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Mobile genetic elements explain size variation in the mitochondrial genomes of four closely-related Armillaria species.


ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Species in the genus Armillaria (fungi, basidiomycota) are well-known as saprophytes and pathogens on plants. Many of them cause white-rot root disease in diverse woody plants worldwide. Mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) are widely used in evolutionary and population studies, but despite the importance and wide distribution of Armillaria, the complete mitogenomes have not previously been reported for this genus. Meanwhile, the well-supported phylogeny of Armillaria species provides an excellent framework in which to study variation in mitogenomes and how they have evolved over time. RESULTS:Here we completely sequenced, assembled, and annotated the circular mitogenomes of four species: A. borealis, A. gallica, A. sinapina, and A. solidipes (116,443, 98,896, 103,563, and 122,167?bp, respectively). The variation in mitogenome size can be explained by variable numbers of mobile genetic elements, introns, and plasmid-related sequences. Most Armillaria introns contained open reading frames (ORFs) that are related to homing endonucleases of the LAGLIDADG and GIY-YIG families. Insertions of mobile elements were also evident as fragments of plasmid-related sequences in Armillaria mitogenomes. We also found several truncated gene duplications in all four mitogenomes. CONCLUSIONS:Our study showed that fungal mitogenomes have a high degree of variation in size, gene content, and genomic organization even among closely related species of Armillara. We suggest that mobile genetic elements invading introns and intergenic sequences in the Armillaria mitogenomes have played a significant role in shaping their genome structure. The mitogenome changes we describe here are consistent with widely accepted phylogenetic relationships among the four species.

SUBMITTER: Kolesnikova AI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6506933 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Mobile genetic elements explain size variation in the mitochondrial genomes of four closely-related Armillaria species.

Kolesnikova Anna I AI   Putintseva Yuliya A YA   Simonov Evgeniy P EP   Biriukov Vladislav V VV   Oreshkova Natalya V NV   Pavlov Igor N IN   Sharov Vadim V VV   Kuzmin Dmitry A DA   Anderson James B JB   Krutovsky Konstantin V KV  

BMC genomics 20190508 1


<h4>Background</h4>Species in the genus Armillaria (fungi, basidiomycota) are well-known as saprophytes and pathogens on plants. Many of them cause white-rot root disease in diverse woody plants worldwide. Mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) are widely used in evolutionary and population studies, but despite the importance and wide distribution of Armillaria, the complete mitogenomes have not previously been reported for this genus. Meanwhile, the well-supported phylogeny of Armillaria species p  ...[more]

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