Demography and weak selection drive patterns of transposable element diversity in natural populations of Arabidopsis lyrata.
Transposable elements (TEs) are the major component of most plant genomes, and characterizing their population dynamics is key to understanding plant genome complexity. Yet there have been few studies of TE population genetics in plant systems. To study the roles of selection, transposition, and demography in shaping TE population diversity, we generated a polymorphism dataset for six TE families in four populations of the flowering plant Arabidopsis lyrata. The TE data indicated significant differentiation among populations, and maximum likelihood procedures suggested weak selection. For strongly bottlenecked populations, the observed TE band-frequency spectra fit data simulated under neutral demographic models constructed from nucleotide polymorphism data. Overall, we propose that TEs are subjected to weak selection, the efficacy of which varies as a function of demographic factors. Thus, demographic effects could be a major factor driving distributions of TEs among plant lineages.
Lockton
Steven
S
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.
Ross-Ibarra
Jeffrey
J
Gaut
Brandon S
BS
D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000235:genetics*; D004251:DNA Transposable Elements / Q000235:genetics*; D003710:Demography; D008957:Models, Genetic; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide / Q000235:genetics; D011336:Probability; D012641:Selection, Genetic
D004251:DNA Transposable Elements
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