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Genetics of Adaptation of the Ascomycetous Fungus Podospora anserina to Submerged Cultivation.


ABSTRACT: Podospora anserina is a model ascomycetous fungus which shows pronounced phenotypic senescence when grown on solid medium but possesses unlimited lifespan under submerged cultivation. In order to study the genetic aspects of adaptation of P. anserina to submerged cultivation, we initiated a long-term evolution experiment. In the course of the first 4?years of the experiment, 125 single-nucleotide substitutions and 23 short indels were fixed in eight independently evolving populations. Six proteins that affect fungal growth and development evolved in more than one population; in particular, in the G-protein alpha subunit FadA, new alleles fixed in seven out of eight experimental populations, and these fixations affected just four amino acid sites, which is an unprecedented level of parallelism in experimental evolution. Parallel evolution at the level of genes and pathways, an excess of nonsense and missense substitutions, and an elevated conservation of proteins and their sites where the changes occurred suggest that many of the observed fixations were adaptive and driven by positive selection.

SUBMITTER: Kudryavtseva OA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6786475 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Genetics of Adaptation of the Ascomycetous Fungus Podospora anserina to Submerged Cultivation.

Kudryavtseva Olga A OA   Safina Ksenia R KR   Vakhrusheva Olga A OA   Logacheva Maria D MD   Penin Aleksey A AA   Neretina Tatiana V TV   Moskalenko Viktoria N VN   Glagoleva Elena S ES   Bazykin Georgii A GA   Kondrashov Alexey S AS  

Genome biology and evolution 20191001 10


Podospora anserina is a model ascomycetous fungus which shows pronounced phenotypic senescence when grown on solid medium but possesses unlimited lifespan under submerged cultivation. In order to study the genetic aspects of adaptation of P. anserina to submerged cultivation, we initiated a long-term evolution experiment. In the course of the first 4 years of the experiment, 125 single-nucleotide substitutions and 23 short indels were fixed in eight independently evolving populations. Six protei  ...[more]

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