Episodic Diversifying Selection, Recombination, and Symbiont Capture Characterize the Evolutionary History of Maternally-transmitted Clam Symbionts
Young, C. R.
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Given their recent switch to a vertically-transmitted intracellular lifestyle, the chemosynthetic bacteria associated with deep-sea vesicomyid clams are an excellent model system to study the processes underlying reductive genome evolution. In this study, we provide the first estimates of the relative contributions of drift, recombination and selection in shaping the ongoing reductive genome evolution in these symbionts. To do so, we compared the genomes of endosymbionts associated with 11 vesicomyid clam species to that of closely related free-living bacteria and their respective hosts mitochondria. Our investigation confirmed that neutral evolutionary processes were the dominant driver of reductive genome evolution in this group and highlighted the important role of horizontal gene transfer in mitigating genome erosion. Finally, a genome-wide screen for episodic positive selection across the symbiont phylogeny revealed the pervasive role of selective processes in maintaining symbiont functional integrity.
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