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Kpatènon MJ, Salako KV, Santoni S, Zekraoui L, Latreille M, Tollon-Cordet C, Mariac C, Jaligot E, Beulé T, Adéoti K. Transferability, development of simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers and application to the analysis of genetic diversity and population structure of the African fan palm (Borassus aethiopum Mart.) in Benin. BMC Genet 2020; 21:145. [PMID: 33272218 PMCID: PMC7713368 DOI: 10.1186/s12863-020-00955-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2020] [Accepted: 11/17/2020] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Background In Sub-Saharan Africa, Borassus aethiopum Mart. (African fan palm) is an important non-timber forest product-providing palm that faces multiple anthropogenic threats to its genetic diversity. However, this species is so far under-studied, which prevents its sustainable development as a resource. The present work is a first attempt at characterizing the genetic diversity and population structure of B. aethiopum across nine collection sites spanning the three climatic regions of Benin, West Africa, through the use of microsatellite markers. Results During a first phase we relied on the reported transferability of primers developed in other palm species. We find that, in disagreement with previously published results, only 22.5% of the markers tested enable amplification of B. aethiopum DNA and polymorphism detection is very low. In a second phase, we generated a B. aethiopum-specific genomic dataset through high-throughput sequencing and used it for the de novo detection of microsatellite loci. Among the primer pairs targeting these, 11 detected polymorphisms and were further used for analyzing genetic diversity. Across the nine sites, expected heterozygosity (He) ranges from 0.263 to 0.451 with an overall average of 0.354, showing a low genetic diversity. Analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA) shows that within-site variation accounts for 53% of the genetic variation. Accordingly, the low number of migrants and positive values of the fixation index (F) in sites from both the Central (Sudano-Guinean) and the Southern (Guinean) climatic regions suggest limited gene flow between sites. The global correlation between genetic and geographic distances is weak; however, our clustering analyses indicate that B. aethiopum palms from Savè (Center) are genetically more similar to those from the North than to samples from other Central sites. Conclusions In the light of our results, we discuss the use of inter-species transfer vs. de novo development of microsatellite markers in genetic diversity analyses targeting under-studied species, and suggest future applications for our molecular resources. We propose that, while prominent short-range pollen and seed dispersal in Benin explain most of our results, gene flux between the Central and Northern regions, as a result of animal and/or human migrations, might underlie the Savè discrepancy. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12863-020-00955-y.
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- Mariano Joly Kpatènon
- Laboratoire de Microbiologie et de Technologie Alimentaire (LAMITA), Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université d'Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Bénin.,Biodiversité et Ecologie des Plantes (BDEP), Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université d'Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Bénin.,DIADE, Univ Montpellier, IRD, Montpellier, France
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- Biodiversité et Ecologie des Plantes (BDEP), Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université d'Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Bénin.,Laboratoire de Biomathématiques et d'Estimations Forestières (LABEF), Faculté des Sciences Agronomiques, Université d'Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Bénin
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- AGAP, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Montpellier SupAgro, Montpellier, France
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- AGAP, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Montpellier SupAgro, Montpellier, France
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- DIADE, Univ Montpellier, IRD, Montpellier, France.,CIRAD, UMR DIADE, Montpellier, France
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- DIADE, Univ Montpellier, IRD, Montpellier, France.,CIRAD, UMR DIADE, Montpellier, France
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- Laboratoire de Microbiologie et de Technologie Alimentaire (LAMITA), Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université d'Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Bénin. .,Biodiversité et Ecologie des Plantes (BDEP), Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université d'Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Bénin.
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Petit Dop F, Latreille M, Guicherd L, Mertens J, Claesen K, Hendriks D, Arnaud E, Donazzolo Y. Favourable safety profile of S62798, a potent TAFIa (activated thrombin-activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor) inhibitor, in first-in-man study in healthy subjects. Eur Heart J 2020. [DOI: 10.1093/ehjci/ehaa946.2268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Background
Thromboembolic diseases, such as venous thromboembolic diseases represent a significant public health burden. S62798, a selective and potent inhibitor of activated thrombin-activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor (TAFIa), is being developed as a fibrinolysis enhancer for the treatment of thromboembolic diseases, including pulmonary embolism. TAFIa inhibits the fibrinolysis by limiting plasmin generation.
