Phylogeography of the marine pathogen, Vibrio vulnificus, revealed the ancestral scenarios of its evolution.

ABSTRACT: Vibrio vulnificus is the leading cause of seafood-associated deaths worldwide. Despite the growing knowledge about the population structure of V. vulnificus, the evolutionary history and the ancestral relationships of strains isolated from various regions around the world have not been determined. Using the largest collection of sequence and isolate data of V. vulnificus to date, we applied ancestral character reconstruction to study the phylogeography of V. vulnificus. Multilocus sequence typing data from 10 housekeeping genes were used for the inference of ancestral states and reconstruction of the evolutionary history. The findings showed that the common ancestor of all V. vulnificus populations originated from East Asia, and later evolved into two main clusters that spread with time an

SUBMITTER: Bisharat N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7520988 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature