SELECTION DRIVES CONVERGENT GENE EXPRESSION CHANGES DURING TRANSITIONS TO CO-SEXUALITY IN HAPLOID SEXUAL SYSTEMS

Autor: Guillaume G. Cossard, Olivier Godfroy, Zofia Nehr, Corinne Cruaud, J. Mark Cock, Agnieszka P. Lipinska, Susana M. Coelho
Přispěvatelé: Department of Ecology and Evolution [Lausanne], Université de Lausanne = University of Lausanne (UNIL), Station biologique de Roscoff (SBR), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Biologie Intégrative des Modèles Marins (LBI2M), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Station biologique de Roscoff (SBR), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Genoscope - Centre national de séquençage [Evry] (GENOSCOPE), Université Paris-Saclay-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Nature Ecology & Evolution
Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2022
Nature Ecology and Evolution
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ISSN: 2397-334X
Popis: Co-sexuality has evolved repeatedly from unisexual (dioicous) ancestors across a wide range of taxa. However, the molecular changes underpinning this important transition remain unknown, particularly in organisms with haploid sexual systems such as bryophytes, red algae and brown algae. Here we explore four independent events of emergence of co-sexuality from unisexual ancestors in brown algal clades to examine the nature, evolution and degree of convergence of gene expression changes that accompany the breakdown of dioicy. The amounts of male versus female phenotypic differences in dioicous species were not correlated with the extent of sex-biased gene expression, in stark contrast to what is observed in animals. Although sex-biased genes exhibited a high turnover rate during brown alga diversification, some of their predicted functions were conserved across species. Transitions to co-sexuality consistently involved adaptive gene expression shifts and rapid sequence evolution, particularly for male-biased genes. Gene expression in co-sexual species was more similar to that in females rather than males of related dioicous species, suggesting that co-sexuality may have arisen from ancestral females. Finally, extensive convergent gene expression changes, driven by selection, were associated with the transition to co-sexuality. Together, our observations provide insights on how co-sexual systems arise from ancestral, haploid UV sexual systems.
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