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Citation: Orsi, William D.: Assembled genomes of Thalassospira bacteria isolated from deep sea sediment. 14. April 2021. Open Data LMU. 10.5282/ubm/data.233

Assembled genomes of Thalassospira bacteria isolated from deep sea sediment
Assembled genomes of Thalassospira bacteria isolated from deep sea sediment

Beneath the seafloor, microbial life subsists in isolation from the surface world under persistent energy limitation. The nature and extent of genomic evolution in subseafloor microbes has been unknown. Here we show that the genomes of Thalassospira bacterial populations cultured from million-year-old subseafloor sediments evolve in clonal populations by point mutation, with a relatively low rate of homologous recombination and elevated numbers of pseudogenes. Ratios of non-synonymous to synonymous mutation rates correlate with the accumulation of pseudogenes, consistent with a dominant role for genetic drift in the subseafloor strains, but not in type strains of Thalassospira isolated from the surface world. Our findings demonstrate that the long-term physical isolation of these bacteria, in the absence of recombination, has resulted in clonal populations that evolve consistent with ‘Mullers Ratchet’, whereby reduced access to novel genetic material from neighbors has resulted in fixation of new mutations that accumulate in genomes over millions of years.

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Orsi, William D.
2021

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DOI: 10.5282/ubm/data.233

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Abstract

Beneath the seafloor, microbial life subsists in isolation from the surface world under persistent energy limitation. The nature and extent of genomic evolution in subseafloor microbes has been unknown. Here we show that the genomes of Thalassospira bacterial populations cultured from million-year-old subseafloor sediments evolve in clonal populations by point mutation, with a relatively low rate of homologous recombination and elevated numbers of pseudogenes. Ratios of non-synonymous to synonymous mutation rates correlate with the accumulation of pseudogenes, consistent with a dominant role for genetic drift in the subseafloor strains, but not in type strains of Thalassospira isolated from the surface world. Our findings demonstrate that the long-term physical isolation of these bacteria, in the absence of recombination, has resulted in clonal populations that evolve consistent with ‘Mullers Ratchet’, whereby reduced access to novel genetic material from neighbors has resulted in fixation of new mutations that accumulate in genomes over millions of years.

References

https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.19.423498

Item Type:Data
Subjects:Geosciences
Dewey Decimal Classification:500 Natural sciences and mathematics > 570 Life sciences
ID Code:233
Deposited By: Prof. Dr. William D. Orsi
Deposited On:16. Apr 2021 05:33
Last Modified:16. Apr 2021 05:33

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