Selective constraints in cold-region wild boars may defuse the effects of small effective population size on molecular evolution of mitogenomes

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第一作者： Chen, Jianhai

作者： Chen, Jianhai;Ni, Pan;Thuy Nhien Tran Thi;Liu, Xiangdong;Zhao, Shuhong;Chen, Jianhai;Ni, Pan;Thuy Nhien Tran Thi;Liu, Xiangdong;Zhao, Shuhong;Chen, Jianhai;Thuy Nhien Tran Thi;Kamaldinov, Evgeniy Varisovich;Petukhov, Valeriy Lavrentyevich;Han, Jianlin;Han, Jianlin;Sprem, Nikica

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关键词： Ka/Ks ratio; mitogenome; purifying selection; selective constraint; Sus scrofa

期刊名称：ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION （ 影响因子：2.912； 五年影响因子：3.271 ）

ISSN： 2045-7758

年卷期： 2018 年 8 卷 16 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Spatial range expansion during population colonization is characterized by demographic events that may have significant effects on the efficiency of natural selection. Population genetics suggests that genetic drift brought by small effective population size (N-e) may undermine the efficiency of selection, leading to a faster accumulation of nonsynonymous mutations. However, it is still unknown whether this effect might be balanced or even reversed by strong selective constraints. Here, we used wild boars and local domestic pigs from tropical (Vietnam) and subarctic region (Siberia) as animal model to evaluate the effects of functional constraints and genetic drift on shaping molecular evolution. The likelihood-ratio test revealed that Siberian clade evolved significantly different from Vietnamese clades. Different datasets consistently showed that Siberian wild boars had lower Ka/Ks ratios than Vietnamese samples. The potential role of positive selection for branches with higher Ka/Ks was evaluated using branch-site model comparison. No signal of positive selection was found for the higher Ka/Ks in Vietnamese clades, suggesting the interclade difference was mainly due to the reduction in Ka/Ks for Siberian samples. This conclusion was further confirmed by the result from a larger sample size, among which wild boars from northern Asia (subarctic and nearby region) had lower Ka/Ks than those from southern Asia (temperate and tropical region). The lower Ka/Ks might be due to either stronger functional constraints, which prevent nonsynonymous mutations from accumulating in subarctic wild boars, or larger N-e in Siberian wild boars, which can boost the efficacy of purifying selection to remove functional mutations. The latter possibility was further ruled out by the Bayesian skyline plot analysis, which revealed that historical N-e of Siberian wild boars was smaller than that of Vietnamese wild boars. Altogether, these results suggest stronger functional constraints acting on mitogenomes of subarctic wild boars, which may provide new insights into their local adaptation of cold resistance.

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