Scanlan Pauline D, Hall Alex R, Blackshields Gordon, Friman Ville-P, Davis Michael R, Goldberg Joanna B, Buckling Angus
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Mol Biol Evol. 2015 Jun;32(6):1425-35. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msv032. Epub 2015 Feb 12.
Studies of antagonistic coevolution between hosts and parasites typically focus on resistance and infectivity traits. However, coevolution could also have genome-wide effects on the hosts due to pleiotropy, epistasis, or selection for evolvability. Here, we investigate these effects in the bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25 during approximately 400 generations of evolution in the presence or absence of bacteriophage (coevolution or evolution treatments, respectively). Coevolution resulted in variable phage resistance, lower competitive fitness in the absence of phages, and greater genome-wide divergence both from the ancestor and between replicates, in part due to the evolution of increased mutation rates. Hosts from coevolution and evolution treatments had different suites of mutations. A high proportion of mutations observed in coevolved hosts were associated with a known phage target binding site, the lipopolysaccharide (LPS), and correlated with altered LPS length and phage resistance. Mutations in evolved bacteria were correlated with higher fitness in the absence of phages. However, the benefits of these growth-promoting mutations were completely lost when these bacteria were subsequently coevolved with phages, indicating that they were not beneficial in the presence of resistance mutations (consistent with negative epistasis). Our results show that in addition to affecting genome-wide evolution in loci not obviously linked to parasite resistance, coevolution can also constrain the acquisition of mutations beneficial for growth in the abiotic environment.
宿主与寄生虫之间的拮抗协同进化研究通常聚焦于抗性和感染性特征。然而,由于基因多效性、上位性或对进化能力的选择,协同进化也可能对宿主产生全基因组范围的影响。在此,我们研究了荧光假单胞菌SBW25在存在或不存在噬菌体的情况下(分别为协同进化或进化处理)大约400代进化过程中的这些影响。协同进化导致了可变的噬菌体抗性、在无噬菌体情况下较低的竞争适应性,以及与祖先和重复样本之间更大的全基因组差异,部分原因是突变率增加的进化。来自协同进化和进化处理的宿主具有不同的突变组合。在协同进化的宿主中观察到的高比例突变与一个已知的噬菌体靶标结合位点——脂多糖(LPS)相关,并与LPS长度改变和噬菌体抗性相关。进化细菌中的突变与在无噬菌体情况下的较高适应性相关。然而,当这些细菌随后与噬菌体协同进化时,这些促进生长的突变所带来的益处完全丧失,这表明它们在存在抗性突变的情况下并无益处(与负上位性一致)。我们的结果表明,除了影响与寄生虫抗性无明显关联的位点的全基因组进化外,协同进化还可能限制在非生物环境中对生长有益的突变的获得。