Evidence for pervasive adaptive protein evolution in wild mice.
Evidence for pervasive adaptive protein evolution in wild mice.
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10.1371/journal.pgen.1000825
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2010-01-22
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影响因子:
4.5
通讯作者:
Keightley PD
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Halligan DL;Oliver F;Eyre-Walker A;Harr B;Keightley PD
The relative contributions of neutral and adaptive substitutions to molecular evolution has been one of the most controversial issues in evolutionary biology for more than 40 years. The analysis of within-species nucleotide polymorphism and between-species divergence data supports a widespread role for adaptive protein evolution in certain taxa. For example, estimates of the proportion of adaptive amino acid substitutions (α) are 50% or more in enteric bacteria and Drosophila. In contrast, recent estimates of α for hominids have been at most 13%. Here, we estimate α for protein sequences of murid rodents based on nucleotide polymorphism data from multiple genes in a population of the house mouse subspecies Mus musculus castaneus, which inhabits the ancestral range of the Mus species complex and nucleotide divergence between M. m. castaneus and M. famulus or the rat. We estimate that 57% of amino acid substitutions in murids have been driven by positive selection. Hominids, therefore, are exceptional in having low apparent levels of adaptive protein evolution. The high frequency of adaptive amino acid substitutions in wild mice is consistent with their large effective population size, leading to effective natural selection at the molecular level. Effective natural selection also manifests itself as a paucity of effectively neutral nonsynonymous mutations in M. m. castaneus compared to humans. The prevalence of natural selection at the DNA level remains a controversial issue in evolutionary biology. In particular, estimates of the proportion of adaptive amino acid changes (α) vary greatly between taxa, being 50% or more in bacteria and fruit flies, but at most 13% in hominids. Here, we infer the frequencies of polymorphisms in protein-coding genes of 15 Mus musculus castaneus individuals sampled from the ancestral range of the house mouse species complex. By combining the polymorphism data with nucleotide divergence to the related murid species M. famulus and the rat, we obtain an estimate for α of 57%. This represents the first estimate of α for a mammal other than humans. The high rate of adaptive protein evolution in wild mice and other taxa implies that hominids may be somewhat unusual in having low rates of adaptive protein evolution. One possible cause of this is the low effective population size in humans, which is predicted to lead to less effective natural selection and fewer adaptive mutations. This is consistent with the higher frequency of nearly neutral deleterious amino acid mutations in hominids than murids that we infer in our analysis.
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