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Arshed S, Cox MP, Beever RE, Parkes SL, Pearson MN, Bowen JK, Templeton MD. The Bcvic1 and Bcvic2 vegetative incompatibility genes in Botrytis cinerea encode proteins with domain architectures involved in allorecognition in other filamentous fungi. Fungal Genet Biol 2023; 169:103827. [PMID: 37640199 DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2023.103827] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2023] [Revised: 07/19/2023] [Accepted: 08/24/2023] [Indexed: 08/31/2023]
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Vegetative incompatibility is a fungal allorecognition system characterised by the inability of genetically distinct conspecific fungal strains to form a viable heterokaryon and is controlled by multiple polymorphic loci termed vic (vegetative incompatibility) or het (heterokaryon incompatibility). We have genetically identified and characterised the first vic locus in the economically important, plant-pathogenic, necrotrophic fungus Botrytis cinerea. A bulked segregant approach coupled with whole genome Illumina sequencing of near-isogenic lines of B. cinerea was used to map a vic locus to a 60-kb region of the genome. Within that locus, we identified two adjacent, highly polymorphic open reading frames, Bcvic1 and Bcvic2, which encode predicted proteins that contain domain architectures implicated in vegetative incompatibility in other filamentous fungi. Bcvic1 encodes a predicted protein containing a putative serine esterase domain, a NACHT family of NTPases domain, and several Ankyrin repeats. Bcvic2 encodes a putative syntaxin protein containing a SNARE domain; such proteins typically function in vesicular transport. Deletion of Bcvic1 and Bcvic2 individually had no effect on vegetative incompatibility. However, deletion of the region containing both Bcvic1 and Bcvic2 resulted in mutant lines that were severely restricted in growth and showed loss of vegetative incompatibility. Complementation of these mutants by ectopic expression restored the growth and vegetative incompatibility phenotype, indicating that Bcvic1 and Bcvic2 are controlling vegetative incompatibility at this vic locus.
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- Saadiah Arshed
- Bioprotection, New Zealand Institute of Plant and Food Research, Auckland, New Zealand; School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand; Bioprotection Aotearoa Centre of Research Excellence, New Zealand
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- Bioprotection Aotearoa Centre of Research Excellence, New Zealand; School of Natural Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research, Auckland, New Zealand
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Bioprotection, New Zealand Institute of Plant and Food Research, Auckland, New Zealand.
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- Bioprotection, New Zealand Institute of Plant and Food Research, Auckland, New Zealand; School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand; Bioprotection Aotearoa Centre of Research Excellence, New Zealand.
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Kusuma P, Cox MP, Barker G, Sudoyo H, Lansing JS, Jacobs GS. Deep ancestry of Bornean hunter-gatherers supports long-term local ancestry dynamics. Cell Rep 2023; 42:113346. [PMID: 37917587 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.113346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2023] [Revised: 06/30/2023] [Accepted: 10/10/2023] [Indexed: 11/04/2023] Open
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Borneo was a crossroad of ancient dispersals, with some of the earliest Southeast Asian human remains and rock art. The island is home to traditionally hunter-gatherer Punan communities, whose origins, whether of subsistence reversion or long-term foraging, are unclear. The connection between its past and present-day agriculturalist inhabitants, who currently speak Austronesian languages and have composite and complex genetic ancestry, is equally opaque. Here, we analyze the genetic ancestry of the northeastern Bornean Punan Batu (who still practice some mobile hunting and gathering), Tubu, and Aput. We find deep ancestry connections, with a shared Asian signal outgrouping modern and ancient Austronesian-ancestry proxies, suggesting a time depth of more than 7,500 years. They also largely lack the mainland Southeast Asian signals of agricultural Borneans, who are themselves genetically heterogeneous. Our results support long-term inhabitation of Borneo by some Punan ancestors and reveal unexpected complexity in the origins and dispersal of Austronesian-expansion-related ancestry.
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- Pradiptajati Kusuma
- Division of Genome Diversity and Diseases, Mochtar Riady Institute for Nanotechnology, Banten, Indonesia.
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- Department of Statistics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand; School of Natural Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Division of Genome Diversity and Diseases, Mochtar Riady Institute for Nanotechnology, Banten, Indonesia
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- Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA; Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
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Guhlin J, Le Lec MF, Wold J, Koot E, Winter D, Biggs PJ, Galla SJ, Urban L, Foster Y, Cox MP, Digby A, Uddstrom LR, Eason D, Vercoe D, Davis T, Howard JT, Jarvis ED, Robertson FE, Robertson BC, Gemmell NJ, Steeves TE, Santure AW, Dearden PK. Species-wide genomics of kākāpō provides tools to accelerate recovery. Nat Ecol Evol 2023; 7:1693-1705. [PMID: 37640765 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-023-02165-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2022] [Accepted: 07/11/2023] [Indexed: 08/31/2023]
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The kākāpō is a critically endangered, intensively managed, long-lived nocturnal parrot endemic to Aotearoa New Zealand. We generated and analysed whole-genome sequence data for nearly all individuals living in early 2018 (169 individuals) to generate a high-quality species-wide genetic variant callset. We leverage extensive long-term metadata to quantify genome-wide diversity of the species over time and present new approaches using probabilistic programming, combined with a phenotype dataset spanning five decades, to disentangle phenotypic variance into environmental and genetic effects while quantifying uncertainty in small populations. We find associations for growth, disease susceptibility, clutch size and egg fertility within genic regions previously shown to influence these traits in other species. Finally, we generate breeding values to predict phenotype and illustrate that active management over the past 45 years has maintained both genome-wide diversity and diversity in breeding values and, hence, evolutionary potential. We provide new pathways for informing future conservation management decisions for kākāpō, including prioritizing individuals for translocation and monitoring individuals with poor growth or high disease risk. Overall, by explicitly addressing the challenge of the small sample size, we provide a template for the inclusion of genomic data that will be transformational for species recovery efforts around the globe.
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- Joseph Guhlin
- Genomics Aotearoa, Biochemistry Department, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand
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- Genomics Aotearoa, Biochemistry Department, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand
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- The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Ltd, Palmerston North, Aotearoa New Zealand
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- School of Natural Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, Aotearoa New Zealand
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- School of Natural Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, Aotearoa New Zealand
- School of Veterinary Science, Massey University, Palmerston North, Aotearoa New Zealand
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand
- Department of Biological Sciences, Boise State University, Boise, ID, USA
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- Department of Anatomy, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand
- Helmholtz Pioneer Campus, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Neuherberg, Germany
- Helmholtz AI, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Neuherberg, Germany
- School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany
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- Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand
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- School of Natural Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, Aotearoa New Zealand
- Department of Statistics, University of Auckland, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand
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- Kākāpō Recovery Programme, Department of Conservation, Invercargill, Aotearoa New Zealand
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- Kākāpō Recovery Programme, Department of Conservation, Invercargill, Aotearoa New Zealand
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- Kākāpō Recovery Programme, Department of Conservation, Invercargill, Aotearoa New Zealand
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- Kākāpō Recovery Programme, Department of Conservation, Invercargill, Aotearoa New Zealand
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- Rakiura Tītī Islands Administering Body, Invercargill, Aotearoa New Zealand
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- Neurogenetics of Language Lab, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
- Mirxes, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD, USA
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- Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand
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- Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand
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- Department of Anatomy, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand
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- Genomics Aotearoa, Biochemistry Department, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Rayne A, Arahanga-Doyle H, Cox B, Cox MP, Febria CM, Galla SJ, Hendy SC, Locke K, Matheson A, Pawlik A, Roa T, Sharp EL, Walker LA, Watene K, Wehi PM, Steeves TE. Collective action is needed to build a more just science system. Nat Hum Behav 2023:10.1038/s41562-023-01635-4. [PMID: 37291438 DOI: 10.1038/s41562-023-01635-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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- Aisling Rayne
- Te Pūnaha Matatini Centre for Research Excellence, Auckland, New Zealand.
- Centre for Sustainability, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
- Cawthron Institute, Nelson, New Zealand.
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- Te Pūnaha Matatini Centre for Research Excellence, Auckland, New Zealand
- Department of Psychology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Te Pūnaha Matatini Centre for Research Excellence, Auckland, New Zealand
- School of Environment, Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Te Pūnaha Matatini Centre for Research Excellence, Auckland, New Zealand
- School of Natural Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
- School of Statistics, Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Boise State University, Boise, ID, USA
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- Te Pūnaha Matatini Centre for Research Excellence, Auckland, New Zealand
- Toha Science, Nelson, New Zealand
- Centre for Science in Society, Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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- Te Pūnaha Matatini Centre for Research Excellence, Auckland, New Zealand
- School of Critical Studies in Education, Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Te Pūnaha Matatini Centre for Research Excellence, Auckland, New Zealand
- School of Health, Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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- Te Pūnaha Matatini Centre for Research Excellence, Auckland, New Zealand
- Te Pua Wānanga ki te Ao - Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Studies, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- Te Pūnaha Matatini Centre for Research Excellence, Auckland, New Zealand
- School of Environment, Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Te Pūnaha Matatini Centre for Research Excellence, Auckland, New Zealand
- Department of Environmental Science, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Te Pūnaha Matatini Centre for Research Excellence, Auckland, New Zealand
- Department of Philosophy, Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Te Pūnaha Matatini Centre for Research Excellence, Auckland, New Zealand
- Centre for Sustainability, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Te Pūnaha Matatini Centre for Research Excellence, Auckland, New Zealand
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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Vespasiani DM, Jacobs GS, Cook LE, Brucato N, Leavesley M, Kinipi C, Ricaut FX, Cox MP, Gallego Romero I. Denisovan introgression has shaped the immune system of present-day Papuans. PLoS Genet 2022; 18:e1010470. [PMID: 36480515 PMCID: PMC9731433 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2022] [Accepted: 10/10/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Modern humans have admixed with multiple archaic hominins. Papuans, in particular, owe up to 5% of their genome to Denisovans, a sister group to Neanderthals whose remains have only been identified in Siberia and Tibet. Unfortunately, the biological and evolutionary significance of these introgression events remain poorly understood. Here we investigate the function of both Denisovan and Neanderthal alleles characterised within a set of 56 genomes from Papuan individuals. By comparing the distribution of archaic and non-archaic variants we assess the consequences of archaic admixture across a multitude of different cell types and functional elements. We observe an enrichment of archaic alleles within cis-regulatory elements and transcribed regions of the genome, with Denisovan variants strongly affecting elements active within immune-related cells. We identify 16,048 and 10,032 high-confidence Denisovan and Neanderthal variants that fall within annotated cis-regulatory elements and with the potential to alter the affinity of multiple transcription factors to their cognate DNA motifs, highlighting a likely mechanism by which introgressed DNA can impact phenotypes. Lastly, we experimentally validate these predictions by testing the regulatory potential of five Denisovan variants segregating within Papuan individuals, and find that two are associated with a significant reduction of transcriptional activity in plasmid reporter assays. Together, these data provide support for a widespread contribution of archaic DNA in shaping the present levels of modern human genetic diversity, with different archaic ancestries potentially affecting multiple phenotypic traits within non-Africans.
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- Davide M. Vespasiani
- Melbourne Integrative Genomics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
- School of Biosciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Uniteed Kingdom
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- Melbourne Integrative Genomics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
- School of Biosciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
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- Laboratoire de Evolution et Diversite Biologique, Université de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France
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- School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
- College of Arts, Society and Education, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
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- School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
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- Laboratoire de Evolution et Diversite Biologique, Université de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France
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- School of Natural Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- Melbourne Integrative Genomics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
- School of Biosciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
- Center for Stem Cell Systems, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
- Center for Genomics, Evolution and Medicine, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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Winter DJ, Weir BS, Glare T, Rhodes J, Perrott J, Fisher MC, Stajich JE, Digby A, Dearden PK, Cox MP. A single fungal strain was the unexpected cause of a mass aspergillosis outbreak in the world’s largest and only flightless parrot. iScience 2022; 25:105470. [PMID: 36404926 PMCID: PMC9668684 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.105470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2022] [Revised: 10/03/2022] [Accepted: 10/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
Abstract
Kākāpō are a critically endangered species of parrots restricted to a few islands off the coast of New Zealand. Kākāpō are very closely monitored, especially during nesting seasons. In 2019, during a highly successful nesting season, an outbreak of aspergillosis affected 21 individuals and led to the deaths of 9, leaving a population of only 211 kākāpō. In monitoring this outbreak, cultures of aspergillus were grown, and genome sequenced. These sequences demonstrate that, very unusually for an aspergillus outbreak, a single strain of aspergillus caused the outbreak. This strain was found on two islands, but only one had an outbreak of aspergillosis; indicating that the strain was necessary, but not sufficient, to cause disease. Our analysis provides an understanding of the 2019 outbreak and provides potential ways to manage such events in the future. In 2019, the kākāpō, an endangered parrot species, was threatened by aspergillosis The outbreak was associated with a single strain of Aspergillus fumigatus The first reported case of a single strain of Aspergillus causing a disease outbreak
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Rocafort M, Bowen JK, Hassing B, Cox MP, McGreal B, de la Rosa S, Plummer KM, Bradshaw RE, Mesarich CH. The Venturia inaequalis effector repertoire is dominated by expanded families with predicted structural similarity, but unrelated sequence, to avirulence proteins from other plant-pathogenic fungi. BMC Biol 2022; 20:246. [PMID: 36329441 PMCID: PMC9632046 DOI: 10.1186/s12915-022-01442-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [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: 03/29/2022] [Accepted: 10/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Background Scab, caused by the biotrophic fungus Venturia inaequalis, is the most economically important disease of apples worldwide. During infection, V. inaequalis occupies the subcuticular environment, where it secretes virulence factors, termed effectors, to promote host colonization. Consistent with other plant-pathogenic fungi, many of these effectors are expected to be non-enzymatic proteins, some of which can be recognized by corresponding host resistance proteins to activate plant defences, thus acting as avirulence determinants. To develop durable control strategies against scab, a better understanding of the roles that these effector proteins play in promoting subcuticular growth by V. inaequalis, as well as in activating, suppressing, or circumventing resistance protein-mediated defences in apple, is required. Results We generated the first comprehensive RNA-seq transcriptome of V. inaequalis during colonization of apple. Analysis of this transcriptome revealed five temporal waves of gene expression that peaked during early, mid, or mid-late infection. While the number of genes encoding secreted, non-enzymatic proteinaceous effector candidates (ECs) varied in each wave, most belonged to waves that peaked in expression during mid-late infection. Spectral clustering based on sequence similarity determined that the majority of ECs belonged to expanded protein families. To gain insights into function, the tertiary structures of ECs were predicted using AlphaFold2. Strikingly, despite an absence of sequence similarity, many ECs were predicted to have structural similarity to avirulence proteins from other plant-pathogenic fungi, including members of the MAX, LARS, ToxA and FOLD effector families. In addition, several other ECs, including an EC family with sequence similarity to the AvrLm6 avirulence effector from Leptosphaeria maculans, were predicted to adopt a KP6-like fold. Thus, proteins with a KP6-like fold represent another structural family of effectors shared among plant-pathogenic fungi. Conclusions Our study reveals the transcriptomic profile underpinning subcuticular growth by V. inaequalis and provides an enriched list of ECs that can be investigated for roles in virulence and avirulence. Furthermore, our study supports the idea that numerous sequence-unrelated effectors across plant-pathogenic fungi share common structural folds. In doing so, our study gives weight to the hypothesis that many fungal effectors evolved from ancestral genes through duplication, followed by sequence diversification, to produce sequence-unrelated but structurally similar proteins. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12915-022-01442-9.
