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Mol. Biol. Evol. 21(1):65-75. 2004
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg237
© 2004 by the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution. ISSN: 0737-4038

Positive Darwinian Selection at the Pantophysin (Pan I) Locus in Marine Gadid Fishes

Grant H. Pogson and Kathryn A. Mesa

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz

E-mail: pogson{at}darwin.ucsc.edu.

Maximum-likelihood models of codon substitution were used to test for positive Darwinian selection at the vesicle protein pantophysin in two allelic lineages segregating in the Atlantic cod Gadus morhua and in 18 related species of marine gadid fishes. Positive selection was detected in the two intravesicular loops of the integral membrane protein but not in four membrane-spanning regions or the 3' cytoplasmic tail. The proportion of positively selected sites (24.9%) and the mean nonsynonymous/synonymous rate ratio ({omega} = dN/dS = 5.35) were both greater in the first intravesicular (IV1) domain compared with the second intravesicular (IV2) domain (11.0% positively selected sites with mean {omega} = 3.76). Likelihood ratio tests comparing models that assume identical {omega} ratios along all branches of the phylogeny to those that allow {omega} ratios to vary among lineages were not significant for either the IV1 or IV2 domains, indicating that the selective pressures favoring amino acid replacements have operated consistently in both regions during the diversification of the group. Positive selection was observed in the IV1 domain in both G. morhua allelic lineages, and, although three of the four codons that differ between alleles were targets of positive selection in the broader group, no similar polymorphisms were detected in other taxa. The two G. morhua Pan I alleles appeared to have evolved before the speciation event separating it from its sister taxon, Theragra chalcogramma, and on the basis of a standard mtDNA clock are estimated to be at least 2 Myr old. Although the function of pantophysin remains unknown, the strong signal of positive selection at specific sites in the IV1 and IV2 domains may help clarify its role in cellular trafficking pathways.

Key Words: balancing selection • gadid fishes • maximum likelihood • pantophysin • positive selection • S2 ribosomal protein


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