Factors Contributing to Mitogenome Size Variation and a Recurrent Intracellular DNA Transfer in Melastoma

Overview

Journal BMC Genomics

Publisher Biomed Central

Specialty Genetics

Date 2023 Jul 1

PMID 37393222

Authors

Shuaixi Zhou

Xueke Zhi

Runxian Yu

Ying Liu

Renchao Zhou

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Abstract

Background: Mitogenome sizes of seed plants vary substantially even among closely related species, which are often related to horizontal or intracellular DNA transfer (HDT or IDT) events. However, the mechanisms of this size variation have not been well characterized.

Results: Here we assembled and characterized the mitogenomes of three species of Melastoma, a tropical shrub genus experiencing rapid speciation. The mitogenomes of M. candidum (Mc), M. sanguineum (Ms) and M. dodecandrum (Md) were assembled to a circular mapping chromosome of 391,595 bp, 395,542 bp and 412,026 bp, respectively. While the mitogenomes of Mc and Ms showed good collinearity except for a large inversion of ~ 150 kb, there were many rearrangements in the mitogenomes between Md and either Mc or Ms. Most non-alignable sequences (> 80%) between Mc and Ms are from gain or loss of mitochondrial sequences. Whereas, between Md and either Mc or Ms, non-alignable sequences in Md are mainly chloroplast derived sequences (> 30%) and from putative horizontal DNA transfers (> 30%), and those in both Mc and Ms are from gain or loss of mitochondrial sequences (> 80%). We also identified a recurrent IDT event in another congeneric species, M. penicillatum, which has not been fixed as it is only found in one of the three examined populations.

Conclusions: By characterizing mitochondrial genome sequences of Melastoma, our study not only helps understand mitogenome size evolution in closely related species, but also cautions different evolutionary histories of mitochondrial regions due to potential recurrent IDT events in some populations or species.

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