Ancient Hybridization and Adaptive Introgression of an Invadolysin Gene in Schistosome Parasites
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Authors
Platt, Roy NMcDew-White, Marina
Le Clec’h, Winka
Chevalier, Frédéric D
Allan, Fiona
Emery, AM

Garba, Amadou
Hamidou, Amina A
Ame, Shaali M
Webster, Joanne P
Rollinson, D

Webster, BL

Anderson, Timothy JC
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2019-06-27
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Abstract - Introgression among parasite species has the potential to transfer traits of biomedical importance across species boundaries. The parasitic blood fluke Schistosoma haematobium causes urogenital schistosomiasis in humans across sub-Saharan Africa. Hybridization with other schistosome species is assumed to occur commonly, because genetic crosses between S. haematobium and livestock schistosomes, including S. bovis, can be staged in the laboratory, and sequencing of mtDNA and rDNA amplified from microscopic miracidia larvae frequently reveals markers from different species. However, the frequency, direction, age, and genomic consequences of hybridization are unknown. We hatched miracidia from eggs and sequenced the exomes from 96 individual S. haematobium miracidia from infected patients from Niger and the Zanzibar archipelago. These data revealed no evidence for contemporary hybridization between S. bovis and S. haematobium in our samples. However, all Nigerien S. haematobium genomes sampled show hybrid ancestry, with 3.3–8.2% of their nuclear genomes derived from S. bovis, providing evidence of an ancient introgression event that occurred at least 108–613 generations ago. Some S. bovis-derived alleles have spread to high frequency or reached fixation and show strong signatures of directional selection; the strongest signal spans a single gene in the invadolysin gene family (Chr. 4). Our results suggest that S. bovis/S. haematobium hybridization occurs rarely but demonstrate profound consequences of ancient introgression from a livestock parasite into the genome of S. haematobium, the most prevalent schistosome species infecting humans.Citation
Roy N Platt, II, Marina McDew-White, Winka Le Clec’h, Frédéric D Chevalier, Fiona Allan, Aidan M Emery, Amadou Garba, Amina A Hamidou, Shaali M Ame, Joanne P Webster, David Rollinson, Bonnie L Webster, Timothy J C Anderson, Ancient Hybridization and Adaptive Introgression of an Invadolysin Gene in Schistosome Parasites, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Volume 36, Issue 10, October 2019, Pages 2127–2142, https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msz154Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)Journal
Molecular Biology and EvolutionType
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© The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The attached file is the published version of the article.ISSN
0737-4038EISSN
1537-1719ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1093/molbev/msz154
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