR Évolution, Génomes, Comportement et Écologie, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, IRD, UMR Évolution, Génomes, Comportement et Écologie, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.,UMR 7261 CNRS, Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l'Insecte, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université de Tours, Tours, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, IRD, UMR Évolution, Génomes, Comportement et Écologie, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, IRD, UMR Évolution, Génomes, Comportement et Écologie, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- UMR 7261 CNRS, Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l'Insecte, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université de Tours, Tours, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, IRD, UMR Évolution, Génomes, Comportement et Écologie, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, IRD, UMR Évolution, Génomes, Comportement et Écologie, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Guan Z, Shi S, Diaby M, Danley P, Ullah N, Puzakov M, Gao B, Song C. Horizontal transfer of Buster transposons across multiple phyla and classes of animals. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2022; 173:107506. [PMID: 35595006 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2021] [Revised: 03/06/2022] [Accepted: 04/05/2022] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
Abstract
Transposable elements (TEs) are mobile genetic elements in the genome and broadly distributed across both prokaryotes and eukaryotes, and play an important role in shaping the genome evolution of their hosts. hAT elements are thought to be the most widespread cut-and-paste DNA transposon found throughout the tree of life. Buster is a recently recognized family of hAT. However, the evolutionary profile of the Buster family, such as its taxonomic distribution, evolutionary pattern, and activities, remains largely unknown. We conducted a systematic analysis of the evolutionary landscape of the Buster family and found that most Buster transposons are 1.72-4.66 kilobases (kb) in length, encode 500-736-amino acid (aa) transposases and are flanked by short (10-18 bp) terminal inverted repeats (TIRs) and 8 bp target site duplications (TSDs). Buster family is widely distributed in 609 species, involving eight classes of invertebrates and most lineage of vertebrates (including mammals). Horizontal transfer events were detected across multiple phyla and classes of animals, which may have contributed to their wide distribution, and both parasites and invasive species may facilitate HT events of Buster in vertebrates. Our data also suggest that Buster transposons are young, highly active, and appear as intact copies in multiple lineages of animals. High percentages of intact copies (>30%) were identified in some Arthropoda, Actinopterygii, Agnatha, and reptile species, and some of these may be active. These data will help increase understanding of the evolution of the hAT superfamily and its impact on eukaryotic genome evolution.
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- Zhongxia Guan
- College of Animal Science & Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu 225009, China
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- College of Animal Science & Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu 225009, China
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- College of Animal Science & Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu 225009, China
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- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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- College of Animal Science & Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu 225009, China
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- A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of RAS, Nakhimov av., 2, Sevastopol 299011, Russia
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- College of Animal Science & Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu 225009, China
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- College of Animal Science & Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu 225009, China.
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Ahmad A, Su X, Harris AJ, Ren Z. Closing the Gap: Horizontal Transfer of Mariner Transposons between Rhus Gall Aphids and Other Insects. BIOLOGY 2022; 11:731. [PMID: 35625459 PMCID: PMC9139091 DOI: 10.3390/biology11050731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2022] [Revised: 05/05/2022] [Accepted: 05/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Horizontal transfer of transposons (HTT) is an essential source of genomic evolution in eukaryotes. The HTT dynamics are well characterized in eukaryotes, including insects; however, there is a considerable gap in knowledge about HTT regarding many eukaryotes' species. In this study, we analyzed the events of the HTT between Rhus gall aphids (Hemiptera) and other insects. We analyzed the Mariner-like transposable elements (MLEs) belonging to Rhus gall aphids for the possible HT events. The MLEs have a patchy distribution and high similarity over the entire element length with insect MLEs from different orders. We selected representative sequences from the Rhus gall MLEs and identified five events of HT between MLEs of Rhus gall aphids and other insects from five different orders. We also found multiple HTT events among the MLEs of insects from the five orders, demonstrating that these Mariner elements have been involved in recurrent HT between Rhus gall aphids and other insects. Our current study closed the knowledge gap surrounding HTT and reported the events between Rhus gall aphids and other insects for the first time. We believe that this study about HTT events will help us understand the evolution and spread of transposable elements in the genomes of Rhus gall aphids.
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- Aftab Ahmad
- School of Life Science, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China;
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- Academy of Plateau Science and Sustainability, Qinghai Normal University, Xining 810016, China;
- School of Life Sciences, Qinghai Normal University, Xining 810008, China
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- South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510650, China;
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- School of Life Science, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China;
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What Have We Learned in 30 Years of Investigations on Bari Transposons? Cells 2022; 11:cells11030583. [PMID: 35159391 PMCID: PMC8834629 DOI: 10.3390/cells11030583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2022] [Revised: 02/03/2022] [Accepted: 02/07/2022] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Transposable elements (TEs) have been historically depicted as detrimental genetic entities that selfishly aim at perpetuating themselves, invading genomes, and destroying genes. Scientists often co-opt "special" TEs to develop new and powerful genetic tools, that will hopefully aid in changing the future of the human being. However, many TEs are gentle, rarely unleash themselves to harm the genome, and bashfully contribute to generating diversity and novelty in the genomes they have colonized, yet they offer the opportunity to develop new molecular tools. In this review we summarize 30 years of research focused on the Bari transposons. Bari is a "normal" transposon family that has colonized the genomes of several Drosophila species and introduced genomic novelties in the melanogaster species. We discuss how these results have contributed to advance the field of TE research and what future studies can still add to the current knowledge.
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Hill T, Unckless RL, Perlmutter JI. Positive Selection and Horizontal Gene Transfer in the Genome of a Male-Killing Wolbachia. Mol Biol Evol 2022; 39:msab303. [PMID: 34662426 PMCID: PMC8763111 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msab303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Wolbachia are a genus of widespread bacterial endosymbionts in which some strains can hijack or manipulate arthropod host reproduction. Male killing is one such manipulation in which these maternally transmitted bacteria benefit surviving daughters in part by removing competition with the sons for scarce resources. Despite previous findings of interesting genome features of microbial sex ratio distorters, the population genomics of male-killers remain largely uncharacterized. Here, we uncover several unique features of the genome and population genomics of four Arizonan populations of a male-killing Wolbachia strain, wInn, that infects mushroom-feeding Drosophila innubila. We first compared the wInn genome with other closely related Wolbachia genomes of Drosophila hosts in terms of genome content and confirm that the wInn genome is largely similar in overall gene content to the wMel strain infecting D. melanogaster. However, it also contains many unique genes and repetitive genetic elements that indicate lateral gene transfers between wInn and non-Drosophila eukaryotes. We also find that, in line with literature precedent, genes in the Wolbachia prophage and Octomom regions are under positive selection. Of all the genes under positive selection, many also show evidence of recent horizontal transfer among Wolbachia symbiont genomes. These dynamics of selection and horizontal gene transfer across the genomes of several Wolbachia strains and diverse host species may be important underlying factors in Wolbachia's success as a male-killer of divergent host species.
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- Tom Hill
- NIAID Collaborative Bioinformatics Resource, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
- Advanced Biomedical Computational Science, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA
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Taming, Domestication and Exaptation: Trajectories of Transposable Elements in Genomes. Cells 2021; 10:cells10123590. [PMID: 34944100 PMCID: PMC8700633 DOI: 10.3390/cells10123590] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2021] [Revised: 11/30/2021] [Accepted: 12/06/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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During evolution, several types of sequences pass through genomes. Along with mutations and internal genetic tinkering, they are a useful source of genetic variability for adaptation and evolution. Most of these sequences are acquired by horizontal transfers (HT), but some of them may come from the genomes themselves. If they are not lost or eliminated quickly, they can be tamed, domesticated, or even exapted. Each of these processes results from a series of events, depending on the interactions between these sequences and the host genomes, but also on environmental constraints, through their impact on individuals or population fitness. After a brief reminder of the characteristics of each of these states (taming, domestication, exaptation), the evolutionary trajectories of these new or acquired sequences will be presented and discussed, emphasizing that they are not totally independent insofar as the first can constitute a step towards the second, and the second is another step towards the third.
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Ahmad A, Wallau GL, Ren Z. Characterization of Mariner transposons in seven species of Rhus gall aphids. Sci Rep 2021; 11:16349. [PMID: 34381125 PMCID: PMC8357937 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-95843-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2021] [Accepted: 07/23/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Transposable elements (TEs), also known as jumping genes, are widely spread in the genomes of insects and play a considerable role in genomic evolution. Mariner/DD34D family belongs to class II transposable elements which is widely spread in the genomes of insects and have considerable role in genomic evolution. Mariner like elements (MLEs) were searched in the genomes of seven species of Rhus gall aphids belonging to six genera. In total, 121 MLEs were detected in the genomes of the seven investigated species of Rhus gall aphids, which showed a wide distribution in both close and distant related species. The sequences of MLEs ranged from 1 to 1.4 kb in length and the structural analysis of the MLEs showed that only five copies were potentially active with intact open reading frame (ORF) and terminal inverted repeats (TIRs). Phylogenetic analysis showed that all the 121 MLE sequences belonged to four subfamilies, i.e., Mauritiana, Drosophila, Vertumana and Irritans, among which Drosophila and Vertumana subfamilies were reported in aphids for the first time. Our present report revealed the diversity and distribution of MLEs in Rhus gall aphid genomes and expanded our understandings on the characterization of transposable elements in aphid genomes, which might be useful as genetic markers and tools and would play an important role in genomic evolution and adaptation of aphids.
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- Aftab Ahmad
- School of Life Science, Shanxi University, 92 Wucheng Rd, Taiyuan, 030006, Shanxi, China
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- Departamento de Entomologia e Núcleo de Bioinf Ormática, Instituto Aggeu Magalhães (IAM) - Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Recife, 50740-465, Brazil
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- School of Life Science, Shanxi University, 92 Wucheng Rd, Taiyuan, 030006, Shanxi, China.
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Wanner NM, Faulk C. Suggested Absence of Horizontal Transfer of Retrotransposons between Humans and Domestic Mammal Species. Genes (Basel) 2021; 12:1223. [PMID: 34440397 PMCID: PMC8391136 DOI: 10.3390/genes12081223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2021] [Revised: 08/02/2021] [Accepted: 08/05/2021] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Transposable element sequences are usually vertically inherited but have also spread across taxa via horizontal transfer. Previous investigations of ancient horizontal transfer of transposons have compared consensus sequences, but this method resists detection of recent single or low copy number transfer events. The relationship between humans and domesticated animals represents an opportunity for potential horizontal transfer due to the consistent shared proximity and exposure to parasitic insects, which have been identified as plausible transfer vectors. The relatively short period of extended human-animal contact (tens of thousands of years or less) makes horizontal transfer of transposons between them unlikely. However, the availability of high-quality reference genomes allows individual element comparisons to detect low copy number events. Using pairwise all-versus-all megablast searches of the complete suite of retrotransposons of thirteen domestic animals against human, we searched a total of 27,949,823 individual TEs. Based on manual comparisons of stringently filtered BLAST search results for evidence of vertical inheritance, no plausible instances of HTT were identified. These results indicate that significant recent HTT between humans and domesticated animals has not occurred despite the close proximity, either due to the short timescale, inhospitable recipient genomes, a failure of vector activity, or other factors.
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- Nicole M. Wanner
- Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, 301 Veterinary Science Building, 1971 Commonwealth Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA;
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- Department of Animal Science, College of Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resource Sciences, University of Minnesota, 277 Coffey Hall, 1420 Eckles Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA
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Stritt C, Thieme M, Roulin AC. Rare transposable elements challenge the prevailing view of transposition dynamics in plants. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 2021; 108:1310-1314. [PMID: 34415576 PMCID: PMC9290919 DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1709] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2021] [Revised: 05/10/2021] [Accepted: 05/12/2021] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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- Christoph Stritt
- Institute for Plant and Microbial BiologyUniversity of ZurichZollikerstrasse, 107, 8008ZurichSwitzerland
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- Institute for Plant and Microbial BiologyUniversity of ZurichZollikerstrasse, 107, 8008ZurichSwitzerland
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- Institute for Plant and Microbial BiologyUniversity of ZurichZollikerstrasse, 107, 8008ZurichSwitzerland
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Bleykasten-Grosshans C, Fabrizio R, Friedrich A, Schacherer J. Species-wide transposable element repertoires retrace the evolutionary history of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae host. Mol Biol Evol 2021; 38:4334-4345. [PMID: 34115140 PMCID: PMC8476168 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msab171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Transposable elements (TE) are an important source of genetic variation with a dynamic and content that greatly differ in a wide range of species. The origin of the intraspecific content variation is not always clear and little is known about the precise nature of it. Here, we surveyed the species-wide content of the Ty LTR-retrotransposons in a broad collection of 1,011 Saccharomyces cerevisiae natural isolates to understand what can stand behind the variation of the repertoire that is the type and number of Ty elements. We have compiled an exhaustive catalog of all the TE sequence variants present in the S. cerevisiae species by identifying a large set of new sequence variants. The characterization of the TE content in each isolate clearly highlighted that each subpopulation exhibits a unique and specific repertoire, retracing the evolutionary history of the species. Most interestingly, we have shown that ancient interspecific hybridization events had a major impact in the birth of new sequence variants and therefore in the shaping of the TE repertoires. We also investigated the transpositional activity of these elements in a large set of natural isolates, and we found a broad variability related to the level of ploidy as well as the genetic background. Overall, our results pointed out that the evolution of the Ty content is deeply impacted by clade-specific events such as introgressions and therefore follows the population structure. In addition, our study lays the foundation for future investigations to better understand the transpositional regulation and more broadly the TE–host interactions.
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, GMGM UMR 7156, Strasbourg, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, GMGM UMR 7156, Strasbourg, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, GMGM UMR 7156, Strasbourg, France.,Institut Universitaire de France (IUF)
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Palazzo A, Escuder E, D'Addabbo P, Lovero D, Marsano RM. A genomic survey of Tc1-mariner transposons in nematodes suggests extensive horizontal transposon transfer events. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2021; 158:107090. [PMID: 33545274 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2020] [Revised: 01/27/2021] [Accepted: 01/27/2021] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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The number of reports concerning horizontal transposon transfers (HTT) in metazoan species is considerably increased, alongside with the exponential growth of genomic sequence data However, our understanding of the mechanisms of such phenomenon is still at an early stage. Nematodes constitute an animal phylum successfully adapted to almost every ecosystem and for this reason could potentially contribute to spreading the genetic information through horizontal transfer. To date, few studies describe HTT of nematode retrotransposons. This is due to the lack of annotation of transposable elements in the sequenced nematode genomes, especially DNA transposons, which are acknowledged as the best horizontal travelers among mobile sequences. We have therefore started a survey of DNA transposons and their possible involvement in HTT in sequenced nematode genomes. Here, we describe 83 new Tc1/mariner elements distributed in 17 nematode species. Among them, nine families were possibly horizontally transferred between nematodes and the most diverse animal species, including ants as preferred partner of HTT. The results obtained suggest that HTT events involving nematodes Tc1/mariner elements are not uncommon, and that nematodes could have a possible role as transposon reservoir that, in turn, can be redistributed among animal genomes. Overall, this could be relevant to understand how the inter-species genetic flows shape the landscape of genetic variation of organisms inhabiting specific environmental communities.