Objectives
This double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled first-in-man study was conducted to investigate the safety, pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmacodynamics (PD) of single ascending doses of S62798 in healthy subjects.
Methods
Young male (18–40 years) subjects were randomised 3:1 to single ascending doses of S62798 ranging from 3.2 mg to 320 mg or placebo, administered as an intravenous bolus followed by a 7 hour 2-step infusion (part 1), or to 30 mg or 40 mg or placebo administered as a 1-min bolus (part 2). Follow-up ranged from 6 to 13 days post S62798 administration depending on cohorts. Exclusion criteria included bleeding disorders, recent bleeding, and abnormal blood coagulation parameters. Anticoagulant/antiplatelet treatments were not allowed for 30 days prior to and during the study. Safety was assessed by recording adverse events (AE), physical examination, vital signs, biochemical, haematological and haemostasis parameters (prothrombin time, activated partial thromboplastin time, thrombin clotting time, D-Dimers and fibrinogen). Plasma and urine samples for PK assessment were collected pre-dose and up to day 13 to assess the full PK profile. In part 1, ex vivo TAFIa inhibition (spiking of purified human TAFIa) and in vitro clot lysis time were assessed at pre-dose, during and after infusion. The study was performed in France in accordance with the declaration of Helsinki revised in Fortaleza. EudraCT number: 2016–002108–25.
Results
A total of 56 subjects were randomized to part 1 and 16 to part 2. Subjects were (mean ± SD) 29.5 ±- 5.7 years old with a BMI of 23.9±2.6 kg/m2 in part 1 and 31.4±5.2 years old with a BMI of 23.9±2.5 kg/m2 in part 2.
All doses of S62798 administered as a bolus and infusion or a single bolus were well tolerated, and no serious adverse events or discontinuations resulting from AEs occurred during the study. No effects of S62798 on haemostasis parameters were observed. Cardiac safety assessed by 12-lead 24h Holter ECG showed no relevant abnormalities. Plasma exposure of S62798 increased proportionally with the dose. S62798 inhibits TAFIa activity and decreases clot lysis time (reflecting TAFIa activity inhibition) rapidly and dose-dependently in all treated groups.
Conclusions
S62798, a potent TAFIa inhibitor, has a favourable safety profile with a linear PK. PD results on TAFIa inhibition and clot lysis assay suggest that S62798 has relevant properties to pursue clinical development as an enhancer of endogenous fibrinolysis for the treatment of thromboembolic diseases
Funding Acknowledgement
Type of funding source: Private company. Main funding source(s): IRIS
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- F Petit Dop
- International Research Institute Servier (IRIS), Suresnes, France
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- International Research Institute Servier (IRIS), Suresnes, France
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- Laboratory of Medical Biochemistry, University of Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Medical Biochemistry, University of Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Medical Biochemistry, University of Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium
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- International Research Institute Servier (IRIS), Suresnes, France
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Fréville H, Roumet P, Rode NO, Rocher A, Latreille M, Muller M, David J. Preferential helping to relatives: A potential mechanism responsible for lower yield of crop variety mixtures? Evol Appl 2019; 12:1837-1849. [PMID: 31548861 PMCID: PMC6752151 DOI: 10.1111/eva.12842] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2018] [Revised: 06/19/2019] [Accepted: 07/02/2019] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Variety mixtures, the cultivation of different genotypes within a field, have been proposed as a way to increase within-crop diversity, allowing the development of more sustainable agricultural systems with reduced environmental costs. Although mixtures have often been shown to over-yield the average of component varieties in pure stands, decreased yields in mixtures have also been documented. Kin selection may explain such pattern, whenever plants direct helping behaviors preferentially toward relatives and thus experience stronger competition when grown with less related neighbors, lowering seed production of mixtures. Using varieties of durum wheat originating from traditional Moroccan agrosystems, we designed a greenhouse experiment to address whether plants reduced competition for light by limiting stem elongation when growing with kin and whether such phenotypic response resulted in higher yield of kin groups. Seeds were sown in groups of siblings and nonkin, each group containing a focal plant surrounded by four neighbors. At the group level, mean plant height and yield did not depend upon relatedness among competing plants. At the individual level, plant height was not affected by genetic relatedness to neighbors, after accounting for direct genetic effects that might induce among-genotype differences in the ability to capture resources that do not depend on relatedness. Moreover, in contrast to our predictions, shorter plants had lower inclusive fitness. Phenotypic plasticity in height was very limited in response to neighbor genotypes. This suggests that human selection in crops may have attenuated shade-avoidance responses to competition for light. Future research on preferential helping to relatives in crops might thus target social traits that drive competition for other resources than light. Overall, our study illustrates the relevance of tackling agricultural issues from an evolutionary standpoint and calls for extending such approaches to a larger set of crop species.