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- Mercedes Rocafort
- Laboratory of Molecular Plant Pathology/Bioprotection Aotearoa, School of Agriculture and Environment, Massey University, Private Bag 11222, Palmerston North, 4442, New Zealand
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- The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited, Mount Albert Research Centre, Auckland, 1025, New Zealand
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- Laboratory of Molecular Plant Pathology/Bioprotection Aotearoa, School of Agriculture and Environment, Massey University, Private Bag 11222, Palmerston North, 4442, New Zealand
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- Bioprotection Aotearoa, School of Natural Sciences, Massey University, Private Bag 11222, Palmerston North, 4442, New Zealand
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- The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited, Mount Albert Research Centre, Auckland, 1025, New Zealand
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- Laboratory of Molecular Plant Pathology/Bioprotection Aotearoa, School of Agriculture and Environment, Massey University, Private Bag 11222, Palmerston North, 4442, New Zealand
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- Department of Animal, Plant and Soil Sciences, La Trobe University, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBiosciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, 3086, Australia
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- Bioprotection Aotearoa, School of Natural Sciences, Massey University, Private Bag 11222, Palmerston North, 4442, New Zealand
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- Laboratory of Molecular Plant Pathology/Bioprotection Aotearoa, School of Agriculture and Environment, Massey University, Private Bag 11222, Palmerston North, 4442, New Zealand.
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Cox MP, Guo Y, Winter DJ, Sen D, Cauldron NC, Shiller J, Bradley EL, Ganley AR, Gerth ML, Lacey RF, McDougal RL, Panda P, Williams NM, Grunwald NJ, Mesarich CH, Bradshaw RE. Chromosome-level assembly of the Phytophthora agathidicida genome reveals adaptation in effector gene families. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:1038444. [PMID: 36406440 PMCID: PMC9667082 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.1038444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2022] [Accepted: 10/11/2022] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
Abstract
Phytophthora species are notorious plant pathogens, with some causing devastating tree diseases that threaten the survival of their host species. One such example is Phytophthora agathidicida, the causal agent of kauri dieback - a root and trunk rot disease that kills the ancient, iconic and culturally significant tree species, Agathis australis (New Zealand kauri). A deeper understanding of how Phytophthora pathogens infect their hosts and cause disease is critical for the development of effective treatments. Such an understanding can be gained by interrogating pathogen genomes for effector genes, which are involved in virulence or pathogenicity. Although genome sequencing has become more affordable, the complete assembly of Phytophthora genomes has been problematic, particularly for those with a high abundance of repetitive sequences. Therefore, effector genes located in repetitive regions could be truncated or missed in a fragmented genome assembly. Using a combination of long-read PacBio sequences, chromatin conformation capture (Hi-C) and Illumina short reads, we assembled the P. agathidicida genome into ten complete chromosomes, with a genome size of 57 Mb including 34% repeats. This is the first Phytophthora genome assembled to chromosome level and it reveals a high level of syntenic conservation with the complete genome of Peronospora effusa, the only other completely assembled genome sequence of an oomycete. All P. agathidicida chromosomes have clearly defined centromeres and contain candidate effector genes such as RXLRs and CRNs, but in different proportions, reflecting the presence of gene family clusters. Candidate effector genes are predominantly found in gene-poor, repeat-rich regions of the genome, and in some cases showed a high degree of duplication. Analysis of candidate RXLR effector genes that occur in multicopy gene families indicated half of them were not expressed in planta. Candidate CRN effector gene families showed evidence of transposon-mediated recombination leading to new combinations of protein domains, both within and between chromosomes. Further analysis of this complete genome assembly will help inform new methods of disease control against P. agathidicida and other Phytophthora species, ultimately helping decipher how Phytophthora pathogens have evolved to shape their effector repertoires and how they might adapt in the future.
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- Murray P. Cox
- Laboratory of Molecular Plant Pathology/Bioprotection Aotearoa, School of Natural Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- Laboratory of Molecular Plant Pathology/Bioprotection Aotearoa, School of Natural Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR), Porirua, New Zealand
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- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
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- Laboratory of Molecular Plant Pathology/Bioprotection Aotearoa, School of Agriculture and Environment, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- School of Biological Sciences and Digital Life Institute, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Bioprotection Aotearoa, School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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- Bioprotection Aotearoa, School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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- Horticultural Crops Disease and Pest Management Research Unit, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Corvallis, OR, United States
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- Laboratory of Molecular Plant Pathology/Bioprotection Aotearoa, School of Agriculture and Environment, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- Laboratory of Molecular Plant Pathology/Bioprotection Aotearoa, School of Natural Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand,*Correspondence: Rosie E. Bradshaw,
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West AG, Digby A, Lear G, Taylor MW, Bromley M, Buckley E, Chatterton J, Cox MP, Cramer RA, Crane J, Dearden PK, Eason D, Fisher MC, Gago S, Gartrell B, Gemmell NJ, Glare TR, Guhlin J, Howard J, Lacap-Bugler D, Le Lec M, Lin XX, Lofgren L, Mackay J, Meis J, Morelli KA, Perrott J, Petterson M, Quinones-Mateu M, Rhodes J, Roberts J, Stajich J, Taylor MW, Tebbutt SJ, Truter-Meyer A, Uddstrom L, Urban L, van Rhijn N, Vercoe D, Vesely E, Weir BS, West AG, Winter DJ, Yeung J, Taylor MW. Influence of management practice on the microbiota of a critically endangered species: a longitudinal study of kākāpō chick faeces and associated nest litter. Anim Microbiome 2022; 4:55. [PMID: 36175950 PMCID: PMC9523977 DOI: 10.1186/s42523-022-00204-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [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: 03/28/2022] [Accepted: 08/29/2022] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND The critically endangered kākāpō is a flightless, nocturnal parrot endemic to Aotearoa New Zealand. Recent efforts to describe the gastrointestinal microbial community of this threatened herbivore revealed a low-diversity microbiota that is often dominated by Escherichia-Shigella bacteria. Given the importance of associated microbial communities to animal health, and increasing appreciation of their potential relevance to threatened species conservation, we sought to better understand the development of this unusual gut microbiota profile. To this end, we conducted a longitudinal analysis of faecal material collected from kākāpō chicks during the 2019 breeding season, in addition to associated nest litter material. RESULTS Using an experimental approach rarely seen in studies of threatened species microbiota, we evaluated the impact of a regular conservation practice on the developing kākāpō microbiota, namely the removal of faecal material from nests. Artificially removing chick faeces from nests had negligible impact on bacterial community diversity for either chicks or nests (p > 0.05). However, the gut microbiota did change significantly over time as chick age increased (p < 0.01), with an increasing relative abundance of Escherichia-Shigella coli over the study period and similar observations for the associated nest litter microbiota (p < 0.01). Supplementary feeding substantially altered gut bacterial diversity of kākāpō chicks (p < 0.01), characterised by a significant increase in Lactobacillus bacteria. CONCLUSIONS Overall, chick age and hand rearing conditions had the most marked impact on faecal bacterial communities. Similarly, the surrounding nest litter microbiota changed significantly over time since a kākāpō chick was first placed in the nest, though we found no evidence that removal of faecal material influenced the bacterial communities of either litter or faecal samples. Taken together, these observations will inform ongoing conservation and management of this most enigmatic of bird species.
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- Annie G. West
- grid.9654.e0000 0004 0372 3343School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, 1142 New Zealand
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- Department of Conservation, Kākāpō Recovery Team, PO Box 743, Invercargill, New Zealand
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- grid.9654.e0000 0004 0372 3343School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, 1142 New Zealand
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- Department of Conservation, Kākāpō Recovery Team, PO Box 743, Invercargill, New Zealand
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- grid.9654.e0000 0004 0372 3343School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, 1142 New Zealand
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Brucato N, André M, Hudjashov G, Mondal M, Cox MP, Leavesley M, Ricaut FX. Chronology of natural selection in Oceanian genomes. iScience 2022; 25:104583. [PMID: 35880026 PMCID: PMC9308150 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.104583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [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: 03/15/2022] [Revised: 05/11/2022] [Accepted: 06/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
Abstract
As human populations left Asia to first settle in Oceania around 50,000 years ago, they entered a territory ecologically separated from the Old World for millions of years. We analyzed genomic data of 239 modern Oceanian individuals to detect and date signals of selection specific to this region. Combining both relative and absolute dating approaches, we identified a strong selection pattern between 52,000 and 54,000 years ago in the genomes of descendants of the first settlers of Sahul. This strikingly corresponds to the dates of initial settlement as inferred from archaeological evidence. Loci under selection during this period, some showing enrichment in Denisovan ancestry, overlap genes involved in the immune response and diet, especially based on plants. Pathogens and natural resources, especially from endemic plants, therefore appear to have acted as strong selective pressures on the genomes of the first settlers of Sahul. 239 human genomes from both sides of the Wallacean ecogeographical barriers Signals of selection are dated between -54,000 to -52,000 in modern Oceanian genomes Genes related to immunity and diet were under strong selection Denisovan introgressions participated to the genetic adaptations present in Oceanians
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- Nicolas Brucato
- Laboratoire Évolution et Diversité Biologique (EDB UMR 5174), Université de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, CNRS, IRD, UPS. 118 route de Narbonne, Bat 4R1, 31062 cedex 9 Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire Évolution et Diversité Biologique (EDB UMR 5174), Université de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, CNRS, IRD, UPS. 118 route de Narbonne, Bat 4R1, 31062 cedex 9 Toulouse, France.,Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010 Tartumaa, Estonia
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- Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010 Tartumaa, Estonia
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- Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010 Tartumaa, Estonia
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- School of Natural Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand
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- Strand of Anthropology, Sociology and Archaeology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea, PO Box 320, National Capital District 134, Papua New Guinea.,College of Arts, Society and Education, James Cook University, P.O. Box 6811, Cairns, QLD 4870, Australia.,ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia
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- Laboratoire Évolution et Diversité Biologique (EDB UMR 5174), Université de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, CNRS, IRD, UPS. 118 route de Narbonne, Bat 4R1, 31062 cedex 9 Toulouse, France
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Behling AH, Winter DJ, Ganley ARD, Cox MP. Cross-kingdom transcriptomic trends in the evolution of hybrid gene expression. J Evol Biol 2022; 35:1126-1137. [PMID: 35830478 PMCID: PMC9546207 DOI: 10.1111/jeb.14059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [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: 11/11/2021] [Accepted: 06/13/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
Hybridization is a route to speciation that occurs widely across the eukaryote tree of life. The success of allopolyploids (hybrid species with increased ploidy) and homoploid hybrids (with unchanged ploidy) is well documented. However, their formation and establishment is not straightforward, with a suite of near‐instantaneous and longer term biological repercussions faced by the new species. Central to these challenges is the rewiring of gene regulatory networks following the merger of distinct genomes inherited from both parental species. Research on the evolution of hybrid gene expression has largely involved studies on a single hybrid species or a few gene families. Here, we present the first standardized transcriptome‐wide study exploring the fates of genes following hybridization across three kingdoms: animals, plants and fungi. Within each kingdom, we pair an allopolyploid system with a closely related homoploid hybrid to decouple the influence of increased ploidy from genome merger. Genome merger, not changes in ploidy, has the greatest effect on posthybridization expression patterns across all study systems. Strikingly, we find that differentially expressed genes in parent species preferentially switch to more similar expression in hybrids across all kingdoms, likely as a consequence of regulatory trans‐acting cross‐talk within the hybrid nucleus. We also highlight the prevalence of gene loss or silencing among extremely differentially expressed genes in hybrid species across all kingdoms. These shared patterns suggest that the evolutionary process of hybridization leads to common high‐level expression outcomes, regardless of the particular species or kingdom.
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- Anna H Behling
- School of Natural Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- School of Natural Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- School of Natural Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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Wu B, Hao W, Cox MP. Reconstruction of gene innovation associated with major evolutionary transitions in the kingdom Fungi. BMC Biol 2022; 20:144. [PMID: 35706021 PMCID: PMC9202105 DOI: 10.1186/s12915-022-01346-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [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: 01/25/2022] [Accepted: 06/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
Abstract
Background Fungi exhibit astonishing diversity with multiple major phenotypic transitions over the kingdom’s evolutionary history. As part of this process, fungi developed hyphae, adapted to land environments (terrestrialization), and innovated their sexual structures. These changes also helped fungi establish ecological relationships with other organisms (animals and plants), but the genomic basis of these changes remains largely unknown. Results By systematically analyzing 304 genomes from all major fungal groups, together with a broad range of eukaryotic outgroups, we have identified 188 novel orthogroups associated with major changes during the evolution of fungi. Functional annotations suggest that many of these orthogroups were involved in the formation of key trait innovations in extant fungi and are functionally connected. These innovations include components for cell wall formation, functioning of the spindle pole body, polarisome formation, hyphal growth, and mating group signaling. Innovation of mitochondria-localized proteins occurred widely during fungal transitions, indicating their previously unrecognized importance. We also find that prokaryote-derived horizontal gene transfer provided a small source of evolutionary novelty with such genes involved in key metabolic pathways. Conclusions The overall picture is one of a relatively small number of novel genes appearing at major evolutionary transitions in the phylogeny of fungi, with most arising de novo and horizontal gene transfer providing only a small additional source of evolutionary novelty. Our findings contribute to an increasingly detailed portrait of the gene families that define fungal phyla and underpin core features of extant fungi. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12915-022-01346-8.
