Microheterogeneity and Coevolution: An Examination of rDNA sequence characteristics in Neoparamoeba pemaquidensis and its Prokinetoplastid Endosymbiont
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2007
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Caraguel, C.
O'Kelly, C.
Legendre, P.
Frasca, S.
Gast, R.
Despres, B.
Cawthorn, R.
Greenwood, S.
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The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, 2007; 54(5):418-426
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Charles G. B. Caraguel, Charles J. O’Kelly, Pierre Legendre, Salvatore Frasca Jr., Rebecca J. Gast, Béatrice M. Després, Richard J. Cawthorn, and Spencer J. Greenwood
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Neoparamoeba pemaquidensis, the etiological agent of amoebic gill disease, has shown surprising sequence variability among different copies of the 18S ribosomal RNA gene within an isolate. This intra-genomic microheterogeneity was confirmed and extended to an analysis of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region. High levels of intra-genomic nucleotide diversity (Pi=0.0201–0.0313) were found among sequenced ITS regions from individual host amoeba isolates. In contrast, the ITS region of its endosymbiont revealed significantly lower levels of intra-genomic nucleotide diversity (Pi=0.0028–0.0056) compared with the host N. pemaquidensis. Phylogenetic and ParaFit coevolution analyses involving N. pemaquidensis isolates and their respective endosymbionts confirmed a significant coevolutionary relationship between the two protists. The observation of non-shared microheterogeneity and coevolution emphasizes the complexity of the interactions between N. pemaquidensis and its obligate endosymbiont.
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