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- Hélène Fréville
- AGAP, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRA, Montpellier SupAgroMontpellierFrance
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- AGAP, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRA, Montpellier SupAgroMontpellierFrance
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- AGAP, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRA, Montpellier SupAgroMontpellierFrance
- CBGP, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, Montpellier SupAgro, INRAIRDMontpellierFrance
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- AGAP, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRA, Montpellier SupAgroMontpellierFrance
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- AGAP, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRA, Montpellier SupAgroMontpellierFrance
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- AGAP, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRA, Montpellier SupAgroMontpellierFrance
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Albert E, Duboscq R, Latreille M, Santoni S, Beukers M, Bouchet JP, Bitton F, Gricourt J, Poncet C, Gautier V, Jiménez-Gómez JM, Rigaill G, Causse M. Allele-specific expression and genetic determinants of transcriptomic variations in response to mild water deficit in tomato. Plant J 2018; 96:635-650. [PMID: 30079488 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.14057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2018] [Revised: 07/31/2018] [Accepted: 08/02/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Characterizing the natural diversity of gene expression across environments is an important step in understanding how genotype-by-environment interactions shape phenotypes. Here, we analyzed the impact of water deficit onto gene expression levels in tomato at the genome-wide scale. We sequenced the transcriptome of growing leaves and fruit pericarps at cell expansion stage in a cherry and a large fruited accession and their F1 hybrid grown under two watering regimes. Gene expression levels were steadily affected by the genotype and the watering regime. Whereas phenotypes showed mostly additive inheritance, ~80% of the genes displayed non-additive inheritance. By comparing allele-specific expression (ASE) in the F1 hybrid to the allelic expression in both parental lines, respectively, 3005 genes in leaf and 2857 genes in fruit deviated from 1:1 ratio independently of the watering regime. Among these genes, ~55% were controlled by cis factors, ~25% by trans factors and ~20% by a combination of both types of factors. A total of 328 genes in leaf and 113 in fruit exhibited significant ASE-by-watering regime interaction, among which ~80% presented trans-by-watering regime interaction, suggesting a response to water deficit mediated through a majority of trans-acting loci in tomato. We cross-validated the expression levels of 274 transcripts in fruit and leaves of 124 recombinant inbred lines (RILs) and identified 163 expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) mostly confirming the divergences identified by ASE. Combining phenotypic and expression data, we observed a complex network of variation between genes encoding enzymes involved in the sugar metabolism.
