Global-level population genomics reveals differential effects of geography and phylogeny on horizontal gene transfer in soil bacteria

Author:

Greenlon Alex,Chang Peter L.,Damtew Zehara Mohammed,Muleta Atsede,Carrasquilla-Garcia Noelia,Kim Donghyun,Nguyen Hien P.ORCID,Suryawanshi Vasantika,Krieg Christopher P.,Yadav Sudheer Kumar,Patel Jai SinghORCID,Mukherjee Arpan,Udupa Sripada,Benjelloun Imane,Thami-Alami Imane,Yasin Mohammad,Patil Bhuvaneshwara,Singh Sarvjeet,Sarma Birinchi Kumar,von Wettberg Eric J. B.,Kahraman Abdullah,Bukun Bekir,Assefa Fassil,Tesfaye Kassahun,Fikre Asnake,Cook Douglas R.

Abstract

Although microorganisms are known to dominate Earth’s biospheres and drive biogeochemical cycling, little is known about the geographic distributions of microbial populations or the environmental factors that pattern those distributions. We used a global-level hierarchical sampling scheme to comprehensively characterize the evolutionary relationships and distributional limitations of the nitrogen-fixing bacterial symbionts of the crop chickpea, generating 1,027 draft whole-genome sequences at the level of bacterial populations, including 14 high-quality PacBio genomes from a phylogenetically representative subset. We find that diverseMesorhizobiumtaxa perform symbiosis with chickpea and have largely overlapping global distributions. However, sampled locations cluster based on the phylogenetic diversity ofMesorhizobiumpopulations, and diversity clusters correspond to edaphic and environmental factors, primarily soil type and latitude. Despite long-standing evolutionary divergence and geographic isolation, the diverse taxa observed to nodulate chickpea share a set of integrative conjugative elements (ICEs) that encode the major functions of the symbiosis. This symbiosis ICE takes 2 forms in the bacterial chromosome—tripartite and monopartite—with tripartite ICEs confined to a broadly distributed superspecies clade. The pairwise evolutionary relatedness of these elements is controlled as much by geographic distance as by the evolutionary relatedness of the background genome. In contrast, diversity in the broader gene content ofMesorhizobiumgenomes follows a tight linear relationship with core genome phylogenetic distance, with little detectable effect of geography. These results illustrate how geography and demography can operate differentially on the evolution of bacterial genomes and offer useful insights for the development of improved technologies for sustainable agriculture.

Funder

National Science Foundation

US Agency for International Devvelopment

Publisher

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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