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- Antonio Palazzo
- Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche ed Oncologia Umana (DIMO), Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy
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Sharanowski BJ, Ridenbaugh RD, Piekarski PK, Broad GR, Burke GR, Deans AR, Lemmon AR, Moriarty Lemmon EC, Diehl GJ, Whitfield JB, Hines HM. Phylogenomics of Ichneumonoidea (Hymenoptera) and implications for evolution of mode of parasitism and viral endogenization. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2020; 156:107023. [PMID: 33253830 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2020.107023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2020] [Revised: 10/28/2020] [Accepted: 11/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Ichneumonoidea is one of the most diverse lineages of animals on the planet with >48,000 described species and many more undescribed. Parasitoid wasps of this superfamily are mostly beneficial insects that attack and kill other arthropods and are important for understanding diversification and the evolution of life history strategies related to parasitoidism. Further, some lineages of parasitoids within Ichneumonoidea have acquired endogenous virus elements (EVEs) that are permanently a part of the wasp's genome and benefit the wasp through host immune disruption and behavioral control. Unfortunately, understanding the evolution of viral acquisition, parasitism strategies, diversification, and host immune disruption mechanisms, is deeply limited by the lack of a robust phylogenetic framework for Ichneumonoidea. Here we design probes targeting 541 genes across 91 taxa to test phylogenetic relationships, the evolution of parasitoid strategies, and the utility of probes to capture polydnavirus genes across a diverse array of taxa. Phylogenetic relationships among Ichneumonoidea were largely well resolved with most higher-level relationships maximally supported. We noted codon use biases between the outgroups, Braconidae, and Ichneumonidae and within Pimplinae, which were largely solved through analyses of amino acids rather than nucleotide data. These biases may impact phylogenetic reconstruction and caution for outgroup selection is recommended. Ancestral state reconstructions were variable for Braconidae across analyses, but consistent for reconstruction of idiobiosis/koinobiosis in Ichneumonidae. The data suggest many transitions between parasitoid life history traits across the whole superfamily. The two subfamilies within Ichneumonidae that have polydnaviruses are supported as distantly related, providing strong evidence for two independent acquisitions of ichnoviruses. Polydnavirus capture using our designed probes was only partially successful and suggests that more targeted approaches would be needed for this strategy to be effective for surveying taxa for these viral genes. In total, these data provide a robust framework for the evolution of Ichneumonoidea.
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- Department of Biology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA; Laboratory of Social Evolution and Behavior, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Life Sciences, the Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
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- Department of Entomology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30606, USA
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- Department of Entomology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802
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- Department of Scientific Computing, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA
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- Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Department of Entomology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802; Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802
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Transposable elements (TEs) are mobile DNA sequences that propagate within genomes. Through diverse invasion strategies, TEs have come to occupy a substantial fraction of nearly all eukaryotic genomes, and they represent a major source of genetic variation and novelty. Here we review the defining features of each major group of eukaryotic TEs and explore their evolutionary origins and relationships. We discuss how the unique biology of different TEs influences their propagation and distribution within and across genomes. Environmental and genetic factors acting at the level of the host species further modulate the activity, diversification, and fate of TEs, producing the dramatic variation in TE content observed across eukaryotes. We argue that cataloging TE diversity and dissecting the idiosyncratic behavior of individual elements are crucial to expanding our comprehension of their impact on the biology of genomes and the evolution of species.
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- Jonathan N Wells
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850; ,
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850; ,
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de Melo ES, Wallau GL. Mosquito genomes are frequently invaded by transposable elements through horizontal transfer. PLoS Genet 2020; 16:e1008946. [PMID: 33253164 PMCID: PMC7728395 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008946] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2020] [Revised: 12/10/2020] [Accepted: 10/19/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Transposable elements (TEs) are mobile genetic elements that parasitize basically all eukaryotic species genomes. Due to their complexity, an in-depth TE characterization is only available for a handful of model organisms. In the present study, we performed a de novo and homology-based characterization of TEs in the genomes of 24 mosquito species and investigated their mode of inheritance. More than 40% of the genome of Aedes aegypti, Aedes albopictus, and Culex quinquefasciatus is composed of TEs, while it varied substantially among Anopheles species (0.13%-19.55%). Class I TEs are the most abundant among mosquitoes and at least 24 TE superfamilies were found. Interestingly, TEs have been extensively exchanged by horizontal transfer (172 TE families of 16 different superfamilies) among mosquitoes in the last 30 million years. Horizontally transferred TEs represents around 7% of the genome in Aedes species and a small fraction in Anopheles genomes. Most of these horizontally transferred TEs are from the three ubiquitous LTR superfamilies: Gypsy, Bel-Pao and Copia. Searching more than 32,000 genomes, we also uncovered transfers between mosquitoes and two different Phyla-Cnidaria and Nematoda-and two subphyla-Chelicerata and Crustacea, identifying a vector, the worm Wuchereria bancrofti, that enabled the horizontal spread of a Tc1-mariner element among various Anopheles species. These data also allowed us to reconstruct the horizontal transfer network of this TE involving more than 40 species. In summary, our results suggest that TEs are frequently exchanged by horizontal transfers among mosquitoes, influencing mosquito's genome size and variability.
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- Elverson Soares de Melo
- Department of Entomology, Aggeu Magalhães Institute–Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
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- Department of Entomology, Aggeu Magalhães Institute–Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
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Zhang HH, Peccoud J, Xu MRX, Zhang XG, Gilbert C. Horizontal transfer and evolution of transposable elements in vertebrates. Nat Commun 2020; 11:1362. [PMID: 32170101 PMCID: PMC7070016 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15149-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2019] [Accepted: 02/20/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Horizontal transfer of transposable elements (HTT) is an important process shaping eukaryote genomes, yet very few studies have quantified this phenomenon on a large scale or have evaluated the selective constraints acting on transposable elements (TEs) during vertical and horizontal transmission. Here we screen 307 vertebrate genomes and infer a minimum of 975 independent HTT events between lineages that diverged more than 120 million years ago. HTT distribution greatly differs from null expectations, with 93.7% of these transfers involving ray-finned fishes and less than 3% involving mammals and birds. HTT incurs purifying selection (conserved protein evolution) on all TEs, confirming that producing functional transposition proteins is required for a TE to invade new genomes. In the absence of HTT, DNA transposons appear to evolve neutrally within genomes, unlike most retrotransposons, which evolve under purifying selection. This selection regime indicates that proteins of most retrotransposon families tend to process their own encoding RNA (cis-preference), which helps retrotransposons to persist within host lineages over long time periods. Horizontal transfer (HT) and evolution of transposable elements (TEs) has rarely been quantified on a large scale. Here, the authors screen 307 vertebrate genomes and infer 975 HT events (93% in ray-finned fishes); all TEs involved in HT evolve within genomes under purifying selection, as do most retrotransposons.
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- Hua-Hao Zhang
- College of Pharmacy and Life Science, Jiujiang University, 332000, Jiujiang, China
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- UMR CNRS 7267 Ecologie et Biologie des Interactions, Equipe Ecologie Evolution Symbiose, Université de Poitiers, 86073, Poitiers, France
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- College of Pharmacy and Life Science, Jiujiang University, 332000, Jiujiang, China
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- College of Pharmacy and Life Science, Jiujiang University, 332000, Jiujiang, China.
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- Laboratoire Evolution, Génomes, Comportement, Écologie, UMR 9191 CNRS, UMR 247 IRD, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
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Homology-Free Detection of Transposable Elements Unveils Their Dynamics in Three Ecologically Distinct Rhodnius Species. Genes (Basel) 2020; 11:genes11020170. [PMID: 32041215 PMCID: PMC7073582 DOI: 10.3390/genes11020170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2020] [Accepted: 01/30/2020] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Transposable elements (TEs) are widely distributed repetitive sequences in the genomes across the tree of life, and represent an important source of genetic variability. Their distribution among genomes is specific to each lineage. A phenomenon associated with this feature is the sudden expansion of one or several TE families, called bursts of transposition. We previously proposed that bursts of the Mariner family (DNA transposons) contributed to the speciation of Rhodnius prolixus Stål, 1859. This hypothesis motivated us to study two additional species of the R. prolixus complex: Rhodnius montenegrensis da Rosa et al., 2012 and Rhodnius marabaensis Souza et al., 2016, together with a new, de novo annotation of the R. prolixus repeatome using unassembled short reads. Our analysis reveals that the total amount of TEs present in Rhodnius genomes (19% to 23.5%) is three to four times higher than that expected based on the original quantifications performed for the original genome description of R. prolixus. We confirm here that the repeatome of the three species is dominated by Class II elements of the superfamily Tc1-Mariner, as well as members of the LINE order (Class I). In addition to R. prolixus, we also identified a recent burst of transposition of the Mariner family in R. montenegrensis and R. marabaensis, suggesting that this phenomenon may not be exclusive to R. prolixus. Rather, we hypothesize that whilst the expansion of Mariner elements may have contributed to the diversification of the R. prolixus-R. robustus species complex, the distinct ecological characteristics of these new species did not drive the general evolutionary trajectories of these TEs.