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- Elise Albert
- INRA, UR1052, Centre de Recherche PACA, Génétique et Amélioration des Fruits et Légumes, 67 Allée des Chênes, Domaine Saint Maurice, CS60094, Montfavet, 84143, France
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- INRA, UR1052, Centre de Recherche PACA, Génétique et Amélioration des Fruits et Légumes, 67 Allée des Chênes, Domaine Saint Maurice, CS60094, Montfavet, 84143, France
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- INRA, UMR1334, Amélioration génétique et Adaptation des Plantes, Montpellier SupAgro-INRA-IRD-UMII, 2 Place Pierre Viala, Montpellier, 34060, France
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- INRA, UMR1334, Amélioration génétique et Adaptation des Plantes, Montpellier SupAgro-INRA-IRD-UMII, 2 Place Pierre Viala, Montpellier, 34060, France
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- INRA, UR1052, Centre de Recherche PACA, Génétique et Amélioration des Fruits et Légumes, 67 Allée des Chênes, Domaine Saint Maurice, CS60094, Montfavet, 84143, France
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- INRA, UR1052, Centre de Recherche PACA, Génétique et Amélioration des Fruits et Légumes, 67 Allée des Chênes, Domaine Saint Maurice, CS60094, Montfavet, 84143, France
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- INRA, UR1052, Centre de Recherche PACA, Génétique et Amélioration des Fruits et Légumes, 67 Allée des Chênes, Domaine Saint Maurice, CS60094, Montfavet, 84143, France
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- INRA, UR1052, Centre de Recherche PACA, Génétique et Amélioration des Fruits et Légumes, 67 Allée des Chênes, Domaine Saint Maurice, CS60094, Montfavet, 84143, France
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- INRA, UMR1095, Génétique Diversité et Ecophysiologie des Céréales, 5 Chemin de Beaulieu, Clermont-Ferrand, 63039, France
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- INRA, UMR1095, Génétique Diversité et Ecophysiologie des Céréales, 5 Chemin de Beaulieu, Clermont-Ferrand, 63039, France
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- INRA, UMR1318, Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, AgroParisTech-INRA-CNRS, Route de Saint Cyr, Versailles, 78026, France
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- INRA, UMR8071, Laboratoire de Mathématiques et Modélisation d'Evry, Université d'Evry Val d'Essonne, ENSIIE-INRA-CNRS, Évry, 91037, France
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- INRA, UR1052, Centre de Recherche PACA, Génétique et Amélioration des Fruits et Légumes, 67 Allée des Chênes, Domaine Saint Maurice, CS60094, Montfavet, 84143, France
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Roumet M, Cayre A, Latreille M, Muller MH. Quantifying temporal isolation: a modelling approach assessing the effect of flowering time differences on crop-to-weed pollen flow in sunflower. Evol Appl 2015; 8:64-74. [PMID: 25667603 PMCID: PMC4310582 DOI: 10.1111/eva.12222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2014] [Accepted: 09/15/2014] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Flowering time divergence can be a crucial component of reproductive isolation between sympatric populations, but few studies have quantified its actual contribution to the reduction of gene flow. In this study, we aimed at estimating pollen-mediated gene flow between cultivated sunflower and a weedy conspecific sunflower population growing in the same field and at quantifying, how it is affected by the weeds' flowering time. For that purpose, we extended an existing mating model by including a temporal distance (i.e. flowering time difference between potential parents) effect on mating probabilities. Using phenological and genotypic data gathered on the crop and on a sample of the weedy population and its offspring, we estimated an average hybridization rate of approximately 10%. This rate varied strongly from 30% on average for weeds flowering at the crop flowering peak to 0% when the crop finished flowering and was affected by the local density of weeds. Our result also suggested the occurrence of other factors limiting crop-to-weed gene flow. This level of gene flow and its dependence on flowering time might influence the evolutionary fate of weedy sunflower populations sympatric to their crop relative.
