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Ahmad HI, Khan FA, Khan MA, Imran S, Akhtar RW, Pandupuspitasari NS, Negara W, Chen J. Molecular Evolution of the Bactericidal/Permeability-Increasing Protein (BPIFA1) Regulating the Innate Immune Responses in Mammals. Genes (Basel) 2022; 14:genes14010015. [PMID: 36672756 PMCID: PMC9858190 DOI: 10.3390/genes14010015] [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: 10/21/2022] [Revised: 12/06/2022] [Accepted: 12/13/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein, a primary factor of the innate immune system of mammals, participates in natural immune protection against invading bacteria. BPIFA1 actively contributes to host defense via multiple mechanisms, such as antibacterial, surfactant, airway surface liquid control, and immunomodulatory activities. However, the evolutionary history and selection forces on the BPIFA1 gene in mammals during adaptive evolution are poorly understood. This study examined the BPIFA1 gene of humans compared with that of other mammalian species to estimate the selective pressure derived by adaptive evolution. To assess whether or not positive selection occurred, we employed several different possibility tests (M1 vs. M2 and M7 vs. M8). The proportions of positively selected sites were significant, with a likelihood log value of 93.63 for the BPIFA1 protein. The Selecton server was used on the same dataset to reconfirm positive selection for specific sites by employing the Mechanistic-Empirical Combination model, thus providing additional evidence supporting the findings of positive selection. There was convincing evidence for positive selection signals in the BPIFA1 genes of mammalian species, which was more significant for selection signs and creating signals. We performed probability tests comparing various models based on dN/dS ratios to recognize specific codons under positive selection pressure. We identified positively selected sites in the LBP-BPI domain of BPIFA1 proteins in the mammalian genome, including a lipid-binding domain with a very high degree of selectivity for DPPC. BPIFA1 activates the upper airway's innate immune system in response to numerous genetic signals in the mammalian genome. These findings highlight evolutionary advancements in immunoregulatory effects that play a significant role in the antibacterial and antiviral defenses of mammalian species.
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- Hafiz Ishfaq Ahmad
- Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur 63100, Pakistan
- Correspondence: (H.I.A.); (J.C.)
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Genomics, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Central Punjab, Lahore 54000, Pakistan
- Research Center for Animal Husbandry, National Research and Innovation Agency, South Tangerang 15314, Indonesia
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- Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur 63100, Pakistan
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- Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur 63100, Pakistan
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- Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur 63100, Pakistan
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- Laboratory of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science, Animal Science Department, Faculty of Animal and Agricultural Sciences, Universitas Diponegoro, Semarang 50275, Indonesia
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- Research Center for Animal Husbandry, National Research and Innovation Agency, South Tangerang 15314, Indonesia
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Animal Conservation and Resource Utilization, Guangdong Public Laboratory of Wild Animal Conservation and Utilization, Institute of Zoology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510260, China
- Correspondence: (H.I.A.); (J.C.)
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Kudryavtseva OA, Safina KR, Vakhrusheva OA, Logacheva MD, Penin AA, Neretina TV, Moskalenko VN, Glagoleva ES, Bazykin GA, Kondrashov AS. Genetics of Adaptation of the Ascomycetous Fungus Podospora anserina to Submerged Cultivation. Genome Biol Evol 2019; 11:2807-2817. [PMID: 31529025 PMCID: PMC6786475 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evz194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/03/2019] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Podospora anserina is a model ascomycetous fungus which shows pronounced phenotypic senescence when grown on solid medium but possesses unlimited lifespan under submerged cultivation. In order to study the genetic aspects of adaptation of P. anserina to submerged cultivation, we initiated a long-term evolution experiment. In the course of the first 4 years of the experiment, 125 single-nucleotide substitutions and 23 short indels were fixed in eight independently evolving populations. Six proteins that affect fungal growth and development evolved in more than one population; in particular, in the G-protein alpha subunit FadA, new alleles fixed in seven out of eight experimental populations, and these fixations affected just four amino acid sites, which is an unprecedented level of parallelism in experimental evolution. Parallel evolution at the level of genes and pathways, an excess of nonsense and missense substitutions, and an elevated conservation of proteins and their sites where the changes occurred suggest that many of the observed fixations were adaptive and driven by positive selection.