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The Tc1-like elements with the spliceosomal introns in mollusk genomes. Mol Genet Genomics 2020; 295:621-633. [DOI: 10.1007/s00438-020-01645-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2019] [Accepted: 01/09/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Ustyantsev K, Biryukov M, Sukhikh I, Shatskaya NV, Fet V, Blinov A, Konopatskaia I. Diversity of <i>mariner</i>-like elements in Orthoptera. Vavilovskii Zhurnal Genet Selektsii 2020. [DOI: 10.18699/vj19.581] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Mariner-like elements (MLEs) are among the most widespread DNA transposable elements in eukaryotes. Insects were the first organisms in which MLEs were identified, however the diversity of MLEs in the insect order Orthoptera has not yet been addressed. In the present study, we explore the diversity of MLEs elements in 16 species of Orthoptera belonging to three infraorders, Acridoidea (Caelifera), Grylloidea (Ensifera), and Tettigoniidea (Ensifera) by combining data mined from computational analysis of sequenced degenerative PCR MLE amplicons and available Orthoptera genomic scaffolds. In total, 75 MLE lineages (Ortmar) were identified in all the studied genomes. Automatic phylogeny-based classification suggested that the current known variability of MLEs can be assigned to seven statistically well-supported phylogenetic clusters (I–VII), and the identified Orthoptera lineages were distributed among all of them. The majority of the lineages (36 out of 75) belong to cluster I; 20 belong to cluster VI; and seven, six, four, one and one lineages belong to clusters II, IV, VII, III, and V, respectively. Two of the clusters (II and IV) were composed of a single Orthoptera MLE lineage each (Ortmar37 and Ortmar45, respectively) which were distributed in the vast majority of the studied Orthoptera genomes. Finally, for 16 Orthoptera MLE lineages, horizontal transfer from the distantly related taxa belonging to other insect orders may have occurred. We believe that our study can serve as a basis for future researches on the diversity, distribution, and evolution of MLEs in species of other taxa that are still lacking the sequenced genomes.
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- Institute of Cytology and Genetics, SB RAS
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- Institute of Cytology and Genetics, SB RAS; Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, SB RAS
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Tambones IL, Haudry A, Simão MC, Carareto CMA. High frequency of horizontal transfer in Jockey families (LINE order) of drosophilids. Mob DNA 2019; 10:43. [PMID: 31709017 PMCID: PMC6829985 DOI: 10.1186/s13100-019-0184-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2019] [Accepted: 10/09/2019] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Background The use of large-scale genomic analyses has resulted in an improvement of transposable element sampling and a significant increase in the number of reported HTT (horizontal transfer of transposable elements) events by expanding the sampling of transposable element sequences in general and of specific families of these elements in particular, which were previously poorly sampled. In this study, we investigated the occurrence of HTT events in a group of elements that, until recently, were uncommon among the HTT records in Drosophila – the Jockey elements, members of the LINE (long interspersed nuclear element) order of non-LTR (long terminal repeat) retrotransposons. The sequences of 111 Jockey families deposited in Repbase that met the criteria of the analysis were used to identify Jockey sequences in 48 genomes of Drosophilidae (genus Drosophila, subgenus Sophophora: melanogaster, obscura and willistoni groups; subgenus Drosophila: immigrans, melanica, repleta, robusta, virilis and grimshawi groups; subgenus Dorsilopha: busckii group; genus/subgenus Zaprionus and genus Scaptodrosophila). Results Phylogenetic analyses revealed 72 Jockey families in 41 genomes. Combined analyses revealed 15 potential HTT events between species belonging to different genera and species groups of Drosophilidae, providing evidence for the flow of genetic material favoured by the spatio-temporal sharing of these species present in the Palaeartic or Afrotropical region. Conclusions Our results provide phylogenetic, biogeographic and temporal evidence of horizontal transfers of the Jockey elements, increase the number of rare records of HTT in specific families of LINE elements, increase the number of known occurrences of these events, and enable a broad understanding of the evolutionary dynamics of these elements and the host species.
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- Izabella L Tambones
- 1Department of Biology, Institute of Biosciences, Humanities and Exact Sciences (IBILCE), UNESP - São Paulo State University, Campus São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, SP 15054-000 Brazil
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- 2Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS, UMR 5558, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- 1Department of Biology, Institute of Biosciences, Humanities and Exact Sciences (IBILCE), UNESP - São Paulo State University, Campus São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, SP 15054-000 Brazil
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- 1Department of Biology, Institute of Biosciences, Humanities and Exact Sciences (IBILCE), UNESP - São Paulo State University, Campus São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, SP 15054-000 Brazil
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Cordeiro J, Carvalho TL, Valente VLDS, Robe LJ. Evolutionary history and classification of Micropia retroelements in Drosophilidae species. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0220539. [PMID: 31622354 PMCID: PMC6797199 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0220539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2019] [Accepted: 10/04/2019] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Transposable elements (TEs) have the main role in shaping the evolution of genomes and host species, contributing to the creation of new genes and promoting rearrangements frequently associated with new regulatory networks. Support for these hypotheses frequently results from studies with model species, and Drosophila provides a great model organism to the study of TEs. Micropia belongs to the Ty3/Gypsy group of long terminal repeats (LTR) retroelements and comprises one of the least studied Drosophila transposable elements. In this study, we assessed the evolutionary history of Micropia within Drosophilidae, while trying to assist in the classification of this TE. At first, we performed searches of Micropia presence in the genome of natural populations from several species. Then, based on searches within online genomic databases, we retrieved Micropia-like sequences from the genomes of distinct Drosophilidae species. We expanded the knowledge of Micropia distribution within Drosophila species. The Micropia retroelements we detected consist of an array of divergent sequences, which we subdivided into 20 subfamilies. Even so, a patchy distribution of Micropia sequences within the Drosophilidae phylogeny could be identified, with incongruences between the species phylogeny and the Micropia phylogeny. Comparing the pairwise synonymous distance (dS) values between Micropia and three host nuclear sequences, we found several cases of unexpectedly high levels of similarity between Micropia sequences in divergent species. All these findings provide a hypothesis to the evolution of Micropia within Drosophilidae, which include several events of vertical and horizontal transposon transmission, associated with ancestral polymorphisms and recurrent Micropia sequences diversification.
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- Juliana Cordeiro
- Departamento de Ecologia, Zoologia e Genética, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, RS, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade Animal, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil
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- Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre; Rio Grande do Sul; Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade Animal, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil
- Departamento de Ecologia e Evolução, Centro de Ciências Naturais e Exatas, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil
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Bernardo LP, Mombach DM, Loreto ELS. Characterization of Herves-like transposable elements (hATs) in Drosophila species and their evolutionary scenario. INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2019; 28:616-627. [PMID: 30793407 DOI: 10.1111/imb.12577] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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A monophyletic group of Drosophila hAT transposable elements, referred to as Herves-like, was characterized and found to be present in 46% of 57 screened Drosophila species. A remarkable characteristic of these elements is the presence of a long array of minisatellite repeats (MnRs) in both subterminal extremities of the elements. The copy number of these minisatellites was highly variable between and within populations. Twenty-three strains of Drosophila willistoni, covering its geographic distribution, were screened for polymorphism in the copy number of 5' MnRs, showing a variation from 7 to 20 repeat copies. These MnRs are well conserved among Drosophila species and probably function as transposase binding sequences, as provided by short subterminal repeats in other hAT elements. Miniature inverted repeat transposable elements were found in 27% of species carrying Herves-like elements. Phylogenetic analysis showed incongruences between transposable elements and species phylogenies, suggesting that at least four horizontal transfer events have occurred.