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- Baojun Wu
- School of Natural Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, 4410, New Zealand.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
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- School of Natural Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, 4410, New Zealand.
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Berry D, Lee K, Winter D, Mace W, Becker Y, Nagabhyru P, Treindl AD, Bogantes EV, Young CA, Leuchtmann A, Johnson LJ, Johnson RD, Cox MP, Schardl CL, Scott B. Cross-species transcriptomics identifies core regulatory changes differentiating the asymptomatic asexual and virulent sexual life cycles of grass-symbiotic Epichloë fungi. G3 (Bethesda) 2022; 12:jkac043. [PMID: 35191483 PMCID: PMC8982410 DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkac043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2021] [Accepted: 02/07/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
Abstract
Fungi from the genus Epichloë form systemic endobiotic infections of cool season grasses, producing a range of host-protective natural products in return for access to nutrients. These infections are asymptomatic during vegetative host growth, with associations between asexual Epichloë spp. and their hosts considered mutualistic. However, the sexual cycle of Epichloë spp. involves virulent growth, characterized by the envelopment and sterilization of a developing host inflorescence by a dense sheath of mycelia known as a stroma. Microscopic analysis of stromata revealed a dramatic increase in hyphal propagation and host degradation compared with asymptomatic tissues. RNAseq was used to identify differentially expressed genes in asymptomatic vs stromatized tissues from 3 diverse Epichloë-host associations. Comparative analysis identified a core set of 135 differentially expressed genes that exhibited conserved transcriptional changes across all 3 associations. The core differentially expressed genes more strongly expressed during virulent growth encode proteins associated with host suppression, digestion, adaptation to the external environment, a biosynthetic gene cluster, and 5 transcription factors that may regulate Epichloë stroma formation. An additional 5 transcription factor encoding differentially expressed genes were suppressed during virulent growth, suggesting they regulate mutualistic processes. Expression of biosynthetic gene clusters for natural products that suppress herbivory was universally suppressed during virulent growth, and additional biosynthetic gene clusters that may encode production of novel host-protective natural products were identified. A comparative analysis of 26 Epichloë genomes found a general decrease in core differentially expressed gene conservation among asexual species, and a specific decrease in conservation for the biosynthetic gene cluster expressed during virulent growth and an unusual uncharacterized gene.
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- Daniel Berry
- Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand
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- Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand
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- Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand
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- AgResearch Ltd, Grasslands Research Centre, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand
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- Institute for Epidemiology and Pathogen Diagnostics, Julius Kühn Institute, Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, 38104 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40546, USA
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- Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand
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- Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand
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Shelling AN, Bicknell LS, Bohlander SS, Cox MP, Filoche SK, Fraser HG, Gamet K, Lacaze P, Murphy R, Snell RG, Sporle A, Te Aika B, Purcell RV, Tiller JM. Genomic discrimination in New Zealand health and life insurance. AGenDA: Against Genomic Discrimination in Aotearoa. N Z Med J 2022; 135:7-12. [PMID: 35728166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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- Andrew N Shelling
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland
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- Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology, University of Auckland, Auckland
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- School of Natural Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North
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- Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Women's Health, University of Otago Wellington, Wellington
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- Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland
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- Centre for Brain Research and School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland
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- Department of Statistics, University of Auckland, Auckland
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- Genomics Aotearoa, University of Otago, Dunedin
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- School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Melbourne, Australia
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Karmin M, Flores RJ, Saag L, Hudjashov G, Brucato N, Crenna-Darusallam C, Larena M, Endicott PL, Jakobsson M, Lansing JS, Sudoyo H, Leavesley M, Metspalu M, Ricaut FX, Cox MP. Episodes of diversification and isolation in Island Southeast Asian and Near Oceanian male lineages. Mol Biol Evol 2022; 39:6539761. [PMID: 35294555 PMCID: PMC8926390 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msac045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) and Oceania host one of the world’s richest assemblages of human phenotypic, linguistic, and cultural diversity. Despite this, the region’s male genetic lineages are globally among the last to remain unresolved. We compiled ∼9.7 Mb of Y chromosome (chrY) sequence from a diverse sample of over 380 men from this region, including 152 first reported here. The granularity of this data set allows us to fully resolve and date the regional chrY phylogeny. This new high-resolution tree confirms two main population bursts: multiple rapid diversifications following the region’s initial settlement ∼50 kya, and extensive expansions <6 kya. Notably, ∼40–25 kya the deep rooting local lineages of C-M130, M-P256, and S-B254 show almost no further branching events in ISEA, New Guinea, and Australia, matching a similar pause in diversification seen in maternal mitochondrial DNA lineages. The main local lineages start diversifying ∼25 kya, at the time of the last glacial maximum. This improved chrY topology highlights localized events with important historical implications, including pre-Holocene contact between Mainland and ISEA, potential interactions between Australia and the Papuan world, and a sustained period of diversification following the flooding of the ancient Sunda and Sahul continents as the insular landscape observed today formed. The high-resolution phylogeny of the chrY presented here thus enables a detailed exploration of past isolation, interaction, and change in one of the world’s least understood regions.
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- Monika Karmin
- School of Natural Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, 4442, New Zealand
- Institute of Genomics,University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- Institute of Genomics,University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
- Institute of Computer Science,University of Tartu, Tartu, 51009, Estonia
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- Institute of Genomics,University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- School of Natural Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, 4442, New Zealand
- Institute of Genomics,University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique (EDB UMR 5174), Université de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées,CNRS, IRD, UPS, Toulouse
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- Genome Diversity and Disease Laboratory, Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Jakarta, 10430, Indonesia
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- Department of Organismal Biology, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, 75236, Sweden
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- Institute of Genomics,University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
- Department Hommes Natures Societies, Musée de l’Homme, Paris, Ile de France, 75016, France
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- Department of Organismal Biology, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, 75236, Sweden
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- Genome Diversity and Disease Laboratory, Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Jakarta, 10430, Indonesia
- School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea, National Capital District, Papua New Guinea
- CABAH and College of Arts, Society and Education, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, 4870, Australia
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- School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea, National Capital District, Papua New Guinea
- CABAH and College of Arts, Society and Education, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, 4870, Australia
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- Institute of Genomics,University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique (EDB UMR 5174), Université de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées,CNRS, IRD, UPS, Toulouse
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- School of Natural Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, 4442, New Zealand
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Lansing JS, Jacobs GS, Downey SS, Norquest PK, Cox MP, Kuhn SL, Miller JH, Malik SG, Sudoyo H, Kusuma P. Deep ancestry of collapsing networks of nomadic hunter-gatherers in Borneo. Evol Hum Sci 2022; 4:e9. [PMID: 37588920 PMCID: PMC10426063 DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2022.3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
Abstract
Theories of early cooperation in human society often draw from a small sample of ethnographic studies of surviving populations of hunter-gatherers, most of which are now sedentary. Borneo hunter-gatherers (Punan, Penan) have seldom figured in comparative research because of a decades-old controversy about whether they are the descendants of farmers who adopted a hunting and gathering way of life. In 2018 we began an ethnographic study of a group of still-nomadic hunter-gatherers who call themselves Punan Batu (Cave Punan). Our genetic analysis clearly indicates that they are very unlikely to be the descendants of neighbouring agriculturalists. They also preserve a song language that is unrelated to other languages of Borneo. Dispersed travelling groups of Punan Batu with fluid membership use message sticks to stay in contact, co-operate and share resources as they journey between rock shelters and forest camps. Message sticks were once widespread among nomadic Punan in Borneo, but have largely disappeared in sedentary Punan villages. Thus the small community of Punan Batu offers a rare glimpse of a hunting and gathering way of life that was once widespread in the forests of Borneo, where prosocial behaviour extended beyond the face-to-face community, facilitating successful collective adaptation to the diverse resources of Borneo's forests.
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- J. Stephen Lansing
- Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, California, USA
- Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Complexity Institute, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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- Department of Anthropology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
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- School of Natural Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
- Te Pūnaha Matatini, New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence for Complex Systems, Auckland, New Zealand
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- School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
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- Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, California, USA
- Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Laboratory of Genome Diversity and Diseases, Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Laboratory of Genome Diversity and Diseases, Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Complexity Institute, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Laboratory of Genome Diversity and Diseases, Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Jakarta, Indonesia
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Natri HM, Hudjashov G, Jacobs G, Kusuma P, Saag L, Darusallam CC, Metspalu M, Sudoyo H, Cox MP, Gallego Romero I, Banovich NE. Genetic architecture of gene regulation in Indonesian populations identifies QTLs associated with global and local ancestries. Am J Hum Genet 2022; 109:50-65. [PMID: 34919805 PMCID: PMC8764200 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2021.11.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2021] [Accepted: 11/16/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
Abstract
Lack of diversity in human genomics limits our understanding of the genetic underpinnings of complex traits, hinders precision medicine, and contributes to health disparities. To map genetic effects on gene regulation in the underrepresented Indonesian population, we have integrated genotype, gene expression, and CpG methylation data from 115 participants across three island populations that capture the major sources of genomic diversity in the region. In a comparison with European datasets, we identify eQTLs shared between Indonesia and Europe as well as population-specific eQTLs that exhibit differences in allele frequencies and/or overall expression levels between populations. By combining local ancestry and archaic introgression inference with eQTLs and methylQTLs, we identify regulatory loci driven by modern Papuan ancestry as well as introgressed Denisovan and Neanderthal variation. GWAS colocalization connects QTLs detected here to hematological traits, and further comparison with European datasets reflects the poor overall transferability of GWAS statistics across diverse populations. Our findings illustrate how population-specific genetic architecture, local ancestry, and archaic introgression drive variation in gene regulation across genetically distinct and in admixed populations and highlight the need for performing association studies on non-European populations.
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- Heini M Natri
- Center for Evolution and Medicine, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA; The Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, AZ 85004, USA
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- Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North 4410, New Zealand; Centre for Genomics, Evolution and Medicine, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QH, UK; Complexity Institute, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 637460
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- Complexity Institute, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 637460; Laboratory of Genome Diversity and Disease, Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Jakarta 10430, Indonesia
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- Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Laboratory of Genome Diversity and Disease, Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Jakarta 10430, Indonesia
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- Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Laboratory of Genome Diversity and Disease, Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Jakarta 10430, Indonesia
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- Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North 4410, New Zealand
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- Centre for Genomics, Evolution and Medicine, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia; Melbourne Integrative Genomics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia; School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia; Centre for Stem Cell Systems, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
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Treindl AD, Stapley J, Winter DJ, Cox MP, Leuchtmann A. Chromosome-level genomes provide insights into genome evolution, organization and size in Epichloe fungi. Genomics 2021; 113:4267-4275. [PMID: 34774981 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2021.11.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2021] [Revised: 10/21/2021] [Accepted: 11/08/2021] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
Abstract
Epichloe fungi are endophytes of cool season grasses, both wild species and commercial cultivars, where they may exhibit mutualistic or pathogenic lifestyles. The Epichloe-grass symbiosis is of great interest to agricultural research for the fungal bioprotective properties conferred to host grasses but also serves as an ideal system to study the evolution of fungal plant-pathogens in natural environments. Here, we assembled and annotated gapless chromosome-level genomes of two pathogenic Epichloe sibling species. Both genomes have a bipartite genome organization, with blocks of highly syntenic gene-rich regions separated by blocks of AT-rich DNA. The AT-rich regions show an extensive signature of RIP (repeat-induced point mutation) and the expansion of this compartment accounts for the large difference in genome size between the two species. This study reveals how the rapid evolution of repeat structure can drive divergence between closely related taxa and highlights the evolutionary role of dynamic compartments in fungal genomes.
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- Artemis D Treindl
- Plant Ecological Genetics Group, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.
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- Plant Ecological Genetics Group, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand
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- Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand
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- Plant Ecological Genetics Group, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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Lai AG, Chang WH, Parisinos CA, Katsoulis M, Blackburn RM, Shah AD, Nguyen V, Denaxas S, Davey Smith G, Gaunt TR, Nirantharakumar K, Cox MP, Forde D, Asselbergs FW, Harris S, Richardson S, Sofat R, Dobson RJB, Hingorani A, Patel R, Sterne J, Banerjee A, Denniston AK, Ball S, Sebire NJ, Shah NH, Foster GR, Williams B, Hemingway H. An informatics consult approach for generating clinical evidence for treatment decisions. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 2021; 21:281. [PMID: 34641870 PMCID: PMC8506488 DOI: 10.1186/s12911-021-01638-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2021] [Accepted: 09/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND An Informatics Consult has been proposed in which clinicians request novel evidence from large scale health data resources, tailored to the treatment of a specific patient. However, the availability of such consultations is lacking. We seek to provide an Informatics Consult for a situation where a treatment indication and contraindication coexist in the same patient, i.e., anti-coagulation use for stroke prevention in a patient with both atrial fibrillation (AF) and liver cirrhosis. METHODS We examined four sources of evidence for the effect of warfarin on stroke risk or all-cause mortality from: (1) randomised controlled trials (RCTs), (2) meta-analysis of prior observational studies, (3) trial emulation (using population electronic health records (N = 3,854,710) and (4) genetic evidence (Mendelian randomisation). We developed prototype forms to request an Informatics Consult and return of results in electronic health record systems. RESULTS We found 0 RCT reports and 0 trials recruiting for patients with AF and cirrhosis. We found broad concordance across the three new sources of evidence we generated. Meta-analysis of prior observational studies showed that warfarin use was associated with lower stroke risk (hazard ratio [HR] = 0.71, CI 0.39-1.29). In a target trial emulation, warfarin was associated with lower all-cause mortality (HR = 0.61, CI 0.49-0.76) and ischaemic stroke (HR = 0.27, CI 0.08-0.91). Mendelian randomisation served as a drug target validation where we found that lower levels of vitamin K1 (warfarin is a vitamin K1 antagonist) are associated with lower stroke risk. A pilot survey with an independent sample of 34 clinicians revealed that 85% of clinicians found information on prognosis useful and that 79% thought that they should have access to the Informatics Consult as a service within their healthcare systems. We identified candidate steps for automation to scale evidence generation and to accelerate the return of results. CONCLUSION We performed a proof-of-concept Informatics Consult for evidence generation, which may inform treatment decisions in situations where there is dearth of randomised trials. Patients are surprised to know that their clinicians are currently not able to learn in clinic from data on 'patients like me'. We identify the key challenges in offering such an Informatics Consult as a service.
