TY - JOUR
T1 - Recent mixing of Vibrio parahaemolyticus populations
AU - Yang, Chao
AU - Pei, Xiaoyan
AU - Wu, Yarong
AU - Yan, Lin
AU - Yan, Yanfeng
AU - Song, Yuqin
AU - Coyle, Nicola M.
AU - Martinez-Urtaza, Jaime
AU - Quince, Christopher
AU - Hu, Qinghua
AU - Jiang, Min
AU - Feil, Edward
AU - Yang, Dajin
AU - Song, Yajun
AU - Zhou, Dongsheng
AU - Yang, Ruifu
AU - Falush, Daniel
AU - Cui, Yujun
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to International Society for Microbial Ecology.
PY - 2019/10/1
Y1 - 2019/10/1
N2 - Humans have profoundly affected the ocean environment but little is known about anthropogenic effects on the distribution of microbes. Vibrio parahaemolyticus is found in warm coastal waters and causes gastroenteritis in humans and economically significant disease in shrimps. Based on data from 1103 genomes of environmental and clinical isolates, we show that V. parahaemolyticus is divided into four diverse populations, VppUS1, VppUS2, VppX and VppAsia. The first two are largely restricted to the US and Northern Europe, while the others are found worldwide, with VppAsia making up the great majority of isolates in the seas around Asia. Patterns of diversity within and between the populations are consistent with them having arisen by progressive divergence via genetic drift during geographical isolation. However, we find that there is substantial overlap in their current distribution. These observations can be reconciled without requiring genetic barriers to exchange between populations if long-range dispersal has increased dramatically in the recent past. We found that VppAsia isolates from the US have an average of 1.01% more shared ancestry with VppUS1 and VppUS2 isolates than VppAsia isolates from Asia itself. Based on time calibrated trees of divergence within epidemic lineages, we estimate that recombination affects about 0.017% of the genome per year, implying that the genetic mixture has taken place within the last few decades. These results suggest that human activity, such as shipping, aquatic products trade and increased human migration between continents, are responsible for the change of distribution pattern of this species.
AB - Humans have profoundly affected the ocean environment but little is known about anthropogenic effects on the distribution of microbes. Vibrio parahaemolyticus is found in warm coastal waters and causes gastroenteritis in humans and economically significant disease in shrimps. Based on data from 1103 genomes of environmental and clinical isolates, we show that V. parahaemolyticus is divided into four diverse populations, VppUS1, VppUS2, VppX and VppAsia. The first two are largely restricted to the US and Northern Europe, while the others are found worldwide, with VppAsia making up the great majority of isolates in the seas around Asia. Patterns of diversity within and between the populations are consistent with them having arisen by progressive divergence via genetic drift during geographical isolation. However, we find that there is substantial overlap in their current distribution. These observations can be reconciled without requiring genetic barriers to exchange between populations if long-range dispersal has increased dramatically in the recent past. We found that VppAsia isolates from the US have an average of 1.01% more shared ancestry with VppUS1 and VppUS2 isolates than VppAsia isolates from Asia itself. Based on time calibrated trees of divergence within epidemic lineages, we estimate that recombination affects about 0.017% of the genome per year, implying that the genetic mixture has taken place within the last few decades. These results suggest that human activity, such as shipping, aquatic products trade and increased human migration between continents, are responsible for the change of distribution pattern of this species.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41396-019-0461-5
DO - 10.1038/s41396-019-0461-5
M3 - Article
C2 - 31235840
AN - SCOPUS:85068189173
SN - 1751-7362
VL - 13
SP - 2578
EP - 2588
JO - ISME Journal
JF - ISME Journal
IS - 10
ER -