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- Olga A Kudryavtseva
- Department of Mycology and Phycology, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia
- Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia
- Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia
- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
- White Sea Biological Station, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Republic of Karelia, Russia
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia
- Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Igoshin AV, Gunbin KV, Yudin NS, Voevoda MI. Searching for Signatures of Cold Climate Adaptation in TRPM8 Gene in Populations of East Asian Ancestry. Front Genet 2019; 10:759. [PMID: 31507633 PMCID: PMC6716346 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2019.00759] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2018] [Accepted: 07/17/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Dispersal of Homo sapiens across the globe during the last 200,000 years was accompanied by adaptation to local climatic conditions, with severe winter temperatures being probably one of the most significant selective forces. The TRPM8 gene codes for a cold-sensing ion channel, and adaptation to low temperatures is the major determinant of its molecular evolution. Here, our aim was to search for signatures of cold climate adaptation in TRPM8 gene using a combined data set of 19 populations of East Asian ancestry from the 1000 Genomes Project and Human Genome Diversity Project. As a result, out of a total of 60 markers under study, none showed significant association with the average winter temperatures at the locations of the studied populations considering the multiple testing thresholds. This might suggest that the principal mode of TRPM8 evolution may be different from widespread models, where adaptive alleles are additive, dominant or recessive, at least in populations with the predominant East Asian component. For example, evolution by means of selectively preferable epistatic interactions among amino acids may have taken place. Despite the lack of strong signals of association, however, a very promising single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) was found. The SNP rs7577262 is considered the best candidate based on its allelic correlations with winter temperatures, signatures of selective sweep and physiological evidences. The second top SNP, rs17862920, may participate in adaptation as well. Additionally, to assist in interpreting the nominal associations, the other markers reached, we performed SNP prioritization based on functional evidences found in literature and on evolutionary conservativeness.
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- Alexander V. Igoshin
- Sector of the Genetics of Industrial Microorganisms, The Federal Research Center Institute of Cytology and Genetics, The Siberian Branch, The Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Center of Brain Neurobiology and Neurogenetics, The Federal Research Center Institute of Cytology and Genetics, The Siberian Branch, The Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
- V. Zelman Institute for Medicine and Psychology Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
- Center for Mitochondrial Functional Genomics, Institute of Living Systems, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia
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- V. Zelman Institute for Medicine and Psychology Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
- Laboratory of Livestock Molecular Genetics and Breeding, The Federal Research Center Institute of Cytology and Genetics, The Siberian Branch, The Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Laboratory of Human Molecular Genetics, The Federal Research Center Institute of Cytology and Genetics, The Siberian Branch, The Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
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Bergman J, Eyre-Walker A. Does Adaptive Protein Evolution Proceed by Large or Small Steps at the Amino Acid Level? Mol Biol Evol 2019; 36:990-998. [PMID: 30903659 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msz033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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A long-standing question in evolutionary biology is the relative contribution of large and small effect mutations to the adaptive process. We have investigated this question in proteins by estimating the rate of adaptive evolution between all pairs of amino acids separated by one mutational step using a McDonald-Kreitman type approach and genome-wide data from several Drosophila species. We find that the rate of adaptive evolution is highest among amino acids that are more similar. This is partly due to the fact that the proportion of mutations that are adaptive is higher among more similar amino acids. We also find that the rate of neutral evolution between amino acids is higher among more similar amino acids. Overall our results suggest that both the adaptive and nonadaptive evolution of proteins are dominated by substitutions between similar amino acids.
