Aneuploidy Can Be an Evolutionary Diversion on the Path to Adaptation.

ABSTRACT: Aneuploidy is common in eukaryotes, often leading to decreased fitness. However, evidence from fungi and human tumur cells suggests that specific aneuploidies can be beneficial under stressful conditions and facilitate adaptation. In a previous evolutionary experiment with yeast, populations evolving under heat stress became aneuploid, only to later revert to euploidy after beneficial mutations accumulated. It was therefore suggested that aneuploidy is a "stepping stone" on the path to adaptation. Here, we test this hypothesis. We use Bayesian inference to fit an evolutionary model with both aneuploidy and mutation to the experimental results. We then predict the genotype frequency dynamics during the experiment, demonstrating that most of the evolved euploid population likely did not desc

SUBMITTER: Kohanovski I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10951435 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature