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Deleterious mutatio...
Deleterious mutation accumulation and the long-term fate of chromosomal inversions
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- Berdan, Emma L, 1983 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för marina vetenskaper,Department of marine sciences
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Blanckaert, A. (author)
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- Butlin, Roger, 1955 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för marina vetenskaper,Department of marine sciences
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Bank, C. (author)
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- 2021-03-04
- 2021
- English.
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In: PLoS Genetics. - : Public Library of Science (PLoS). - 1553-7404. ; 17:3
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- Author summary A chromosomal inversion is a segment of the chromosome that is flipped (inverted arrangement) relative to the normal orientation (standard arrangement). Such structural mutations may facilitate evolutionary processes such as adaptation and speciation, because reduced recombination in inverted regions allows beneficial combinations of alleles to behave as a single unit. This locally reduced recombination can have major consequences for the evolution of the allelic content inside the inversion. We used simulations to investigate some of these consequences. Inverted regions tended to accumulate more deleterious recessive mutations than the rest of the genome, which decreased the fitness of homokarotypes (individuals with two copies of the same arrangement). This led to a strong selective advantage for heterokaryotypes (individuals with one copy of each arrangement), maintaining the inversion polymorphism in the population. The accumulation of deleterious mutations also resulted in strong divergence between arrangements. We occasionally observed an arrangement that diverged into a small number of highly differentiated haplotypes, stopping the fitness decrease in homokaryotypes. Our results highlight the dynamic features of inversions by showing how the evolution of allelic content can greatly affect the fate of an inversion. Chromosomal inversions contribute widely to adaptation and speciation, yet they present a unique evolutionary puzzle as both their allelic content and frequency evolve in a feedback loop. In this simulation study, we quantified the role of the allelic content in determining the long-term fate of the inversion. Recessive deleterious mutations accumulated on both arrangements with most of them being private to a given arrangement. This led to increasing overdominance, allowing for the maintenance of the inversion polymorphism and generating strong non-adaptive divergence between arrangements. The accumulation of mutations was mitigated by gene conversion but nevertheless led to the fitness decline of at least one homokaryotype under all considered conditions. Surprisingly, this fitness degradation could be permanently halted by the branching of an arrangement into multiple highly divergent haplotypes. Our results highlight the dynamic features of inversions by showing how the non-adaptive evolution of allelic content can play a major role in the fate of the inversion.
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- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Genetik (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Genetics (hsv//eng)
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- Genetics & Heredity
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