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ABSTRACT Yellow monkeyflowers (Mimulus guttatuscomplex, Phrymaceae) are a powerful system for studying ecological adaptation, reproductive variation, and genome evolution. To initiate pan‐genomics in this group, we present four chromosome‐scale assemblies and annotations of accessions spanning a broad evolutionary spectrum: two from a singleM. guttatuspopulation, one from the closely related selfing speciesM. nasutus, and one from a more divergent speciesM. tilingii. All assemblies are highly complete and resolve centromeric and repetitive regions. Comparative analyses reveal such extensive structural variation in repeat‐rich, gene‐poor regions that large portions of the genome are unalignable across accessions. As a result, thisMimuluspan‐genome is primarily informative in genic regions, underscoring limitations of resequencing approaches in such polymorphic taxa. We document gene presence–absence, investigate the recombination landscape using high‐resolution linkage data, and quantify nucleotide diversity. Surprisingly, pairwise differences at fourfold synonymous sites are exceptionally high—even in regions of very low recombination—reaching ~3.2% within a singleM. guttatuspopulation, ~7% within the interfertileM. guttatusspecies complex (approximately equal to SNP divergence between great apes and Old World monkeys), and ~7.4% between that complex and the reproductively isolatedM. tilingii. Genome‐wide patterns of nucleotide variation show little evidence of linked selection, and instead suggest that the concentration of genes (and likely selected sites) in high‐recombination regions may buffer diversity loss. These assemblies, annotations, and comparative analyses provide a robust genomic foundation forMimulusresearch and offer new insights into the interplay of recombination, structural variation, and molecular evolution in highly diverse plant genomes.
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First Molecular Detection of Mycobacterium ulcerans pseudoshottsii From Gulf Strain Striped Bass ( Morone saxatilis )
ABSTRACT Mycobacterium ulceranspseudoshottsiiis a mycolactone‐producing bacterium previously isolated from Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis(Walbaum)) from Chesapeake Bay and adjacent waters of the Atlantic Coast of North America. We report the first molecular detection of this pathogen in the native Gulf strain ofMorone saxatiliscollected from the Pearl River, Mississippi (USA). Molecular identification was conducted using a novel PCR assay targeting the parA‐625 intergenic spacer of the virulence‐associated pMUM plasmid. The isolate was unambiguously assigned toM. u. pseudoshottsiibased on diagnostic single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and phylogenetic analysis. This report expands the known range ofM. u. pseudoshottsiito include Gulf Coast watersheds and highlights the need for enhanced surveillance in wild and aquacultured fish populations of the southern United States.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1911457
- PAR ID:
- 10642135
- Publisher / Repository:
- Wiley
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Fish Diseases
- ISSN:
- 0140-7775
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- e70060
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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