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SCIENCE
Volume 344, Issue 6191, Pages 1522-1525Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1254432
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- NSF grant MCB [1144012]
- NSF grant CNS [1248109]
- NSF grant DEB [0741450]
- W.M. Keck Foundation
- NIH [R01 GM084879, R01 GM088670, 1SC1GM092297-01A1]
- Texas A&M University Health Science Center College of Medicine
- Cornell University Center for Vertebrate Genomics
- University of Wisconsin Genetics NIH Graduate Training Grant
- Morgridge Graduate Fellowship
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Division Of Environmental Biology [1354511] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr
- Division Of Computer and Network Systems [1248109] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Little is known about the genetic basis of convergent traits that originate repeatedly over broad taxonomic scales. The myogenic electric organ has evolved six times in fishes to produce electric fields used in communication, navigation, predation, or defense. We have examined the genomic basis of the convergent anatomical and physiological origins of these organs by assembling the genome of the electric eel (Electrophorus electricus) and sequencing electric organ and skeletal muscle transcriptomes from three lineages that have independently evolved electric organs. Our results indicate that, despite millions of years of evolution and large differences in the morphology of electric organ cells, independent lineages have leveraged similar transcription factors and developmental and cellular pathways in the evolution of electric organs.
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