历史上的转子子动员波在一个主要的作物病原体中创造了独特的适应变异池
Tobias Baril1, Guido Puccetti2, Daniel Croll3
1Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. tobias.baril@unine.ch.
Nature communications
|November 12, 2025
概括
小麦病原体Zymoseptoria tritici中的可移植元素 (TE) 在其扩张期间激增,推动了快速适应. 这些靠近宿主基因的移动遗传元素是病原体进化和抗真菌耐药性的关键.
科学领域:
- 进化生物学是进化的生物学.
- 基因组学就是基因组学.
- 植物病理学 植物病理学
背景情况:
- 可移植元素 (TE) 影响宿主-病原体相互作用和抗菌素耐药性.
- 了解适应性TE的起源和对TE动态的历史影响至关重要,但仍然不清楚.
- 菌作物病原体为研究TE进化提供了独特的模型,这是由于空间数据和已知的利基.
研究的目的:
- 在全球范围内的小麦病原体Zymoseptoria tritici中描述TE进化动态.
- 评估TEs作为病原体种群适应性变异的来源的作用.
- 调查TE动员的历史意外情况和人口动态.
主要方法:
- 1953年公开使用的Zymoseptoria tritici基因组的分析.
- 基因组多样性和TE插入多态性的表征.
- 与局部适应特征相关的TE loci的识别.
主要成果:
- 在Z. tritici种群内和跨种群中观察到TE含量的实质性变化.
- 在病原体从中东扩散期间,TE活动显著增加.
- TE动员波导致了快速适应,在短短25年内观察到高活动.
- 在49个宿主基因附近的45个TE位点显示出局部适应,与抗真菌和宿主环境适应有关.
结论:
- 庞大的基因组数据集可以揭示物种内TE入侵历史和最近适应的驱动因素.
- 深度人口水平的TE调查对于发现适应性进化的分子驱动因素至关重要.
- 测试特异体是真菌病原体适应性变化的重要来源,影响宿主相互作用和耐药性.
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