Andersen, E C and Gerke, J P and Shapiro, J A and et al, . (2012) Chromosome-scale selective sweeps shape Caenorhabditis elegans genomic diversity. Nature Genetics, 44. pp. 285-290.
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Abstract
The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is central to research in molecular, cell and developmental biology, but nearly all of this research has been conducted on a single strain of C. elegans. Little is known about the population genomic and evolutionary history of this species. We characterized C. elegans genetic variation using high-throughput selective sequencing of a worldwide collection of 200 wild strains and identified 41,188 SNPs. Notably, C. elegans genome variation is dominated by a set of commonly shared haplotypes on four of its six chromosomes, each spanning many megabases. Population genetic modeling showed that this pattern was generated by chromosome-scale selective sweeps that have reduced variation worldwide; at least one of these sweeps probably occurred in the last few hundred years. These sweeps, which we hypothesize to be a result of human activity, have drastically reshaped the global C. elegans population in the recent past.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Author Affiliation: | Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. |
| Subjects: | Crop Improvement > Genetics/Genomics |
| Divisions: | General |
| Depositing User: | Mr Siva Shankar |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Mar 2012 11:55 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Mar 2012 12:00 |
| Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ng.1050 |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/4193 |
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