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Species-Wide Transposable Element Repertoires Retrace the Evolutionary History of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Host

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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
卷 38, 期 10, 页码 4334-4345

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OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msab171

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Ty elements; Ty1; transposon activity; intraspecific variation; introgression; yeast

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  1. European Research Council (ERC) [772505]
  2. European Research Council (ERC) [772505] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)

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Transposable elements (TE) play an important role in genetic variation and show significant differences in content among different species. Surveying the Ty LTR-retrotransposons in a wide collection of Saccharomyces cerevisiae natural isolates revealed unique and specific TE repertoires in each subpopulation, reflecting the species' evolutionary history. Ancient interspecific hybridization events were found to have a major impact on the birth of new sequence variants and shaping of TE repertoires. The transpositional activity of these elements varied widely among natural isolates, influenced by ploidy level and genetic background.
Transposable elements (TE) are an important source of genetic variation with a dynamic and content that greatly differ in a wide range of species. The origin of the intraspecific content variation is not always clear and little is known about the precise nature of it. Here, we surveyed the species-wide content of the Ty LTR-retrotransposons in a broad collection of 1,011 Saccharomyces cerevisiae natural isolates to understand what can stand behind the variation of the repertoire that is the type and number of Ty elements. We have compiled an exhaustive catalog of all the TE sequence variants present in the S. cerevisiae species by identifying a large set of new sequence variants. The characterization of the TE content in each isolate clearly highlighted that each subpopulation exhibits a unique and specific repertoire, retracing the evolutionary history of the species. Most interestingly, we have shown that ancient interspecific hybridization events had a major impact in the birth of new sequence variants and therefore in the shaping of the TE repertoires. We also investigated the transpositional activity of these elements in a large set of natural isolates, and we found a broad variability related to the level of ploidy as well as the genetic background. Overall, our results pointed out that the evolution of the Ty content is deeply impacted by clade-specific events such as introgressions and therefore follows the population structure. In addition, our study lays the foundation for future investigations to better understand the transpositional regulation and more broadly the TE-host interactions.

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