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- L P Bernardo
- PPG Biodiverdade Animal, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), Santa Maria, Brazil
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, CCNE, Univeridade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, CCNE, Univeridade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil
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Puzakov MV, Puzakova LV. leidyi Is a New Group of DD41D Transposons in Mnemiopsis leidyi Genome. RUSS J GENET+ 2019. [DOI: 10.1134/s1022795419070123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Fonseca PM, Moura RD, Wallau GL, Loreto ELS. The mobilome of Drosophila incompta, a flower-breeding species: comparison of transposable element landscapes among generalist and specialist flies. Chromosome Res 2019; 27:203-219. [DOI: 10.1007/s10577-019-09609-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2019] [Revised: 04/19/2019] [Accepted: 04/22/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Blumenstiel JP. Birth, School, Work, Death, and Resurrection: The Life Stages and Dynamics of Transposable Element Proliferation. Genes (Basel) 2019; 10:genes10050336. [PMID: 31058854 PMCID: PMC6562965 DOI: 10.3390/genes10050336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2019] [Revised: 04/18/2019] [Accepted: 04/23/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Transposable elements (TEs) can be maintained in sexually reproducing species even if they are harmful. However, the evolutionary strategies that TEs employ during proliferation can modulate their impact. In this review, I outline the different life stages of a TE lineage, from birth to proliferation to extinction. Through their interactions with the host, TEs can exploit diverse strategies that range from long-term coexistence to recurrent movement across species boundaries by horizontal transfer. TEs can also engage in a poorly understood phenomenon of TE resurrection, where TE lineages can apparently go extinct, only to proliferate again. By determining how this is possible, we may obtain new insights into the evolutionary dynamics of TEs and how they shape the genomes of their hosts.
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- Justin P Blumenstiel
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66049, USA.
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Global survey of mobile DNA horizontal transfer in arthropods reveals Lepidoptera as a prime hotspot. PLoS Genet 2019; 15:e1007965. [PMID: 30707693 PMCID: PMC6373975 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007965] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2018] [Revised: 02/13/2019] [Accepted: 01/16/2019] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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More than any other genome components, Transposable Elements (TEs) have the capacity to move across species barriers through Horizontal Transfer (HT), with substantial evolutionary consequences. Previous large-scale surveys, based on full-genomes comparisons, have revealed the transposition mode as an important predictor of HT rates variation across TE superfamilies. However, host biology could represent another major explanatory factor, one that needs to be investigated through extensive taxonomic sampling. Here we test this hypothesis using a field collection of 460 arthropod species from Tahiti and surrounding islands. Through targeted massive parallel sequencing, we uncover patterns of HT in three widely-distributed TE superfamilies with contrasted modes of transposition. In line with earlier findings, the DNA transposons under study (TC1-Mariner) were found to transfer horizontally at the highest frequency, closely followed by the LTR superfamily (Copia), in contrast with the non-LTR superfamily (Jockey), that mostly diversifies through vertical inheritance and persists longer within genomes. Strikingly, across all superfamilies, we observe a marked excess of HTs in Lepidoptera, an insect order that also commonly hosts baculoviruses, known for their ability to transport host TEs. These results turn the spotlight on baculoviruses as major potential vectors of TEs in arthropods, and further emphasize the importance of non-vertical TE inheritance in genome evolution. Transposable elements are chunks of DNA that can produce copies of themselves. New copies usually insert in the genome of their carrier but are occasionally subject to horizontal transmission between organisms, sometimes belonging to evolutionarily-distant lineages. Previous surveys have established that the probability of such events is largely conditioned by the transposition mechanism. For example, elements with an RNA intermediate tend to be less frequently involved in horizontal transfers. Here we investigate host taxa as another potential explanatory factor of variation in horizontal transfer rates. Using targeted sequencing in hundreds of insects and other arthropod species collected in South Pacific islands, we found that butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) show an abnormally elevated rate of horizontal transfers. Previous studies have established that Lepidoptera are also commonly attacked by baculoviruses, large viruses that can transport host DNA. Taken together, these findings point to baculoviruses as a major suspect for transposable elements transfers across arthropod species.
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Lee CC, Wang J. Rapid Expansion of a Highly Germline-Expressed Mariner Element Acquired by Horizontal Transfer in the Fire Ant Genome. Genome Biol Evol 2018; 10:3262-3278. [PMID: 30304394 PMCID: PMC6307670 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evy220] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/08/2018] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Transposable elements (TEs) are present in almost all organisms and affect the host in various ways. TE activity can increase genomic variation and thereby affect host evolution. Currently active TEs are particularly interesting because they are likely generating new genomic diversity. These active TEs have been poorly studied outside of model organisms. In this study, we aimed to identify currently active TEs of a notorious invasive species, the red imported fire ant Solenopsis invicta. Using RNA profiling of male and female germline tissues, we found that the majority of TE-containing transcripts in the fire ant germline belong to the IS630-Tc1-Mariner superfamily. Subsequent genomic characterization of fire ant mariner content, molecular evolution analysis, and population comparisons revealed a highly expressed and highly polymorphic mariner element that is rapidly expanding in the fire ant genome. Additionally, using comparative genomics of multiple insect species we showed that this mariner has undergone several recent horizontal transfer events (<5.1 My). Our results document a rare case of a currently active TE originating from horizontal transfer.
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- Chih-Chi Lee
- Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
- Laboratory of Insect Ecology, Division of Applied Biosciences, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Japan
- Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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Dotto BR, Carvalho EL, da Silva AF, Dezordi FZ, Pinto PM, Campos TDL, Rezende AM, Wallau GDL. HTT-DB: new features and updates. DATABASE-THE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL DATABASES AND CURATION 2018; 2018:4791205. [PMID: 29315358 PMCID: PMC7206651 DOI: 10.1093/database/bax102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2017] [Accepted: 12/12/2017] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Horizontal Transfer (HT) of genetic material between species is a common phenomenon among Bacteria and Archaea species and several databases are available for information retrieval and data mining. However, little attention has been given to this phenomenon among eukaryotic species mainly due to the lower proportion of these events. In the last years, a vertiginous amount of new HT events involving eukaryotic species was reported in the literature, highlighting the need of a common repository to keep the scientific community up to date and describe overall trends. Recently, we published the first HT database focused on HT of transposable elements among eukaryotes: the Horizontal Transposon Transfer DataBase: Database URL: (http://lpa.saogabriel.unipampa.edu.br: 8080/httdatabase/). Here, we present new features and updates of this unique database: (i) its expansion to include virus-host exchange of genetic material, which we called Horizontal Virus Transfer (HVT) and (ii) the availability of a web server for HT detection, where we implemented the online version of vertical and horizontal inheritance consistence analysis (VHICA), an R package developed for HT detection. These improvements will help researchers to navigate through known HVT cases, take data-informed decision and export figures based on keywords searches. Moreover, the availability of the VHICA as an online tool will make this software easily reachable even for researchers with no or little computation knowledge as well as foster our capability to detect new HT events in a wide variety of taxa. Database URL: http://lpa.saogabriel.unipampa.edu.br:8080/httdatabase/
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- Bruno Reis Dotto
- Campus São Gabriel, Universidade Federal do Pampa, Avenida Antonio Trilha, 1847, São Gabriel, Rio Grande do Sul
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- Pos Graduation in Biological Sciences, Universidade Federal do Pampa, Avenida Antonio Trilha, 1847, São Gabriel, Rio Grande do Sul
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- Pos Graduation in Biosciences and Health Biotechnology, Aggeu Magalhães Institute (IAM), Avenida Professor Moraes Rego, s/n, Recife, Pernambuco
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- Campus São Gabriel, Universidade Federal do Pampa, Avenida Antonio Trilha, 1847, São Gabriel, Rio Grande do Sul.,Pos Graduation in Biosciences and Health Biotechnology, Aggeu Magalhães Institute (IAM), Avenida Professor Moraes Rego, s/n, Recife, Pernambuco
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- Campus São Gabriel, Universidade Federal do Pampa, Avenida Antonio Trilha, 1847, São Gabriel, Rio Grande do Sul.,Pos Graduation in Biological Sciences, Universidade Federal do Pampa, Avenida Antonio Trilha, 1847, São Gabriel, Rio Grande do Sul
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- Bioinformatic Core, Aggeu Magalhães Institute (IAM), Avenida Professor Moraes Rego, s/n, Recife, Pernambuco
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- Department of Microbiology, Aggeu Magalhães Institute (IAM), Avenida Professor Moraes Rego, s/n, Recife, Pernambuco
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- Department of Entomology, Aggeu Magalhães Institute (IAM), Avenida Professor Moraes Rego, s/n, Recife, Pernambuco
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An Analysis of IS630/Tc1/mariner Transposons in the Genome of a Pacific Oyster, Crassostrea gigas. J Mol Evol 2018; 86:566-580. [PMID: 30283979 DOI: 10.1007/s00239-018-9868-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2018] [Accepted: 09/28/2018] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Transposable elements represent the DNA fragments capable of increasing their copy number and moving within the genome. Class II mobile elements represents the DNA transposons, which transpose via excision and the subsequent reinsertion at random genomic loci. The increase of their copy number occurs only when the transposition event is coupled with the replication. IS630/Tc1/mariner DNA transposon superfamily is one of the largest and widely distributed among the Class II elements. In this work, we provide a detailed analysis of IS630/Tc1/mariner DNA transposons from the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas. IS630/Tc1/mariner transposons represented in the genome of the Pacific oyster belong to four families, Tc1 (DD34E), mariner (DD34D), pogo (DDxD), and rosa (DD41D). More than a half of IS630/Tc1/mariner elements from C. gigas belong to Tc1 family. Furthermore, Mariner-31_CGi element was shown to represent a new and previously unknown family with DD37E signature. We also discovered the full-size transcripts of eight elements from Tc1, mariner, and pogo families, three of which can, presumably, retain their transposition activity.
