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    Selective sweeps in populations of the broad host range plant pathogenic fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum

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    Derbyshire, M.
    Denton-Giles, M.
    Hane, James
    Chang, S.
    Mousavi-Derazmahalleh, M.
    Raffaele, S.
    Buchwaldt, L.
    Kamphuis, L.
    Date
    2018
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Derbyshire, M. and Denton-Giles, M. and Hane, J. and Chang, S. and Mousavi-Derazmahalleh, M. and Raffaele, S. and Buchwaldt, L. et al. 2018. Selective sweeps in populations of the broad host range plant pathogenic fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum.
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    10.1101/352930
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    Centre for Crop and Disease Management (CCDM)
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/70752
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    Abstract

    The pathogenic fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum infects over 600 species of plant. It is present in numerous environments throughout the world and causes significant damage to many agricultural crops. Fragmentation and lack of gene flow between populations may lead to population sub-structure. Within discrete recombining populations, positive selection may lead to a "selective sweep". This is characterised by an increase in frequency of a favourable allele leading to reduction in genotypic diversity in a localised genomic region due to the phenomenon of genetic hitchhiking. We aimed to assess whether isolates of S. sclerotiorum from around the world formed genotypic clusters associated with geographical origin and to determine whether signatures of population-specific positive selection could be detected. To do this, we sequenced the genomes of 25 isolates of S. sclerotiorum collected from four different continents, Australia, Africa (north and south), Europe and North America (Canada and the northen United States) and conducted SNP based analyses of population structure and selective sweeps. Among the 25 isolates, there was evidence for four population clusters. One of these consisted of 11 isolates from Canada, the USA and France (population 1), another consisted of five isolates from Australia and one from Morocco (population 2). A further cluster was made up of Australian isolates, and the single South African isolate appeared to be from a separate population. We found that there was evidence of distinct selective sweeps between population 1 and population 2. Many of these sweeps overlapped genes involved in transcriptional regulation, such as transcription factors. It is possible that distinct populations of S. sclerotiorum from differing global environments have undergone selective sweeps at different genomic loci. This study lays the foundation for further work into investigation of the differing selective pressures that S. sclerotiorum populations are subjected to on a global scale.

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