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Copyright © 2007 by the Genetics Society of America Testing Chromosomal Phylogenies and Inversion Breakpoint Reuse in Drosophila Departament de Genètica i de Microbiologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain 1Present address: Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. 2Present address: Unitat de Biología Evolutiva, Facultat de Ciències de la Salut i de la Vida, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 08003 Barcelona, Spain. 3Corresponding author: Departament de Genètica i de Microbiologia, Facultat de Biociències, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain. E-mail: alfredo.ruiz/at/uab.es Communicating editor: M. Aguadé Received June 26, 2006; Accepted September 29, 2006. This article has been cited by other articles in PMC.Abstract A combination of cytogenetic and bioinformatic procedures was used to test the chromosomal phylogeny relating Drosophila buzzatii with D. repleta. Chromosomes X and 2, harboring most of the inversions fixed between these two species, were analyzed. First, chromosomal segments conserved during the divergence of the two species were identified by comparative in situ hybridization to the D. repleta chromosomes of 180 BAC clones from a BAC-based physical map of the D. buzzatii genome. These conserved segments were precisely delimited with the aid of clones containing inversion breakpoints. Then GRIMM software was used to estimate the minimum number of rearrangements necessary to transform one genome into the other and identify all possible rearrangement scenarios. Finally, the most plausible inversion trajectory was tested by hybridizing 12 breakpoint-bearing BAC clones to the chromosomes of seven other species in the repleta group. The results show that chromosomes X and 2 of D. buzzatii and D. repleta differ by 12 paracentric inversions. Nine of them are fixed in chromosome 2 and entail two breakpoint reuses. Our results also show that the cytological relationship between D. repleta and D. mercatorum is closer than that between D. repleta and D. peninsularis, and we propose that the phylogenetic relationships in this lineage of the repleta group be reconsidered. We also estimated the rate of rearrangement between D. repleta and D. buzzatii and conclude that rates within the genus Drosophila vary substantially between lineages, even within a single species group. THE cytological analysis of animal and plant chromosomes has a long tradition in the study of evolution (White 1973). Recently, the availability of physical maps and whole-genome sequences from many species has provided an unparalleled opportunity to investigate further the structural changes in the eukaryotic genome. The studies carried out so far have led to three main conclusions about genome evolution (Eichler and Sankoff 2003; Sankoff 2003; Kazazian 2004; Coghlan et al. 2005; Shapiro 2005): (1) the eukaryotic genome is exceptionally malleable, (2) rates and patterns of chromosomal rearrangement vary significantly between different evolutionary lineages, and (3) repetitive DNA sequences are ubiquitous in eukaryotic genomes and responsible for most of the structural dynamism. Paracentric inversions are the most frequent type of rearrangement within the Drosophila and Anopheles genera with a similar average rate of rearrangement fixation, ~0.05 disruptions/Mb/MY (González et al. 2002; Sharakhov et al. 2002). However, in the more distant comparison between Drosophila and Anopheles, extensive interchromosomal exchange has been observed (Zdobnov et al. 2002). In nematodes, the rearrangement rate is four times that in Drosophila and the ratio of translocations to inversions to transpositions is 1:1:2 (Coghlan and Wolfe 2002). Whole-genome duplications as well as various types of rearrangements characterize plant genome evolution, the evolution rate of the most dynamic plant genomes (~0.03 disruptions/Mb/MY) being half the rate reported for insects (Lagercrantz 1998; Yogeeswaran et al. 2005). In mammals, the X chromosome shows extensive syntenic conservation whereas the autosomes show a variety of intra- and interchromosomal rearrangements and the Y chromosome is an example of rapid and unconstrained evolution. In addition, rates of mammalian chromosome evolution vary radically among lineages (Murphy et al. 2005). In Drosophila, one of the most striking features of chromosomal evolution is the nonuniform distribution of inversions (Sperlich and Pfriem 1986; Powell 1997). Some species have dozens of inversions segregating in all chromosomes, other species carry them in only one or two chromosomes, and there are species with no polymorphic inversions. Another remarkable