Genomic Features of Parthenogenetic Animals.
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Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
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Title
Genomic Features of Parthenogenetic Animals.
Journal
The Journal of heredity
ISSN
1465-7333 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
0022-1503
Publication state
Published
Issued date
12/03/2021
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Editor
Orive Maria
Volume
112
Number
1
Pages
19-33
Language
english
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Publication Status: ppublish
Publication Status: ppublish
Abstract
Evolution without sex is predicted to impact genomes in numerous ways. Case studies of individual parthenogenetic animals have reported peculiar genomic features that were suggested to be caused by their mode of reproduction, including high heterozygosity, a high abundance of horizontally acquired genes, a low transposable element load, or the presence of palindromes. We systematically characterized these genomic features in published genomes of 26 parthenogenetic animals representing at least 18 independent transitions to asexuality. Surprisingly, not a single feature was systematically replicated across a majority of these transitions, suggesting that previously reported patterns were lineage-specific rather than illustrating the general consequences of parthenogenesis. We found that only parthenogens of hybrid origin were characterized by high heterozygosity levels. Parthenogens that were not of hybrid origin appeared to be largely homozygous, independent of the cellular mechanism underlying parthenogenesis. Overall, despite the importance of recombination rate variation for the evolution of sexual animal genomes, the genome-wide absence of recombination does not appear to have had the dramatic effects which are expected from classical theoretical models. The reasons for this are probably a combination of lineage-specific patterns, the impact of the origin of parthenogenesis, and a survivorship bias of parthenogenetic lineages.
Keywords
Animals, Biological Evolution, DNA Transposable Elements, Gene Transfer, Horizontal, Genome, Inverted Repeat Sequences, Mutation, Parthenogenesis/genetics, Selection, Genetic, heterozygosity, horizontal gene transfer, recombination, transposable elements
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Web of science
Open Access
Yes
Funding(s)
Swiss National Science Foundation / CRSII3_160723
Swiss National Science Foundation / PP00P3_170627
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02/10/2020 8:00
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26/10/2021 5:38