Strain-specific metabarcoding reveals rapid evolution of copper tolerance in populations of the coastal diatom Skeletonema marinoi.

Autor: Andersson B; Department of Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden., Berglund O; Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden., Filipsson HL; Department of Geology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden., Kourtchenko O; Department of Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden., Godhe A; Department of Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden., Johannesson K; Department of Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden., Töpel M; Department of Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden.; IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, Gothenburg, Sweden., Pinder MIM; Department of Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden., Hoepfner L; Department of Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden.; Institute for Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany., Rengefors K; Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Molecular ecology [Mol Ecol] 2024 Oct; Vol. 33 (20), pp. e17116. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Sep 11.
DOI: 10.1111/mec.17116
Abstrakt: Phytoplankton have short generation times, flexible reproduction strategies, large population sizes and high standing genetic diversity, traits that should facilitate rapid evolution under directional selection. We quantified local adaptation of copper tolerance in a population of the diatom Skeletonema marinoi from a mining-exposed inlet in the Baltic Sea and in a non-exposed population 100 km away. We hypothesized that mining pollution has driven evolution of elevated copper tolerance in the impacted population of S. marinoi. Assays of 58 strains originating from sediment resting stages revealed no difference in the average tolerance to copper between the two populations. However, variation within populations was greater at the mining site, with three strains displaying hyper-tolerant phenotypes. In an artificial evolution experiment, we used a novel intraspecific metabarcoding locus to track selection and quantify fitness of all 58 strains during co-cultivation in one control and one toxic copper treatment. As expected, the hyper-tolerant strains enabled rapid evolution of copper tolerance in the mining-exposed population through selection on available strain diversity. Within 42 days, in each experimental replicate a single strain dominated (30%-99% abundance) but different strains dominated the different treatments. The reference population developed tolerance beyond expectations primarily due to slowly developing plastic response in one strain, suggesting that different modes of copper tolerance are present in the two populations. Our findings provide novel empirical evidence that standing genetic diversity of phytoplankton resting stage allows populations to evolve rapidly (20-50 generations) and flexibly on timescales relevant for seasonal bloom progressions.
(© 2023 The Authors. Molecular Ecology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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