Abstract：
:Variance in reproductive success is a major determinant of the degree of genetic drift in a population. While many plants and animals exhibit high variance in their number of progeny, far less is known about these distributions for microorganisms. Here, we used a strain barcoding approach to quantify variability in offspring number among replicate bacterial populations and developed a Bayesian method to infer the distribution of descendants from this variability. We applied our approach to measure the offspring distributions for five strains of bacteria from the genus Streptomyces after germination and growth in a homogenous laboratory environment. The distributions of descendants were heavy-tailed, with a few cells effectively 'winning the jackpot' to become a disproportionately large fraction of the population. This extreme variability in reproductive success largely traced back to initial populations of spores stochastically exiting dormancy, which provided early-germinating spores with an exponential advantage. In simulations with multiple dormancy cycles, heavy-tailed distributions of descendants decreased the effective population size by many orders of magnitude and led to allele dynamics differing substantially from classical population genetics models with matching effective population size. Collectively, these results demonstrate that extreme variability in reproductive success can occur even in growth conditions that are far more homogeneous than the natural environment. Thus, extreme variability in reproductive success might be an important factor shaping microbial population dynamics with implications for predicting the fate of beneficial mutations, interpreting sequence variability within populations and explaining variability in infection outcomes across patients.
journal_name
Mol Ecoljournal_title
Molecular ecologyauthors
Wright ES,Vetsigian KHdoi
10.1111/mec.15200subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2019-09-01 00:00:00pages
3915-3928issue
17eissn
0962-1083issn
1365-294Xjournal_volume
28pub_type
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