Sel’skokhozyaistvennaya Biologiya [Agricultural Biology], 2017, Vol. 52, № 5, p.995-1003
(how to cite this article).

doi: 10.15389/agrobiology.2017.5.995eng

UDC 631.461.52:575.1:577.257.065

Acknowlegdgements:
The experiments were carried out using equipment of the ARRIAM Center of Genomic Technologies, Proteomics and Cell Biology.
Supported by Russian Science Foundation, project № 14-26-00094П

 

COMPARATIVE PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF SYMBIOTIC GENES OF
DIFFERENT NODULE BACTERIA GROUPS USING THE METATREES
METHOD

E.S. Karasev, E.P. Chizhevskaya, B.V. Simarov, N.A. Provorov,
E.E. Andronov

All-Russian Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology, Federal Agency of Scientific Organizations, 3, sh. Podbel’skogo, St. Petersburg, 196608 Russia,
e-mail evgenii1991.karasev@gmail.com (corresponding author)

ORCID:
Karasev E.S. orcid.org/0000-0003-4240-9587
Chizhevskaya E.P. orcid.org/0000-0002-7715-8696
Provorov N.A. orcid.org/0000-0001-9091-9384
Andronov E.E. orcid.org/0000-0002-5204-262X

Received December 12, 2016

 

We applied modified phylogenetic analysis method of building meta-trees to study the evolutional patterns of various groups of symbiotic genes (nod-genes control the formation of nodules and nif/fix-genes control symbiotic nitrogen fixation). The method consists in the pairwise comparison of topologies and construction combined dendrograms («meta-trees»), where the relative position of the two trees is a measure of corresponding gene phylogenies congruence. Homologues of 18 symbiotic genes (nodABCDIJN, nifABDEHKN, fixABC, fdxB) are present in each test organism (9 strains belong to the genera Bradyrhizobium, Mesorhizobium, Rhizobium, Sinorhizobium and Neorhizobium). These genes were selected for the implementation of this method, as well as the gene 16S rRNA as a traditional taxonomic chromosome marker. We constructed and compared phylogenetic trees for all these genes and then calculated the pairwise similarity coefficients for their topologies. According to the obtained data we built a meta-tree, and there were two statistically distinct gene clusters identified within. Cluster 1 includes mainly nif- and fix-genes and cluster 2 — mostly nod-genes, that is related to the data of separate localization of these gene groups in the rhizobial genomes. The exception is the arrangement of nifB and fixC geneswith nodA in cluster 2, as well as co-localization of nodI and nifD in cluster 1. During the identified clusters structure analysis we found strong relationship between the relative gene position and the characteristics of their genome localization in nodule bacteria. Importantly, the differences between clusters 1 and 2 are not expressed less clearly than the differences between nod- and nif/fix-gene groups. It is obvious that clusters 1 and 2 of our meta-tree reflect primarily different mechanisms of nodulation evolution and symbiotic nitrogen fixation associated with the independent origin of the relevant gene groups, and possibly, with their separate horizontal transfer between different groups of rhizobia. Further study of the symbiotic gene evolution in nodule bacteria requires improvements used phylogenetic analysis techniques, including separate analysis meta-tree for rhizobia, representing different stages of symbiosis evolution.

Keywords: phylogenetic analysis, meta-trees, nodule bacteria, symbiotic genes.

 

 

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