PUBLICATION
Genome duplication, subfunction partitioning, and lineage divergence: Sox9 in stickleback and zebrafish
- Authors
- Cresko, W.A., Yan, Y.L., Baltrus, D.A., Amores, A., Singer, A., Rodriguez-Mari, A., and Postlethwait, J.H.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-031031-17
- Date
- 2003
- Source
- Developmental Dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists 228(3): 480-489 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Amores, Angel, Cresko, William, Postlethwait, John H., Rodriguez-Mari, Adriana, Singer, Amy, Yan, Yi-Lin
- Keywords
- genome duplication, subfunctionalization, transcription factor, chondrogenesis, sex determination, macroevolution, tetraploidization
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Gene Duplication
- Genetic Variation/genetics
- Genome*
- High Mobility Group Proteins/genetics*
- Humans
- Phylogeny
- SOX9 Transcription Factor
- Sex Differentiation/genetics
- Smegmamorpha/genetics
- Transcription Factors/genetics*
- Vertebrates/classification
- Zebrafish/genetics*
- Zebrafish Proteins/genetics
- PubMed
- 14579386 Full text @ Dev. Dyn.
Citation
Cresko, W.A., Yan, Y.L., Baltrus, D.A., Amores, A., Singer, A., Rodriguez-Mari, A., and Postlethwait, J.H. (2003) Genome duplication, subfunction partitioning, and lineage divergence: Sox9 in stickleback and zebrafish. Developmental Dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists. 228(3):480-489.
Abstract
Teleosts are the most species-rich group of vertebrates, and a genome duplication (tetraploidization) event in ray-fin fish appears to have preceded this remarkable explosion of biodiversity. What is the relationship of the ray-fin genome duplication to the teleost radiation? Genome duplication may have facilitated lineage divergence by partitioning different ancestral gene subfunctions among co-orthologs of tetrapod genes in different teleost lineages. To test this hypothesis, we investigated gene expression patterns for Sox9 gene duplicates in stickleback and zebrafish, teleosts whose lineages diverged early in Euteleost evolution. Most expression domains appear to have been partitioned between Sox9a and Sox9b before the divergence of stickleback and zebrafish lineages, but some ancestral expression domains were distributed differentially in each lineage. We conclude that some gene subfunctions, as represented by lineage-specific expression domains, may have assorted differently in separate lineages and that these may have contributed to lineage diversification during teleost evolution.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping