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ArticleDevelopmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists2021

Large-scale variation in single nucleotide polymorphism density within the laboratory axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum).

Nataliya Timoshevskaya, S Randal Voss, Caitlin N Labianca, Cassity R High, Jeramiah J Smith

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  1. Methylation-associated mutagenesis underlies variation in the mutation spectrum across eukaryotes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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Nataliya TimoshevskayaDepartment of Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9775-5877
S Randal VossSpinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8332-3176
Caitlin N LabiancaPaul Laurence Dunbar High School, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
Cassity R HighSpinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
Jeramiah J SmithDepartment of Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5333-5531

Funding

Ambystoma Genetic Stock Center - Revision to Include Curation and Informatics ComponentP40OD019794 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY · PI Stephen Randal Voss · 2015 to 2026
$6.3M
Research Resources for Model AmphibiansR24OD010435 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY · PI SMITH, JERAMIAH JAMES, VOSS, STEPHEN RANDAL · 2012 to 2025
$5.7M
Functional Analysis of Programmed Genome RearrangementR35GM130349 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY · PI Jeramiah James Smith · 2019 to 2026
$2.7M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM130349NIH HHS P40 OD019794NIH HHS R24 OD010435
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundRecent efforts to assemble and analyze the Ambystoma mexicanum genome have dramatically improved the potential to develop molecular tools and pursue genome-wide analyses of genetic variation.

resultsTo better resolve the distribution and origins of genetic variation with A mexicanum, we compared DNA sequence data for two laboratory A mexicanum and one A tigrinum to identify 702 million high confidence polymorphisms distributed across the 32 Gb genome. While the wild-caught A tigrinum was generally more polymorphic in a genome-wide sense, several multi-megabase regions were identified from A mexicanum genomes that were actually more polymorphic than A tigrinum. Analysis of polymorphism and repeat content reveals that these regions likely originated from the intentional hybridization of A mexicanum and A tigrinum that was used to introduce the albino mutation into laboratory stocks.

conclusionsOur findings show that axolotl genomes are variable with respect to introgressed DNA from a highly polymorphic species. It seems likely that other divergent regions will be discovered with additional sequencing of A mexicanum. This has practical implications for designing molecular probes and suggests a need to study A mexicanum phenotypic variation and genome evolution across the tiger salamander clade.

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Biological Variation, PopulationGenomePolymorphism, Single NucleotideAmbystoma mexicanumAnimalsMutationaxolotlgenomehybridsalamanderSNPs

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PMID33001517
PMCPMC8715502

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