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GENOME BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
卷 5, 期 4, 页码 711-722出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evt041
关键词
gene duplication; olfaction; dN; dS
资金
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan [21227002]
- JSPS Asia-Africa Science Platform Program
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [21227002, 221S0002] Funding Source: KAKEN
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Division Of Environmental Biology [1143920] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Fish use olfaction to sense a variety of nonvolatile chemical signals in water. However, the evolutionary importance of olfaction in species-rich cichlids is controversial. Here, we determined an almost complete sequence of the vomeronasal type 2 receptor-like (OlfC: putative amino acids receptor in teleosts) gene cluster using the bacterial artificial chromosome library of the Lake Victoria cichlid, Haplochromis chilotes. In the cluster region, we found 61 intact OlfC genes, which is the largest number of OlfC genes identified among the seven teleost fish investigated to date. Data mining of the Oreochromis niloticus (Nile tilapia) draft genome sequence, and genomic Southern hybridization analysis revealed that the ancestor of all modern cichlids had already developed almost the same OlfC gene repertoire, which was accomplished by lineage-specific gene expansions. Furthermore, comparison of receptor sequences showed that recently duplicated paralogs are more variable than orthologs of different species at particular sites that were predicted to be involved in amino acid selectivity. Thus, the increase of paralogs through gene expansion may lead to functional diversification in detection of amino acids. This study implies that cichlids have developed a potent capacity to detect a variety of amino acids (and their derivatives) through OlfCs, which may have contributed to the extraordinary diversity of their feeding habitats.
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