scholarly journals Multilocus Self-Recognition Systems in Fungi as a Cause of Trans-Species Polymorphism

Genetics ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 161 (2) ◽  
pp. 633-641
Author(s):  
Christina A Muirhead ◽  
N Louise Glass ◽  
Montgomery Slatkin
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Model ◽  
Balancing Selection ◽  
Infectious Agents ◽  
Vegetative Compatibility Group ◽  
Vegetative Incompatibility ◽  
Hyphal Fusion ◽  
Self Recognition ◽  
Compatibility Group ◽  
Incompatibility Alleles ◽  
Recognition Systems

Abstract Trans-species polymorphism, meaning the presence of alleles in different species that are more similar to each other than they are to alleles in the same species, has been found at loci associated with vegetative incompatibility in filamentous fungi. If individuals differ at one or more of these loci (termed het for heterokaryon), they cannot form stable heterokaryons after vegetative fusion. At the het-c locus in Neurospora crassa and related species there is clear evidence of trans-species polymorphism: three alleles have persisted for ∼30 million years. We analyze a population genetic model of multilocus vegetative incompatibility and find the conditions under which trans-species polymorphism will occur. In the model, several unlinked loci determine the vegetative compatibility group (VCG) of an individual. Individuals of different VCGs fail to form productive heterokaryons, while those of the same VCG form viable heterokaryons. However, viable heterokaryon formation between individuals of the same VCG results in a loss in fitness, presumably via transfer of infectious agents by hyphal fusion or exploitation by aggressive genotypes. The result is a form of balancing selection on all loci affecting an individual's VCG. We analyze this model by making use of a Markov chain/strong selection, weak mutation (SSWM) approximation. We find that trans-species polymorphism of the type that has been found at the het-c locus is expected to occur only when the appearance of new incompatibility alleles is strongly constrained, because the rate of mutation to such alleles is very low, because the number of possible incompatibility alleles at each locus is restricted, or because the number of incompatibility loci is limited.

Genets of Typhula ishikariensis biotype A belonging to a vegetative compatibility group

1996 ◽  
Vol 74 (11) ◽  
pp. 1695-1700 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naoyuki Matsumoto ◽  
Selya Tsushima ◽  
Kazuko Uchiyama
Keyword(s):  
Random Amplified Polymorphic Dna ◽  
Vegetative Compatibility ◽  
Vegetative Compatibility Group ◽  
Snow Mold ◽  
Vegetative Compatibility Groups ◽  
Mating Patterns ◽  
Typhula Ishikariensis ◽  
Compatibility Group ◽  
Incompatibility Alleles

Vegetative compatibility groups of Typhula ishikariensis biotype A include different isolates from various localities, and the most prevalent one (super vegetative compatibility group) was studied to reveal that this super group consisted of several genets existing throughout the habitat of T. ishikariensis biotype A in Hokkaido, Japan. Random amplified polymorphic DNA and mating incompatibility alleles were studied for 10 isolates belonging to the super vegetative compatibility group from two localities 250 km distant from each other and for five isolates belonging to different groups. Seven primers, which distinguished vegetative compatibility groups, were screened out of 60 and produced a total of 55 bands. The 10 super group isolates were divided into 5 subgroups, and the five unique isolates did not cluster with each other. Protoplasts were produced from each isolate to obtain monokaryons. They were then mated with tester monokaryons derived from basidiospores of two parental isolates, one of which belonged to the super vegetative compatibility group. Mating patterns suggested that the 10 super group isolates shared common mating incompatibility alleles but this was not the case with those belonging to unique groups. The super vegetative compatibility group was found to consist of several genets with many ramets distributed throughout the habitat of T. ishikariensis biotype A in Hokkaido. These genets were regarded as sib-related dikaryons derived from basidiospores. Keywords: Typhula ishikariensis, snow mold, genet, RAPD, mating incompatibility.

