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Chromosome size in diploid eukaryotic species centers on the average length with a conserved boundary.

Abstract：

:Understanding genome and chromosome evolution is important for understanding genetic inheritance and evolution. Universal events comprising DNA replication, transcription, repair, mobile genetic element transposition, chromosome rearrangements, mitosis, and meiosis underlie inheritance and variation of living organisms. Although the genome of a species as a whole is important, chromosomes are the basic units subjected to genetic events that coin evolution to a large extent. Now many complete genome sequences are available, we can address evolution and variation of individual chromosomes across species. For example, "How are the repeat and nonrepeat proportions of genetic codes distributed among different chromosomes in a multichromosome species?" "Is there a general rule behind the intuitive observation that chromosome lengths tend to be similar in a species, and if so, can we generalize any findings in chromosome content and size across different taxonomic groups?" Here, we show that chromosomes within a species do not show dramatic fluctuation in their content of mobile genetic elements as the proliferation of these elements increases from unicellular eukaryotes to vertebrates. Furthermore, we demonstrate that, notwithstanding the remarkable plasticity, there is an upper limit to chromosome-size variation in diploid eukaryotes with linear chromosomes. Strikingly, variation in chromosome size for 886 chromosomes in 68 eukaryotic genomes (including 22 human autosomes) can be viably captured by a single model, which predicts that the vast majority of the chromosomes in a species are expected to have a base pair length between 0.4035 and 1.8626 times the average chromosome length. This conserved boundary of chromosome-size variation, which prevails across a wide taxonomic range with few exceptions, indicates that cellular, molecular, and evolutionary mechanisms, possibly together, confine the chromosome lengths around a species-specific average chromosome length.

journal_name

Mol Biol Evol

journal_title

Molecular biology and evolution

authors

Li X,Zhu C,Lin Z,Wu Y,Zhang D,Bai G,Song W,Ma J,Muehlbauer GJ,Scanlon MJ,Zhang M,Yu J

doi

10.1093/molbev/msr011

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2011-06-01 00:00:00

pages

1901-11

issue

eissn

0737-4038

issn

1537-1719

pii

msr011

journal_volume

pub_type

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Chromosome size in diploid eukaryotic species centers on the average length with a conserved boundary.