期刊
HEREDITY
卷 107, 期 4, 页码 305-314出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2011.11
关键词
N. tetrasperma; recombination suppression; mat chromosomes; degeneration; selection
资金
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- The Royal Physio-graphic Society in Lund
- The Lars Hierta Minne Foundation
- Wenner-Gren Foundation
- The Magn Bergvall Foundation
- The Swedish Research Council
Currently, little is known about the origin and early evolution of sex chromosomes. This is largely due to the fact that ancient non-recombining sex chromosomes are highly degenerated, and thus provide little information about the early genomic events in their evolution. The Neurospora tetrasperma mating-type (mat) chromosomes contain a young (<6 Mya) and large region (>6.6 Mb) of suppressed recombination, thereby providing a model system to study early stages of sex chromosome evolution. Here, we examined alleles of 207 genes located on the N. tetrasperma mat a and mat A chromosomes to test for signs of genomic alterations at the protein level in the young region of recombination suppression. We report that the N. tetrasperma mat a and mat A chromosomes have each independently accumulated allele-specific non-synonymous codon substitutions in a time-dependent, and gene-specific manner in the recombinationally suppressed region. In addition, examination of the ratio (omega) of non-synonymous substitutions (dN) to synonymous substitutions (dS) using maximum likelihood analyses, indicates that such changes are associated with relaxed purifying selection, a finding consistent with genomic degeneration. We also reveal that sex specific biases in mutation rates or selection pressures are not necessary for genomic alterations in sex chromosomes, and that recombination suppression in itself is sufficient to explain these results. The present findings extend our current understanding of genomic events associated within the young region of recombination suppression in these fungal sex-regulating chromosomes. Heredity (2011) 107, 305-314; doi:10.1038/hdy.2011.11; published online 9 March 2011
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