Nucleotide diversity of the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii plastid genome: addressing the mutational-hazard hypothesis |
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Authors: | David Roy Smith Robert W Lee |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
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Abstract: | Background The mutational-hazard hypothesis argues that the noncoding-DNA content of a genome is a consequence of the mutation rate (μ) and the effective number of genes per locus in the population (N g ). The hypothesis predicts that genomes with a high N g μ will be more compact than those with a small N g μ. Approximations of N g μ can be gained by measuring the nucleotide diversity at silent sites (πsilent). We addressed the mutation-hazard hypothesis apropos plastid-genome evolution by measuring πsilent of the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii plastid DNA (ptDNA), the most noncoding-DNA-dense plastid genome observed to date. The data presented here in conjunction with previously published values of πsilent for the C. reinhardtii mitochondrial and nuclear genomes, which are respectively compact and bloated, allow for a complete analysis of nucleotide diversity and genome compactness in all three genetic compartments of this model organism. |
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