Cheng, J., Sedlazek, F., Altmuller, J., Nolte, A. W. (September 2015) Ectodysplasin signalling genes and phenotypic evolution in sculpins (Cottus). Proc Biol Sci, 282 (1815). ISSN 1471-2954 (Electronic)0962-8452 (Linking)
Abstract
Despite their deeply conserved function among vertebrates, ectodysplasin (Eda) signalling genes are involved in microevolutionary change in humans and sticklebacks. If such a dual role is common, Eda signalling genes constitute hotspots for morphological evolution. Variation in sculpin (Cottus) skin prickling and body shape resembles patterns caused by variation in Eda signalling in sticklebacks. We mapped Eda signalling genes and performed quantitative trait locus mapping in crosses between Cottus rhenanus and Cottus perifretum. A genomic region containing the Eda receptor (Edar) was strongly associated with prickling and contributed to shape. The expression of Edar in developing prickles and skeletal elements in Cottus was confirmed by in situ hybridization. Coding sequence changes between Edar alleles in C. rhenanus and C. perifretum exceeded sequence differentiation in other vertebrates. However, it is likely that additional genetic elements besides coding changes affect the phenotypic variation. Although the phenotype in a natural hybrid lineage between C. rhenanus and C. perifretum resembles C. perifretum, the respective coding Edar alleles are not fully fixed (88.6%). Hence, our results support an involvement of Eda signalling in microevolutionary changes, but imply that the Edar gene is affected by multiple evolutionary processes that vary among freshwater sculpins.
| Item Type: | Paper |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | body shape convergent evolution hybrid intermediacy lateral line scales |
| Subjects: | bioinformatics > computational biology evolution bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > genes, structure and function > gene expression |
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| Communities: | CSHL labs > Schatz lab |
| Depositing User: | Matt Covey |
| Date: | 22 September 2015 |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Sep 2015 16:02 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Jul 2021 18:53 |
| PMCID: | PMC4614746 |
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| URI: | https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/31879 |
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