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The landscape of coadaptation in Vibrio parahaemolyticus
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The landscape of coadaptation in Vibrio parahaemolyticus

  • Cui, Yujun State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China
  • Yang, Chao ORCID Shenzhen Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Shenzhen, China
  • Qiu, Hongling Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
  • Wang, Hui Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
  • Yang, Ruifu State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China
  • Falush, Daniel ORCID The Center for Microbes, Development and Health, Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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  • 2020-3-20
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  • eLife. - eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd. - 2020, vol. 9
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
General Immunology and Microbiology
General Neuroscience
General Medicine
English Investigating fitness interactions in natural populations remains a considerable challenge. We take advantage of the unique population structure of Vibrio parahaemolyticus, a bacterial pathogen of humans and shrimp, to perform a genome-wide screen for coadapted genetic elements. We identified 90 interaction groups (IGs) involving 1,560 coding genes. 82 IGs are between accessory genes, many of which have functions related to carbohydrate transport and metabolism. Only 8 involve both core and accessory genomes. The largest includes 1,540 SNPs in 82 genes and 338 accessory genome elements, many involved in lateral flagella and cell wall biogenesis. The interactions have a complex hierarchical structure encoding at least four distinct ecological strategies. One strategy involves a divergent profile in multiple genome regions, while the others involve fewer genes and are more plastic. Our results imply that most genetic alliances are ephemeral but that increasingly complex strategies can evolve and eventually cause speciation.
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