scholarly journals Vegetative Compatibility of Fusarium graminearum Isolates and Genetic Study on Their Carbendazim-Resistance Recombination in China

2007 ◽  
Vol 97 (12) ◽  
pp. 1584-1589 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Chen ◽  
Jian-Xin Wang ◽  
Ming-Guo Zhou ◽  
Chang-Jun Chen ◽  
Shan-Kui Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Fusarium Graminearum ◽  
Linear Growth ◽  
Biological Properties ◽  
Vegetative Compatibility ◽  
Resistant Isolate ◽  
Vegetative Compatibility Group ◽  
Hyphal Fusion ◽  
Nit Mutants ◽  
Sexual Recombination ◽  
Compatibility Group

Monoconidial isolates of 33 carbendazim-sensitive isolates and 31 carbendazim-resistant isolates of Fusarium graminearum were selected from three regions of China for vegetative compatibility group (VCG) analysis. A total of 213 and 224 nit mutants were recovered from the 33 sensitive and the 31 resistant isolates, respectively. Of all the nit mutants, the frequency of the different phenotypes was 44.6, 46.5, 5.7, and 3.2% for nit1, nit3, nitM, and nitA, respectively. VCG analysis identified 30 different VCGs among the 33 sensitive- and the 31 carbendazim-resistant isolates, with VCG diversity 0.91 and 0.97, respectively. Both, a carbendazim-sensitive and a -resistant isolate from the same field belonged to the same VCG. In all then, a total of 59 VCGs were identified among the 64 isolates with an overall VCG diversity 0.92. Direct hyphal fusion was observed in six pairs of vegetatively compatible complements, which is evidence of heterokaryon formation. It was hypothesized that carbendazim resistance could not be transferred by hyphal fusion or there is a small chance to be transferred between two compatible isolates. Three stable sexual recombinants of F. graminearum were randomly chosen from each of the three genetic crosses to study their biological properties. There were no significant differences in mycelial linear growth and pathogenicity between recombinants and their parents, but they differ in sporulation ability and capacity to produce perithecia. We concluded that sexual recombination presumably played a role in the development of carbendazim resistance under field conditions.

scholarly journals Identification ofvib-1, a Locus Involved in Vegetative Incompatibility Mediated byhet-cinNeurospora crassa

Genetics ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 162 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qijun Xiang ◽  
N Louise Glass
Keyword(s):  
Acid Phosphatase ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
Deletion Mutants ◽  
Wild Type ◽  
Vegetative Incompatibility ◽  
Death Rates ◽  
Self Recognition ◽  
Allelic Differences ◽  
Native Gel ◽  
Type Strains

AbstractA non-self-recognition system called vegetative incompatibility is ubiquitous in filamentous fungi and is genetically regulated by het loci. Different fungal individuals are unable to form viable heterokaryons if they differ in allelic specificity at a het locus. To identify components of vegetative incompatibility mediated by allelic differences at the het-c locus of Neurospora crassa, we isolated mutants that suppressed phenotypic aspects of het-c vegetative incompatibility. Three deletion mutants were identified; the deletions overlapped each other in an ORF named vib-1 (vegetative incompatibility blocked). Mutations in vib-1 fully relieved growth inhibition and repression of conidiation conferred by het-c vegetative incompatibility and significantly reduced hyphal compartmentation and death rates. The vib-1 mutants displayed a profuse conidiation pattern, suggesting that VIB-1 is a regulator of conidiation. VIB-1 shares a region of similarity to PHOG, a possible phosphate nonrepressible acid phosphatase in Aspergillus nidulans. Native gel analysis of wild-type strains and vib-1 mutants indicated that vib-1 is not the structural gene for nonrepressible acid phosphatase, but rather may regulate nonrepressible acid phosphatase activity.

scholarly journals Characterization of Fusarium oxysporum Isolates Obtained from Cucumber in China by Pathogenicity, VCG, and RAPD