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- Juraj Bergman
- Institut für Populationsgenetik, Vetmeduni Vienna, Wien, Austria.,Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics, Wien, Austria
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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Safina KR, Mironov AA, Bazykin GA. Compensatory Evolution of Intrinsic Transcription Terminators in Bacillus Cereus. Genome Biol Evol 2018; 9:340-349. [PMID: 28201729 PMCID: PMC5381666 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evw295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/23/2017] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Many RNA molecules possess complicated secondary structure critical to their function. Mutations in double-helical regions of RNA may disrupt Watson–Crick (WC) interactions causing structure destabilization or even complete loss of function. Such disruption can be compensated by another mutation restoring base pairing, as has been shown for mRNA, rRNA and tRNA. Here, we investigate the evolution of intrinsic transcription terminators between closely related strains of Bacillus cereus. While the terminator structure is maintained by strong natural selection, as evidenced by the low frequency of disrupting mutations, we observe multiple instances of pairs of disrupting-compensating mutations in RNA structure stems. Such two-step switches between different WC pairs occur very fast, consistent with the low fitness conferred by the intermediate non-WC variant. Still, they are not instantaneous, and probably involve transient fixation of the intermediate variant. The GU wobble pair is the most frequent intermediate, and remains fixed longer than other intermediates, consistent with its less disruptive effect on the RNA structure. Double switches involving non-GU intermediates are more frequent at the ends of RNA stems, probably because they are associated with smaller fitness loss. Together, these results show that the fitness landscape of bacterial transcription terminators is rather rugged, but that the fitness valleys associated with unpaired stem nucleotides are rather shallow, facilitating evolution.
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- Ksenia R Safina
- Sector for Molecular Evolution, Institute of Information Transmission Problems (Kharkevich Institute) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.,Department of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Sector for Molecular Evolution, Institute of Information Transmission Problems (Kharkevich Institute) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.,Department of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Sector for Molecular Evolution, Institute of Information Transmission Problems (Kharkevich Institute) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.,Department of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.,Center for Data-Intensive Biomedicine and Biotechnology, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skolkovo, Russia
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Estimating the parameters of background selection and selective sweeps in Drosophila in the presence of gene conversion. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2017; 114:E4762-E4771. [PMID: 28559322 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1619434114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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We used whole-genome resequencing data from a population of Drosophila melanogaster to investigate the causes of the negative correlation between the within-population synonymous nucleotide site diversity (πS ) of a gene and its degree of divergence from related species at nonsynonymous nucleotide sites (KA ). By using the estimated distributions of mutational effects on fitness at nonsynonymous and UTR sites, we predicted the effects of background selection at sites within a gene on πS and found that these could account for only part of the observed correlation between πS and KA We developed a model of the effects of selective sweeps that included gene conversion as well as crossing over. We used this model to estimate the average strength of selection on positively selected mutations in coding sequences and in UTRs, as well as the proportions of new mutations that are selectively advantageous. Genes with high levels of selective constraint on nonsynonymous sites were found to have lower strengths of positive selection and lower proportions of advantageous mutations than genes with low levels of constraint. Overall, background selection and selective sweeps within a typical gene reduce its synonymous diversity to ∼75% of its value in the absence of selection, with larger reductions for genes with high KA Gene conversion has a major effect on the estimates of the parameters of positive selection, such that the estimated strength of selection on favorable mutations is greatly reduced if it is ignored.
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Mutation, Duplication, and More in the Evolution of Venomous Animals and Their Toxins. EVOLUTION OF VENOMOUS ANIMALS AND THEIR TOXINS 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6458-3_5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Vinogradov AE. Accelerated pathway evolution in mouse-like rodents involves cell cycle control. Mamm Genome 2015; 26:609-18. [PMID: 26424469 DOI: 10.1007/s00335-015-9605-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2015] [Accepted: 09/23/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Rodents include both the cancer-susceptible short-lived mouse and the two unrelated cancer-resistant long-lived mole-rats. In this work, their genomes were analyzed with the goal to reveal pathways enriched in genes, which are more similar between the mole-rats than between the mouse and the naked mole-rat. The pathways related to cell cycle control were prominent. They include external signal transduction and all cell cycle stages. There are several stem cell pathways among them. The other enriched pathways involve ubiquitin-dependent protein degradation, immunity, mRNA splicing, and apoptosis. The ubiquitin-dependent protein degradation is a core of network of enriched pathways. However, this phenomenon is not specific for the mouse and the mole-rats. The other muroid species show features similar to the mouse, whereas the non-muroid rodents and the human show features similar to the mole-rats. The higher ratio of non-synonymous to synonymous nucleotide substitutions (dN/dS) indicates the accelerated evolution of revealed pathways in the muroid rodents (except the blind mole-rat). Paradoxically, the dN/dS averaged over the whole genome is lower in the muroids, i.e., the purifying selection is generally stronger in them. In practical sense, these data suggest caveat for using muroid rodents (mouse, rat, and hamsters) as biomedical models of human conditions involving cell cycle and show the network of pathways where muroid genes are most different (compared with non-muroid) from human genes. The guinea pig is emphasized as a more suitable rodent model for biomedical research involving cell cycle.
