Hydra has mammal-like mutation rates facilitating fast adaptation despite its nonaging phenotype

Table 1.

SNV calling in single cells (<1973–2018)

I cells E cells
I cell 1 I cell 2 I cell 3 E cell 1 E cell 2 E cell 3
# Mapped reads (million)a 267.10 323.26 357.83 204.68 82.67 123.79
% Mapped readsa 69.06 79.93 80.00 63.14 14.89 37.06
Whole genome
# Covered bases (million)b 67.79 74.15 105.54 102.06 22.49 52.69
# Mutations 11,098 12,551 19,729 1855 450 943
Mutations per base 1.64 × 10−4 1.69 × 10−4 1.87 × 10−4 1.82 × 10−5 2.00 × 10−5 1.79 × 10−5
Mutation rate per cell division 1.15 × 10−8 1.18 × 10−8 1.31 × 10−8 3.95 × 10−9 4.35 × 10−9 3.89 × 10−9
Coding sequence
# Covered bases (million)b 4.37 4.689 6.45 6.20 1.41 2.86
# Mutations 633 645 1.007 73 26 50
Mutations per base 1.45 × 10−4 1.38 × 10−4 1.56 × 10−4 1.18 × 10−5 1.85 × 10−5 1.75 × 10−5
Mutation rate per cell division 1.01 × 10−8 9.63 × 10−9 1.09 × 10−8 2.56 × 10−9 4.01 × 10−9 3.79 × 10−9
Validation
MAPD score 0.783 0.934 0.696 0.687 1.269 1.124
% Single-cell artifact signaturesc 1.3 1.3 1.8 2.5 3.5 2.9
  • aUniquely mapping reads after removal of duplicates; lower on average read numbers of E cells versus I cells were caused by overall different outputs of the respective sequencing runs.

  • b(Coverage ≥20, both in the single-cell examined and the merged mapping result of the single cells of the opposite stem cell lineage.

  • cCombined SBS scE and SBS scF fractions (Petljak et al. 2019).

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  1. Genome Res. 34: 2217-2228

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