Population genomics of the wild yeast Saccharomyces paradoxus: Quantifying the life cycle

  1. Isheng J. Tsai,
  2. Douda Bensasson*,
  3. Austin Burt, and
  4. Vassiliki Koufopanou
  1. Division of Biology, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, Ascot, Berks SL5 7PY, United Kingdom
  1. Edited by Mark Johnston, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, and accepted by the Editorial Board January 30, 2008 (received for review August 3, 2007)

  1. Fig. 1.

    Lack of correlation between genetic differentiation θπ and geographic distance in the U.K. population. Each point represents a different pair of strains.


  2. Fig. 2.

    Lack of correlation of θS from LTR fragments in the European and Far East populations, for regions that were present in both populations. Each point represents fixed LTRs from a different intergenic region (Pearson r = 0.24, P = 0.48).


  3. Fig. 3.

    Linkage disequilibrium (i.e., correlation of alleles) between pairs of polymorphic sites as a function of physical distance between the two sites. Points are average r 2 for all pairs within a particular distance, with 1-kb increments. The lines show the two 97.5% upper and 2.5% lower bounds calculated from 1,000 datasets generated under a neutral coalescent model, given the length of sequences, number of polymorphic sites, and the rholike estimate of ρ (from Table 2; using the ms program in ref. 49). The asymptote (i.e., the expected r 2 when there is no association between alleles) is 1/n, where n is the number of sequences (1/12 = 0.083 for Europe and 1/8 = 0.125 for the Far East).


  4. Fig. 4.

    A quantitative life cycle for the European population of S. paradoxus is shown.


Footnotes

  • To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: v.koufopanou{at}imperial.ac.uk
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