Rapid emergence of clonal interference during malaria parasite cultivation
Jett, C.; Dia, A.; Cheeseman, I. H.
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Laboratory cultivation of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum has underpinned nearly all advances in malariology in the past 30 years. When freshly isolated clinical isolates are adapted to in vitro culture mutations rapidly fix increasing the parasite growth rate and stability. While the dynamics of culture adaptation are increasingly well characterized, we know little about the extent of genomic variation that arises and spreads during long term culture. To address this we cloned the 3D7 reference strain and maintained a culture for ~84 asexual cycles (167 days). Growth rate of the culture population increased 1.14-fold over this timeframe. We used single cell genome sequencing of parasites at cycles 21 and 84 to measure the accumulation of diversity in vitro. This parasite population showed strong signals of adaptation across this time frame. By cycle 84 two dominant clades had arisen and were segregating with the dynamics of clonal interference. This highlights the continual process of adaptation in malaria parasites, even in parasites which have been extensively adapted to long term culture.
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