scholarly journals The Demographic History of African Drosophila melanogaster

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 2338-2342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adamandia Kapopoulou ◽  
Susanne P Pfeifer ◽  
Jeffrey D Jensen ◽  
Stefan Laurent
Keyword(s):  
Drosophila Melanogaster ◽  
Demographic History ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals Corrigendum to: Demographic history of the human commensal Drosophila melanogaster

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
J Roman Arguello ◽  
Stefan Laurent ◽  
Andrew G Clark
Keyword(s):  
Drosophila Melanogaster ◽  
Demographic History ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals Recurrent Collection of Drosophila melanogaster from Wild African Environments and Genomic Insights into Species History

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 627-638 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quentin D Sprengelmeyer ◽  
Suzan Mansourian ◽  
Jeremy D Lange ◽  
Daniel R Matute ◽  
Brandon S Cooper ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drosophila Melanogaster ◽  
Demographic History ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Model Organism ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Wilderness Areas ◽  
Southern Central ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Improved Model

Abstract A long-standing enigma concerns the geographic and ecological origins of the intensively studied vinegar fly, Drosophila melanogaster. This globally distributed human commensal is thought to originate from sub-Saharan Africa, yet until recently, it had never been reported from undisturbed wilderness environments that could reflect its precommensal niche. Here, we document the collection of 288 D. melanogaster individuals from multiple African wilderness areas in Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Namibia. The presence of D. melanogaster in these remote woodland environments is consistent with an ancestral range in southern-central Africa, as opposed to equatorial regions. After sequencing the genomes of 17 wilderness-collected flies collected from Kafue National Park in Zambia, we found reduced genetic diversity relative to town populations, elevated chromosomal inversion frequencies, and strong differences at specific genes including known insecticide targets. Combining these genomes with existing data, we probed the history of this species’ geographic expansion. Demographic estimates indicated that expansion from southern-central Africa began ∼13,000 years ago, with a Saharan crossing soon after, but expansion from the Middle East into Europe did not begin until roughly 1,800 years ago. This improved model of demographic history will provide an important resource for future evolutionary and genomic studies of this key model organism. Our findings add context to the history of D. melanogaster, while opening the door for future studies on the biological basis of adaptation to human environments.

scholarly journals Greater strength of selection and higher proportion of beneficial amino acid changing mutations in humans compared to mice and Drosophila melanogaster

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Zhen ◽  
Christian D. Huber ◽  
Robert W. Davies ◽  
Kirk E. Lohmueller
Keyword(s):  
Drosophila Melanogaster ◽  
Adaptive Evolution ◽  
Demographic History ◽  
Composite Likelihood ◽  
Ancestral Population ◽  
Beneficial Mutations ◽  
Outgroup Species ◽  
Biased Gene Conversion ◽  
History Of ◽  
Adaptive Walks

ABSTRACTQuantifying and comparing the amount of adaptive evolution among different species is key to understanding evolutionary processes. Previous studies have shown differences in adaptive evolution across species; however, their specific causes remain elusive. Here, we use improved modeling of weakly deleterious mutations and the demographic history of the outgroup species and ancestral population and estimate that at least 20% of nonsynonymous substitutions between humans and an outgroup species were fixed by positive selection. This estimate is much higher than previous estimates, which did not correct for the sizes of the outgroup species and ancestral population. Next, we directly estimate the proportion and selection coefficients (p+ and s+, respectively) of newly arising beneficial nonsynonymous mutations in humans, mice, and Drosophila melanogaster by examining patterns of polymorphism and divergence. We develop a novel composite likelihood framework to test whether these parameters differ across species. Overall, we reject a model with the same p+ and s+ of beneficial mutations across species, and estimate that humans have a higher p+s+ compared to D. melanogaster and mice. We demonstrate that this result cannot be caused by biased gene conversion or hypermutable CpG sites. In summary, we find the proportion of beneficial mutations to be higher in humans than in D. melanogaster or mice, suggesting that organismal complexity, which increases the number of steps required in adaptive walks, may be a key predictor of the amount of adaptive evolution within a species.

scholarly journals Discovery of Drosophila melanogaster from Wild African Environments and Genomic Insights into Species History

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quentin D. Sprengelmeyer ◽  
Suzan Mansourian ◽  
Jeremy D. Lange ◽  
Daniel R. Matute ◽  
Brandon S. Cooper ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drosophila Melanogaster ◽  
Demographic History ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Model Organism ◽  
Widespread Species ◽  
Wilderness Areas ◽  
Genomic Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Improved Model

A long-standing enigma concerns the geographic and ecological origins of the intensively studied vinegar fly, Drosophila melanogaster, a globally widespread species [1] which “has invariably appeared to be a strict human commensal” [2]. In spite of its sub-Saharan origins, this species has never been reported from undisturbed wilderness environments that might reflect its pre-commensal niche [3]. Here, we document the collection of 288 D. melanogaster individuals from African wilderness areas in Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Namibia. After sequencing the genomes of 17 flies collected from Kafue National Park, Zambia, we found reduced genetic diversity relative to town populations, elevated chromosomal inversion frequencies, and strong differences at specific genes including known insecticide targets. Combining these new genomes with prior data enabled us to gain novel insights into the history of this species’ geographic expansion. Our demographic estimates indicated that an expansion from southern Africa began approximately 10,000 years ago, with a Saharan crossing soon after, but expansion from the Middle East into Europe did not begin until roughly 1,400 years ago. This improved model of demographic history will provide a critical resource for future evolutionary and genomic studies of this key model organism. Our results add historical context to the species’ human association, and the opportunity to study wilderness populations opens the door for future studies on the biological basis of its adaptation to human environments.