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- Alvina G Lai
- Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, UK.
- Health Data Research UK, London, UK.
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- Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, UK
- Health Data Research UK, London, UK
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- Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, UK
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- Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, UK
- Health Data Research UK, London, UK
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- Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, UK
- University College London Hospitals NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, London, UK
- University College London Hospitals NHS Trust, London, UK
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- Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, UK
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- Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, UK
- Health Data Research UK, London, UK
- University College London Hospitals NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, London, UK
- The Alan Turing Institute, London, UK
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- Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Health Data Research UK, London, UK
- Institute of Applies Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- Public Health Wales, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, UK
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- Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, UK
- Health Data Research UK, London, UK
- University College London Hospitals NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, London, UK
- Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, London, UK
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- University College London Hospitals NHS Trust, London, UK
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- Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, UK
- University College London Hospitals NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, London, UK
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- Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, UK
- Health Data Research UK, London, UK
- Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, King's College London, London, UK
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- Health Data Research UK, London, UK
- Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, London, UK
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- Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, London, UK
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- Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, UK
- Barts Health NHS Trust, The Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel Rd, London, UK
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- Health Data Research UK, London, UK
- University Hospitals Birmingham NHSFT, Birmingham, UK
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- Health Data Research UK, London, UK
- University Hospitals Birmingham NHSFT, Birmingham, UK
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- UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK
- NIHR Great Ormond Street Hospital Biomedical Research Centre, London, UK
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Barts Liver Centre, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- University College London Hospitals NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, London, UK
- Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, London, UK
- University College London Hospitals NHS Trust, London, UK
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- Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, UK
- Health Data Research UK, London, UK
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Brucato N, André M, Tsang R, Saag L, Kariwiga J, Sesuki K, Beni T, Pomat W, Muke J, Meyer V, Boland A, Deleuze JF, Sudoyo H, Mondal M, Pagani L, Romero IG, Metspalu M, Cox MP, Leavesley M, Ricaut FX. Papua New Guinean genomes reveal the complex settlement of north Sahul. Mol Biol Evol 2021; 38:5107-5121. [PMID: 34383935 PMCID: PMC8557464 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msab238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
The settlement of Sahul, the lost continent of Oceania, remains one of the most ancient and debated human migrations. Modern New Guineans inherited a unique genetic diversity tracing back 50,000 years, and yet there is currently no model reconstructing their past population dynamics. We generated 58 new whole genome sequences from Papua New Guinea, filling geographical gaps in previous sampling, specifically to address alternative scenarios of the initial migration to Sahul and the settlement of New Guinea. Here, we present the first genomic models for the settlement of northeast Sahul considering one or two migrations from Wallacea. Both models fit our dataset, reinforcing the idea that ancestral groups to New Guinean and Indigenous Australians split early, potentially during their migration in Wallacea where the northern route could have been favored. The earliest period of human presence in Sahul was an era of interactions and gene flow between related but already differentiated groups, from whom all modern New Guineans, Bismarck islanders and Indigenous Australians descend. The settlement of New Guinea was probably initiated from its southeast region, where the oldest archaeological sites have been found. This was followed by two migrations into the south and north lowlands that ultimately reached the west and east highlands. We also identify ancient gene flows between populations in New Guinea, Australia, East Indonesia and the Bismarck Archipelago, emphasizing the fact that the anthropological landscape during the early period of Sahul settlement was highly dynamic rather than the traditional view of extensive isolation.
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- Nicolas Brucato
- Laboratoire Évolution and Diversité Biologique (EDB UMR 5174), Université de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, CNRS, IRD, UPS. 118 route de Narbonne, Bat 4R1, 31062 Toulouse cedex 9, France
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- Laboratoire Évolution and Diversité Biologique (EDB UMR 5174), Université de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, CNRS, IRD, UPS. 118 route de Narbonne, Bat 4R1, 31062 Toulouse cedex 9, France.,Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Tartumaa 51010, Estonia
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- School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science and Place, Evolution and Rock Art Heritage Unit, Griffith University Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University, Australia.,Strand of Anthropology, Sociology and Archaeology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea, PO Box 320, University 134, National Capital District, Papua New Guinea
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- Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Tartumaa 51010, Estonia
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- Strand of Anthropology, Sociology and Archaeology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea, PO Box 320, University 134, National Capital District, Papua New Guinea.,School of Social Science, University of Queensland, Australia, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
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- Strand of Anthropology, Sociology and Archaeology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea, PO Box 320, University 134, National Capital District, Papua New Guinea
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- Strand of Anthropology, Sociology and Archaeology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea, PO Box 320, University 134, National Capital District, Papua New Guinea
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- Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Goroka, Papua New Guinea
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- Social Research Institute, Papua New Guinea
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, Centre National de Recherche en Génomique Humaine, 91057 Evry, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, Centre National de Recherche en Génomique Humaine, 91057 Evry, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, Centre National de Recherche en Génomique Humaine, 91057 Evry, France
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- Genome Diversity and Diseases Laboratory, Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Jakarta 10430, Indonesia
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- Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Tartumaa 51010, Estonia
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- Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Tartumaa 51010, Estonia.,Department of Biology, University of Padua, Italy
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- Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Tartumaa 51010, Estonia
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- Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand
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- Strand of Anthropology, Sociology and Archaeology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea, PO Box 320, University 134, National Capital District, Papua New Guinea.,College of Arts, Society and Education, James Cook University, P.O. Box 6811, Cairns, Queensland, 4870, Australia.,ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New south Wales, 2522, Australia
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- Laboratoire Évolution and Diversité Biologique (EDB UMR 5174), Université de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, CNRS, IRD, UPS. 118 route de Narbonne, Bat 4R1, 31062 Toulouse cedex 9, France
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Wu B, Cox MP. Comparative genomics reveals a core gene toolbox for lifestyle transitions in Hypocreales fungi. Environ Microbiol 2021; 23:3251-3264. [PMID: 33939870 PMCID: PMC8360070 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.15554] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2020] [Revised: 04/29/2021] [Accepted: 04/30/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
Abstract
Fungi have evolved diverse lifestyles and adopted pivotal new roles in both natural ecosystems and human environments. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying their adaptation to new lifestyles are obscure. Here, we hypothesize that genes shared across all species with the same lifestyle, but absent in genera with alternative lifestyles, are crucial to that lifestyle. By analysing dozens of species within four genera in a fungal order, with each genus following a different lifestyle, we find that genus-specific genes are typically few in number. Notably, not all genus-specific genes appear to derive from de novo birth, with most instead reflecting recurrent loss across the fungi. Importantly, however, a subset of these genus-specific genes are shared by fungi with the same lifestyle in quite different evolutionary orders, thus supporting the view that some genus-specific genes are necessary for specific lifestyles. These lifestyle-specific genes are enriched for key functional classes and often exhibit specialized expression patterns. Genus-specific selection also contributes to lifestyle transitions, and is especially associated with intensity of pathogenesis. Our study, therefore, suggests that fungal adaptation to new lifestyles often requires just a small number of core genes, with gene turnover and positive selection playing complementary roles.
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- Baojun Wu
- Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, School of Fundamental SciencesMassey UniversityPalmerston North4410New Zealand
- Bio‐Protection Research CentreMassey UniversityPalmerston North4410New Zealand
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- Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, School of Fundamental SciencesMassey UniversityPalmerston North4410New Zealand
- Bio‐Protection Research CentreMassey UniversityPalmerston North4410New Zealand
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Sitter TL, Vaughan AL, Schoof M, Jackson SA, Glare TR, Cox MP, Fineran PC, Gardner PP, Hurst MRH. Evolution of virulence in a novel family of transmissible mega-plasmids. Environ Microbiol 2021; 23:5289-5304. [PMID: 33989447 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.15595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2020] [Revised: 05/08/2021] [Accepted: 05/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
Abstract
Some Serratia entomophila isolates have been successfully exploited in biopesticides due to their ability to cause amber disease in larvae of the Aotearoa (New Zealand) endemic pasture pest, Costelytra giveni. Anti-feeding prophage and ABC toxin complex virulence determinants are encoded by a 153-kb single-copy conjugative plasmid (pADAP; amber disease-associated plasmid). Despite growing understanding of the S. entomophila pADAP model plasmid, little is known about the wider plasmid family. Here, we sequence and analyse mega-plasmids from 50 Serratia isolates that induce variable disease phenotypes in the C. giveni insect host. Mega-plasmids are highly conserved within S. entomophila, but show considerable divergence in Serratia proteamaculans with other variants in S. liquefaciens and S. marcescens, likely reflecting niche adaption. In this study to reconstruct ancestral relationships for a complex mega-plasmid system, strong co-evolution between Serratia species and their plasmids were found. We identify 12 distinct mega-plasmid genotypes, all sharing a conserved gene backbone, but encoding highly variable accessory regions including virulence factors, secondary metabolite biosynthesis, Nitrogen fixation genes and toxin-antitoxin systems. We show that the variable pathogenicity of Serratia isolates is largely caused by presence/absence of virulence clusters on the mega-plasmids, but notably, is augmented by external chromosomally encoded factors.
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- Thomas L Sitter
- Forage Science, AgResearch, Lincoln Research Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand.,Bio-Protection Research Centre, Lincoln, New Zealand
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- Forage Science, AgResearch, Lincoln Research Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand.,Bio-Protection Research Centre, Lincoln, New Zealand
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- Forage Science, AgResearch, Lincoln Research Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand.,Bio-Protection Research Centre, Lincoln, New Zealand
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Bio-Protection Research Centre, Lincoln, New Zealand.,Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- Bio-Protection Research Centre, Lincoln, New Zealand.,Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Bio-Protection Research Centre, Lincoln, New Zealand.,Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Forage Science, AgResearch, Lincoln Research Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand.,Bio-Protection Research Centre, Lincoln, New Zealand
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Feng S, Stiller J, Deng Y, Armstrong J, Fang Q, Reeve AH, Xie D, Chen G, Guo C, Faircloth BC, Petersen B, Wang Z, Zhou Q, Diekhans M, Chen W, Andreu-Sánchez S, Margaryan A, Howard JT, Parent C, Pacheco G, Sinding MHS, Puetz L, Cavill E, Ribeiro ÂM, Eckhart L, Fjeldså J, Hosner PA, Brumfield RT, Christidis L, Bertelsen MF, Sicheritz-Ponten T, Tietze DT, Robertson BC, Song G, Borgia G, Claramunt S, Lovette IJ, Cowen SJ, Njoroge P, Dumbacher JP, Ryder OA, Fuchs J, Bunce M, Burt DW, Cracraft J, Meng G, Hackett SJ, Ryan PG, Jønsson KA, Jamieson IG, da Fonseca RR, Braun EL, Houde P, Mirarab S, Suh A, Hansson B, Ponnikas S, Sigeman H, Stervander M, Frandsen PB, van der Zwan H, van der Sluis R, Visser C, Balakrishnan CN, Clark AG, Fitzpatrick JW, Bowman R, Chen N, Cloutier A, Sackton TB, Edwards SV, Foote DJ, Shakya SB, Sheldon FH, Vignal A, Soares AER, Shapiro B, González-Solís J, Ferrer-Obiol J, Rozas J, Riutort M, Tigano A, Friesen V, Dalén L, Urrutia AO, Székely T, Liu Y, Campana MG, Corvelo A, Fleischer RC, Rutherford KM, Gemmell NJ, Dussex N, Mouritsen H, Thiele N, Delmore K, Liedvogel M, Franke A, Hoeppner MP, Krone O, Fudickar AM, Milá B, Ketterson ED, Fidler AE, Friis G, Parody-Merino ÁM, Battley PF, Cox MP, Lima NCB, Prosdocimi F, Parchman TL, Schlinger BA, Loiselle BA, Blake JG, Lim HC, Day LB, Fuxjager MJ, Baldwin MW, Braun MJ, Wirthlin M, Dikow RB, Ryder TB, Camenisch G, Keller LF, DaCosta JM, Hauber ME, Louder MIM, Witt CC, McGuire JA, Mudge J, Megna LC, Carling MD, Wang B, Taylor SA, Del-Rio G, Aleixo A, Vasconcelos ATR, Mello CV, Weir JT, Haussler D, Li Q, Yang H, Wang J, Lei F, Rahbek C, Gilbert MTP, Graves GR, Jarvis ED, Paten B, Zhang G. Author Correction: Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics. Nature 2021; 592:E24. [PMID: 33833441 PMCID: PMC8081657 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03473-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Shaohong Feng
- China National GeneBank, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.,State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China.,BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
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- Villum Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, Section for Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- China National GeneBank, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.,BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.,Villum Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, Section for Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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- China National GeneBank, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.,BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.,Villum Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, Section for Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- China National GeneBank, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.,BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.,BGI Education Center, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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- China National GeneBank, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.,BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.,BGI Education Center, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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- China National GeneBank, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.,BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.,Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
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- Centre of Excellence for Omics-Driven Computational Biodiscovery (COMBio), Faculty of Applied Sciences, AIMST University, Kedah, Malaysia.,Section for Evolutionary Genomics, The GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- China National GeneBank, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.,BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.,MOE Laboratory of Biosystems Homeostasis and Protection, Life Sciences Institute, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.,Department of Neuroscience and Developmental Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- MOE Laboratory of Biosystems Homeostasis and Protection, Life Sciences Institute, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.,Department of Neuroscience and Developmental Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.,Center for Reproductive Medicine, The 2nd Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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- China National GeneBank, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.,BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
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- Villum Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, Section for Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Section for Evolutionary Genomics, The GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Institute of Molecular Biology, National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia
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- Section for Evolutionary Genomics, The GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Section for Evolutionary Genomics, The GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Section for Evolutionary Genomics, The GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Section for Evolutionary Genomics, The GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.,Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
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- Southern Cross University, Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia
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- Centre for Zoo and Wild Animal Health, Copenhagen Zoo, Frederiksberg, Denmark
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- Centre of Excellence for Omics-Driven Computational Biodiscovery (COMBio), Faculty of Applied Sciences, AIMST University, Kedah, Malaysia.,Section for Evolutionary Genomics, The GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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- Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Biodiversity and Conservation Science, Department of Biodiversity Conservation and Attractions, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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- Ornithology Section, Zoology Department, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
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- San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research, Escondido, CA, USA.,Evolution, Behavior, and Ecology, Division of Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, Université des Antilles, Paris, France
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- Trace and Environmental DNA (TrEnD) Laboratory, School of Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin University, Western Australia, Perth, Australia
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- UQ Genomics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA
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- Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, USA
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- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics - Evolutionary Biology, Evolutionary Biology Centre (EBC), Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.,Department of Organismal Biology - Systematic Biology, Evolutionary Biology Centre (EBC), Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.,School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
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- Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.,Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
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- Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA.,Data Science Lab, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
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- Focus Area for Human Metabolomics, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
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- Department of Animal Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Avian Ecology Program, Archbold Biological Station, Venus, FL, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.,Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.,Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Biology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA.,Sylvan Heights Bird Park, Scotland Neck, NC, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.,Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.,Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
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- GenPhySE, INRA, INPT, INP-ENVT, Université de Toulouse, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica, Petrópolis, Brazil.,Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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- Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals (BEECA), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Departament de Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Departament de Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Departament de Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA.,Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden.,Centre for Palaeogenetics, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath, Bath, UK.,Instituto de Ecologia, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath, Bath, UK
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Center for Conservation Genomics, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
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- Center for Conservation Genomics, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden.,Centre for Palaeogenetics, Stockholm, Sweden.,Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- AG Neurosensory Sciences, Institut für Biologie und Umweltwissenschaften, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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- AG Neurosensory Sciences, Institut für Biologie und Umweltwissenschaften, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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- Biology Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.,MPRG Behavioural Genomics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany
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- Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian-Albrechts- University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian-Albrechts- University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Wildlife Diseases, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany
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- Environmental Resilience Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
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- National Museum of Natural Sciences, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, Department of Biology, New York University - Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE
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- Wildlife and Ecology Group, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica, Petrópolis, Brazil.,Departamento de Bioquímica e Biologia Molecular, Centro de Ciências, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Genômica e Biodiversidade, Instituto de Bioquímica Médica Leopoldo de Meis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.,Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Panama
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- Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.,Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Center for Conservation Genomics, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA.,Department of Biology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
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- Department of Biology and Neuroscience Minor, University of Mississippi, University, MS, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
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- Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA.,Behavior, Ecology, Evolution and Systematics Program, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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- Computational Biology Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Data Science Lab, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
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- Migratory Bird Center, Smithsonian National Zoological Park and Conservation Biology Institute, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior, School of Integrative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Department of Biology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA.,Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior, School of Integrative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.,International Research Center for Neurointelligence, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Museum of Southwestern Biology, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
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- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- National Center for Genome Resources, Santa Fe, NM, USA
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- Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA
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- Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA
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- School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
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- Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA
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- Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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- China National GeneBank, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.,BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.,James D. Watson Institute of Genome Sciences, Hangzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
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- Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Danish Institute for Advanced Study, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.,Institute of Ecology, Peking University, Beijing, China.,Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Ascot, UK
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- Section for Evolutionary Genomics, The GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
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- Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.,The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD, USA
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- UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
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- China National GeneBank, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China. .,State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China. .,Villum Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, Section for Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. .,Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China.