Plant Disease ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 88 (6) ◽  
pp. 645-649 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Vakalounakis ◽  
Z. Wang ◽  
G. A. Fragkiadakis ◽  
G. N. Skaracis ◽  
D.-B. Li
Keyword(s):  
Fusarium Oxysporum ◽  
Random Amplified Polymorphic Dna ◽  
Vegetative Compatibility ◽  
Stem Rot ◽  
Chinese Isolate ◽  
Vegetative Compatibility Group ◽  
Group I ◽  
Compatibility Group ◽  
First Time

Thirty-four isolates of Fusarium oxysporum, obtained in China from cucumber plants showing either Fusarium wilt (F. oxysporum f. sp. cucumerinum) or root and stem rot (F. oxysporum f. sp. radicis-cucumerinum) symptoms, were characterized by pathogenicity, vegetative compatibility, and random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD). Of these, 23 isolates were identified by pathogenicity as F. oxysporum f. sp. cucumerinum, and one as F. oxysporum f. sp. radicis-cucumerinum, while 10 isolates were avirulent on cucumber, melon, sponge gourd, and pumpkin. The Chinese isolates of F. oxysporum f. sp. cucumerinum were assigned to RAPD groups III and XXI and to vegetative compatibility group (VCG) 0183, four new VCGs, 0184 to 0187, and a single-member VCG included in the artificial VCG 018-. The Chinese isolate of F. oxysporum f. sp. radicis-cucumerinum was assigned to RAPD group I and bridging VCG 0260/0261. The occurrence of F. oxysporum f. sp. radicis-cucumerinum on cucumber is reported for the first time in China.

scholarly journals Cell Biology of Conidial Anastomosis Tubes in Neurospora crassa

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 911-919 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Gabriela Roca ◽  
Jochen Arlt ◽  
Chris E. Jeffree ◽  
Nick D. Read
Keyword(s):  
Neurospora Crassa ◽  
Optical Tweezers ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Transmembrane Protein ◽  
Mitogen Activated Protein Kinase ◽  
Cellular Element ◽  
Hyphal Fusion ◽  
Self Recognition ◽  
Mitogen Activated Protein ◽  
Germ Tubes

ABSTRACT Although hyphal fusion has been well documented in mature colonies of filamentous fungi, it has been little studied during colony establishment. Here we show that specialized hyphae, called conidial anastomosis tubes (CATs), are produced by all types of conidia and by conidial germ tubes of Neurospora crassa. The CAT is shown to be a cellular element that is morphologically and physiologically distinct from a germ tube and under separate genetic control. In contrast to germ tubes, CATs are thinner, shorter, lack branches, exhibit determinate growth, and home toward each other. Evidence for an extracellular CAT inducer derived from conidia was obtained because CAT formation was reduced at low conidial concentrations. A cr-1 mutant lacking cyclic AMP (cAMP) produced CATs, indicating that the inducer is not cAMP. Evidence that the transduction of the CAT inducer signal involves a putative transmembrane protein (HAM-2) and the MAK-2 and NRC-1 proteins of a mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling pathway was obtained because ham-2, mak-2, and nrc-1 mutants lacked CATs. Optical tweezers were used in a novel experimental assay to micromanipulate whole conidia and germlings to analyze chemoattraction between CATs during homing. Strains of the same and opposite mating type were shown to home toward each other. The cr-1 mutant also underwent normal homing, indicating that cAMP is not the chemoattractant. ham-2, mak-2, and nrc-1 macroconidia did not attract CATs of the wild type. Fusion between CATs of opposite mating types was partially inhibited, providing evidence of non-self-recognition prior to fusion. Microtubules and nuclei passed through fused CATs.

scholarly journals Vegetative Compatibility Groups of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lactucae from Lettuce

Plant Disease ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 89 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matias Pasquali ◽  
Flavia Dematheis ◽  
Giovanna Gilardi ◽  
Maria Lodovica Gullino ◽  
Angelo Garibaldi
Keyword(s):  
Fusarium Oxysporum ◽  
Genetic Relatedness ◽  
The United States ◽  
Vegetative Compatibility ◽  
Vegetative Compatibility Group ◽  
Vegetative Compatibility Groups ◽  
Compatibility Group ◽  
Race 1

Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lactucae, the causal agent of Fusarium wilt of lettuce, has been reported in three continents in the last 10 years. Forty-seven isolates obtained from infected plants and seed in Italy, the United States, Japan, and Taiwan were evaluated for pathogenicity and vegetative compatibility. Chlorate-resistant, nitrate-nonutilizing mutants were used to determine genetic relatedness among isolates from different locations. Using the vegetative compatibility group (VCG) approach, all Italian and American isolates, type 2 Taiwanese isolates, and a Japanese race 1 were assigned to the major VCG 0300. Taiwanese isolates type 1 were assigned to VCG 0301. The hypothesis that propagules of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lactucae that caused epidemics on lettuce in 2001-02 in Italian fields might have spread via import and use of contaminated seeds is discussed.

scholarly journals The ham-2 Locus, Encoding a Putative Transmembrane Protein, Is Required for Hyphal Fusion in Neurospora crassa

Genetics ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 160 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-180
Author(s):  
Qijun Xiang ◽  
Carolyn Rasmussen ◽  
N Louise Glass
Keyword(s):  
Neurospora Crassa ◽  
Somatic Cell ◽  
Molecular Mechanism ◽  
Cell Fusion ◽  
Deletion Mutant ◽  
Transmembrane Protein ◽  
Wild Type ◽  
Vegetative Incompatibility ◽  
Hyphal Fusion ◽  
Aerial Hyphae

Abstract Somatic cell fusion is common during organogenesis in multicellular eukaryotes, although the molecular mechanism of cell fusion is poorly understood. In filamentous fungi, somatic cell fusion occurs during vegetative growth. Filamentous fungi grow as multinucleate hyphal tubes that undergo frequent hyphal fusion (anastomosis) during colony expansion, resulting in the formation of a hyphal network. The molecular mechanism of the hyphal fusion process and the role of networked hyphae in the growth and development of these organisms are unexplored questions. We use the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa as a model to study the molecular mechanism of hyphal fusion. In this study, we identified a deletion mutant that was restricted in its ability to undergo both self-hyphal fusion and fusion with a different individual to form a heterokaryon. This deletion mutant displayed pleiotropic defects, including shortened aerial hyphae, altered conidiation pattern, female sterility, slow growth rate, lack of hyphal fusion, and suppression of vegetative incompatibility. Complementation with a single open reading frame (ORF) within the deletion region in this mutant restored near wild-type growth rates, female fertility, aerial hyphae formation, and hyphal fusion, but not vegetative incompatibility and wild-type conidiation pattern. This ORF, which we named ham-2 (for hyphal anastomosis), encodes a putative transmembrane protein that is highly conserved, but of unknown function among eukaryotes.

scholarly journals The coalescent process in models with selection, recombination and geographic subdivision

1991 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman Kaplan ◽  
Richard R. Hudson ◽  
Masaru Iizuka
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Variation ◽  
Population Genetic ◽  
Genetic Model ◽  
Sequence Data ◽  
Balancing Selection ◽  
Similar Model ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Coalescent Approach ◽  
Neutral Mutations ◽  
Better Than

SummaryA population genetic model with a single locus at which balancing selection acts and many linked loci at which neutral mutations can occur is analysed using the coalescent approach. The model incorporates geographic subdivision with migration, as well as mutation, recombination, and genetic drift of neutral variation. It is found that geographic subdivision can affect genetic variation even with high rates of migration, providing that selection is strong enough to maintain different allele frequencies at the selected locus. Published sequence data from the alcohol dehydrogenase locus of Drosophila melanogaster are found to fit the proposed model slightly better than a similar model without subdivision.

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