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- Marie Roumet
- INRA, UMR 1334, Amélioration Génétique et Adaptation des Plantes méditerranéennes et tropicales (AGAP) Montpellier Cedex 1, France ; ETH Zurich, Institute of Integrative Biology (IBZ) Zurich, Switzerland
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- INRA, UMR 1334, Amélioration Génétique et Adaptation des Plantes méditerranéennes et tropicales (AGAP) Montpellier Cedex 1, France
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- INRA, UMR 1334, Amélioration Génétique et Adaptation des Plantes méditerranéennes et tropicales (AGAP) Montpellier Cedex 1, France
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- INRA, UMR 1334, Amélioration Génétique et Adaptation des Plantes méditerranéennes et tropicales (AGAP) Montpellier Cedex 1, France
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Picq S, Santoni S, Lacombe T, Latreille M, Weber A, Ardisson M, Ivorra S, Maghradze D, Arroyo-Garcia R, Chatelet P, This P, Terral JF, Bacilieri R. A small XY chromosomal region explains sex determination in wild dioecious V. vinifera and the reversal to hermaphroditism in domesticated grapevines. BMC Plant Biol 2014; 14:229. [PMID: 25179565 PMCID: PMC4167142 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-014-0229-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2014] [Accepted: 08/18/2014] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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BACKGROUND In Vitis vinifera L., domestication induced a dramatic change in flower morphology: the wild sylvestris subspecies is dioecious while hermaphroditism is largely predominant in the domesticated subsp. V. v. vinifera. The characterisation of polymorphisms in genes underlying the sex-determining chromosomal region may help clarify the history of domestication in grapevine and the evolution of sex chromosomes in plants. In the genus Vitis, sex determination is putatively controlled by one major locus with three alleles, male M, hermaphrodite H and female F, with an allelic dominance M > H > F. Previous genetic studies located the sex locus on chromosome 2. We used DNA polymorphisms of geographically diverse V. vinifera genotypes to confirm the position of this locus, to characterise the genetic diversity and traces of selection in candidate genes, and to explore the origin of hermaphroditism. RESULTS In V. v. sylvestris, a sex-determining region of 154.8 kb, also present in other Vitis species, spans less than 1% of chromosome 2. It displays haplotype diversity, linkage disequilibrium and differentiation that typically correspond to a small XY sex-determining region with XY males and XX females. In male alleles, traces of purifying selection were found for a trehalose phosphatase, an exostosin and a WRKY transcription factor, with strikingly low polymorphism levels between distant geographic regions. Both diversity and network analysis revealed that H alleles are more closely related to M than to F alleles. CONCLUSIONS Hermaphrodite alleles appear to derive from male alleles of wild grapevines, with successive recombination events allowing import of diversity from the X into the Y chromosomal region and slowing down the expansion of the region into a full heteromorphic chromosome. Our data are consistent with multiple domestication events and show traces of introgression from other Asian Vitis species into the cultivated grapevine gene pool.
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- Sandrine Picq
- />Centre de Bio-Archéologie et d’Ecologie CBAE (UMR 5059 CNRS/Université Montpellier 2/EPHE/INRAP). Equipe Interactions, Biodiversité, Sociétés, Institut de Botanique, 163 rue Auguste Broussonet, 34090 Montpellier, France
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- />INRA, UMR 1334 AGAP, Equipe Diversité, Adaptation et Amélioration de la Vigne, F34060 Montpellier, France
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- />INRA, UMR 1334 AGAP, Equipe Diversité, Adaptation et Amélioration de la Vigne, F34060 Montpellier, France
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- />INRA, UMR 1334 AGAP, Equipe Diversité, Adaptation et Amélioration de la Vigne, F34060 Montpellier, France
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- />INRA, UMR 1334 AGAP, Equipe Diversité, Adaptation et Amélioration de la Vigne, F34060 Montpellier, France
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- />INRA, UMR 1334 AGAP, Equipe Diversité, Adaptation et Amélioration de la Vigne, F34060 Montpellier, France
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- />Centre de Bio-Archéologie et d’Ecologie CBAE (UMR 5059 CNRS/Université Montpellier 2/EPHE/INRAP). Equipe Interactions, Biodiversité, Sociétés, Institut de Botanique, 163 rue Auguste Broussonet, 34090 Montpellier, France
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- />Institute of Horticulture, Viticulture and Oenology, Agrarian University of Georgia, University Campus at Digomi, David Aghmashenebeli Alley, 13-th km. 0159, Tbilisi, Georgia
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- />CBGP-INIA. Dpto Biotecnología, Campus de Montegancedo, Autovía M40, km38, 28223 Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid Spain
