Hagfish genome illuminates vertebrate whole genome duplications and their evolutionary consequences

Autor: Daqi Yu, Yandong Ren, Masahiro Uesaka, Alan J. S. Beavan, Matthieu Muffato, Jieyu Shen, Yongxin Li, Iori Sato, Wenting Wan, James W. Clark, Joseph N. Keating, Emily M. Carlisle, Richard P. Dearden, Sam Giles, Emma Randle, Robert S. Sansom, Roberto Feuda, James F. Fleming, Fumiaki Sugahara, Carla Cummins, Mateus Patricio, Wasiu Akanni, Salvatore D’Aniello, Cristiano Bertolucci, Naoki Irie, Cantas Alev, Guojun Sheng, Alex de Mendoza, Ignacio Maeso, Manuel Irimia, Bastian Fromm, Kevin J. Peterson, Sabyasachi Das, Masayuki Hirano, Jonathan P. Rast, Max D. Cooper, Jordi Paps, Davide Pisani, Shigeru Kuratani, Fergal J. Martin, Wen Wang, Philip C. J. Donoghue, Yong E. Zhang, Juan Pascual-Anaya
Rok vydání: 2023
Popis: Whole genome duplications (WGDs) are major events that drastically reshape genome architecture and are causally associated with organismal innovations and radiations1. The 2R Hypothesis suggests that two WGD events (1R and 2R) occurred during early vertebrate evolution2,3. However, the veracity and timing of the 2R event relative to the divergence of gnathostomes (jawed vertebrates) and cyclostomes (jawless hagfishes and lampreys) is unresolved4-6 and whether these WGD events underlie vertebrate phenotypic diversification remains elusive7. Here we present the genome of the inshore hagfish, Eptatretus burgeri. Through comparative analysis with lamprey and gnathostome genomes, we reconstruct the early events in cyclostome genome evolution, leveraging insights into the ancestral vertebrate genome. Genome-wide synteny and phylogenetic analyses support a scenario in which 1R occurred in the vertebrate stem-lineage during the early Cambrian, and the 2R event occurred in the gnathostome stem-lineage in the late Cambrian after its divergence from cyclostomes. We find that the genome of stem-cyclostomes experienced two additional, independent genome duplications (herein CR1 and CR2). Functional genomic and morphospace analyses demonstrate that WGD events generally contribute to developmental evolution with similar changes in the regulatory genome of both vertebrate groups. However, appreciable morphological diversification occurred only after the 2R event, questioning the general expectation that WGDs lead to leaps of morphological complexity7.
Databáze: OpenAIRE