The Scaly-foot Snail genome and implications for the origins of biomineralised armour
| Autor: | Weipeng Zhang, Wai Chuen Wong, Hiromi Watanabe, Chong Chen, Jack C.H. Ip, Runsheng Li, Norio Miyamoto, Ting Xu, Jian-Wen Qiu, Yoshihiro Takaki, Kazuho Ikeo, Yi Lan, Jin Sun, Yanan Sun, Kazutoshi Yoshitake, Nobuyuki Fujii, Pei-Yuan Qian, Dass Bissessur, Julia D. Sigwart, Tomo-o Watsuji, Ken Takai |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Biomineralization
0106 biological sciences 0301 basic medicine Scale (anatomy) Chemistry(all) Evolution Range (biology) Science Gastropoda Snails Gene Expression General Physics and Astronomy Genomics Snail Physics and Astronomy(all) 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Genome Article General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Evolution Molecular 03 medical and health sciences Phylogenetics biology.animal Animals Scaly foot lcsh:Science Phylogeny Whole genome sequencing Multidisciplinary Whole Genome Sequencing biology Fossils Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology(all) General Chemistry Biological Evolution 030104 developmental biology Mollusca Evolutionary biology lcsh:Q Transcriptome |
| Zdroj: | Nature Communications, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2020) Sun, J, Chen, C, Miyamoto, N, Li, R, Sigwart, J D, Xu, T, Sun, Y, Wong, W C, Ip, J C H, Zhang, W, Lan, Y, Bissessur, D, Watsuji, T O, Watanabe, H K, Takaki, Y, Ikeo, K, Fujii, N, Yoshitake, K, Qiu, J W, Takai, K & Qian, P Y 2020, ' The Scaly-foot Snail genome and implications for the origins of biomineralised armour ', Nature Communications, vol. 11, no. 1, 1657 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15522-3 Nature Communications |
| ISSN: | 2041-1723 |
| Popis: | The Scaly-foot Snail, Chrysomallon squamiferum, presents a combination of biomineralised features, reminiscent of enigmatic early fossil taxa with complex shells and sclerites such as sachtids, but in a recently-diverged living species which even has iron-infused hard parts. Thus the Scaly-foot Snail is an ideal model to study the genomic mechanisms underlying the evolutionary diversification of biomineralised armour. Here, we present a high-quality whole-genome assembly and tissue-specific transcriptomic data, and show that scale and shell formation in the Scaly-foot Snail employ independent subsets of 25 highly-expressed transcription factors. Comparisons with other lophotrochozoan genomes imply that this biomineralisation toolkit is ancient, though expression patterns differ across major lineages. We suggest that the ability of lophotrochozoan lineages to generate a wide range of hard parts, exemplified by the remarkable morphological disparity in Mollusca, draws on a capacity for dynamic modification of the expression and positioning of toolkit elements across the genome. The Scaly-foot Snail, Chrysomallon squamiferum, is a model for understanding the evolution of biomineralised armour. Here, the authors present a chromosome-level reference genome assembly and tissue-specific transcriptomic data for this enigmatic organism. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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