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Provedor de dados:  ArchiMer
País:  France
Título:  A high load of non-neutral amino-acid polymorphisms explains high protein diversity despite moderate effective population size in a marine bivalve with sweepstakes reproduction
Autores:  Harrang, Estelle
Lapegue, Sylvie
Morga, Benjamin
Bierne, Nicolas
Data:  2013-02
Ano:  2013
Palavras-chave:  Nucleotide
Polymorphism
Marine bivalve
Deleterious
Mutations
Genetic load
Ostrea edulis
Resumo:  Marine bivalves show among the greatest allozyme diversity ever reported in Eukaryotes, putting them historically at the heart of the neutralist-selectionist controversy on the maintenance of genetic variation. Although it is now acknowledged that this high diversity is most probably a simple consequence of a large population size, convincing support for this explanation would require a rigorous assessment of the silent nucleotide diversity in natural populations of marine bivalves, which has not yet been done. This study investigated DNA sequence polymorphism in a set of 37 nuclear loci in wild samples of the flat oyster Ostrea edulis. Silent diversity was found to be only moderate (0.7%), and there was no departure from demographic equilibrium under the Wright-Fisher model, suggesting that the effective population size might not be as large as might have been expected. In accordance with allozyme heterozygosity, nonsynonymous diversity was comparatively very high (0.3%), so that the nonsynonymous to silent diversity ratio reached a value rarely observed in any other organism. We estimated that one-quarter of amino acid-changing mutations behave as neutral in O. edulis, and as many as one-third are sufficiently weakly selected to segregate at low frequency in the polymorphism. Finally, we inferred that one oyster is expected to carry more than 4800 non-neutral alleles (or 4.2 cM-1). We conclude that a high load of segregating non-neutral amino-acid polymorphisms contributes to high protein diversity in O. edulis. The high fecundity of marine bivalves together with an unpredictable and highly variable success of reproduction and recruitment (sweepstakes reproduction) might produce a greater decoupling between Ne and N than in other organisms with lower fecundities, and we suggest this could explain why a higher segregating load could be maintained for a given silent mutation effective size.
Tipo:  Text
Idioma:  Inglês
Identificador:  http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00125/23610/21444.pdf

DOI:10.1534/g3.112.005181
Editor:  Genetics Society of America
Relação:  http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00125/23610/
Formato:  application/pdf
Fonte:  G3 Genes-Genomes-Genetics (2160-1836) (Genetics Society of America), 2013-02 , Vol. 3 , P. 333-341
Direitos:  2013 Harrang et al.
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