observation is the nonrandom distribution of inversion breakpoints within a given chromosome, with many sites where two or more inversion breakpoints seem to coincide (Tonzetich et al. 1988; Wasserman 1992; Cáceres et al. 1997). Similar observations have been made in the mosquito Anopheles (Coluzzi et al. 2002). These results are based on the cytological comparison of polytene chromosomes and may suffer from the limited resolution of this method. Breakpoint clustering has also been described as an outstanding feature of mammal genome evolution (Pevzner and Tesler 2003; Bourque et al. 2004; Murphy et al. 2005). Pevzner and Tesler (2003) coined the word “reuse” to describe this phenomenon. We use this term here as a shorthand for “close clustering” but emphasize, following their proponents, that it does not imply the use of exactly the same genomic position (nucleotide) as an endpoint of different rearrangements. The repleta species group belongs to the Drosophila subgenus, which diverged from the Sophophora subgenus, the other main lineage in the Drosophila genus, 40–62 MYA (Powell 1997; Tamura et al. 2004). This species group is one of the largest in the genus and includes >100 species, many of them cactophilic species living in the deserts and arid zones of the American continent. In an outstanding cytological effort, Wasserman (1982, 1992) determined the inversion relationships between 70 species and divided the repleta group into five subgroups: repleta, mercatorum, hydei, mulleri, and fasciola. He used Drosophila repleta chromosomes (Wharton 1942) as a reference and inferred that the chromosomal arrangement of the ancestor of the repleta species group, named Primitive I, was one differing from that of D. repleta by six inversions and that can be represented as Xabc, 2ab, 3b, 4, 5 (Figure 1A
The chromosomes of D. buzzatii, a member of the mulleri subgroup that diverged from D. repleta 15–22 MYA (Spicer 1988; Russo et al. 1995), have been particularly difficult to disentangle. This was one of the first repleta group species to be cytologically analyzed (Wasserman 1954) and in the subsequent 50 years its inversion phylogeny has suffered many alterations (Wasserman 1962, 1982, 1992; Ruiz et al. 1982). Ruiz and Wasserman (1993) proposed that the D. buzzatii chromosomes derive from the putative ancestral karyotype of the repleta group, Primitive I, by the fixation of four inversions: 2m, 2n, 2z7, and 5g (Figure 1A Inversion phylogenies are usually considered very reliable and have been used as a benchmark for comparison with allozyme and DNA sequence phylogenies and assessment of congruence (MacIntyre and Collier 1986; O'Grady et al. 2001). There are, however, several sources of error, one of them being observational mistakes (Wasserman 1963, 1992). As a way to overcome the limitations of cytological studies and get a deeper insight into the molecular organization and evolution of D. buzzatii chromosomes, we undertook a decade ago a project to map DNA clones to its salivary gland chromosomes by in situ hybridization (Ranz et al. 1997). The map location of nearly 300 molecular markers from D. melanogaster was compared between D. buzzatii and D. repleta (Ranz et al. 2003). The results were consistent with some of the previous cytological results but uncovered also another two inversions fixed in chromosome 2, 2b10 and 2c10, overlooked in previous studies. These two inversions are apparently fixed in the lineage leading from Primitive I to D. repleta, yet no attempt was made to determine their distribution in the phylogenetic tree (Ranz et al. 2003). In a further effort to determine the precise number and extent of structural changes between D. buzzatii and D. repleta, we have turned to clones from the recently produced BAC library and BAC-based physical map of the D. buzzatii genome (González et al. 2005). We have mapped to D. repleta chromosomes 180 BAC clones from D. buzzatii chromosomes X and 2 that harbor most of the rearrangements fixed between these two species (Figure 1A MATERIALS AND METHODS Flies: Stocks of nine Drosophila species representing four of the five subgroups in the repleta species group were used (see Figure 1A Probes: A total of 180 clones from the D. buzzatii BAC library CHORI-225 (available from BACPAC Resources at http://bacpac.chori.org) were successfully hybridized to the polytene chromosomes of D. repleta. Most clones were hybridized individually but 42 clones were hybridized as pools of 2 or 3 nearby clones and each pool was considered a single marker. Pools were designed to close the gaps between clones already hybridized. BAC clones were chosen according to their localization in the D. buzzatii genome map (González et al. 2005) to