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Ninety-five genomic sequences of the ligand-binding domain of glutamate-gated chloride channel genes of three populations of the parasitic nematode H. placei were evaluated for patterns of diversity, demography, and selection. These genes code for subunits of ion channels, which are involved in the mode of action of the most commonly used antiparasitic drugs, the macrocyclic lactones. An extremely high frequency of unique segregating sites in exons and introns was observed, with significantly negative neutrality tests in each population for noncoding, synonymous, and nonsynonymous sites. Several tests indicated that support for balancing selection, positive selection, and hitchhiking was lacking. McDonald–Kreitman tests using H. contortus or C. elegans as an outgroup revealed an extreme excess of replacement polymorphism, consistent with weak purifying selection. Although these tests agree that negative selection may explain the excess of replacement changes, an alternative interpretation is required for the significantly negative Fu and Li’s D statistics based on silent and noncoding sites. These include homogeneous forces such as background selection and demographic expansion. The lack of population subdivision and the negative values of Tajima’s D for this outbreeding parasitic nematode render background selection less likely than demographic expansion. Comparison of D statistics based on different site types using neutral coalescent simulations supported this interpretation. Although this statistic was more negative for nonsynonymous sites than for synonymous sites, most comparisons of the D statistic were not significantly different between mutation classes. A few significant site comparisons were also consistent with demographic expansion, because the observed test statistic (D neutral − D selected) were low relative to the neutral expectations. Finally, previous mitochondrial studies also identified a demographic expansion of this parasitic nematode species, which lends further support to a scenario involving both demographic and purifying forces in the ligand-binding domain of H. placei.
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Mes, T.H. Purifying Selection and Demographic Expansion Affect Sequence Diversity of the Ligand-Binding Domain of a Glutamate-Gated Chloride Channel Gene of Haemonchus placei . J Mol Evol 58, 466–478 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00239-003-2569-4
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