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Convergent evolution and horizontal gene transfer in Arctic Ocean microalgae.

ABSTRACT: Microbial communities in the world ocean are affected strongly by oceanic circulation, creating characteristic marine biomes. The high connectivity of most of the ocean makes it difficult to disentangle selective retention of colonizing genotypes (with traits suited to biome specific conditions) from evolutionary selection, which would act on founder genotypes over time. The Arctic Ocean is exceptional with limited exchange with other oceans and ice covered since the last ice age. To test whether Arctic microalgal lineages evolved apart from algae in the global ocean, we sequenced four lineages of microalgae isolated from Arctic waters and sea ice. Here we show convergent evolution and highlight geographically limited HGT as an ecological adaptive force in the form of PFAM complements and horizontal acquisition of key adaptive genes. Notably, ice-binding proteins were acquired and horizontally transferred among Arctic strains. A comparison with Tara Oceans metagenomes and metatranscriptomes confirmed mostly Arctic distributions of these IBPs. The phylogeny of Arctic-specific genes indicated that these events were independent of bacterial-sourced HGTs in Antarctic Southern Ocean microalgae.

SUBMITTER: Dorrell RG

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9756366 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Convergent evolution and horizontal gene transfer in Arctic Ocean microalgae.

Dorrell Richard G RG Kuo Alan A Füssy Zoltan Z Richardson Elisabeth H EH Salamov Asaf A Zarevski Nikola N Freyria Nastasia J NJ Ibarbalz Federico M FM Jenkins Jerry J Pierella Karlusich Juan Jose JJ Stecca Steindorff Andrei A Edgar Robyn E RE Handley Lori L Lail Kathleen K Lipzen Anna A Lombard Vincent V McFarlane John J Nef Charlotte C Novák Vanclová Anna Mg AM Peng Yi Y Plott Chris C Potvin Marianne M Vieira Fabio Rocha Jimenez FRJ Barry Kerrie K de Vargas Colomban C Henrissat Bernard B Pelletier Eric E Schmutz Jeremy J Wincker Patrick P Dacks Joel B JB Bowler Chris C Grigoriev Igor V IV Lovejoy Connie C

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Microbial communities in the world ocean are affected strongly by oceanic circulation, creating characteristic marine biomes. The high connectivity of most of the ocean makes it difficult to disentangle selective retention of colonizing genotypes (with traits suited to biome specific conditions) from evolutionary selection, which would act on founder genotypes over time. The Arctic Ocean is exceptional with limited exchange with other oceans and ice covered since the last ice age. To test whethe ...[more]

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Project description:BackgroundGenomes of Methanosarcina spp. are among the largest archaeal genomes. One suggested reason for that is massive horizontal gene transfer (HGT) from bacteria. Genes of bacterial origin may be involved in the central metabolism and solute transport, in particular sugar synthesis, sulfur metabolism, phosphate metabolism, DNA repair, transport of small molecules etc. Horizontally transferred (HT) genes are considered to play the key role in the ability of Methanosarcina spp. to inhabit diverse environments. At the moment, genomes of three Methanosarcina spp. have been sequenced, and while these genomes vary in length and number of protein-coding genes, they all have been shown to accumulate HT genes. However, previous estimates had been made when fewer archaeal genomes were known. Moreover, several Methanosarcinaceae genomes from other genera have been sequenced recently. Here, we revise the census of genes of bacterial origin in Methanosarcinaceae.ResultsAbout 5% of Methanosarcina genes have been shown to be horizontally transferred from various bacterial groups to the last common ancestor either of Methanosarcinaceae, or Methanosarcina, or later in the evolution. Simulation of the composition of the NCBI protein non-redundant database for different years demonstrates that the estimates of the HGT rate have decreased drastically since 2002, the year of publication of the first Methanosarcina genome. The phylogenetic distribution of HT gene donors is non-uniform. Most HT genes were transferred from Firmicutes and Proteobacteria, while no HGT events from Actinobacteria to the common ancestor of Methanosarcinaceae were found. About 50% of HT genes are involved in metabolism. Horizontal transfer of transcription factors is not common, while 46% of horizontally transferred genes have demonstrated differential expression in a variety of conditions. HGT of complete operons is relatively infrequent and half of HT genes do not belong to operons.ConclusionsWhile genes of bacterial origin are still more frequent in Methanosarcinaceae than in other Archaea, most HGT events described earlier as Methanosarcina-specific seem to have occurred before the divergence of Methanosarcinaceae. Genes horizontally transferred from bacteria to archaea neither tend to be transferred with their regulators, nor in long operons.

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Convergent evolution and horizontal gene transfer in Arctic Ocean microalgae.

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Convergent evolution and horizontal gene transfer in Arctic Ocean microalgae.

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