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Simão MC, Haudry A, Granzotto A, de Setta N, Carareto CMA. Helena and BS: Two Travellers between the Genera Drosophila and Zaprionus. Genome Biol Evol 2018; 10:2671-2685. [PMID: 30165545 PMCID: PMC6179348 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evy184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/22/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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The frequency of horizontal transfers of transposable elements (HTTs) varies among the types of elements according to the transposition mode and the geographical and temporal overlap of the species involved in the transfer. The drosophilid species of the genus Zaprionus and those of the melanogaster, obscura, repleta, and virilis groups of the genus Drosophila investigated in this study shared space and time at some point in their evolutionary history. This is particularly true of the subgenus Zaprionus and the melanogaster subgroup, which overlapped both geographically and temporally in Tropical Africa during their period of origin and diversification. Here, we tested the hypothesis that this overlap may have facilitated the transfer of retrotransposons without long terminal repeats (non-LTRs) between these species. We estimated the HTT frequency of the non-LTRs BS and Helena at the genome-wide scale by using a phylogenetic framework and a vertical and horizontal inheritance consistence analysis (VHICA). An excessively low synonymous divergence among distantly related species and incongruities between the transposable element and species phylogenies allowed us to propose at least four relatively recent HTT events of Helena and BS involving ancestors of the subgroup melanogaster and ancestors of the subgenus Zaprionus during their concomitant diversification in Tropical Africa, along with older possible events between species of the subgenera Drosophila and Sophophora. This study provides the first evidence for HTT of non-LTRs retrotransposons between Drosophila and Zaprionus, including an in-depth reconstruction of the time frame and geography of these events.
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- Maryanna C Simão
- Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Instituto de Biociências Letras e Ciências Exatas (Ibilce), Câmpus São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS, Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, Villeurbanne, France
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- Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Instituto de Biociências Letras e Ciências Exatas (Ibilce), Câmpus São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC), Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas (CCNH), São Bernardo do Campo, SP, Brazil
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- Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Instituto de Biociências Letras e Ciências Exatas (Ibilce), Câmpus São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil
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Saclier N, François CM, Konecny-Dupré L, Lartillot N, Guéguen L, Duret L, Malard F, Douady CJ, Lefébure T. Life History Traits Impact the Nuclear Rate of Substitution but Not the Mitochondrial Rate in Isopods. Mol Biol Evol 2018; 35:2900-2912. [DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msy184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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- Nathanaëlle Saclier
- Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS UMR 5023, ENTPE, Laboratoire d’Ecologie des Hydrosystèmes Naturels et Anthropisés, Villeurbanne, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS UMR 5023, ENTPE, Laboratoire d’Ecologie des Hydrosystèmes Naturels et Anthropisés, Villeurbanne, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS UMR 5023, ENTPE, Laboratoire d’Ecologie des Hydrosystèmes Naturels et Anthropisés, Villeurbanne, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS UMR 5558, Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, Villeurbanne, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS UMR 5558, Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, Villeurbanne, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS UMR 5558, Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, Villeurbanne, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS UMR 5023, ENTPE, Laboratoire d’Ecologie des Hydrosystèmes Naturels et Anthropisés, Villeurbanne, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS UMR 5023, ENTPE, Laboratoire d’Ecologie des Hydrosystèmes Naturels et Anthropisés, Villeurbanne, France
- Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS UMR 5023, ENTPE, Laboratoire d’Ecologie des Hydrosystèmes Naturels et Anthropisés, Villeurbanne, France
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Hill T, Betancourt AJ. Extensive exchange of transposable elements in the Drosophila pseudoobscura group. Mob DNA 2018; 9:20. [PMID: 29946370 PMCID: PMC6006672 DOI: 10.1186/s13100-018-0123-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2018] [Accepted: 06/01/2018] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND As species diverge, so does their transposable element (TE) content. Within a genome, TE families may eventually become dormant due to host-silencing mechanisms, natural selection and the accumulation of inactive copies. The transmission of active copies from a TE families, both vertically and horizontally between species, can allow TEs to escape inactivation if it occurs often enough, as it may allow TEs to temporarily escape silencing in a new host. Thus, the contribution of horizontal exchange to TE persistence has been of increasing interest. RESULTS Here, we annotated TEs in five species with sequenced genomes from the D. pseudoobscura species group, and curated a set of TE families found in these species. We found that, compared to host genes, many TE families showed lower neutral divergence between species, consistent with recent transmission of TEs between species. Despite these transfers, there are differences in the TE content between species in the group. CONCLUSIONS The TE content is highly dynamic in the D. pseudoobscura species group, frequently transferring between species, keeping TEs active. This result highlights how frequently transposable elements are transmitted between sympatric species and, despite these transfers, how rapidly species TE content can diverge.
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- Tom Hill
- The Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas, 4055 Haworth Hall, 1200 Sunnyside Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA
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- Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZB UK
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Palazzo A, Caizzi R, Viggiano L, Marsano RM. Does the Promoter Constitute a Barrier in the Horizontal Transposon Transfer Process? Insight from Bari Transposons. Genome Biol Evol 2018; 9:1637-1645. [PMID: 28854630 PMCID: PMC5570127 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evx122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/03/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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The contribution of the transposons’ promoter in the horizontal transfer process is quite overlooked in the scientific literature. To shed light on this aspect we have mimicked the horizontal transfer process in laboratory and assayed in a wide range of hosts (fly, human, yeast and bacteria) the promoter activity of the 5′ terminal sequences in Bari1 and Bari3, two Drosophila transposons belonging to the Tc1-mariner superfamily. These sequences are able to drive the transcription of a reporter gene even in distantly related organisms at least at the episomal level. By combining bioinformatics and experimental approaches, we define two distinct promoter sequences for each terminal sequence analyzed, which allow transcriptional activity in prokaryotes and eukaryotes, respectively. We propose that the Bari family of transposons, and possibly other members of the Tc1-mariner superfamily, might have evolved “blurry promoters,” which have facilitated their diffusion in many living organisms through horizontal transfer.