optimize coverage of chromosomes X (57 clones) and 2 (123 clones). Particular attention was paid to those regions that have been rearranged during the divergence between D. repleta and D. buzzatii. When two clones mapping relatively close in D. buzzatii hybridized to two different chromosomal sites in D. repleta, clones spanning the region between them were also hybridized. This allowed us to determine accurately the boundaries of chromosomal segments conserved throughout evolutionary time and also to infer the minimum number of inversion breakpoints fixed in that particular genomic region. Clones giving one signal in D. buzzatii and two signals in D. repleta contain an inversion breakpoint fixed between the two species. When this result was obtained with a pool of clones, further hybridizations were carried out with each clone separately until we identified the clone containing the breakpoint. Twelve clones containing inversion breakpoints were then hybridized to the polytene chromosomes of other species of the repleta group to test for the presence of the inversions fixed between D. buzzatii and D. repleta in the other species. In situ hybridization and chromosomal maps: Only female larvae were used for hybridizing the BAC clones mapping on the X chromosome because the single X of the male shows a somewhat reduced level of hybridization while the efficiency of hybridization on the female X is equivalent to that on the autosomes (Pardue et al. 1987). Polytene chromosome squashes, hybridization, and detection were carried out as in Montgomery et al. (1987). When possible, the same DNA previously used for fingerprinting and in situ hybridization of BAC clones in D. buzzatii (González et al. 2005) was used as a probe to hybridize to D. repleta chromosomes. Otherwise DNA from BAC clones was extracted following the alkaline lysis miniprep protocol available from http://bacpac.chori.org/protocols.htm. Probes were labeled with biotin-16-dUTP by random primer. Hybridization results were recorded as digital images captured with a phase contrast Nikon Optiphot-2 microscope at 600× magnification and a Nikon Coolpix 4500 camera. Hybridization signals were localized using the cytological map of D. repleta (Wharton 1942). For the other species of the repleta group cut-and-paste reconstructions of chromosome 2 according to the inversions putatively fixed during their divergence were produced and used to locate the signals (Wasserman 1992; Ruiz and Wasserman 1993). Bioinformatic analysis: GRIMM software (Tesler 2002) implements the Hannenhalli and Pevzner algorithms for computing unichromosomal and multichromosomal genomic distances and was used here to calculate the minimum number of rearrangement events required to transform one genome into another. This algorithm also finds optimal scenarios for the transformation of one genome into another via these rearrangement events. The program was run online at the publicly available server http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/groups/bioinformatics/GRIMM/, using the linear unichromosomal genome and signed conserved segments options. Each chromosome (X or 2) or chromosomal region (distal or proximal half of chromosome 2) was separately analyzed. The program gives one of the multiple optimal scenarios to transform one genome into the other. To find out all the possible scenarios we ran the program several times, introducing each time one of the inversions in the source genome until all the possible combinations of inversions were found. RESULTS Identification of conserved segments: Detailed results for the 180 D. buzzatii BAC clones hybridized to the polytene chromosomes of D. repleta are given in supplemental Tables S1 and S2 (at http://www.genetics.org/supplemental/). The X chromosome clones amount to 53 markers and represent 23 contigs of the D. buzzatii physical map of chromosome X (González et al. 2005). Another 69 markers (gene clones, cosmids, and P1 phages) previously mapped to the X chromosome of both species (Ranz et al. 2003) were also included in our analysis, raising the total number of available markers to 122. The chromosome 2 clones amount to 106 markers, representing 22 contigs of the D. buzzatii physical map of chromosome 2 (González et al. 2005). We included in the analysis another 143 markers previously mapped to this chromosome in the two species (Ranz et al. 2003) for a total number of 249 markers. The markers are distributed all along chromosomes X and 2, effectively covering the entire chromosome length in both cases. The chromosomal localization of all markers was compared in the two species to identify the number and orientation of conserved segments. A conserved segment is defined here as a set of markers that are consecutive (show the same relative order) in D. buzzatii and D. repleta. Seven conserved segments were identified in chromosome X and 17 in chromosome 2 (Figures 2
