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Craig, Rory J., Suh, Alexander 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8979-9992, Wang, Mi and Ellegren, Hans
(2018)
Natural selection beyond genes:Identification and analyses of evolutionarily conserved elements in the genome of the collared flycatcher (Ficedula albicollis).
Molecular Ecology, 27 (2).
pp. 476-492.
ISSN 0962-1083
Abstract
It is becoming increasingly clear that a significant proportion of the functional sequence within eukaryotic genomes is noncoding. However, since the identification of conserved elements (CEs) has been restricted to a limited number of model organisms, the dynamics and evolutionary character of the genomic landscape of conserved, and hence likely functional, sequence is poorly understood in most species. Moreover, identification and analysis of the full suite of functional sequence are particularly important for the understanding of the genetic basis of trait loci identified in genome scans or quantitative trait locus mapping efforts. We report that ~6.6% of the collared flycatcher genome (74.0 Mb) is spanned by ~1.28 million CEs, a higher proportion of the genome but a lower total amount of conserved sequence than has been reported in mammals. We identified >200,000 CEs specific to either the archosaur, avian, neoavian or passeridan lineages, constituting candidates for lineage-specific adaptations. Importantly, no less than ~71% of CE sites were nonexonic (52.6 Mb), and conserved nonexonic sequence density was negatively correlated with functional exonic density at local genomic scales. Additionally, nucleotide diversity was strongly reduced at nonexonic conserved sites (0.00153) relative to intergenic nonconserved sites (0.00427). By integrating deep transcriptome sequencing and additional genome annotation, we identified novel protein-coding genes, long noncoding RNA genes and transposon-derived (exapted) CEs. The approach taken here based on the use of a progressive cactus whole-genome alignment to identify CEs should be readily applicable to nonmodel organisms in general and help to reveal the rich repertoire of putatively functional noncoding sequence as targets for selection.
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| Additional Information: | Funding Information: We thank Severin Uebbing, Dominik R. Laetsch and Judith E. Risse for advice on genome annotation, and Carina Farah Mugal, Ludovic Dutoit, Linnéa Smeds and Douglas Scofield for providing scripts and advice on various analyses. This work was supported by the Swedish Research Council (grant number 2013-8271) and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (Project Grant). Computational analyses were performed on resources provided by the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) through the Uppsala Multidisciplinary Center for Advanced Computational Science (UPPMAX). Publisher Copyright: © 2017 The Authors. Molecular Ecology Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | collared flycatcher,comparative genomics,conserved elements,progressive cactus,targets for selection,transposon exaptation,ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics,genetics ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1100/1105 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Biological Sciences |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Sep 2022 14:33 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Apr 2024 06:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/88405 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/mec.14462 |
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