Pascual-Anaya, Juan and Sato, Iori and Sugahara, Fumiaki and Higuchi, Shinnosuke and Paps, Jordi and Ren, Yandong and Takagi, Wataru and Ruiz-Villalba, Adrián and Ota, Kinya G and Wang, Wen and Kuratani, Shigeru (2018) Hagfish and lamprey Hox genes reveal conservation of temporal colinearity in vertebrates. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2 (5). pp. 859-866. DOI https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0526-2
Pascual-Anaya, Juan and Sato, Iori and Sugahara, Fumiaki and Higuchi, Shinnosuke and Paps, Jordi and Ren, Yandong and Takagi, Wataru and Ruiz-Villalba, Adrián and Ota, Kinya G and Wang, Wen and Kuratani, Shigeru (2018) Hagfish and lamprey Hox genes reveal conservation of temporal colinearity in vertebrates. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2 (5). pp. 859-866. DOI https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0526-2
Pascual-Anaya, Juan and Sato, Iori and Sugahara, Fumiaki and Higuchi, Shinnosuke and Paps, Jordi and Ren, Yandong and Takagi, Wataru and Ruiz-Villalba, Adrián and Ota, Kinya G and Wang, Wen and Kuratani, Shigeru (2018) Hagfish and lamprey Hox genes reveal conservation of temporal colinearity in vertebrates. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2 (5). pp. 859-866. DOI https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0526-2
Abstract
Hox genes exert fundamental roles for proper regional specification along the main rostro-caudal axis of animal embryos. They are generally expressed in restricted spatial domains according to their position in the cluster (spatial colinearity)—a feature that is conserved across bilaterians. In jawed vertebrates (gnathostomes), the position in the cluster also determines the onset of expression of Hox genes (a feature known as whole-cluster temporal colinearity (WTC)), while in invertebrates this phenomenon is displayed as a subcluster-level temporal colinearity. However, little is known about the expression profile of Hox genes in jawless vertebrates (cyclostomes); therefore, the evolutionary origin of WTC, as seen in gnathostomes, remains a mystery. Here, we show that Hox genes in cyclostomes are expressed according to WTC during development. We investigated the Hox repertoire and Hox gene expression profiles in three different species—a hagfish, a lamprey and a shark—encompassing the two major groups of vertebrates, and found that these are expressed following a whole-cluster, temporally staggered pattern, indicating that WTC has been conserved during the past 500 million years despite drastically different genome evolution and morphological outputs between jawless and jawed vertebrates.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Animals; Hagfishes; Sharks; Lampreys; Evolution, Molecular; Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental; Genes, Homeobox; Genome; Transcriptome |
Subjects: | Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Life Sciences, School of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 10 Apr 2018 09:11 |
Last Modified: | 07 Aug 2024 19:56 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/21779 |
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