PUBLICATION
Developmental roles of pufferfish hox clusters and genome evolution in ray-fin fish
- Authors
- Amores, A., Suzuki, T., Yan, Y.-L., Pomeroy, J., Singer, A., Amemiya, C., and Postlethwait, J.H.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-040109-11
- Date
- 2004
- Source
- Genome research 14(1): 1-10 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Amemiya, Chris, Amores, Angel, Postlethwait, John H., Singer, Amy, Yan, Yi-Lin
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Chickens/genetics
- Evolution, Molecular*
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental/genetics*
- Genes/genetics
- Genes, Homeobox/physiology*
- Genome*
- Humans
- Mice
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Multigene Family/genetics*
- Phylogeny
- Skates, Fish/genetics*
- Takifugu/embryology
- Takifugu/genetics*
- PubMed
- 14707165 Full text @ Genome Res.
Citation
Amores, A., Suzuki, T., Yan, Y.-L., Pomeroy, J., Singer, A., Amemiya, C., and Postlethwait, J.H. (2004) Developmental roles of pufferfish hox clusters and genome evolution in ray-fin fish. Genome research. 14(1):1-10.
Abstract
The pufferfish skeleton lacks ribs and pelvic fins, and has fused bones in the cranium and jaw. It has been hypothesized that this secondarily simplified pufferfish morphology is due to reduced complexity of the pufferfish Hox complexes. To test this hypothesis, we determined the genomic structure of Hox clusters in the Southern pufferfish Spheroides nephelus and interrogated genomic databases for the Japanese pufferfish Takifugu rubripes (fugu). Both species have at least seven Hox clusters, including two copies of Hoxb and Hoxd clusters, a single Hoxc cluster, and at least two Hoxa clusters, with a portion of a third Hoxa cluster in fugu. Results support genome duplication before divergence of zebrafish and pufferfish lineages, followed by loss of a Hoxc cluster in the pufferfish lineage and loss of a Hoxd cluster in the zebrafish lineage. Comparative analysis shows that duplicate genes continued to be lost for hundreds of millions of years, contrary to predictions for the permanent preservation of gene duplicates. Gene expression analysis in fugu embryos by in situ hybridization revealed evolutionary change in gene expression as predicted by the duplication-degeneration-complementation model. These experiments rule out the hypothesis that the simplified pufferfish body plan is due to reduction in Hox cluster complexity, and support the notion that genome duplication contributed to the radiation of teleosts into half of all vertebrate species by increasing developmental diversification of duplicate genes in daughter lineages.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping