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The Impact of Selection, Gene Conversion, and Biased Sampling on the Assessment of Microbial Demography.

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:Recent studies have linked demographic changes and epidemiological patterns in bacterial populations using coalescent-based approaches. We identified 26 studies using skyline plots and found that 21 inferred overall population expansion. This surprising result led us to analyze the impact of natural selection, recombination (gene conversion), and sampling biases on demographic inference using skyline plots and site frequency spectra (SFS). Forward simulations based on biologically relevant parameters from Escherichia coli populations showed that theoretical arguments on the detrimental impact of recombination and especially natural selection on the reconstructed genealogies cannot be ignored in practice. In fact, both processes systematically lead to spurious interpretations of population expansion in skyline plots (and in SFS for selection). Weak purifying selection, and especially positive selection, had important effects on skyline plots, showing patterns akin to those of population expansions. State-of-the-art techniques to remove recombination further amplified these biases. We simulated three common sampling biases in microbiological research: uniform, clustered, and mixed sampling. Alone, or together with recombination and selection, they further mislead demographic inferences producing almost any possible skyline shape or SFS. Interestingly, sampling sub-populations also affected skyline plots and SFS, because the coalescent rates of populations and their sub-populations had different distributions. This study suggests that extreme caution is needed to infer demographic changes solely based on reconstructed genealogies. We suggest that the development of novel sampling strategies and the joint analyzes of diverse population genetic methods are strictly necessary to estimate demographic changes in populations where selection, recombination, and biased sampling are present.

journal_name

Mol Biol Evol

journal_title

Molecular biology and evolution

authors

Lapierre M,Blin C,Lambert A,Achaz G,Rocha EP

doi

10.1093/molbev/msw048

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2016-07-01 00:00:00

pages

1711-25

issue

eissn

0737-4038

issn

1537-1719

pii

msw048

journal_volume

pub_type

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The Impact of Selection, Gene Conversion, and Biased Sampling on the Assessment of Microbial Demography.