ReviewGenome biology and evolution2021
Genic Selection Within Prokaryotic Pangenomes.
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- Bacterial lifestyle shapes pangenomes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Evolutionary dynamics of the accessory genomes ofmSphere · 2024Article
- Mosaic environment-driven evolution of the deep-sea mussel Gigantidas platifrons bacterial endosymbiont.Microbiome · 2023Article
- One Earth: The Equilibrium between the Human and the Bacterial Worlds.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Human Pangenomics: Promises and Challenges of a Distributed Genomic Reference.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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- Challenges in prokaryote pangenomics.Microbial genomics · 2023Review
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Abstract
Understanding the evolutionary forces shaping prokaryotic pangenome structure is a major goal of microbial evolution research. Recent work has highlighted that a substantial proportion of accessory genes appear to confer niche-specific adaptations. This work has primarily focused on selection acting at the level of individual cells. Herein, we discuss a lower level of selection that also contributes to pangenome variation: genic selection. This refers to cases where genetic elements, rather than individual cells, are the entities under selection. The clearest examples of this form of selection are selfish mobile genetic elements, which are those that have either a neutral or a deleterious effect on host fitness. We review the major classes of these and other mobile elements and discuss the characteristic features of such elements that could be under genic selection. We also discuss how genetic elements that are beneficial to hosts can also be under genic selection, a scenario that may be more prevalent but not widely appreciated, because disentangling the effects of selection at different levels (i.e., organisms vs. genes) is challenging. Nonetheless, an appreciation for the potential action and implications of genic selection is important to better understand the evolution of prokaryotic pangenomes.
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