Selection on MHC in a Context of Historical Demographic Change in 2 Closely Distributed Species of Tuco-tucos (Ctenomys australis and C. talarum)

Autor: Ana Paula Cutrera, Matias Sebastian Mora
Rok vydání: 2017
Předmět:
0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine
BALANCING SELECTION
Ctenomys australis
Otras Ciencias Biológicas
Population Dynamics
Population
Argentina
Rodentia
Locus (genetics)
Parapatric speciation
Major histocompatibility complex
Balancing selection
DNA
Mitochondrial

010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
Ciencias Biológicas
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Major Histocompatibility Complex
03 medical and health sciences
SUBTERRANEAN RODENTS
Genetics
Animals
Selection
Genetic

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education
Molecular Biology
Genetics (clinical)
DRB EXON 2
education.field_of_study
biology
Haplotype
D-LOOP
Bayes Theorem
Sequence Analysis
DNA

biology.organism_classification
Biological Evolution
Phylogeography
Genetics
Population

030104 developmental biology
Evolutionary biology
Demographic change
biology.protein
CIENCIAS NATURALES Y EXACTAS
Biotechnology
Zdroj: CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
instacron:CONICET
ISSN: 1465-7333
0022-1503
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esx054
Popis: Selection necessarily acts within the same current and historical demographic framework as neutral evolutionary processes, and the outcome of the interplay between these forces may vary according to their relative strength. In this study, we compare the variation at a major histocompatibility complex (MHC) locus (DRB exon 2), typically subject to strong diversifying selection, and mitochondrial diversity (D-loop) across populations encompassing the entire distribution of 2 species of South American subterranean rodents: Ctenomys australis and C.Talarum (tuco-Tucos). Although these species are parapatric along most of their distribution, historically they have followed distinct demographic trajectories associated with sea level changes during the Quaternary. We surveyed 8 populations of C. australis and 15 of C.Talarum, from which we analyzed 70 and 212 D-loop haplotypes and 91 and 346 DRB genotypes, respectively. Both species have gone through a recent demographic expansion; however, the signal of this process only encompasses the entire distribution of one of the species: C. australis. While balancing selection on MHC in C.Talarumenhanced DRB diversity at the local level compared to D-loop, although not promoting divergence among populations, in C. australis local diversifying selection may have driven higher population differentiation at DRB than at D-loop. Our findings reinforce the idea that the relative strength of selection acting on MHC genes varies spatially and temporally within and among species, even between species using the same macrohabitat and exposed to similar immune challenges. Fil: Cutrera, Ana Paula. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mar del Plata. Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencia Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras; Argentina Fil: Mora, Matias Sebastian. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mar del Plata. Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencia Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras; Argentina
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