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Seplyarskiy VB, Bazykin GA, Soldatov RA. Polymerase ζ Activity Is Linked to Replication Timing in Humans: Evidence from Mutational Signatures. Mol Biol Evol 2015; 32:3158-72. [PMID: 26376651 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msv184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Replication timing is an important determinant of germline mutation patterns, with a higher rate of point mutations in late replicating regions. Mechanisms underlying this association remain elusive. One of the suggested explanations is the activity of error-prone DNA polymerases in late-replicating regions. Polymerase zeta (pol ζ), an essential error-prone polymerase biased toward transversions, also has a tendency to produce dinucleotide mutations (DNMs), complex mutational events that simultaneously affect two adjacent nucleotides. Experimental studies have shown that pol ζ is strongly biased toward GC→AA/TT DNMs. Using primate divergence data, we show that the GC→AA/TT pol ζ mutational signature is the most frequent among DNMs, and its rate exceeds the mean rate of other DNM types by a factor of approximately 10. Unlike the overall rate of DNMs, the pol ζ signature drastically increases with the replication time in the human genome. Finally, the pol ζ signature is enriched in transcribed regions, and there is a strong prevalence of GC→TT over GC→AA DNMs on the nontemplate strand, indicating association with transcription. A recurrently occurring GC→TT DNM in HRAS and SOD1 genes causes the Costello syndrome and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis correspondently; we observe an approximately 1 kb long mutation hotspot enriched by transversions near these DNMs in both cases, suggesting a link between these diseases and pol ζ activity. This study uncovers the genomic preferences of pol ζ, shedding light on a novel cause of mutational heterogeneity along the genome.
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- Vladimir B Seplyarskiy
- Institute of Information Transmission Problems (Kharkevich Institute) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Department of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russia
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- Institute of Information Transmission Problems (Kharkevich Institute) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Department of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russia
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- Institute of Information Transmission Problems (Kharkevich Institute) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Department of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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Hodgins KA, Bock DG, Hahn MA, Heredia SM, Turner KG, Rieseberg LH. Comparative genomics in the Asteraceae reveals little evidence for parallel evolutionary change in invasive taxa. Mol Ecol 2015; 24:2226-40. [PMID: 25439241 DOI: 10.1111/mec.13026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2014] [Revised: 11/23/2014] [Accepted: 11/26/2014] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Asteraceae, the largest family of flowering plants, has given rise to many notorious invasive species. Using publicly available transcriptome assemblies from 35 Asteraceae, including six major invasive species, we examined evidence for micro- and macro-evolutionary genomic changes associated with invasion. To detect episodes of positive selection repeated across multiple introductions, we conducted comparisons between native and introduced genotypes from six focal species and identified genes with elevated rates of amino acid change (dN/dS). We then looked for evidence of positive selection at a broader phylogenetic scale across all taxa. As invasive species may experience founder events during colonization and spread, we also looked for evidence of increased genetic load in introduced genotypes. We rarely found evidence for parallel changes in orthologous genes in the intraspecific comparisons, but in some cases we identified changes in members of the same gene family. Using among-species comparisons, we detected positive selection in 0.003-0.69% and 2.4-7.8% of the genes using site and stochastic branch-site models, respectively. These genes had diverse putative functions, including defence response, stress response and herbicide resistance, although there was no clear pattern in the GO terms. There was no indication that introduced genotypes have a higher proportion of deleterious alleles than native genotypes in the six focal species, suggesting multiple introductions and admixture mitigated the impact of drift. Our findings provide little evidence for common genomic responses in invasive taxa of the Asteraceae and hence suggest that multiple evolutionary pathways may lead to adaptation during introduction and spread in these species.