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- />INRA, UMR 1334 AGAP, Equipe Diversité, Adaptation et Amélioration de la Vigne, F34060 Montpellier, France
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- />INRA, UMR 1334 AGAP, Equipe Diversité, Adaptation et Amélioration de la Vigne, F34060 Montpellier, France
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- />Centre de Bio-Archéologie et d’Ecologie CBAE (UMR 5059 CNRS/Université Montpellier 2/EPHE/INRAP). Equipe Interactions, Biodiversité, Sociétés, Institut de Botanique, 163 rue Auguste Broussonet, 34090 Montpellier, France
- />Université Montpellier 2, Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier, France
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- />INRA, UMR 1334 AGAP, Equipe Diversité, Adaptation et Amélioration de la Vigne, F34060 Montpellier, France
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Muller MH, Latreille M, Tollon C. The origin and evolution of a recent agricultural weed: population genetic diversity of weedy populations of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) in Spain and France. Evol Appl 2010; 4:499-514. [PMID: 25567998 PMCID: PMC3352525 DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2010.00163.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2010] [Accepted: 09/19/2010] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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The recurrent evolution of crop-related weeds during agricultural history raises serious economic problems and challenging scientific questions. Weedy forms of sunflower, a species native from America, have been reported in European sunflower fields for a few decades. In order to understand their origin, we analysed the genetic diversity of a sample of weedy populations from France and Spain, and of conventional and ornamental varieties. A crop-specific maternally inherited marker was present in all weeds. At 16 microsatellite loci, the weedy populations shared most of their diversity with the conventional varieties. But they showed a large number of additional alleles absent from the cultivated pool. European weedy populations thus most probably originated from the unintentional pollination of maternal lines in seed production fields by wild plants growing nearby, resulting in the introduction of crop-wild hybrids into the farmers’ fields. The wide diversity and the low population structure detected were indicative of a multiplicity of introductions events rather than of field-to-field propagation. Further studies are required to understand the local evolutionary dynamics of a weedy population, and especially the respective roles of crop-to-weed gene flow and selection in the fate of an initial source of crop-wild hybrids.
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Yamani L, Latreille M, Bourret G, Larose L. Knockout of Nck-1 in mice results in important loss of pancreatic islets but enhances beta cell insulin levels. Can J Diabetes 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/s1499-2671(09)33019-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Hébert SS, Daviau A, Grondin G, Latreille M, Aubin RA, Blouin R. The mixed lineage kinase DLK is oligomerized by tissue transglutaminase during apoptosis. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:32482-90. [PMID: 10922377 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m006528200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Current evidence suggests that the mixed lineage kinase family member dual leucine zipper-bearing kinase (DLK) might play a significant role in the regulation of cell growth and differentiation, particularly during the process of tissue remodeling. To further explore this working model, we have investigated the regulation of host and recombinant DLK in NIH3T3 and COS-1 cells undergoing apoptosis. Using calphostin C, a potent and selective inhibitor of protein kinase C and a recognized apoptosis inducer for various cell types, we demonstrate, by immunoblot analysis, that DLK protein levels are rapidly and dramatically down-regulated during the early phases of apoptosis. Down-regulation in calphostin C-treated cells was also accompanied by the appearance of SDS- and mercaptoethanol-resistant high molecular weight DLK immunoreactive oligomers. Experiments aimed at elucidating the mechanism(s) underlying DLK oligomerization revealed that the tissue transglutaminase (tTG) inhibitor monodansylcadaverine antagonized the effects of calphostin C almost completely, thereby suggesting the involvement of a tTG-catalyzed reaction as the root cause of DLK down-regulation and accumulation as high molecular weight species. In support of this notion, we also show that DLK can serve as a substrate for tTG-dependent cross-linking in vitro and that this covalent post-translational modification leads to the functional inactivation of DLK. Taken together, these observations suggest that transglutamination and oligomerization may constitute a relevant physiological mechanism for the regulation of DLK activity.
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- S S Hébert
- Centre de Recherche sur les Mécanismes d'Expression Génétique, Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec J1K 2R1 and Santé Canada, France
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