scholarly journals The demographic history of African Drosophila melanogaster

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adamandia Kapopoulou ◽  
Susanne P. Pfeifer ◽  
Jeffrey D. Jensen ◽  
Stefan Laurent
Keyword(s):  
Drosophila Melanogaster ◽  
Demographic History ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Model Organism ◽  
Quantitative Model ◽  
Population History ◽  
Parameter Estimates ◽  
Demographic Model ◽  
African Populations ◽  
History Of

ABSTRACTAs one of the most commonly utilized organisms in the study of local adaptation, an accurate characterization of the demographic history of Drosophila melanogaster remains as an important research question. This owes both to the inherent interest in characterizing the population history of this model organism, as well as to the well-established importance of an accurate null demographic model for increasing power and decreasing false positive rates in genomic scans for positive selection. While considerable attention has been afforded to this issue in non-African populations, less is known about the demographic history of African populations, including from the ancestral range of the species. While qualitative predictions and hypotheses have previously been forwarded, we here present a quantitative model fitting of the population history characterizing both the ancestral Zambian population range as well as the subsequently colonized west African populations, which themselves served as the source of multiple non-African colonization events. These parameter estimates thus represent an important null model for future investigations in to African and non-African D. melanogaster populations alike.

scholarly journals Demographic History of the Human Commensal Drosophila melanogaster

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 844-854 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Roman Arguello ◽  
Stefan Laurent ◽  
Andrew G Clark
Keyword(s):  
Drosophila Melanogaster ◽  
Demographic History ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals Low Nucleotide Diversity in Chimpanzees and Bonobos

Genetics ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 164 (4) ◽  
pp. 1511-1518 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ning Yu ◽  
Michael I Jensen-Seaman ◽  
Leona Chemnick ◽  
Judith R Kidd ◽  
Amos S Deinard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nucleotide Diversity ◽  
Nuclear Dna ◽  
Demographic History ◽  
Nuclear Genome ◽  
Limited Data ◽  
Effective Population ◽  
East Central ◽  
Dna Diversity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mtdna Diversity

Abstract Comparison of the levels of nucleotide diversity in humans and apes may provide much insight into the mechanisms of maintenance of DNA polymorphism and the demographic history of these organisms. In the past, abundant mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) polymorphism data indicated that nucleotide diversity (π) is more than threefold higher in chimpanzees than in humans. Furthermore, it has recently been claimed, on the basis of limited data, that this is also true for nuclear DNA. In this study we sequenced 50 noncoding, nonrepetitive DNA segments randomly chosen from the nuclear genome in 9 bonobos and 17 chimpanzees. Surprisingly, the π value for bonobos is only 0.078%, even somewhat lower than that (0.088%) for humans for the same 50 segments. The π values are 0.092, 0.130, and 0.082% for East, Central, and West African chimpanzees, respectively, and 0.132% for all chimpanzees. These values are similar to or at most only 1.5 times higher than that for humans. The much larger difference in mtDNA diversity than in nuclear DNA diversity between humans and chimpanzees is puzzling. We speculate that it is due mainly to a reduction in effective population size (Ne) in the human lineage after the human-chimpanzee divergence, because a reduction in Ne has a stronger effect on mtDNA diversity than on nuclear DNA diversity.

scholarly journals Multi-Locus Selection and the Structure of Variation at the white Gene of Drosophila melanogaster

Genetics ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 144 (2) ◽  
pp. 635-645 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A Kirby ◽  
Wolfgang Stephan
Keyword(s):  
Drosophila Melanogaster ◽  
White Gene ◽  
Transcriptional Unit ◽  
North American Population ◽  
Evolutionary Mechanisms ◽  
Locus Selection ◽  
Neutral Equilibrium ◽  
History Of ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Very High

Abstract We surveyed sequence variation and divergence for the entire 5972-bp transcriptional unit of the white gene in 15 lines of Drosophila melanogaster and one line of D. simulans. We found a very high degree of haplotypic structuring for the polymorphisms in the 3′ half of the gene, as opposed to the polymorphisms in the 5′ half. To determine the evolutionary mechanisms responsible for this pattern, we sequenced a 1612-bp segment of the white gene from an additional 33 lines of D. melanogaster from a European and a North American population. This 1612-bp segment encompasses an 834bp region of the white gene in which the polymorphisms form high frequency haplotypes that cannot be explained by a neutral equilibrium model of molecular evolution. The small number of recombinants in the 834bp region suggests epistatic selection as the cause of the haplotypic structuring, while an investigation of nucleotide diversity supports a directional selection hypothesis. A multi-locus selection model that combines features from both-hypotheses and takes the recent history of D. melanogaster into account may be the best explanation for these data.

scholarly journals Reference genome and demographic history of the most endangered marine mammal, the vaquita

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillip A. Morin ◽  
Frederick I. Archer ◽  
Catherine D. Avila ◽  
Jennifer R. Balacco ◽  
Yury V. Bukhman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Marine Mammal ◽  
Reference Genome ◽  
Demographic History ◽  
History Of
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