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Lukito Y, Lee K, Noorifar N, Green KA, Winter DJ, Ram A, Hale TK, Chujo T, Cox MP, Johnson LJ, Scott B. Regulation of host-infection ability in the grass-symbiotic fungus Epichloë festucae by histone H3K9 and H3K36 methyltransferases. Environ Microbiol 2020; 23:2116-2131. [PMID: 33350014 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.15370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2020] [Revised: 12/02/2020] [Accepted: 12/19/2020] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
Abstract
Recent studies have identified key genes that control the symbiotic interaction between Epichloë festucae and Lolium perenne. Here we report on the identification of specific E. festucae genes that control host infection. Deletion of setB, which encodes a homologue of the H3K36 histone methyltransferase Set2/KMT3, reduced histone H3K36 trimethylation and led to severe defects in colony growth and hyphal development. The E. festucae ΔclrD mutant, which lacks the gene encoding the homologue of the H3K9 methyltransferase KMT1, displays similar developmental defects. Both mutants are completely defective in their ability to infect L. perenne. Alleles that complement the culture and plant phenotypes of both mutants also complement the histone methylation defects. Co-inoculation of either ΔsetB or ΔclrD with the wild-type strain enables these mutants to colonize the host. However, successful colonization by the mutants resulted in death or stunting of the host plant. Transcriptome analysis at the early infection stage identified four fungal candidate genes, three of which encode small-secreted proteins, that are differentially regulated in these mutants compared to wild type. Deletion of crbA, which encodes a putative carbohydrate binding protein, resulted in significantly reduced host infection rates by E. festucae.
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- Yonathan Lukito
- School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.,AgResearch Limited, Grasslands Research Centre, Palmerston North, New Zealand.,Bio-Protection Research Centre, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.,Ferrier Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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- School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.,Bio-Protection Research Centre, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- Research and Development Center, Mayekawa Mfg. Co., Ltd, Tokyo, Japan
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- School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.,Bio-Protection Research Centre, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- AgResearch Limited, Grasslands Research Centre, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.,Bio-Protection Research Centre, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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Kondratev N, Denton-Giles M, Bradshaw RE, Cox MP, Dijkwel PP. Camellia Plant Resistance and Susceptibility to Petal Blight Disease Are Defined by the Timing of Defense Responses. Mol Plant Microbe Interact 2020; 33:982-995. [PMID: 32223579 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-10-19-0304-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
Abstract
The family Sclerotiniaceae includes important phytopathogens, such as Botrytis cinerea and Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, that activate plant immune responses to facilitate infection propagation. The mechanisms of plant resistance to these necrotrophic pathogens are still poorly understood. To discover mechanisms of resistance, we used the Ciborinia camelliae (Sclerotiniaceae)-Camellia spp. pathosystem. This fungus induces rapid infection of the blooms of susceptible cultivar Nicky Crisp (Camellia japonica × Camellia pitardii var. pitardii), while Camellia lutchuensis is highly resistant. Genome-wide analysis of gene expression in resistant plants revealed fast modulation of host transcriptional activity 6 h after ascospore inoculation. Ascospores induced the same defense pathways in the susceptible Camellia cultivar but much delayed and coinciding with disease development. We next tested the hypothesis that differences in defense timing influences disease outcome. We induced early defense in the susceptible cultivar using methyl jasmonate and this strongly reduced disease development. Conversely, delaying the response in the resistant species, by infecting it with actively growing fungal mycelium, increased susceptibility. The same plant defense pathways, therefore, contribute to both resistance and susceptibility, suggesting that defense timing is a critical factor in plant health, and resistance against necrotrophic pathogens may occur during the initial biotrophy-like stages.
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- Nikolai Kondratev
- School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
- Bio-Protection Research Centre, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
- Bio-Protection Research Centre, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
- Bio-Protection Research Centre, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
- Bio-Protection Research Centre, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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Cagnano G, Lenk I, Roulund N, Jensen CS, Cox MP, Asp T. Mycelial biomass and concentration of loline alkaloids driven by complex population structure in Epichloë uncinata and meadow fescue ( Schedonorus pratensis). Mycologia 2020; 112:474-490. [PMID: 32412888 DOI: 10.1080/00275514.2020.1746607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
Abstract
Many efforts have been made to select and isolate naturally occurring animal-friendly Epichloë strains for later reinfection into elite cultivars. Often this process involves large-scale screening of Epichloë-infected wild grass populations where strains are characterized and alkaloids measured. Here, we describe for the first time the use of genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) on a collection of 217 Epichloë-infected grasses (7 S. arundinaceum, 4 L. perenne, and 206 S. pratensis). This genotyping strategy is cheaper than complete genome sequencing, is suitable for a large number of individuals, and, when applied to endophyte-infected grasses, conveniently genotypes both organisms. In total, 6273 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the endophyte data set and 38 323 SNPs in the host data set were obtained. Our findings reveal a composite structure with three distinct endophyte clusters unrelated to the three main S. pratensis gene pools that have most likely spread from different glacial refugia in Eurasia. All three gene pools can establish symbiosis with E. uncinata. A comparison of the endophyte clusters with microsatellite-based fingerprinting of the same samples allows a quick test to discriminate between these clusters using two simple sequence repeats (SSRs). Concentrations of loline alkaloids and mycelial biomass are correlated and differ significantly among the plant and endophyte subpopulations; one endophyte strain has higher levels of lolines than others, and one specific host genotype is particularly suitable to host E. uncinata. These findings pave the way for targeted artificial inoculations of specific host-endophyte combinations to boost loline production in the symbiota and for genome association studies with the aim of isolating genes involved in the compatibility between meadow fescue and E. uncinata.
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- G Cagnano
- DLF Seeds A/S, Højerupvej 31, 4660 Store Heddinge , Denmark
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- DLF Seeds A/S, Højerupvej 31, 4660 Store Heddinge , Denmark
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- DLF Seeds A/S, Højerupvej 31, 4660 Store Heddinge , Denmark
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- DLF Seeds A/S, Højerupvej 31, 4660 Store Heddinge , Denmark
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- Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University , Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University , Aarhus, Denmark
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Natri HM, Bobowik KS, Kusuma P, Crenna Darusallam C, Jacobs GS, Hudjashov G, Lansing JS, Sudoyo H, Banovich NE, Cox MP, Gallego Romero I. Genome-wide DNA methylation and gene expression patterns reflect genetic ancestry and environmental differences across the Indonesian archipelago. PLoS Genet 2020; 16:e1008749. [PMID: 32453742 PMCID: PMC7274483 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008749] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2019] [Revised: 06/05/2020] [Accepted: 03/31/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
Abstract
Indonesia is the world's fourth most populous country, host to striking levels of human diversity, regional patterns of admixture, and varying degrees of introgression from both Neanderthals and Denisovans. However, it has been largely excluded from the human genomics sequencing boom of the last decade. To serve as a benchmark dataset of molecular phenotypes across the region, we generated genome-wide CpG methylation and gene expression measurements in over 100 individuals from three locations that capture the major genomic and geographical axes of diversity across the Indonesian archipelago. Investigating between- and within-island differences, we find up to 10.55% of tested genes are differentially expressed between the islands of Sumba and New Guinea. Variation in gene expression is closely associated with DNA methylation, with expression levels of 9.80% of genes correlating with nearby promoter CpG methylation, and many of these genes being differentially expressed between islands. Genes identified in our differential expression and methylation analyses are enriched in pathways involved in immunity, highlighting Indonesia's tropical role as a source of infectious disease diversity and the strong selective pressures these diseases have exerted on humans. Finally, we identify robust within-island variation in DNA methylation and gene expression, likely driven by fine-scale environmental differences across sampling sites. Together, these results strongly suggest complex relationships between DNA methylation, transcription, archaic hominin introgression and immunity, all jointly shaped by the environment. This has implications for the application of genomic medicine, both in critically understudied Indonesia and globally, and will allow a better understanding of the interacting roles of genomic and environmental factors shaping molecular and complex phenotypes.
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- Heini M. Natri
- Center for Evolution and Medicine, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America
- The Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
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- Melbourne Integrative Genomics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
- School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
- Centre for Stem Cell Systems, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
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- Genome Diversity and Diseases Laboratory, Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Jakarta, Indonesia
- Complexity Institute, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- Genome Diversity and Diseases Laboratory, Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Complexity Institute, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
- Vienna Complexity Science Hub, Vienna, Austria
- Stockholm Resilience Center, Kräftriket, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Genome Diversity and Diseases Laboratory, Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Jakarta, Indonesia
- Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
- Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- The Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
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- Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- Melbourne Integrative Genomics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
- School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
- Centre for Stem Cell Systems, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
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Denton‐Giles M, McCarthy H, Sehrish T, Dijkwel Y, Mesarich CH, Bradshaw RE, Cox MP, Dijkwel PP. Conservation and expansion of a necrosis-inducing small secreted protein family from host-variable phytopathogens of the Sclerotiniaceae. Mol Plant Pathol 2020; 21:512-526. [PMID: 32061186 PMCID: PMC7060139 DOI: 10.1111/mpp.12913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [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: 10/07/2019] [Revised: 12/19/2019] [Accepted: 12/21/2019] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
Abstract
Fungal effector proteins facilitate host-plant colonization and have generally been characterized as small secreted proteins (SSPs). We classified and functionally tested SSPs from the secretomes of three closely related necrotrophic phytopathogens: Ciborinia camelliae, Botrytis cinerea, and Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. Alignment of predicted SSPs identified a large protein family that share greater than 41% amino acid identity and that have key characteristics of previously described microbe-associated molecular patterns (MAMPs). Strikingly, 73 of the 75 SSP family members were predicted within the secretome of the host-specialist C. camelliae with single-copy homologs identified in the secretomes of the host generalists S. sclerotiorum and B. cinerea. To explore the potential function of this family of SSPs, 10 of the 73 C. camelliae proteins, together with the single-copy homologs from S. sclerotiorum (SsSSP3) and B. cinerea (BcSSP2), were cloned and expressed as recombinant proteins. Infiltration of SsSSP3 and BcSSP2 into host tissue induced rapid necrosis. In contrast, only one of the 10 tested C. camelliae SSPs was able to induce a limited amount of necrosis. Analysis of chimeric proteins consisting of domains from both a necrosis-inducing and a non-necrosis-inducing SSP demonstrated that the C-terminus of the S. sclerotiorum SSP is essential for necrosis-inducing function. Deletion of the BcSSP2 homolog from B. cinerea did not affect growth or pathogenesis. Thus, this research uncovered a family of highly conserved SSPs present in diverse ascomycetes that exhibit contrasting necrosis-inducing functions.
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- Matthew Denton‐Giles
- Centre for Crop and Disease ManagementCurtin UniversityPerthAustralia
- School of Fundamental SciencesMassey UniversityPalmerston NorthNew Zealand
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- School of Fundamental SciencesMassey UniversityPalmerston NorthNew Zealand
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- School of Fundamental SciencesMassey UniversityPalmerston NorthNew Zealand
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- School of Fundamental SciencesMassey UniversityPalmerston NorthNew Zealand
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- School of Agriculture and EnvironmentMassey UniversityPalmerston NorthNew Zealand
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- School of Fundamental SciencesMassey UniversityPalmerston NorthNew Zealand
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- School of Fundamental SciencesMassey UniversityPalmerston NorthNew Zealand
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- School of Fundamental SciencesMassey UniversityPalmerston NorthNew Zealand
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Winter DJ, Charlton ND, Krom N, Shiller J, Bock CH, Cox MP, Young CA. Chromosome-Level Reference Genome of Venturia effusa, Causative Agent of Pecan Scab. Mol Plant Microbe Interact 2020; 33:149-152. [PMID: 31631770 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-08-19-0236-a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
Abstract
Pecan scab, caused by Venturia effusa, is a devastating disease of pecan (Carya illinoinensis), which results in economic losses on susceptible cultivars throughout the southeastern United States. To enhance our understanding of pathogenicity in V. effusa, we have generated a complete telomere-to-telomere reference genome of V. effusa isolate FRT5LL7-Albino. By combining Illumina MiSeq and Oxford Nanopore MinION data, we assembled a 45.2-Mb genome represented by 20 chromosomes and containing 10,820 putative genes, of which 7,619 have at least one functional annotation. The likely causative mutation of the albino phenotype was identified as a single base insertion and a resulting frameshift in the gene encoding the polyketide synthase ALM1. This genome represents the first full chromosome-level assembly of any Venturia sp.
