Mutation rate dynamics reflect ecological change in an emerging zoonotic pathogen.

Mutation rates vary both within and between bacterial species, and understanding what drives this variation is essential for understanding the evolutionary dynamics of bacterial populations. In this study, we investigate two factors that are predicted to influence the mutation rate: ecology and geno...

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Autores principales:	Gemma G R Murray, Andrew J Balmer, Josephine Herbert, Nazreen F Hadjirin, Caroline L Kemp, Marta Matuszewska, Sebastian Bruchmann, A S Md Mukarram Hossain, Marcelo Gottschalk, Alexander W Tucker, Eric Miller, Lucy A Weinert
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
Materias:	Genetics QH426-470
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:63fbbf57dafc40438a3e987d4e841eab2021-12-02T20:03:16ZMutation rate dynamics reflect ecological change in an emerging zoonotic pathogen.1553-73901553-740410.1371/journal.pgen.1009864https://doaj.org/article/63fbbf57dafc40438a3e987d4e841eab2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009864https://doaj.org/toc/1553-7390https://doaj.org/toc/1553-7404Mutation rates vary both within and between bacterial species, and understanding what drives this variation is essential for understanding the evolutionary dynamics of bacterial populations. In this study, we investigate two factors that are predicted to influence the mutation rate: ecology and genome size. We conducted mutation accumulation experiments on eight strains of the emerging zoonotic pathogen Streptococcus suis. Natural variation within this species allows us to compare tonsil carriage and invasive disease isolates, from both more and less pathogenic populations, with a wide range of genome sizes. We find that invasive disease isolates have repeatedly evolved mutation rates that are higher than those of closely related carriage isolates, regardless of variation in genome size. Independent of this variation in overall rate, we also observe a stronger bias towards G/C to A/T mutations in isolates from more pathogenic populations, whose genomes tend to be smaller and more AT-rich. Our results suggest that ecology is a stronger correlate of mutation rate than genome size over these timescales, and that transitions to invasive disease are consistently accompanied by rapid increases in mutation rate. These results shed light on the impact that ecology can have on the adaptive potential of bacterial pathogens.Gemma G R MurrayAndrew J BalmerJosephine HerbertNazreen F HadjirinCaroline L KempMarta MatuszewskaSebastian BruchmannA S Md Mukarram HossainMarcelo GottschalkAlexander W TuckerEric MillerLucy A WeinertPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleGeneticsQH426-470ENPLoS Genetics, Vol 17, Iss 11, p e1009864 (2021)
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spellingShingle	Genetics QH426-470 Gemma G R Murray Andrew J Balmer Josephine Herbert Nazreen F Hadjirin Caroline L Kemp Marta Matuszewska Sebastian Bruchmann A S Md Mukarram Hossain Marcelo Gottschalk Alexander W Tucker Eric Miller Lucy A Weinert Mutation rate dynamics reflect ecological change in an emerging zoonotic pathogen.
description	Mutation rates vary both within and between bacterial species, and understanding what drives this variation is essential for understanding the evolutionary dynamics of bacterial populations. In this study, we investigate two factors that are predicted to influence the mutation rate: ecology and genome size. We conducted mutation accumulation experiments on eight strains of the emerging zoonotic pathogen Streptococcus suis. Natural variation within this species allows us to compare tonsil carriage and invasive disease isolates, from both more and less pathogenic populations, with a wide range of genome sizes. We find that invasive disease isolates have repeatedly evolved mutation rates that are higher than those of closely related carriage isolates, regardless of variation in genome size. Independent of this variation in overall rate, we also observe a stronger bias towards G/C to A/T mutations in isolates from more pathogenic populations, whose genomes tend to be smaller and more AT-rich. Our results suggest that ecology is a stronger correlate of mutation rate than genome size over these timescales, and that transitions to invasive disease are consistently accompanied by rapid increases in mutation rate. These results shed light on the impact that ecology can have on the adaptive potential of bacterial pathogens.
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author	Gemma G R Murray Andrew J Balmer Josephine Herbert Nazreen F Hadjirin Caroline L Kemp Marta Matuszewska Sebastian Bruchmann A S Md Mukarram Hossain Marcelo Gottschalk Alexander W Tucker Eric Miller Lucy A Weinert
author_facet	Gemma G R Murray Andrew J Balmer Josephine Herbert Nazreen F Hadjirin Caroline L Kemp Marta Matuszewska Sebastian Bruchmann A S Md Mukarram Hossain Marcelo Gottschalk Alexander W Tucker Eric Miller Lucy A Weinert
author_sort	Gemma G R Murray
title	Mutation rate dynamics reflect ecological change in an emerging zoonotic pathogen.
title_short	Mutation rate dynamics reflect ecological change in an emerging zoonotic pathogen.
title_full	Mutation rate dynamics reflect ecological change in an emerging zoonotic pathogen.
title_fullStr	Mutation rate dynamics reflect ecological change in an emerging zoonotic pathogen.
title_full_unstemmed	Mutation rate dynamics reflect ecological change in an emerging zoonotic pathogen.
title_sort	mutation rate dynamics reflect ecological change in an emerging zoonotic pathogen.
publisher	Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/63fbbf57dafc40438a3e987d4e841eab
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Mutation rate dynamics reflect ecological change in an emerging zoonotic pathogen.

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