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- Kathryn A Hodgins
- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Vic., 3800, Australia
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Roux J, Privman E, Moretti S, Daub JT, Robinson-Rechavi M, Keller L. Patterns of positive selection in seven ant genomes. Mol Biol Evol 2014; 31:1661-85. [PMID: 24782441 PMCID: PMC4069625 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msu141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The evolution of ants is marked by remarkable adaptations that allowed the development of very complex social systems. To identify how ant-specific adaptations are associated with patterns of molecular evolution, we searched for signs of positive selection on amino-acid changes in proteins. We identified 24 functional categories of genes which were enriched for positively selected genes in the ant lineage. We also reanalyzed genome-wide data sets in bees and flies with the same methodology to check whether positive selection was specific to ants or also present in other insects. Notably, genes implicated in immunity were enriched for positively selected genes in the three lineages, ruling out the hypothesis that the evolution of hygienic behaviors in social insects caused a major relaxation of selective pressure on immune genes. Our scan also indicated that genes implicated in neurogenesis and olfaction started to undergo increased positive selection before the evolution of sociality in Hymenoptera. Finally, the comparison between these three lineages allowed us to pinpoint molecular evolution patterns that were specific to the ant lineage. In particular, there was ant-specific recurrent positive selection on genes with mitochondrial functions, suggesting that mitochondrial activity was improved during the evolution of this lineage. This might have been an important step toward the evolution of extreme lifespan that is a hallmark of ants.
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- Julien Roux
- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, SwitzerlandSIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, SwitzerlandSIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, SwitzerlandSIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, SwitzerlandVital-IT Group, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, SwitzerlandSIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, SwitzerlandCMPG, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, SwitzerlandSIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Terekhanova NV, Bazykin GA, Neverov A, Kondrashov AS, Seplyarskiy VB. Prevalence of multinucleotide replacements in evolution of primates and Drosophila. Mol Biol Evol 2013; 30:1315-25. [PMID: 23447710 PMCID: PMC3649671 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mst036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Evolution of sequences mostly involves independent changes at different sites. However, substitutions at neighboring sites may co-occur as multinucleotide replacement events (MNRs). Here, we compare noncoding sequences of several species of primates, and of three species of Drosophila fruit flies, in a phylogenetic analysis of the replacements that occurred between species at nearby nucleotide sites. Both in primates and in Drosophila, the frequency of single-nucleotide replacements is substantially elevated within 10 nucleotides from other replacements that occurred on the same lineage but not on another lineage. The data imply that dinucleotide replacements (DNRs) affecting sites at distances of up to 10 nucleotides from each other are responsible for 2.3% of single-nucleotide replacements in primate genomes and for 5.6% in Drosophila genomes. Among these DNRs, 26% and 69%, respectively, are in fact parts of replacements of three or more trinucleotide replacements (TNRs). The plurality of MNRs affect nearby nucleotides, so that at least six times as many DNRs affect two adjacent nucleotide sites than sites 10 nucleotides apart. Still, approximately 60% of DNRs, and approximately 90% of TNRs, span distances more than two (or three) nucleotides. MNRs make a major contribution to the observed clustering of substitutions: In the human–chimpanzee comparison, DNRs are responsible for 50% of cases when two nearby replacements are observed on the human lineage, and TNRs are responsible for 83% of cases when three replacements at three immediately adjacent sites are observed on the human lineage. The prevalence of MNRs matches that is observed in data on de novo mutations and is also observed in the regions with the lowest sequence conservation, suggesting that MNRs mainly have mutational origin; however, epistatic selection and/or gene conversion may also play a role.
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- Nadezhda V Terekhanova
- Department of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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