Estimation of the number of rearrangements: GRIMM software (Tesler 2002) was used to estimate the minimum number of rearrangement events and find optimal scenarios for the transformation of one genome into another. A minimum of three rearrangement events are needed to transform the X chromosome of one species into the other. The extension and relative position of these three rearrangements (Figure 2 To explain the present organization of chromosome 2 in both species the minimum number of rearrangements is nine (Figure 3 Test of the inversion phylogeny: Twelve clones containing inversion breakpoints were hybridized to seven other Drosophila species, besides D. buzzatii and D. repleta, to test for the presence of the inversions in these species. Each clone produces a single hybridization signal in D. buzzatii chromosome 2 (the source of the BAC clones) and two hybridization signals in D. repleta chromosome 2 (implying a breakpoint). If the clone produces a single hybridization signal in the chromosome of a third species, this implies a similar arrangement to that of D. buzzatii. If the clone yields two hybridization signals, then an arrangement similar to D. repleta can be inferred. The important point is that the two clones that represent the distal and proximal breakpoints of an inversion should behave similarly. That is, if the proposed inversion trajectory is correct, the results produced by the two breakpoints of an inversion should be congruent. This is not expected if the proposed inversion pathway is wrong. Sixty-two out of 64 hybridizations attempted with the 12 breakpoint-bearing BAC clones were successful and the results were generally congruent (Table 2). For inversion 2u8 a clone containing the proximal breakpoint was available and this clone failed to produce a detectable hybridization signal in D. hydei and D. meridiana. In two other cases, one clone containing the breakpoint of an inversion gave one signal whereas a second clone containing the other breakpoint yielded two signals. This occurred with inversion 2m in D. meridiana and inversion 2z7 in D. peninsularis (Table 2). These two exceptional cases were interpreted as meaning that the same arrangement as in D. repleta was present (but one of the hybridization signals could not be detected). The localization of the signals in chromosome 2 of these species (not shown) supports this interpretation.
Four clones containing the breakpoints of inversions 2b10 and 2c10 were hybridized to the chromosomes of D. peninsularis and D. mercatorum. These clones were tested only in these two species because inversions 2b10 and 2c10 were seemingly fixed in the lineage leading from Primitive I to the D. repleta and D. mercatorum subgroups. In D. peninsularis, the four clones gave a single signal, indicating that this species does not contain any of the two inversions (Table 2). In D. mercatorum, clones containing the breakpoints of inversion 2c10 gave a single signal while clones containing the breakpoints of inversion 2b10 gave two signals (Table 2). Thus D. mercatorum contains inversion 2b10 but does not contain inversion 2c10. We cannot conclude when inversion 2b took place but the order of the other inversions in the distal region of the chromosome is as follows: D. buzzatii = Primitive I → 2a → 2b10 → 2c10 → D. repleta. Eight clones containing the breakpoints of the five inversions fixed in the proximal half of chromosome 2 were hybridized to the chromosomes of seven other species of the repleta group (Table 2). The two clones from inversion 2t8 gave two signals only in D. mercatorum and D. peninsularis, implying that this inversion is fixed in both species (and absent in all the other species). In contrast, the clone containing the proximal breakpoint of inversion 2u8 produced a single signal in all species but D. repleta, implying that 2u8 is fixed only in the latter species. The three clones containing the breakpoints of inversions 2m and 2n gave a single signal in D. stalkeri and D. martensis, which means they are fixed in these two species (as in D. buzzatii), and two signals in the remaining species (that lack these two inversions). Finally, the two clones from inversion 2z7 gave a single signal in D. martensis that must be fixed for the inversion (as D. buzzatii) and two signals in the rest of the species (that must lack this inversion as in D. repleta). The order of inversions fixed in the proximal region of the chromosome is either D. buzzatii → 2z7 → 2m → 2n → 2t8 → 2u8 → D. repleta or D. buzzatii → 2z7 → 2n → 2m → 2t8 → 2u8 → D. repleta. DISCUSSION Inversion phylogeny of the repleta group: A number of bioinformatic approaches and methods are available for inferring the number and trajectory of rearrangements fixed during the divergence of two genomes from comparative mapping data (see Sankoff 2004 for a review). However, bioinformatic analyses of genome sequences often deviate from more traditional cytogenetic views of chromosomal evolution (Bourque et al. 2006; Froenicke et al. 2006). Here, a combination of bioinformatic and cytological approaches is used to determine the correct rearrangement phylogeny of D. buzzatii. We have used in situ hybridization of 180 clones from a D. buzzatii genomic BAC library to the chromosomes of D. repleta and previous mapping data for another 212 markers (Ranz et al. 2003) to determine the number and orientation of conserved segments in chromosomes X and 2 between D. buzzatii and D. repleta. The previous markers were spread approximately at random over chromosomes X and 2, thus leaving gaps or uncovered regions of variable size (Ranz et al. 2003). In contrast, we selected our BAC clones to optimize coverage and ascertain the extent and orientation of conserved segments. In most cases BAC clones were identified, encompassing the conserved segments boundaries (i.e., bearing inversion breakpoints). Thus, we are reasonably confident that all conserved segments >150 kb have been identified. Seven conserved segments were found in chromosome X and 17 in chromosome 2. The extent and orientation of all conserved segments was determined (Figures 2 The hybridization of 12 breakpoint-bearing clones representing seven different inversions in seven other Drosophila species of the repleta group was used to ascertain the correct inversion phylogeny. The results are summarized in Figure 1B Ten inversions became fixed in the lineage from Primitive I to D. repleta: Xa, Xb, Xc, 2a, 2b, 2t8, 2u8, 2b10, 2c10, and 3b (Figure 1B Breakpoint reuse and genome evolution model: In the repleta species group the cytological coincidences between breakpoints of different inversions are quite common (Wasserman 1992). For instance, 96 breakpoint reuses can be inferred for the 208 inversions described in chromosome 2. This rate of coincidence still holds true within subgroups or even within complexes (Cáceres et al. 1997). Obviously, some of these apparent coincidences can be the consequence of the limited resolution of the cytological technique. The increased resolution provided by the in situ hybridization technique allows us to map more accurately inversion breakpoints and test for breakpoint reuses. In the species analyzed here three breakpoint reuses have been described, one in chromosome X and two in chromosome 2. Wasserman (1992) stated that inversions Xb and Xc were arranged in tandem and shared the middle breakpoint. However, our results support the claim of Ranz et al. (2003) that these two inversions are in fact overlapping (Figure 2 Breakpoint reuse is a quite common phenomenon in diverse organisms. Pevzner and Tesler (2003) compared the human and mouse genomes and observed clumps of closely located breakpoints that could not be explained by the “random breakage model” (Nadeau and Taylor 1984). They proposed an alternative model that envisages mammalian genomes as a mosaic of relatively short fragile regions with a high propensity for rearrangements and solid regions with a low propensity for rearrangements. These fragile regions may correspond to segmental duplications or regions with an unusually high concentration of transposable elements (TEs) or with a palindromic structure (Eichler and Sankoff 2003; Murphy et al. 2005). Segmental duplications represent ~5% of the human genome (Bailey et al. 2002) and ~2% of the mouse genome (Bailey et al. 2004a). They induce rearrangements by unequal crossing over (Shaffer and Lupski 2000) and are hotspots for mammalian chromosomal evolution (Bailey et al. 2004b; Zody et al. 2006). The Drosophila genome is quite different from that of mammals: the amount of repetitive DNA is much lower (5 vs. 44%) and the fraction of segmental duplications is negligible (Lander et al. 2001; Celniker and Rubin 2003). Accordingly, inversion breakpoint reuse in Drosophila is likely to have a different cause. Molecular studies of breakpoint regions in natural Drosophila inversions have revealed the presence of TEs in some cases (Cáceres et al. 1999, 2001; Casals et al. 2003). By contrast no clear evidence for the implication of TEs was found in other studies (Wesley and Eanes 1994; Cirera et al. 1995; Andolfatto et al. 1999; Matzkin et al. 2005; Richards et al. 2005). The conclusion is that at least in some species or species