Molecular population genetics of ref(2)P, a locus which confers viral resistance in Drosophila |
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Authors: | Wayne ML; Contamine D; Kreitman M |
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Institution: | Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, USA. |
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Abstract: | The ref(2)P locus (2-54.2) is polymorphic for two allelic forms in natural
populations of Drosophila melanogaster, ref(2)Po and ref(2)Pp. The latter
allele confers resistance to the rhabdovirus sigma infecting wild
populations. Previous work, based on a small sample of prescreened
restrictive (resistant) and permissive (susceptible) alleles, identified a
large number of amino acid replacement changes (7) relative to synonymous
changes (1). Such protein variability could be the result of
variation-enhancing selection. To further test the selection hypothesis, we
have examined the DNA sequences of ten randomly chosen lines of D.
melanogaster and one line of D. simulans. Nine of the ten lines are
permissive; D. simulans does not harbor the virus. The melanogaster alleles
contain 4 synonymous changes, 19 noncoding changes, and 13 amino acid
replacement changes, indicating a relatively high level of polymorphism.
Three sequenced restrictive alleles have nearly identical sequences,
indicating that they are relatively young. Compared to the permissive
alleles, they share only a complex deletion at codon 34, CAG-AAT to GGA,
which our analysis indicates to be the site conferring the restrictive
phenotype. Patterns of polymorphism and divergence differ from neutral
predictions by several criteria for the amino terminal region, which
contains the complex deletion (codons 1-91), but not the remainder of the
protein (codons 92-599). We find a higher rate of evolution on the D.
melanogaster lineage than on the D. simulans lineage. The relatively large
amount of both replacement and silent polymorphism in the permissive
alleles and the lack of divergence between permissive and restrictive
alleles suggests that the sigma virus and ref(2)P may be engaged in an
evolutionary race in which new restrictive alleles are continually arising
but are relatively short-lived.
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