期刊
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
卷 34, 期 1, 页码 119-130出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msw226
关键词
mutation rate; recombination rate; biased gene conversion; bee
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [91631104, 31571267]
- National Major Special Project on New Varieties Cultivation for Transgenic Organisms [2016ZX08009001-003]
- European Research Council grant EvoGenMed ERC-ADG [669207]
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/N015630/1, BB/M01035X/1]
Accurate knowledge of the mutation rate provides a base line for inferring expected rates of evolution, for testing evolutionary hypotheses and for estimation of key parameters. Advances in sequencing technology now permit direct estimates of the mutation rate from sequencing of close relatives. Within insects there have been three prior such estimates, two in nonsocial insects (Drosophila: 2.8 x 10 (-9) per bp per haploid genome per generation; Heliconius: 2.9 x 10 (-9)) and one in a social species, the honeybee (3.4 x 10 (-9)). Might the honeybee's rate be similar to 20% higher because it has an exceptionally high recombination rate and recombination may be directly or indirectly mutagenic? To address this possibility, we provide a direct estimate of the mutation rate in the bumblebee (Bombus terrestris), this being a close relative of the honeybee but with a much lower recombination rate. We confirmthat the crossover rate of the bumblebee is indeed much lower than honeybees (8.7 cM/Mb vs. 37cM/Mb). Importantly, we find no significant difference in the mutation rates: we estimate for bumblebees a rate of 3.6 x 10 (-9) per haploid genome per generation (95% confidence intervals 2.38 x 10 (-9) and 5.37 x 10(-9)) which is just 5% higher than the estimate that of honeybees. Both genomes have approximately one new mutation per haploid genome per generation. While we find evidence for a direct coupling between recombination and mutation (also seen in honeybees), the effect is so weak as to leave almost no footprint on any between-species differences. The similarity in mutation rates suggests an approximate constancy of themutation rate in insects.
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