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- David J Winter
- School of Fundamental Sciences and the Bio-Protection Research Centre, Massey University, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand
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- Noble Research Institute, LLC, Ardmore, OK 73401, U.S.A
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- Noble Research Institute, LLC, Ardmore, OK 73401, U.S.A
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- United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service Southeastern Fruit and Tree Nut Research Laboratory, Byron, GA 31008, U.S.A
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- School of Fundamental Sciences and the Bio-Protection Research Centre, Massey University, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand
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Bücking R, Cox MP, Hudjashov G, Saag L, Sudoyo H, Stoneking M. Correction to: Archaic mitochondrial DNA inserts in modern day nuclear genomes. BMC Genomics 2020; 21:55. [PMID: 31952474 PMCID: PMC6966873 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-020-6449-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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- Robert Bücking
- Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D04103, Leipzig, Germany.
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- School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, 4442, New Zealand
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- School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, 4442, New Zealand
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- Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- Genome Diversity and Diseases Laboratory, Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Jakarta, 10430, Indonesia.,Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia, Jakarta, 10430, Indonesia.,Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
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- Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D04103, Leipzig, Germany
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Bücking R, Cox MP, Hudjashov G, Saag L, Sudoyo H, Stoneking M. Archaic mitochondrial DNA inserts in modern day nuclear genomes. BMC Genomics 2019; 20:1017. [PMID: 31878873 PMCID: PMC6933719 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-019-6392-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [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: 07/09/2019] [Accepted: 12/12/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Abstract
Background Traces of interbreeding of Neanderthals and Denisovans with modern humans in the form of archaic DNA have been detected in the genomes of present-day human populations outside sub-Saharan Africa. Up to now, only nuclear archaic DNA has been detected in modern humans; we therefore attempted to identify archaic mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) residing in modern human nuclear genomes as nuclear inserts of mitochondrial DNA (NUMTs). Results We analysed 221 high-coverage genomes from Oceania and Indonesia using an approach which identifies reads that map both to the nuclear and mitochondrial DNA. We then classified reads according to the source of the mtDNA, and found one NUMT of Denisovan mtDNA origin, present in 15 analysed genomes; analysis of the flanking region suggests that this insertion is more likely to have happened in a Denisovan individual and introgressed into modern humans with the Denisovan nuclear DNA, rather than in a descendant of a Denisovan female and a modern human male. Conclusions Here we present our pipeline for detecting introgressed NUMTs in next generation sequencing data that can be used on genomes sequenced in the future. Further discovery of such archaic NUMTs in modern humans can be used to detect interbreeding between archaic and modern humans and can reveal new insights into the nature of such interbreeding events.
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- Robert Bücking
- Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig, D04103, Germany.
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- School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, 4442, New Zealand
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- School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, 4442, New Zealand
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- Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- Genome Diversity and Diseases Laboratory, Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Jakarta, 10430, Indonesia.,Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia, Jakarta, 10430, Indonesia.,Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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- Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig, D04103, Germany
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Wu B, Cox MP. Greater genetic and regulatory plasticity of retained duplicates in Epichloë endophytic fungi. Mol Ecol 2019; 28:5103-5114. [PMID: 31614039 PMCID: PMC7004115 DOI: 10.1111/mec.15275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [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: 05/24/2019] [Accepted: 10/11/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Abstract
Gene duplicates can act as a source of genetic material from which new functions arise. Most duplicated genes revert to single copy genes and only a small proportion are retained. However, it remains unclear why some duplicate genes persist in the genome for an extended time. We investigate this question by analysing retained gene duplicates in the fungal genus Epichloë, ascomycete fungi that form close endophytic symbioses with their host grasses. Retained duplicates within this genus have two independent origins, but both long pre-date the origin and diversification of the genus Epichloë. We find that loss of retained duplicates within the genus is frequent and often associated with speciation. Retained duplicates have faster evolutionary rates (Ka) and show relaxed selection (Ka/Ks) compared to single copy genes. Both features are time-dependent. Through comparison of conspecific strains, we find greater evolutionary rates in coding regions and sequence divergence in regulatory regions of retained duplicates than single copy genes, with this pattern more pronounced for strains adapted to different grass host species. Consistent with this sequence divergence in regulatory regions, transcriptome analyses show greater expression variation of retained duplicates than single copy genes. This suggest that cis-regulatory changes make important contributions to the expression patterns of retained duplicates. Coupled with supporting observations from the model yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, these data suggest that genetic robustness and regulatory plasticity are common drivers behind the retention of duplicated genes in fungi.
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- Baojun Wu
- Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.,Bio-Protection Research Centre, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.,Bio-Protection Research Centre, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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Behling AH, Shepherd LD, Cox MP. The importance and prevalence of allopolyploidy in Aotearoa New Zealand. J R Soc N Z 2019. [DOI: 10.1080/03036758.2019.1676797] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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- Anna H. Behling
- School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand
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- School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
- Bio-Protection Research Centre, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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Brzozowska MM, Havula E, Allen RB, Cox MP. Genetics, adaptation to environmental changes and archaic admixture in the pathogenesis of diabetes mellitus in Indigenous Australians. Rev Endocr Metab Disord 2019; 20:321-332. [PMID: 31278514 DOI: 10.1007/s11154-019-09505-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Indigenous Australians are particularly affected by type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) due to both their genetic susceptibility and a range of environmental and lifestyle risk factors. Recent genetic studies link predisposition to some diseases, including T2D, to alleles acquired from archaic hominins, such as Neanderthals and Denisovans, which persist in the genomes of modern humans today. Indo-Pacific human populations, including Indigenous Australians, remain extremely underrepresented in genomic research with a paucity of data examining the impact of Denisovan or Neanderthal lineages on human phenotypes in Oceania. The few genetic studies undertaken emphasize the uniqueness and antiquity of Indigenous Australian genomes, with possibly the largest proportion of Denisovan ancestry of any population in the world. In this review, we focus on the potential contributions of ancient genes/pathways to modern human phenotypes, while also highlighting the evolutionary roles of genetic adaptation to dietary and environmental changes associated with an adopted Western lifestyle. We discuss the role of genetic and epigenetic factors in the pathogenesis of T2D in understudied Indigenous Australians, including the potential impact of archaic gene lineages on this disease. Finally, we propose that greater understanding of the underlying genetic predisposition may contribute to the clinical efficacy of diabetes management in Indigenous Australians. We suggest that improved identification of T2D risk variants in Oceania is needed. Such studies promise to clarify how genetic and phenotypic differences vary between populations and, crucially, provide novel targets for personalised medical therapies in currently marginalized groups.
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- Malgorzata Monika Brzozowska
- Endocrinology Department, Sutherland Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
- St George & Sutherland Hospital Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- The Palaeogenomics and Bio-Archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, 4410, New Zealand
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Moravec JC, Marsland S, Cox MP. Warfare induces post-marital residence change. J Theor Biol 2019; 474:52-62. [PMID: 31059717 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2019.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2019] [Revised: 05/01/2019] [Accepted: 05/03/2019] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
Abstract
Post-marital residence is a sex-biased dispersal defined by the place where a newly-wed couple lives after marriage. Common choices for this practice include patrilocal residence, where the couple lives with the man's family, and matrilocal residence, where they live with the woman's family. Deviations from accepted practice typically invoke strong sanctions, but despite this pressure to conform to post-marital residence norms, residence states are unexpectedly dynamic over time. Theories have been proposed to explain the pressures, both internal and external, that drive these changes in post-marital residence state. Two of the most popular emphasize the importance of warfare, but are largely restricted to qualitative statements. Here, we develop an agent-based model that captures key features of these theories, with a particular focus on warfare. We show that warfare can change post-marital residence practices, but such change only propagates through a wider network of communities under a narrow set of conditions. Additional factors, potentially including a strong sex-bias in the division of labor, are required to induce change more widely. While warfare thus serves as an important trigger for residence change, multiple interacting forces appear to be necessary to shift communities between different post-marital residence states under most conditions.
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- Jiří C Moravec
- Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand; Te Pūnaha Matatini, New Zealand Complex Systems Research Centre, Centre of Research Excellence, New Zealand
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- Te Pūnaha Matatini, New Zealand Complex Systems Research Centre, Centre of Research Excellence, New Zealand; School of Mathematics and Statistics, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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- Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand; Te Pūnaha Matatini, New Zealand Complex Systems Research Centre, Centre of Research Excellence, New Zealand.
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Chung NN, Jacobs GS, Sudoyo H, Malik SG, Chew LY, Lansing JS, Cox MP. Sex-linked genetic diversity originates from persistent sociocultural processes at microgeographic scales. R Soc Open Sci 2019; 6:190733. [PMID: 31598251 PMCID: PMC6731738 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.190733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2019] [Accepted: 07/26/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Population genetics has been successful at identifying the relationships between human groups and their interconnected histories. However, the link between genetic demography inferred at large scales and the individual human behaviours that ultimately generate that demography is not always clear. While anthropological and historical context are routinely presented as adjuncts in population genetic studies to help describe the past, determining how underlying patterns of human sociocultural behaviour impact genetics still remains challenging. Here, we analyse patterns of genetic variation in village-scale samples from two islands in eastern Indonesia, patrilocal Sumba and a matrilocal region of Timor. Adopting a 'process modelling' approach, we iteratively explore combinations of structurally different models as a thinking tool. We find interconnected socio-genetic interactions involving sex-biased migration, lineage-focused founder effects, and on Sumba, heritable social dominance. Strikingly, founder ideology, a cultural model derived from anthropological and archaeological studies at larger regional scales, has both its origins and impact at the scale of villages. Process modelling lets us explore these complex interactions, first by circumventing the complexity of formal inference when studying large datasets with many interacting parts, and then by explicitly testing complex anthropological hypotheses about sociocultural behaviour from a more familiar population genetic standpoint.
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- Ning Ning Chung
- Complexity Institute, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Centre for University Core, Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore
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- Complexity Institute, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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- Genome Diversity and Diseases Laboratory, Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Jakarta, Indonesia
- Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
- Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
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- Genome Diversity and Diseases Laboratory, Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Complexity Institute, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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- Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
- Stockholm Resilience Center, Kräftriket, 10405 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North 4410, New Zealand
- Te Pūnaha Matatini, Centre of Research Excellence for Complex Systems, Aukland, New Zealand
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Griffiths AG, Moraga R, Tausen M, Gupta V, Bilton TP, Campbell MA, Ashby R, Nagy I, Khan A, Larking A, Anderson C, Franzmayr B, Hancock K, Scott A, Ellison NW, Cox MP, Asp T, Mailund T, Schierup MH, Andersen SU. Breaking Free: The Genomics of Allopolyploidy-Facilitated Niche Expansion in White Clover. Plant Cell 2019; 31:1466-1487. [PMID: 31023841 PMCID: PMC6635854 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.18.00606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2018] [Revised: 03/15/2019] [Accepted: 04/22/2019] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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The merging of distinct genomes, allopolyploidization, is a widespread phenomenon in plants. It generates adaptive potential through increased genetic diversity, but examples demonstrating its exploitation remain scarce. White clover (Trifolium repens) is a ubiquitous temperate allotetraploid forage crop derived from two European diploid progenitors confined to extreme coastal or alpine habitats. We sequenced and assembled the genomes and transcriptomes of this species complex to gain insight into the genesis of white clover and the consequences of allopolyploidization. Based on these data, we estimate that white clover originated ∼15,000 to 28,000 years ago during the last glaciation when alpine and coastal progenitors were likely colocated in glacial refugia. We found evidence of progenitor diversity carryover through multiple hybridization events and show that the progenitor subgenomes have retained integrity and gene expression activity as they traveled within white clover from their original confined habitats to a global presence. At the transcriptional level, we observed remarkably stable subgenome expression ratios across tissues. Among the few genes that show tissue-specific switching between homeologous gene copies, we found flavonoid biosynthesis genes strongly overrepresented, suggesting an adaptive role of some allopolyploidy-associated transcriptional changes. Our results highlight white clover as an example of allopolyploidy-facilitated niche expansion, where two progenitor genomes, adapted and confined to disparate and highly specialized habitats, expanded to a ubiquitous global presence after glaciation-associated allopolyploidization.
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- Andrew G Griffiths
- AgResearch, Grasslands Research Centre, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand
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- AgResearch, Grasslands Research Centre, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
- Bioinformatics Research Centre, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- AgResearch, Invermay Agricultural Centre, Mosgiel 9053, New Zealand
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- Bioinformatics and Statistics Group, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North 4410, New Zealand
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- AgResearch, Invermay Agricultural Centre, Mosgiel 9053, New Zealand
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, 200 Slagelse, Denmark
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- AgResearch, Invermay Agricultural Centre, Mosgiel 9053, New Zealand
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- AgResearch, Grasslands Research Centre, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand
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- AgResearch, Grasslands Research Centre, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand
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- AgResearch, Grasslands Research Centre, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand
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- AgResearch, Grasslands Research Centre, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand
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- AgResearch, Grasslands Research Centre, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand
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- AgResearch, Grasslands Research Centre, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand
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- Bioinformatics and Statistics Group, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North 4410, New Zealand
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, 200 Slagelse, Denmark
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- Bioinformatics Research Centre, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- AgResearch, Invermay Agricultural Centre, Mosgiel 9053, New Zealand
- Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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Glare TR, Durrant A, Berry C, Palma L, Ormskirk MM, Cox MP. Phylogenetic determinants of toxin gene distribution in genomes of Brevibacillus laterosporus. Genomics 2019; 112:1042-1053. [PMID: 31226484 PMCID: PMC6978878 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2019.06.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2018] [Revised: 05/16/2019] [Accepted: 06/17/2019] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
Abstract
Brevibacillus laterosporus is a globally ubiquitous, spore forming bacterium, strains of which have shown toxic activity against invertebrates and microbes and several have been patented due to their commercial potential. Relatively little is known about this bacterium. Here, we examined the genomes of six published and five newly determined genomes of B. laterosporus, with an emphasis on the relationships between known and putative toxin encoding genes, as well as the phylogenetic relationships between strains. Phylogenetically, strain relationships are similar using average nucleotide identity (ANI) values and multi-gene approaches, although PacBio sequencing revealed multiple copies of the 16S rDNA gene which lessened utility at the strain level. Based on ANI values, the New Zealand isolates were distant from other isolates and may represent a new species. While all of the genomes examined shared some putative toxicity or virulence related proteins, many specific genes were only present in a subset of strains. We examined genomes of 11 Brevibacillus laterosporus, a bacterium which is antagonistic to invertebrates and/or microbes Multiple phylogenetic methods showed New Zealand isolates more distant than all other isolates Each genome could contain 11–13 copies of the 16S rDNA gene, some of which were not identical Many putative toxin encoding genes were present in the genomes, but the toxin complement varied from isolate to isolate Variation in occurrence of toxin-encoding genes indicates the potential to find strains with new combinations of activities
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- Travis R Glare
- Bio-Protection Research Centre, PO Box 85084, Lincoln University, Lincoln, New Zealand.
