Evolutionary patterns of the mitochondrial genome in the Moorish gecko, Tarentola mauritanica

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• 作者：C. Rato^a ; ^b ; ^c ; ^{catarina.rato@cibio.up.pt} ; S. Carranza^c ; ¹ ; ^{salvador.carranza@ibe.upf-csic.es} ; A. Perera^a ; ² ; ^{perera@cibio.up.pt} ; D.J. Harris^a ; ^b ; ² ; ^{james@cibio.up.pt}
• 关键词：Ala ; Alanine ; Asn ; Asparagine ; Asp ; Aspartic acid ; Arg ; Arginine ; ATP6 ; ATP synthase 6 ; ATP8 ; ATP synthase 8 ; bp ; Base pair ; COXI ; Cytochrome c oxidase 1 ; COXII ; Cytochrome c oxidase 2 ; COXIII ; Cytochrome c oxidase 3 ; Cys ; Cysteine ; CYTB ; Cytochrome b ; dN
• 刊名：Gene
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：1 January, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：512
• 期：1
• 页码：166-173
• 全文大小：947 K

文摘

A previous study on the evolutionary patterns of Tarentola mauritanica demonstrated that low levels of mitochondrial diversity observed in the European populations relative to nuclear markers were consistent with a selective sweep hypothesis. In order to unravel the mitochondrial evolutionary history in this European population and two other lineages of T. mauritanica (Iberian and North African clades), variation within 22 nearly complete mitogenomes was analyzed. Surprisingly, each clade seems to have a distinct evolutionary history; with both the European and Iberian clades presenting a decrease of polymorphism, which in the former is consistent with departure from neutrality of the mtDNA (positive or background selection), but in the latter seems to be the result of a bottleneck after a population expansion. The pattern exhibited by the North African clade seems to be a consequence of adaptation to certain mtDNA variants by positive selection.