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- Antonio Palazzo
- Department of Biology, University of Bari "Aldo Moro," Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Bari "Aldo Moro," Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Bari "Aldo Moro," Italy
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Horizontal acquisition of transposable elements and viral sequences: patterns and consequences. Curr Opin Genet Dev 2018; 49:15-24. [PMID: 29505963 DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2018.02.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2017] [Revised: 02/13/2018] [Accepted: 02/14/2018] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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It is becoming clear that most eukaryotic transposable elements (TEs) owe their evolutionary success in part to horizontal transfer events, which enable them to invade new species. Recent large-scale studies are beginning to unravel the mechanisms and ecological factors underlying this mode of transmission. Viruses are increasingly recognized as vectors in the process but also as a direct source of genetic material horizontally acquired by eukaryotic organisms. Because TEs and endogenous viruses are major catalysts of variation and innovation in genomes, we argue that horizontal inheritance has had a more profound impact in eukaryotic evolution than is commonly appreciated. To support this proposal, we compile a list of examples, including some previously unrecognized, whereby new host functions and phenotypes can be directly attributed to horizontally acquired TE or viral sequences. We predict that the number of examples will rapidly grow in the future as the prevalence of horizontal transfer in the life cycle of TEs becomes even more apparent, firmly establishing this form of non-Mendelian inheritance as a consequential facet of eukaryotic evolution.
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Wallau GL, Vieira C, Loreto ÉLS. Genetic exchange in eukaryotes through horizontal transfer: connected by the mobilome. Mob DNA 2018; 9:6. [PMID: 29422954 PMCID: PMC5791352 DOI: 10.1186/s13100-018-0112-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2017] [Accepted: 01/24/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Background All living species contain genetic information that was once shared by their common ancestor. DNA is being inherited through generations by vertical transmission (VT) from parents to offspring and from ancestor to descendant species. This process was considered the sole pathway by which biological entities exchange inheritable information. However, Horizontal Transfer (HT), the exchange of genetic information by other means than parents to offspring, was discovered in prokaryotes along with strong evidence showing that it is a very important process by which prokaryotes acquire new genes. Main body For some time now, it has been a scientific consensus that HT events were rare and non-relevant for evolution of eukaryotic species, but there is growing evidence supporting that HT is an important and frequent phenomenon in eukaryotes as well. Conclusion Here, we will discuss the latest findings regarding HT among eukaryotes, mainly HT of transposons (HTT), establishing HTT once and for all as an important phenomenon that should be taken into consideration to fully understand eukaryotes genome evolution. In addition, we will discuss the latest development methods to detect such events in a broader scale and highlight the new approaches which should be pursued by researchers to fill the knowledge gaps regarding HTT among eukaryotes.
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- Gabriel Luz Wallau
- 1Entomology Department, Aggeu Magalhães Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Recife, PE Brazil
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- 2Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS, Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, UMR5558, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- 3Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Federal University of Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS Brazil
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Zakharenko LP, Ivannikov AV, Ignatenko OM, Zakharov IK. Search for Canonical P Element in Genomes of Drosophilinae Subfamily Species. RUSS J GENET+ 2018. [DOI: 10.1134/s1022795418010131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Peccoud J, Cordaux R, Gilbert C. Analyzing Horizontal Transfer of Transposable Elements on a Large Scale: Challenges and Prospects. Bioessays 2017; 40. [DOI: 10.1002/bies.201700177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2017] [Revised: 11/22/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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- Jean Peccoud
- UMR CNRS 7267; Ecologie et Biologie des Interactions; Equipe Ecologie Evolution Symbiose; Université de Poitiers; 86000 Poitiers France
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- UMR CNRS 7267; Ecologie et Biologie des Interactions; Equipe Ecologie Evolution Symbiose; Université de Poitiers; 86000 Poitiers France
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- UMR CNRS 9191; UMR 247 IRD Laboratoire Evolution, Génomes, Comportement, Écologie; Université Paris-Sud,; 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette France
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Viruses as vectors of horizontal transfer of genetic material in eukaryotes. Curr Opin Virol 2017; 25:16-22. [DOI: 10.1016/j.coviro.2017.06.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2017] [Revised: 05/18/2017] [Accepted: 06/13/2017] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Drezen JM, Gauthier J, Josse T, Bézier A, Herniou E, Huguet E. Foreign DNA acquisition by invertebrate genomes. J Invertebr Pathol 2017; 147:157-168. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jip.2016.09.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2016] [Revised: 09/09/2016] [Accepted: 09/14/2016] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Bouallègue M, Filée J, Kharrat I, Mezghani-Khemakhem M, Rouault JD, Makni M, Capy P. Diversity and evolution of mariner-like elements in aphid genomes. BMC Genomics 2017; 18:494. [PMID: 28662628 PMCID: PMC5490172 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-017-3856-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2017] [Accepted: 06/09/2017] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Background Although transposons have been identified in almost all organisms, genome-wide information on mariner elements in Aphididae remains unknown. Genomes of Acyrthosiphon pisum, Diuraphis noxia and Myzus persicae belonging to the Macrosiphini tribe, actually available in databases, have been investigated. Results A total of 22 lineages were identified. Classification and phylogenetic analysis indicated that they were subdivided into three monophyletic groups, each of them containing at least one putative complete sequence, and several non-autonomous sublineages corresponding to Miniature Inverted-Repeat Transposable Elements (MITE), probably generated by internal deletions. A high proportion of truncated and dead copies was also detected. The three clusters can be defined from their catalytic site: (i) mariner DD34D, including three subgroups of the irritans subfamily (Macrosiphinimar, Batmar-like elements and Dnomar-like elements); (ii) rosa DD41D, found in A. pisum and D. noxia; (iii) a new clade which differs from rosa through long TIRs and thus designated LTIR-like elements. Based on its catalytic domain, this new clade is subdivided into DD40D and DD41D subgroups. Compared to other Tc1/mariner superfamily sequences, rosa DD41D and LTIR DD40-41D seem more related to maT DD37D family. Conclusion Overall, our results reveal three clades belonging to the irritans subfamily, rosa and new LTIR-like elements. Data on structure and specific distribution of these transposable elements in the Macrosiphini tribe contribute to the understanding of their evolutionary history and to that of their hosts. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12864-017-3856-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Maryem Bouallègue
- Laboratoire Evolution, Génomes, Comportement, Ecologie CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, IRD, Université Paris-Saclay, 1 avenue de la Terrasse, 91198, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France.,Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, UR11ES10 Génomique des Insectes Ravageurs de Cultures, Université de Tunis El Manar, 1002, Tunis, Tunisie
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- Laboratoire Evolution, Génomes, Comportement, Ecologie CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, IRD, Université Paris-Saclay, 1 avenue de la Terrasse, 91198, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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- Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, UR11ES10 Génomique des Insectes Ravageurs de Cultures, Université de Tunis El Manar, 1002, Tunis, Tunisie
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- Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, UR11ES10 Génomique des Insectes Ravageurs de Cultures, Université de Tunis El Manar, 1002, Tunis, Tunisie
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- Laboratoire Evolution, Génomes, Comportement, Ecologie CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, IRD, Université Paris-Saclay, 1 avenue de la Terrasse, 91198, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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- Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, UR11ES10 Génomique des Insectes Ravageurs de Cultures, Université de Tunis El Manar, 1002, Tunis, Tunisie
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- Laboratoire Evolution, Génomes, Comportement, Ecologie CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, IRD, Université Paris-Saclay, 1 avenue de la Terrasse, 91198, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France.
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Peccoud J, Loiseau V, Cordaux R, Gilbert C. Massive horizontal transfer of transposable elements in insects. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2017; 114:4721-4726. [PMID: 28416702 PMCID: PMC5422770 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1621178114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Horizontal transfer (HT) of genetic material is central to the architecture and evolution of prokaryote genomes. Within eukaryotes, the majority of HTs reported so far are transfers of transposable elements (TEs). These reports essentially come from studies focusing on specific lineages or types of TEs. Because of the lack of large-scale survey, the amount and impact of HT of TEs (HTT) in eukaryote evolution, as well as the trends and factors shaping these transfers, are poorly known. Here, we report a comprehensive analysis of HTT in 195 insect genomes, representing 123 genera and 13 of the 28 insect orders. We found that these insects were involved in at least 2,248 HTT events that essentially occurred during the last 10 My. We show that DNA transposons transfer horizontally more often than retrotransposons, and unveil phylogenetic relatedness and geographical proximity as major factors facilitating HTT in insects. Even though our study is restricted to a small fraction of insect biodiversity and to a recent evolutionary timeframe, the TEs we found to be horizontally transferred generated up to 24% (2.08% on average) of all nucleotides of insect genomes. Together, our results establish HTT as a major force shaping insect genome evolution.