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- Bio-Protection Research Centre, PO Box 85084, Lincoln University, Lincoln, New Zealand
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- Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Museum Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3AX, UK
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- Universidad Nacional de Villa María, Instituto A.P. de Ciencias Básicas y Aplicadas, Av. Arturo Jauretche 1555, Villa María 5900, Córdoba, Argentina
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- Bio-Protection Research Centre, PO Box 85084, Lincoln University, Lincoln, New Zealand
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- Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North 4410, New Zealand
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Brucato N, Fernandes V, Kusuma P, Černý V, Mulligan CJ, Soares P, Rito T, Besse C, Boland A, Deleuze JF, Cox MP, Sudoyo H, Stoneking M, Pereira L, Ricaut FX. Evidence of Austronesian Genetic Lineages in East Africa and South Arabia: Complex Dispersal from Madagascar and Southeast Asia. Genome Biol Evol 2019; 11:748-758. [PMID: 30715341 PMCID: PMC6423374 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evz028] [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] [Accepted: 01/30/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The Austronesian dispersal across the Indonesian Ocean to Madagascar and the Comoros has been well documented, but in an unexplained anomaly, few to no traces have been found of the Austronesian expansion in East Africa or the Arabian Peninsula. To revisit this peculiarity, we surveyed the Western Indian Ocean rim populations to identify potential Austronesian genetic ancestry. We generated full mitochondrial DNA genomes and genome-wide genotyping data for these individuals and compared them with the Banjar, the Indonesian source population of the westward Austronesian dispersal. We find strong support for Asian genetic contributions to maternal lineages and autosomal variation in modern day Somalia and Yemen. Surprisingly, this input reveals two apparently different geographic origins and timings of admixture for the Austronesian contact; one at a very early phase (likely associated with the early Austronesian dispersals), and a later movement dating to the end of nineteenth century. These Austronesian gene flows come, respectively, from Madagascar and directly from an unidentified location in Island Southeast Asia. This result reveals a far more complex dynamic of Austronesian dispersals through the Western Indian Ocean than has previously been understood and suggests that Austronesian movements within the Indian Ocean may have been part of a lengthy process, probably continuing well into the modern era.
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- Nicolas Brucato
- Laboratoire Évolution & Diversité Biologique (EDB UMR 5174), Université de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, CNRS, IRD, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto (i3S), Porto, Portugal.,Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto (Ipatimup), Porto, Portugal
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- Genome Diversity and Diseases Laboratory, Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto (Ipatimup), Porto, Portugal.,Centro de Biologia Molecular e Ambiental (CBMA), Departamento de Biologia, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal
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- Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto (Ipatimup), Porto, Portugal.,Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Medicine, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.,Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Medicine & ICVS/3B, PT Government Associate Laboratory, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
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- Centre National de Recherche en Génomique Humaine (CNRGH), Institut de Biologie François Jacob, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Evry, France
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- Centre National de Recherche en Génomique Humaine (CNRGH), Institut de Biologie François Jacob, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Evry, France
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- Centre National de Recherche en Génomique Humaine (CNRGH), Institut de Biologie François Jacob, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Evry, France
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- Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- Genome Diversity and Diseases Laboratory, Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Jakarta, Indonesia.,Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
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- Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto (i3S), Porto, Portugal.,Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto (Ipatimup), Porto, Portugal
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- Laboratoire Évolution & Diversité Biologique (EDB UMR 5174), Université de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, CNRS, IRD, UPS, Toulouse, France
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Bradshaw RE, Sim AD, Chettri P, Dupont P, Guo Y, Hunziker L, McDougal RL, Van der Nest A, Fourie A, Wheeler D, Cox MP, Barnes I. Global population genomics of the forest pathogen Dothistroma septosporum reveal chromosome duplications in high dothistromin-producing strains. Mol Plant Pathol 2019; 20:784-799. [PMID: 30938073 PMCID: PMC6637865 DOI: 10.1111/mpp.12791] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Dothistroma needle blight is one of the most devastating pine tree diseases worldwide. New and emerging epidemics have been frequent over the last 25 years, particularly in the Northern Hemisphere, where they are in part associated with changing weather patterns. One of the main Dothistroma needle blight pathogens, Dothistroma septosporum, has a global distribution but most molecular plant pathology research has been confined to Southern Hemisphere populations that have limited genetic diversity. Extensive genomic and transcriptomic data are available for a D. septosporum reference strain from New Zealand, where an introduced clonal population of the pathogen predominates. Due to the global importance of this pathogen, we determined whether the genome of this reference strain is representative of the species worldwide by sequencing the genomes of 18 strains sampled globally from different pine hosts. Genomic polymorphism shows substantial variation within the species, clustered into two distinct groups of strains with centres of diversity in Central and South America. A reciprocal chromosome translocation uniquely identifies the New Zealand strains. Globally, strains differ in their production of the virulence factor dothistromin, with extremely high production levels in strain ALP3 from Germany. Comparisons with the New Zealand reference revealed that several strains are aneuploids; for example, ALP3 has duplications of three chromosomes. Increased gene copy numbers therefore appear to contribute to increased production of dothistromin, emphasizing that studies of population structure are a necessary adjunct to functional analyses of genetic polymorphisms to identify the molecular basis of virulence in this important forest pathogen.
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- Rosie E. Bradshaw
- School of Fundamental Sciences and Bio‐Protection Research CentreMassey UniversityPalmerston North4410New Zealand
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- School of Fundamental Sciences and Bio‐Protection Research CentreMassey UniversityPalmerston North4410New Zealand
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- School of Fundamental Sciences and Bio‐Protection Research CentreMassey UniversityPalmerston North4410New Zealand
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- School of Fundamental Sciences and Bio‐Protection Research CentreMassey UniversityPalmerston North4410New Zealand
- Institute of Environmental Science and ResearchChristchurch8041New Zealand
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- School of Fundamental Sciences and Bio‐Protection Research CentreMassey UniversityPalmerston North4410New Zealand
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- School of Fundamental Sciences and Bio‐Protection Research CentreMassey UniversityPalmerston North4410New Zealand
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- Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI)University of PretoriaPretoriaSouth Africa
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- Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI)University of PretoriaPretoriaSouth Africa
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- School of Fundamental Sciences and Bio‐Protection Research CentreMassey UniversityPalmerston North4410New Zealand
- NSW Department of Primary IndustriesOrange Agricultural InstituteAustralia
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- School of Fundamental Sciences and Bio‐Protection Research CentreMassey UniversityPalmerston North4410New Zealand
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- Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI)University of PretoriaPretoriaSouth Africa
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Jacobs GS, Hudjashov G, Saag L, Kusuma P, Darusallam CC, Lawson DJ, Mondal M, Pagani L, Ricaut FX, Stoneking M, Metspalu M, Sudoyo H, Lansing JS, Cox MP. Multiple Deeply Divergent Denisovan Ancestries in Papuans. Cell 2019; 177:1010-1021.e32. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.02.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 137] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2018] [Revised: 01/07/2019] [Accepted: 02/21/2019] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Moravec JC, Atkinson Q, Bowern C, Greenhill SJ, Jordan FM, Ross RM, Gray R, Marsland S, Cox MP. Post-marital residence patterns show lineage-specific evolution. EVOL HUM BEHAV 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Winter DJ, Ganley ARD, Young CA, Liachko I, Schardl CL, Dupont PY, Berry D, Ram A, Scott B, Cox MP. Repeat elements organise 3D genome structure and mediate transcription in the filamentous fungus Epichloë festucae. PLoS Genet 2018; 14:e1007467. [PMID: 30356280 PMCID: PMC6218096 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2018] [Revised: 11/05/2018] [Accepted: 08/27/2018] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Structural features of genomes, including the three-dimensional arrangement of DNA in the nucleus, are increasingly seen as key contributors to the regulation of gene expression. However, studies on how genome structure and nuclear organisation influence transcription have so far been limited to a handful of model species. This narrow focus limits our ability to draw general conclusions about the ways in which three-dimensional structures are encoded, and to integrate information from three-dimensional data to address a broader gamut of biological questions. Here, we generate a complete and gapless genome sequence for the filamentous fungus, Epichloë festucae. We use Hi-C data to examine the three-dimensional organisation of the genome, and RNA-seq data to investigate how Epichloë genome structure contributes to the suite of transcriptional changes needed to maintain symbiotic relationships with the grass host. Our results reveal a genome in which very repeat-rich blocks of DNA with discrete boundaries are interspersed by gene-rich sequences that are almost repeat-free. In contrast to other species reported to date, the three-dimensional structure of the genome is anchored by these repeat blocks, which act to isolate transcription in neighbouring gene-rich regions. Genes that are differentially expressed in planta are enriched near the boundaries of these repeat-rich blocks, suggesting that their three-dimensional orientation partly encodes and regulates the symbiotic relationship formed by this organism.
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- David J. Winter
- Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
- The Bio-Protection Research Centre, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Noble Research Institute, LLC, Ardmore, Oklahoma, United States of America
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- Phase Genomics Inc, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America
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- Genetics Group, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- Genetics Group, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- Genetics Group, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- The Bio-Protection Research Centre, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
- Genetics Group, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
- The Bio-Protection Research Centre, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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Robertson SP, Hindmarsh JH, Berry S, Cameron VA, Cox MP, Dewes O, Doughty RN, Gray G, Jacobsen JC, Laurence A, Matisoo-Smith E, Morton S, Shelling AN, Sika-Paotonu D, Rolleston A, Skinner JR, Snell RG, Sporle A, Print C, Merriman TR, Hudson M, Wilcox P. Genomic medicine must reduce, not compound, health inequities: the case for hauora-enhancing genomic resources for New Zealand. N Z Med J 2018; 131:81-89. [PMID: 30116069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Precision medicine seeks to draw on data from both individuals and populations across disparate domains to influence and support diagnosis, management and prevention in healthcare at the level of the individual patient and their family/whānau. Central to this initiative is incorporating the effects of the inherent variation that lies within genomes and can influence health outcomes. Identifying and interpreting such variation requires an accurate, valid and representative dataset to firstly define what variants are present and then assess the potential relevance for the health of a person, their family/whānau and the wider community to which they belong. Globally the variation embedded within genomes differs enormously and has been shaped by the size, constitution, historical origins and evolutionary history of their source populations. Māori, and more broadly Pacific peoples, differ substantially in terms of genomic variation compared to the more closely studied European and Asian populations. In the absence of accurate genomic information from Māori and Pacific populations, the precise interpretation of genomic data and the success and benefits of genomic medicine will be disproportionately less for those Māori and Pacific peoples. In this viewpoint article we, as a group of healthcare professionals, researchers and scientists, present a case for assembling genomic resources that catalogue the characteristics of the genomes of New Zealanders, with an emphasis on peoples of Māori and Polynesian ancestry, as a healthcare imperative. In proposing the creation of these resources, we note that their governance and management must be led by iwi and Māori and Pacific representatives. Assembling a genomic resource must be informed by cultural concepts and values most especially understanding that, at a physical and spiritual level, whakapapa is embodied within the DNA of a person. Therefore DNA and genomic data that connects to whakapapa (genealogy) is considered a taonga (something precious and significant), and its storage, utilisation and interpretation is a culturally significant activity. Furthermore, such resources are not proposed to primarily enable comparisons between those with Māori and broader Pacific ancestries and other Aotearoa peoples but to place an understanding of the genetic contributors to their health outcomes in a valid context. Ongoing oversight and governance of such taonga by Māori and Pacific representatives will maximise hauora (health) while also minimising the risk of misuse of this information.
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- Stephen P Robertson
- Professor, Department of Women's and Children's Health, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin
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- Research Coordinator, Ngāti Porou Hauora Charitable Trust, Te Puia Springs, Tairāwhiti, Gisborne
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- Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Longitudinal Research - He Ara ki Mua and Growing Up in New Zealand, The University of Auckland, Auckland
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- Professor, Christchurch Heart Institute, Department of Medicine, University of Otago, Christchurch
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- Professor, Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North
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- Research Fellow, Maurice Wilkens Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery, Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, The University of Auckland, Auckland; School of Nursing, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, The University of Auckland, Auckland
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- Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland
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- Public Health Physician, Planning and Funding, Bay of Plenty District Health Board, Tauranga
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- Research Fellow, Centre for Brain Research and School of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland, Auckland
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- Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Longitudinal Research - He Ara ki Mua and Growing Up in New Zealand, The University of Auckland
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- Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The University of Auckland, Auckland
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- Associate Dean (Pacific), Senior Lecturer Pathology & Molecular Medicine, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, Wellington; Honorary Research Associate, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington; Honorary Research Associate Telethon Kids Institute, Perth, Western Australia; Affiliate Investigator, Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery, University of Auckland, Auckland
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- Clinical Director, The Centre for Health, Manawa Ora Centre, Tauranga
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- Director, Cardiac Inherited Disease Group, Auckland City Hospital and Green Lane Paediatric and Congenital Cardiac Services, Starship Children's Hospital, Auckland
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- Professor, Centre for Brain Research and School of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland, Auckland
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- Senior Research Fellow, Department of Statistics, The University of Auckland, Auckland
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- Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland; Professor and Director, The Bioinformatics Institute, and the Genomics Into Medicine Programme University of Auckland, Auckland
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- Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, Dunedin and Principal Investigator, Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery
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- Associate Professor, Māori and Indigenous Governance Centre, University of Waikato, Hamilton
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- Senior Lecturer, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Otago, Dunedin
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Wehi PM, Cox MP, Roa T, Whaanga H. Human Perceptions of Megafaunal Extinction Events Revealed by Linguistic Analysis of Indigenous Oral Traditions. Hum Ecol Interdiscip J 2018; 46:461-470. [PMID: 30237652 PMCID: PMC6133014 DOI: 10.1007/s10745-018-0004-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Human settlement into new regions is typically accompanied by waves of animal extinctions, yet we have limited understanding of how human communities perceived and responded to such ecological crises. The first megafaunal extinctions in New Zealand began just 700 years ago, in contrast to the deep time of continental extinctions. Consequently, indigenous Māori oral tradition includes ancestral sayings that explicitly refer to extinct species. Our linguistic analysis of these sayings shows a strong bias towards critical food species such as moa, and emphasizes that Māori closely observed the fauna and environment. Temporal changes in form and content demonstrate that Māori recognized the loss of important animal resources, and that this loss reverberated culturally centuries later. The data provide evidence that extinction of keystone fauna was important for shaping ecological and social thought in Māori society, and suggest a similar role in other early societies that lived through megafaunal extinction events.
