Genomic and metabolomic diversity within a familial population of Aspergillus flavus

Author:

Moore Geromy G.1ORCID,Mack Brian M.1,Wendt Karen L.2,Castano‐Duque Lina1,Anderson Victoria M.2,Cichewicz Robert H.2

Affiliation:

1. Southern Regional Research Center USDA‐ARS New Orleans Louisiana USA

2. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Natural Products Discovery Group, Stephenson Life Sciences Research Center, University of Oklahoma Norman Oklahoma USA

Abstract

AbstractAspergillus flavus is an agriculturally significant micro‐fungus having potential to contaminate food and feed crops with toxic secondary metabolites such as aflatoxin (AF) and cyclopiazonic acid (CPA). Research has shown A. flavus strains can overcome heterokaryon incompatibility and undergo meiotic recombination as teleomorphs. Although evidence of recombination in the AF gene cluster has been reported, the impacts of recombination on genotype and metabolomic phenotype in a single generation are lacking. In previous studies, we paired an aflatoxigenic MAT1‐1 A. flavus strain with a non‐aflatoxigenic MAT1‐2 A. flavus strain that had been tagged with green fluorescent protein and then 10 F1 progenies (a mix of fluorescent and non‐fluorescent) were randomly selected from single‐ascospore colonies and broadly examined for evidence of recombination. In this study, we determined four of those 10 F1 progenies were recombinants because they were not vegetatively compatible with either parent or their siblings, and they exhibited other distinctive traits that could only result from meiotic recombination. The other six progenies examined shared genomic identity with the non‐aflatoxigenic, fluorescent, and MAT1‐2 parent, but were metabolically distinct. This study highlights phenotypic and genomic changes that may occur in a single generation from the outcrossing of sexually compatible strains of A. flavus.

Publisher

Wiley

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