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- Jean Peccoud
- UMR CNRS 7267 Ecologie et Biologie des Interactions, Equipe Ecologie Evolution Symbiose, Université de Poitiers, Poitiers F-86073, France
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- UMR CNRS 7267 Ecologie et Biologie des Interactions, Equipe Ecologie Evolution Symbiose, Université de Poitiers, Poitiers F-86073, France
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- UMR CNRS 7267 Ecologie et Biologie des Interactions, Equipe Ecologie Evolution Symbiose, Université de Poitiers, Poitiers F-86073, France
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- UMR CNRS 7267 Ecologie et Biologie des Interactions, Equipe Ecologie Evolution Symbiose, Université de Poitiers, Poitiers F-86073, France
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Bargues N, Lerat E. Evolutionary history of LTR-retrotransposons among 20 Drosophila species. Mob DNA 2017; 8:7. [PMID: 28465726 PMCID: PMC5408442 DOI: 10.1186/s13100-017-0090-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2017] [Accepted: 04/21/2017] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Background The presence of transposable elements (TEs) in genomes is known to explain in part the variations of genome sizes among eukaryotes. Even among closely related species, the variation of TE amount may be striking, as for example between the two sibling species, Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans. However, not much is known concerning the TE content and dynamics among other Drosophila species. The sequencing of several Drosophila genomes, covering the two subgenus Sophophora and Drosophila, revealed a large variation of the repeat content among these species but no much information is known concerning their precise TE content. The identification of some consensus sequences of TEs from the various sequenced Drosophila species allowed to get an idea concerning their variety in term of diversity of superfamilies but the used classification remains very elusive and ambiguous. Results We choose to focus on LTR-retrotransposons because they represent the most widely represented class of TEs in the Drosophila genomes. In this work, we describe for the first time the phylogenetic relationship of each LTR-retrotransposon family described in 20 Drosophila species, compute their proportion in their respective genomes and identify several new cases of horizontal transfers. Conclusion All these results allow us to have a clearer view on the evolutionary history of LTR retrotransposons among Drosophila that seems to be mainly driven by vertical transmissions although the implications of horizontal transfers, losses and intra-specific diversification are clearly also at play. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13100-017-0090-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Nicolas Bargues
- CNRS, UMR 5558, Laboratoire Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- CNRS, UMR 5558, Laboratoire Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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Venner S, Miele V, Terzian C, Biémont C, Daubin V, Feschotte C, Pontier D. Ecological networks to unravel the routes to horizontal transposon transfers. PLoS Biol 2017; 15:e2001536. [PMID: 28199335 PMCID: PMC5331948 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2001536] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Transposable elements (TEs) represent the single largest component of numerous eukaryotic genomes, and their activity and dispersal constitute an important force fostering evolutionary innovation. The horizontal transfer of TEs (HTT) between eukaryotic species is a common and widespread phenomenon that has had a profound impact on TE dynamics and, consequently, on the evolutionary trajectory of many species' lineages. However, the mechanisms promoting HTT remain largely unknown. In this article, we argue that network theory combined with functional ecology provides a robust conceptual framework and tools to delineate how complex interactions between diverse organisms may act in synergy to promote HTTs.
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- Samuel Venner
- Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive UMR5558-CNRS, Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
- LabEx ECOFECT (Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Infectious Diseases), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
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- Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive UMR5558-CNRS, Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
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- LabEx ECOFECT (Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Infectious Diseases), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
- UMR754 INRA, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France
- Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive UMR5558-CNRS, Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
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- Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive UMR5558-CNRS, Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
- LabEx ECOFECT (Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Infectious Diseases), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
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- Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive UMR5558-CNRS, Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
- LabEx ECOFECT (Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Infectious Diseases), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
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Robillard É, Le Rouzic A, Zhang Z, Capy P, Hua-Van A. Experimental evolution reveals hyperparasitic interactions among transposable elements. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2016; 113:14763-14768. [PMID: 27930288 PMCID: PMC5187678 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1524143113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Transposable elements (TEs) are repeated DNA sequences that can constitute a substantial part of genomes. Studying TEs' activity, interactions, and accumulation dynamics is thus of major interest to understand genome evolution. Here, we describe the transposition dynamics of cut-and-paste mariner elements during experimental (short- and longer-term) evolution in Drosophila melanogaster Flies with autonomous and nonautonomous mariner copies were introduced in populations containing no active mariner, and TE accumulation was tracked by quantitative PCR for up to 100 generations. Our results demonstrate that (i) active mariner elements are highly invasive and characterized by an elevated transposition rate, confirming their capacity to spread in populations, as predicted by the "selfish-DNA" mechanism; (ii) nonautonomous copies act as parasites of autonomous mariner elements by hijacking the transposition machinery produced by active mariner, which can be considered as a case of hyperparasitism; (iii) this behavior resulted in a failure of active copies to amplify which systematically drove the whole family to extinction in less than 100 generations. This study nicely illustrates how the presence of transposition-competitive variants can deeply impair TE dynamics and gives clues to the extraordinary diversity of TE evolutionary histories observed in genomes.
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- Émilie Robillard
- Évolution, Génomes, Comportement, Écologie, CNRS, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Évolution, Génomes, Comportement, Écologie, CNRS, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Évolution, Génomes, Comportement, Écologie, CNRS, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Évolution, Génomes, Comportement, Écologie, CNRS, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Évolution, Génomes, Comportement, Écologie, CNRS, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Palazzo A, Lovero D, D’Addabbo P, Caizzi R, Marsano RM. Identification of Bari Transposons in 23 Sequenced Drosophila Genomes Reveals Novel Structural Variants, MITEs and Horizontal Transfer. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0156014. [PMID: 27213270 PMCID: PMC4877112 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2015] [Accepted: 05/09/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Bari elements are members of the Tc1-mariner superfamily of DNA transposons, originally discovered in Drosophila melanogaster, and subsequently identified in silico in 11 sequenced Drosophila genomes and as experimentally isolated in four non-sequenced Drosophila species. Bari-like elements have been also studied for their mobility both in vivo and in vitro. We analyzed 23 Drosophila genomes and carried out a detailed characterization of the Bari elements identified, including those from the heterochromatic Bari1 cluster in D. melanogaster. We have annotated 401 copies of Bari elements classified either as putatively autonomous or inactive according to the structure of the terminal sequences and the presence of a complete transposase-coding region. Analyses of the integration sites revealed that Bari transposase prefers AT-rich sequences in which the TA target is cleaved and duplicated. Furthermore evaluation of transposon’s co-occurrence near the integration sites of Bari elements showed a non-random distribution of other transposable elements. We also unveil the existence of a putatively autonomous Bari1 variant characterized by two identical long Terminal Inverted Repeats, in D. rhopaloa. In addition, we detected MITEs related to Bari transposons in 9 species. Phylogenetic analyses based on transposase gene and the terminal sequences confirmed that Bari-like elements are distributed into three subfamilies. A few inconsistencies in Bari phylogenetic tree with respect to the Drosophila species tree could be explained by the occurrence of horizontal transfer events as also suggested by the results of dS analyses. This study further clarifies the Bari transposon’s evolutionary dynamics and increases our understanding on the Tc1-mariner elements’ biology.
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- Antonio Palazzo
- Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro” via Orabona 4 70125, Bari, Italy
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- Istituto di Biomembrane e Bioenergetica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Amendola 165/A, 70126, Bari, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro” via Orabona 4 70125, Bari, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro” via Orabona 4 70125, Bari, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro” via Orabona 4 70125, Bari, Italy
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