Breakup of a homeobox cluster after genome duplication in teleosts
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In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 103, No. 27, 05.07.2006, p. 10369-72.
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T1 - Breakup of a homeobox cluster after genome duplication in teleosts
AU - Mulley, John F
AU - Chiu, Chi-hua
AU - Holland, Peter W H
PY - 2006/7/5
Y1 - 2006/7/5
N2 - Several families of homeobox genes are arranged in genomic clusters in metazoan genomes, including the Hox, ParaHox, NK, Rhox, and Iroquois gene clusters. The selective pressures responsible for maintenance of these gene clusters are poorly understood. The ParaHox gene cluster is evolutionarily conserved between amphioxus and human but is fragmented in teleost fishes. We show that two basal ray-finned fish, Polypterus and Amia, each possess an intact ParaHox cluster; this implies that the selective pressure maintaining clustering was lost after whole-genome duplication in teleosts. Cluster breakup is because of gene loss, not transposition or inversion, and the total number of ParaHox genes is the same in teleosts, human, mouse, and frog. We propose that this homeobox gene cluster is held together in chordates by the existence of interdigitated control regions that could be separated after locus duplication in the teleost fish.
AB - Several families of homeobox genes are arranged in genomic clusters in metazoan genomes, including the Hox, ParaHox, NK, Rhox, and Iroquois gene clusters. The selective pressures responsible for maintenance of these gene clusters are poorly understood. The ParaHox gene cluster is evolutionarily conserved between amphioxus and human but is fragmented in teleost fishes. We show that two basal ray-finned fish, Polypterus and Amia, each possess an intact ParaHox cluster; this implies that the selective pressure maintaining clustering was lost after whole-genome duplication in teleosts. Cluster breakup is because of gene loss, not transposition or inversion, and the total number of ParaHox genes is the same in teleosts, human, mouse, and frog. We propose that this homeobox gene cluster is held together in chordates by the existence of interdigitated control regions that could be separated after locus duplication in the teleost fish.
KW - Animals
KW - Fishes
KW - Gene Duplication
KW - Genes, Homeobox
KW - Humans
KW - Molecular Sequence Data
KW - Multigene Family
KW - Phylogeny
KW - Journal Article
KW - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
KW - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
U2 - 10.1073/pnas.0600341103
DO - 10.1073/pnas.0600341103
M3 - Article
C2 - 16801555
VL - 103
SP - 10369
EP - 10372
JO - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
JF - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
SN - 0027-8424
IS - 27
ER -