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Multiplicative versus additive selection in relation to genome evolution: a simulation study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2001

GWENAËL PIGANEAU
Affiliation:
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5558, Biométrie et Biologie Évolutive, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 43 boulevard du 11 novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne cedex, France
ROLAND WESTRELIN
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Réseaux hauts Débits et Supports d'Applications Multimedias, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 69622 Villeurbanne cedex, France
BERNARD TOURANCHEAU
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Réseaux hauts Débits et Supports d'Applications Multimedias, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 69622 Villeurbanne cedex, France
CHRISTIAN GAUTIER
Affiliation:
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5558, Biométrie et Biologie Évolutive, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 43 boulevard du 11 novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne cedex, France
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Abstract

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The evolution of molecular quantitative traits, such as codon usage bias or base frequencies, can be explained as the result of mutational biases alone, or as the result of mutation and selection. Whereas mutation models can be investigated easily, realistic modelling of selection-directed genome evolution is analytically intractable, and numerical calculations require substantial computer resources. We investigated the evolution of optimal codon frequency under additive and multiplicative effects of selected linked codons. We show that additive selective effects of many linked sites cannot be effective in genomes when the number of selected sites is greater than the effective population size, a realistic assumption according to current molecular data. We then discuss the implications of these results for isochore evolution in vertebrates.

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Research Article
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press