Mitogenomics of the endemic Ethiopian rats: looking for footprints of adaptive evolution in sky islands.
Adaptation
Adaptive introgression
NADH dehydrogenase
Oxidative phosphorylation
Positive selection
dN/dS
Journal
Mitochondrion
ISSN: 1872-8278
Titre abrégé: Mitochondrion
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 100968751
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
03 2021
03 2021
Historique:
received:
09
10
2020
revised:
18
12
2020
accepted:
30
12
2020
pubmed:
8
1
2021
medline:
3
11
2021
entrez:
7
1
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Organisms living in high altitude must adapt to environmental conditions with hypoxia and low temperature, e.g. by changes in the structure and function of proteins associated with oxidative phosphorylation in mitochondria. Here we analysed the signs of adaptive evolution in 27 mitogenomes of endemic Ethiopian rats (Stenocephalemys), where individual species adapted to different elevation. Significant signals of positive selection were detected in 10 of the 13 mitochondrial protein-coding genes, with a majority of functional substitutions in the NADH dehydrogenase complex. Higher frequency of positively selected sites was found in phylogenetic lineages corresponding to Afroalpine specialists.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33412336
pii: S1567-7249(20)30246-4
doi: 10.1016/j.mito.2020.12.015
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Mitochondrial Proteins
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
182-191Informations de copyright
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