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A high-definition view of functional genetic variation from natural yeast genomes

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posted on 2015-10-28, 11:12 authored by A. Bergström, J. T. Simpson, F. Salinas, B. Barré, L. Parts, A. Zia, A. N. Nguyen Ba, A. M. Moses, Edward John Louis, V. Mustonen, J. Warringer, R. Durbin, G. Liti
The question of how genetic variation in a population influences phenotypic variation and evolution is of major importance in modern biology. Yet much is still unknown about the relative functional importance of different forms of genome variation and how they are shaped by evolutionary processes. Here we address these questions by population level sequencing of 42 strains from the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and its closest relative S. paradoxus. We find that genome content variation, in the form of presence or absence as well as copy number of genetic material, is higher within S. cerevisiae than within S. paradoxus, despite genetic distances as measured in single-nucleotide polymorphisms being vastly smaller within the former species. This genome content variation, as well as loss-of-function variation in the form of premature stop codons and frameshifting indels, is heavily enriched in the subtelomeres, strongly reinforcing the relevance of these regions to functional evolution. Genes affected by these likely functional forms of variation are enriched for functions mediating interaction with the external environment (sugar transport and metabolism, flocculation, metal transport, and metabolism). Our results and analyses provide a comprehensive view of genomic diversity in budding yeast and expose surprising and pronounced differences between the variation within S. cerevisiae and that within S. paradoxus. We also believe that the sequence data and de novo assemblies will constitute a useful resource for further evolutionary and population genomics studies.

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Citation

Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2014, 31 (4), pp. 872-888

Author affiliation

/Organisation/COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND PSYCHOLOGY/MBSP Non-Medical Departments/Department of Genetics

Source

United States

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Published in

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

eissn

1537-1719

Copyright date

2014

Available date

2015-10-28

Publisher version

http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/31/4/872

Language

en