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- Priscilla M. Wehi
- Centre for Sustainability, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, 9054 New Zealand
- Te Pūnaha Matatini, Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research, 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, 9054 New Zealand
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- Te Pūnaha Matatini, Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Private Bag 11 222, Palmerston North, 4442 New Zealand
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- Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Studies, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton, 3240 New Zealand
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- Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Studies, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton, 3240 New Zealand
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Campbell MA, Tapper BA, Simpson WR, Johnson RD, Mace W, Ram A, Lukito Y, Dupont PY, Johnson LJ, Scott DB, Ganley ARD, Cox MP. Epichloë hybrida, sp. nov., an emerging model system for investigating fungal allopolyploidy. Mycologia 2018; 109:715-729. [PMID: 29370579 DOI: 10.1080/00275514.2017.1406174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Endophytes of the genus Epichloë (Clavicipitaceae, Ascomycota) frequently occur within cool-season grasses and form interactions with their hosts that range from mutualistic to antagonistic. Many Epichloë species have arisen via interspecific hybridization, resulting in species with two or three subgenomes that retain all or nearly all of their original parental genomes, a process termed allopolyploidization. Here, we characterize Epichloë hybrida, sp. nov., a mutualistic species that has increasingly become a model system for investigating allopolyploidy in fungi. The Epichloë species so far identified as the closest known relatives of the two progenitors of E. hybrida are E. festucae var. lolii and E. typhina. We confirm that the nuclear genome of E. hybrida contains two homeologs of most protein-coding genes from E. festucae and E. typhina, with genome-wide gene expression analysis indicating a slight bias in overall gene expression from the E. typhina subgenome. Mitochondrial DNA is detectable only from E. festucae, whereas ribosomal DNA is detectable only from E. typhina. Inheriting ribosomal DNA from just one parent might be expected to preferentially favor interactions with ribosomal proteins from the same parent, but we find that ribosomal protein genes from both parental subgenomes are nearly all expressed equally in E. hybrida. Finally, we provide a comprehensive set of resources for this model system that are intended to facilitate further study of fungal hybridization by other researchers.
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- Matthew A Campbell
- a Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University , Private Bag 11 222, Palmerston North 4410 , New Zealand
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- b AgResearch Ltd., Grasslands Research Centre , Tennent Drive, Palmerston North 4442 , New Zealand
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- b AgResearch Ltd., Grasslands Research Centre , Tennent Drive, Palmerston North 4442 , New Zealand
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- b AgResearch Ltd., Grasslands Research Centre , Tennent Drive, Palmerston North 4442 , New Zealand
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- b AgResearch Ltd., Grasslands Research Centre , Tennent Drive, Palmerston North 4442 , New Zealand
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- a Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University , Private Bag 11 222, Palmerston North 4410 , New Zealand
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- a Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University , Private Bag 11 222, Palmerston North 4410 , New Zealand
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- a Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University , Private Bag 11 222, Palmerston North 4410 , New Zealand
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- b AgResearch Ltd., Grasslands Research Centre , Tennent Drive, Palmerston North 4442 , New Zealand
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- a Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University , Private Bag 11 222, Palmerston North 4410 , New Zealand
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- c School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland , Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142 , New Zealand
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- a Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University , Private Bag 11 222, Palmerston North 4410 , New Zealand
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Brucato N, Fernandes V, Mazières S, Kusuma P, Cox MP, Ng'ang'a JW, Omar M, Simeone-Senelle MC, Frassati C, Alshamali F, Fin B, Boland A, Deleuze JF, Stoneking M, Adelaar A, Crowther A, Boivin N, Pereira L, Bailly P, Chiaroni J, Ricaut FX. The Comoros Show the Earliest Austronesian Gene Flow into the Swahili Corridor. Am J Hum Genet 2018; 102:58-68. [PMID: 29304377 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2017.11.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2017] [Accepted: 11/16/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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At the dawn of the second millennium, the expansion of the Indian Ocean trading network aligned with the emergence of an outward-oriented community along the East African coast to create a cosmopolitan cultural and trading zone known as the Swahili Corridor. On the basis of analyses of new genome-wide genotyping data and uniparental data in 276 individuals from coastal Kenya and the Comoros islands, along with large-scale genetic datasets from the Indian Ocean rim, we reconstruct historical population dynamics to show that the Swahili Corridor is largely an eastern Bantu genetic continuum. Limited gene flows from the Middle East can be seen in Swahili and Comorian populations at dates corresponding to historically documented contacts. However, the main admixture event in southern insular populations, particularly Comorian and Malagasy groups, occurred with individuals from Island Southeast Asia as early as the 8th century, reflecting an earlier dispersal from this region. Remarkably, our results support recent archaeological and linguistic evidence-based suggestions that the Comoros archipelago was the earliest location of contact between Austronesian and African populations in the Swahili Corridor.
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- Nicolas Brucato
- Evolutionary Medicine Group, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Moléculaire et Imagerie de Synthèse UMR 5288 CNRS, Université Toulouse III, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse 31073, France.
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- Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto 4200-135, Portugal; Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto, Porto 4200-465, Portugal
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- Groupe Biologie des Groupes Sanguins, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, Etablissement Francais du Sang, Anthropologie Bio-culturelle, Droit, Éthique et Santé, Marseille 13385, France
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- Evolutionary Medicine Group, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Moléculaire et Imagerie de Synthèse UMR 5288 CNRS, Université Toulouse III, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse 31073, France; Genome Diversity and Diseases Laboratory, Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Jakarta 10430, Indonesia
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- Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand; Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig 04103, Germany
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- Langage, Langues et Cultures d'Afrique Noire, UMR 8135, CNRS, Institut National des Langues et Cultures Orientales, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, BP 8, 94801 Villejuif-Cedex, France
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- Groupe Biologie des Groupes Sanguins, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, Etablissement Francais du Sang, Anthropologie Bio-culturelle, Droit, Éthique et Santé, Marseille 13385, France; Établissement Français du Sang Alpes Méditerranée, Marseille 13272, France
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- General Department of Forensic Sciences and Criminology, Dubai Police General Headquarters, PO Box 1493, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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- Centre National de Recherche en Génomique Humaine, Institut de Biologie François Jacob, Commissariat à L'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, Evry 91000, France
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- Centre National de Recherche en Génomique Humaine, Institut de Biologie François Jacob, Commissariat à L'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, Evry 91000, France
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- Centre National de Recherche en Génomique Humaine, Institut de Biologie François Jacob, Commissariat à L'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, Evry 91000, France
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- Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia
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- School of Social Science, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia; Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena 07745, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena 07745, Germany
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- Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto 4200-135, Portugal; Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto, Porto 4200-465, Portugal
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- Groupe Biologie des Groupes Sanguins, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, Etablissement Francais du Sang, Anthropologie Bio-culturelle, Droit, Éthique et Santé, Marseille 13385, France; Établissement Français du Sang Alpes Méditerranée, Marseille 13272, France
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- Groupe Biologie des Groupes Sanguins, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, Etablissement Francais du Sang, Anthropologie Bio-culturelle, Droit, Éthique et Santé, Marseille 13385, France; Établissement Français du Sang Alpes Méditerranée, Marseille 13272, France
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- Evolutionary Medicine Group, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Moléculaire et Imagerie de Synthèse UMR 5288 CNRS, Université Toulouse III, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse 31073, France.
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Hudjashov G, Karafet TM, Lawson DJ, Downey S, Savina O, Sudoyo H, Lansing JS, Hammer MF, Cox MP. Complex Patterns of Admixture across the Indonesian Archipelago. Mol Biol Evol 2017; 34:2439-2452. [PMID: 28957506 PMCID: PMC5850824 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msx196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [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] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Indonesia, an island nation as large as continental Europe, hosts a sizeable proportion of global human diversity, yet remains surprisingly undercharacterized genetically. Here, we substantially expand on existing studies by reporting genome-scale data for nearly 500 individuals from 25 populations in Island Southeast Asia, New Guinea, and Oceania, notably including previously unsampled islands across the Indonesian archipelago. We use high-resolution analyses of haplotype diversity to reveal fine detail of regional admixture patterns, with a particular focus on the Holocene. We find that recent population history within Indonesia is complex, and that populations from the Philippines made important genetic contributions in the early phases of the Austronesian expansion. Different, but interrelated processes, acted in the east and west. The Austronesian migration took several centuries to spread across the eastern part of the archipelago, where genetic admixture postdates the archeological signal. As with the Neolithic expansion further east in Oceania and in Europe, genetic mixing with local inhabitants in eastern Indonesia lagged behind the arrival of farming populations. In contrast, western Indonesia has a more complicated admixture history shaped by interactions with mainland Asian and Austronesian newcomers, which for some populations occurred more than once. Another layer of complexity in the west was introduced by genetic contact with South Asia and strong demographic events in isolated local groups.
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- Georgi Hudjashov
- Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.,Estonian Biocentre, 51010 Tartu, Estonia
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- School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
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- ARL Division of Biotechnology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
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- Genome Diversity and Diseases Laboratory, Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Jakarta, Indonesia.,Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia.,Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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Burgess SA, Flint SH, Lindsay D, Cox MP, Biggs PJ. Insights into the Geobacillus stearothermophilus species based on phylogenomic principles. BMC Microbiol 2017; 17:140. [PMID: 28651524 PMCID: PMC5485677 DOI: 10.1186/s12866-017-1047-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2016] [Accepted: 06/13/2017] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND The genus Geobacillus comprises bacteria that are Gram positive, thermophilic spore-formers, which are found in a variety of environments from hot-springs, cool soils, to food manufacturing plants, including dairy manufacturing plants. Despite considerable interest in the use of Geobacillus spp. for biotechnological applications, the taxonomy of this genus is unclear, in part because of differences in DNA-DNA hybridization (DDH) similarity values between studies. In addition, it is also difficult to use phenotypic characteristics to define a bacterial species. For example, G. stearothermophilus was traditionally defined as a species that does not utilise lactose, but the ability of dairy strains of G. stearothermophilus to use lactose has now been well established. RESULTS This study compared the genome sequences of 63 Geobacillus isolates and showed that based on two different genomic approaches (core genome comparisons and average nucleotide identity) the Geobacillus genus could be divided into sixteen taxa for those Geobacillus strains that have genome sequences available thus far. In addition, using Geobacillus stearothermophilus as an example, we show that inclusion of the accessory genome, as well as phenotypic characteristics, is not suitable for defining this species. For example, this is the first study to provide evidence of dairy adaptation in G. stearothermophilus - a phenotypic feature not typically considered standard in this species - by identifying the presence of a putative lac operon in four dairy strains. CONCLUSIONS The traditional polyphasic approach of combining both genotypic and phenotypic characteristics to define a bacterial species could not be used for G. stearothermophilus where many phenotypic characteristics vary within this taxon. Further evidence of this discordant use of phenotypic traits was provided by analysis of the accessory genome, where the dairy strains contained a putative lac operon. Based on the findings from this study, we recommend that novel bacterial species should be defined using a core genome approach.
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Affiliation(s)
- S A Burgess
- School of Food and Nutrition, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
- Infectious Disease Research Centre, Institute of Veterinary, Animal and Biomedical Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
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- School of Food and Nutrition, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- Fonterra Research Institute, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
- Infectious Disease Research Centre, Institute of Veterinary, Animal and Biomedical Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
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Brucato N, Kusuma P, Beaujard P, Sudoyo H, Cox MP, Ricaut FX. Genomic admixture tracks pulses of economic activity over 2,000 years in the Indian Ocean trading network. Sci Rep 2017; 7:2919. [PMID: 28592861 PMCID: PMC5462752 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-03204-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2017] [Accepted: 04/27/2017] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
Abstract
The Indian Ocean has long been a hub of interacting human populations. Following land- and sea-based routes, trade drove cultural contacts between far-distant ethnic groups in Asia, India, the Middle East and Africa, creating one of the world's first proto-globalized environments. However, the extent to which population mixing was mediated by trade is poorly understood. Reconstructing admixture times from genomic data in 3,006 individuals from 187 regional populations reveals a close association between bouts of human migration and trade volumes during the last 2,000 years across the Indian Ocean trading system. Temporal oscillations in trading activity match phases of contraction and expansion in migration, with high water marks following the expansion of the Silk Roads in the 5th century AD, the rise of maritime routes in the 11th century and a drastic restructuring of the trade network following the arrival of Europeans in the 16th century. The economic fluxes of the Indian Ocean trade network therefore directly shaped exchanges of genes, in addition to goods and concepts.
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- Nicolas Brucato
- Evolutionary Medicine Group, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Moléculaire et Imagerie de Synthèse UMR 5288 CNRS, Université Toulouse III, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France.
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- Evolutionary Medicine Group, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Moléculaire et Imagerie de Synthèse UMR 5288 CNRS, Université Toulouse III, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France.,Genome Diversity and Diseases Laboratory, Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Institut des Mondes Africains, UMR 8171 CNRS UMR 243 IRD, Paris, France
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- Genome Diversity and Diseases Laboratory, Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Jakarta, Indonesia.,Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- Evolutionary Medicine Group, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Moléculaire et Imagerie de Synthèse UMR 5288 CNRS, Université Toulouse III, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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