groups, TEs are responsible for the origin of chromosomal inversions. A plausible hypothesis for breakpoint reuse in Drosophila can be set forth. When an inversion has been generated by a TE, copies of this element will be flanking the inverted segment in the chromosome with the inversion (Lim and Simmons 1994; Gray 2000). If the inversion succeeds and goes to fixation, these TE insertions will be brought to fixation as well. These fixed TE insertions will have a much higher probability to be involved in further chromosome breakages than the rest of the TE insertions (that usually have a rather low population frequency because of the equilibrium between transposition and selection; Charlesworth et al. 1994). Although one expects that these insertions will be removed by deletion in the long run (Petrov et al. 1996; Singh and Petrov 2004), they may last in the genome several million years (average time to loss of 50% nonfunctional DNA is ~12 MY). Furthermore, because of the reduction of recombination in the heterokaryotypes, inversion breakpoint regions often accumulate additional TE insertions besides the one that originated the inversion (Cáceres et al. 2001, 2003; Sharakhov et al. 2006). When the inversion goes to fixation, some of these TE insertions may become fixed with the inversion while other may remain polymorphic. In any case, the unusual high density of TE insertions at inversion breakpoints will increase the chances of further chromosome breakages at these sites, i.e., the chances of breakpoint reuse. One prediction of this model is that inversions sharing breakpoints are expected to arise in a temporal succession within the same lineage, something that seems to be frequent in the repleta species group (Wasserman 1992). In our study, the model would apply to the breakpoint coincidence between inversions 2m and 2n (which occurred in the same lineage) but not to that between inversions 2z7 and 2u8 (which occurred in different lineages). Rates of chromosomal rearrangement fixation in the genus Drosophila: Our results show that three paracentric inversions in chromosome X and nine in chromosome 2 have been fixed during the divergence between D. repleta and D. buzzatii. These numbers agree with the general pattern in the repleta group where chromosome 2 has been found to be the most dynamic, harboring ~70% of all inversions (Wasserman 1992). The size of the genome of the repleta group species is ~220 Mb with 70% in the euchromatin (Schulze and Lee 1986). The total number of inversions fixed between these two species is 14 and thus we can estimate an average rate of rearrangement fixation of 0.004 disruptions/Mb/MY. Rates of rearrangement fixation have been estimated in the genus Drosophila using different species pairs. We have normalized these estimates as the number of disruptions per megabase and per million years to make them comparable (Table 3). These estimates must be taken with caution because different estimation methods have been used for different comparisons and some of the studies did not include all chromosomal elements. However, they are likely to be accurate enough for a broad overview of chromosomal evolution in the genus. Two conclusions can be drawn. First, rates of rearrangement vary between chromosomal elements as proposed by González et al. (2002), although the element exhibiting the highest rate can vary. Second, rates of rearrangement differ between lineages, the rate within the Sophophora subgenus being generally higher that that within the Drosophila subgenus (Papaceit et al. 2006). This agrees well with the distribution of polymorphic inversions in these subgenera (Sperlich and Pfriem 1986; Powell 1997). The lowest rate for the entire genus is that observed here for the comparison D. buzzatii–D. repleta. The highest rate is probably that corresponding to the comparison D. miranda–D. pseudoobscura (Bartolomé and Charlesworth 2006) that is 24–58 times higher. Twenty-fold differences in rearrangement rate have been reported between different vertebrate lineages (Coghlan et al. 2005; Murphy et al. 2005). It is remarkable that similar differences can be found within a single genus of flies. Substantial variation in rearrangement rate is also evident even within the repleta group (Figure 1B
Acknowledgments We thank Alejandra Delprat, Oriol Calvete, Marta Puig, and two anonymous reviewers for useful comments on the manuscript and Tomás Morán for the D. hydei stock. This work was supported by grants BMC2002-01708 and BFU2005-02237 from the Secretaría de Estado de Universidades e Investigación (Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, Spain) awarded to A.R. References
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