Detecting de novo mitochondrial mutations in angiosperms with highly divergent evolutionary rates

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第一作者： Broz, Amanda K.

作者： Broz, Amanda K.;Waneka, Gus;Wu, Zhiqiang;Gyorfy, Matheus Fernandes;Sloan, Daniel B.;Wu, Zhiqiang

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关键词： Silene; mitogenome; mutation rate; Duplex Sequencing; genome copy number

期刊名称：GENETICS （ 影响因子：4.562； 五年影响因子：4.845 ）

ISSN： 0016-6731

年卷期： 2021 年 218 卷 1 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Although plant mitochondrial genomes typically show low rates of sequence evolution, levels of divergence in certain angiosperm lineages suggest anomalously high mitochondrial mutation rates. However, de novo mutations have never been directly analyzed in such lineages. Recent advances in high-fidelity DNA sequencing technologies have enabled detection of mitochondrial mutations when still present at low heteroplasmic frequencies. To date, these approaches have only been performed on a single plant species (Arabidopsis thaliana). Here, we apply a high-fidelity technique (Duplex Sequencing) to multiple angiosperms from the genus Silene, which exhibits extreme heterogeneity in rates of mitochondrial sequence evolution among close relatives. Consistent with phylogenetic evidence, we found that Silene latifolia maintains low mitochondrial variant frequencies that are comparable with previous measurements in Arabidopsis. Silene noctiflora also exhibited low variant frequencies despite high levels of historical sequence divergence, which supports other lines of evidence that this species has reverted to lower mitochondrial mutation rates after a past episode of acceleration. In contrast, S. conica showed much higher variant frequencies in mitochondrial (but not in plastid) DNA, consistent with an ongoing bout of elevated mitochondrial mutation rates. Moreover, we found an altered mutational spectrum in S. conica heavily biased towards AT -> GC transitions. We also observed an unusually low number of mitochondrial genome copies per cell in S. conica, potentially pointing to reduced opportunities for homologous recombination to accurately repair mismatches in this species. Overall, these results suggest that historical fluctuations in mutation rates are driving extreme variation in rates of plant mitochondrial sequence evolution.

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