Phylogenetic evidence for horizontal transmission of group I introns in the nuclear ribosomal DNA of mushroom-forming fungi

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作者
Hibbett, DS
机构
[1] Harvard University Herbaria, Dept. of Organismic and Evol. Biol., Harvard University
[2] Harvard University Herbaria, Dept. of Organismic and Evol. Biol., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
关键词
group I introns; ribosomal DNA; horizontal transmission; phylogeny; fungi; character weighting;
D O I
10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025658
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Group I introns were discovered inserted at the same position in the nuclear small-subunit ribosomal DNA (nuc-ssu-rDNA) in several species of homobasidiomycetes (mushroom-forming fungi). Based on conserved intron sequences, a pair of intron-specific primers was designed for PCR amplification and sequencing of intron-containing rDNA repeats. Using the intron-specific primers together with flanking rDNA primers, a PCR assay was conducted to determine presence or absence of introns in 39 species of homobasidiomycetes. Introns were confined to the genera Panellus, Clavicorona, and Lentinellus. Phylogenetic analyses of nuc-ssu-rDNA and mitochondrial ssu-rDNA sequences suggest that Clavicorona and Lentinellus are closely related, but that Panellus is not closely related to these. The simplest explanation for the distribution of the introns is that they have been twice independently gained via horizontal transmission, once on the lineage leading to Panellus, and once on the lineage leading to Lentinellus and Clavicorona. BLAST searches using the introns from Panellus and Lentinellus as query sequences retrieved 16 other similar group I introns of nuc-ssu-rDNA and nuclear large-subunit rDNA (nuc-lsu-rDNA) from fungal and green algal hosts. Phylogenetic analyses of intron sequences suggest that the mushroom introns are monophyletic, and are nested within a clade that contains four other introns that insert at the same position as the mushroom introns, two from different groups of fungi and two from green algae. The distribution of host lineages and insertion sites among the introns suggests that horizontal and vertical transmission, homing, and transposition have been factors in intron evolution. As distinctive, heritable features of nuclear rDNAs in certain lineages, group I introns have promise as phylogenetic markers. Nevertheless, the possibility of horizontal transmission and homing also suggest that their use poses certain pitfalls.
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