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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION
Volume 334, Issue 1, Pages 25-36Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.22914
Keywords
nonvisual opsins; Paralichthys olivaceus; RPE-retinal G protein receptor (RGR); Teleost-specific genome duplication
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- Scientific and Technological Innovation Project from Laboratory for Marine Fisheries and Aquaculture, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology [2015ASKJ02]
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Opsins play important roles in the image-forming visual pathways and numerous biological systems such as the biological clock and circadian rhythm. However, the nonvisual opsins involved in nonimage forming process are not clear to date. The aim of this study was to characterize nonvisual opsins in Paralichthys olivaceus. A total of 24 nonvisual opsin genes were identified. Expressions of these genes in eye, brain, heart, testis, and fin were investigated by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR). Testis contained a surprisingly large number of nonvisual opsins including Opn4m2, Tmt2a, Tmt3b, Opn3, RRH, Opn7a, and Opn7b. Syntenic and phylogenetic analyses confirmed that the RGRa and RGRb originated from the teleost-specific genome duplication (TSGD). qRT-PCR results demonstrated high RGRa and RGRb expression in the eye, while the expression levels in the brain, heart, testis, and fin were relatively weak. In situ hybridization results presented here revealed the presence of both RGRa and RGRb mRNA-positive signals in the ganglion cell layer but absence in the intracellular compartment of retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and Muller glial cells. Therefore, we hypothesized that RGRa and RGRb had undergone subfunctionalization in P. olivaceus after TSGD. In conclusion, this study provides novel insights into the evolutionary fates of the RGR genes, still, further studies need to be done to explore the mechanism about the lack of RGR genes' expression in RPE.
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