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Features of the ancestral bilaterian inferred from Platynereis dumerilii ParaHox genes
BACKGROUND: The ParaHox gene cluster is the evolutionary sister to the Hox cluster. Whilst the role of the Hox cluster in patterning the anterior-posterior axis of bilaterian animals is well established, and the organisation of vertebrate Hox clusters is intimately linked to gene regulation, much le...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2723086/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19627570 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-7-43 |
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author | Hui, Jerome HL Raible, Florian Korchagina, Natalia Dray, Nicolas Samain, Sylvie Magdelenat, Ghislaine Jubin, Claire Segurens, Béatrice Balavoine, Guillaume Arendt, Detlev Ferrier, David EK |
author_facet | Hui, Jerome HL Raible, Florian Korchagina, Natalia Dray, Nicolas Samain, Sylvie Magdelenat, Ghislaine Jubin, Claire Segurens, Béatrice Balavoine, Guillaume Arendt, Detlev Ferrier, David EK |
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description | BACKGROUND: The ParaHox gene cluster is the evolutionary sister to the Hox cluster. Whilst the role of the Hox cluster in patterning the anterior-posterior axis of bilaterian animals is well established, and the organisation of vertebrate Hox clusters is intimately linked to gene regulation, much less is known about the more recently discovered ParaHox cluster. ParaHox gene clustering, and its relationship to expression, has only been described in deuterostomes. Conventional protostome models (Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans) are secondarily derived with respect to ParaHox genes, suffering gene loss and cluster break-up. RESULTS: We provide the first evidence for ParaHox gene clustering from a less-derived protostome animal, the annelid Platynereis dumerilii. Clustering of these genes is thus not a sole preserve of the deuterostome lineage within Bilateria. This protostome ParaHox cluster is not entirely intact however, with Pdu-Cdx being on the opposite end of the same chromosome arm from Pdu-Gsx and Pdu-Xlox. From the genomic sequence around the P. dumerilii ParaHox genes the neighbouring genes are identified, compared with other taxa, and the ancestral arrangement deduced. CONCLUSION: We relate the organisation of the ParaHox genes to their expression, and from comparisons with other taxa hypothesise that a relatively complex pattern of ParaHox gene expression existed in the protostome-deuterostome ancestor, which was secondarily simplified along several invertebrate lineages. Detailed comparisons of the gene content around the ParaHox genes enables the reconstruction of the genome surrounding the ParaHox cluster of the protostome-deuterostome ancestor, which existed over 550 million years ago. |
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spelling | pubmed-27230862009-08-08 Features of the ancestral bilaterian inferred from Platynereis dumerilii ParaHox genes Hui, Jerome HL Raible, Florian Korchagina, Natalia Dray, Nicolas Samain, Sylvie Magdelenat, Ghislaine Jubin, Claire Segurens, Béatrice Balavoine, Guillaume Arendt, Detlev Ferrier, David EK BMC Biol Research Article BACKGROUND: The ParaHox gene cluster is the evolutionary sister to the Hox cluster. Whilst the role of the Hox cluster in patterning the anterior-posterior axis of bilaterian animals is well established, and the organisation of vertebrate Hox clusters is intimately linked to gene regulation, much less is known about the more recently discovered ParaHox cluster. ParaHox gene clustering, and its relationship to expression, has only been described in deuterostomes. Conventional protostome models (Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans) are secondarily derived with respect to ParaHox genes, suffering gene loss and cluster break-up. RESULTS: We provide the first evidence for ParaHox gene clustering from a less-derived protostome animal, the annelid Platynereis dumerilii. Clustering of these genes is thus not a sole preserve of the deuterostome lineage within Bilateria. This protostome ParaHox cluster is not entirely intact however, with Pdu-Cdx being on the opposite end of the same chromosome arm from Pdu-Gsx and Pdu-Xlox. From the genomic sequence around the P. dumerilii ParaHox genes the neighbouring genes are identified, compared with other taxa, and the ancestral arrangement deduced. CONCLUSION: We relate the organisation of the ParaHox genes to their expression, and from comparisons with other taxa hypothesise that a relatively complex pattern of ParaHox gene expression existed in the protostome-deuterostome ancestor, which was secondarily simplified along several invertebrate lineages. Detailed comparisons of the gene content around the ParaHox genes enables the reconstruction of the genome surrounding the ParaHox cluster of the protostome-deuterostome ancestor, which existed over 550 million years ago. BioMed Central 2009-07-23 /pmc/articles/PMC2723086/ /pubmed/19627570 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-7-43 Text en Copyright © 2009 Hui et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Hui, Jerome HL Raible, Florian Korchagina, Natalia Dray, Nicolas Samain, Sylvie Magdelenat, Ghislaine Jubin, Claire Segurens, Béatrice Balavoine, Guillaume Arendt, Detlev Ferrier, David EK Features of the ancestral bilaterian inferred from Platynereis dumerilii ParaHox genes |
title | Features of the ancestral bilaterian inferred from Platynereis dumerilii ParaHox genes |
title_full | Features of the ancestral bilaterian inferred from Platynereis dumerilii ParaHox genes |
title_fullStr | Features of the ancestral bilaterian inferred from Platynereis dumerilii ParaHox genes |
title_full_unstemmed | Features of the ancestral bilaterian inferred from Platynereis dumerilii ParaHox genes |
title_short | Features of the ancestral bilaterian inferred from Platynereis dumerilii ParaHox genes |
title_sort | features of the ancestral bilaterian inferred from platynereis dumerilii parahox genes |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2723086/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19627570 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-7-43 |
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