Effects of periodic selection on gene diversity in organelle genomes and other systems without recombination.
Effects of periodic selection on gene diversity in organelle genomes and other systems without recombination.
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周期性选择对细胞器基因组和其他系统中基因多样性的影响,无需重组。
DOI:
10.1093/genetics/127.2.449
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发表时间:
1991
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影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
BirkyJr,CW
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作者:
Maruyama,T;BirkyJr,CW
Genomes with very strong linkage, such as those in prokaryotes and eukaryotic organelles, are subject to an extreme form of hitchhiking called periodic selection. When an advantageous mutation (hereafter, the" driver") occurs in one copy of the genome in a population and it goes to fixation, the whole chromosome is fixed. Consequently all alleles on that chromosome are fixed by hitchhiking and genetic diversity is reduced to zero or nearly so. Diversity increases again under mutational pressure, until the next round of periodic selection. Over long time periods, the mean diversity of the population is reduced by periodic selection, relative to what it would be if there were more recombination. Hitchhiking will also be seen in organisms with recombination, although the reduction in diversity will be less. KAPLAN, HUDSON and LANGLEY (1989) showed how to calculate the expected diversity of a diploid population subject to hitchhiking with any degree of linkage; the reader is referred to their paper for more detailed discussion and references to the literature. Here we present a simpler derivation of the equation for the expected diversity of neutral alleles under the influence of periodic selection when there is no recombination. The model is for a completely asexual, haploid genome. It is also applicable to organelle genomes in a sexually reproducing organism so long as the transmission of organelle DNA is strictly uniparental, with each offspring receiving organelle genes from only one parent; it does not matter whether this parent is always the female, or sometimes the female and sometimes the male. If some progeny receive organelle DNA from both parents, the model is still applicable providing there is no recombination between DNA molecules from the two parents. The fact that each cell contains many copies of the organelle genome is irrelevant so long as the copies in each individual are usually identical and do not recombine. We assume a finite population at equilibrium between random drift, mutation, and periodic selection. The population acquires genetic diversity by the accumulation of mutations, balanced by drift. These mutations are all neutral or effectively neutral, and are all potential hitchhikers. At intervals there is a hitchhiking or periodic selection event in which an advantageous mutation occurs and is fixed by selection. The time required for fixation is so short relative to the neutral mutation rate that the population be-