Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
Volume 149, Issue -, Pages 341-347Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2020.01.207
Keywords
Comparative genomics; Schizothoracinae; Accelerated evolution; Saline and alkaline adaptation
Funding
- Field Research Fund of University of Pennsylvania Biology Department
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Tibetan Plateau imposes extremely inhospitable environment on most wildlife. Besides the harsh aquatic environment including hypoxia and chronic cold, high salinity and alkalinity is an increasing threat to Tibetan endemic fishes. Previous genome-wide studies identified key genes contributed to highland fish adaptation to hypoxia and long-term cold, while our understanding of saline and alkaline adaptation in Tibetan fish remains limited. In this study, we performed a comparative genomics analysis in a saline lake-dwelling highland fish Gymnocyptis przewalskii, aimed to identify candidate genes that contributed to saline and alkaline adaptation. We found elevated genome-wide rate of molecular evolution in G. przewaiskii relative to lowland teleost fish species. In addition, we found nine genes encoding biological macromolecules associated with ion transport functions underwent accelerated evolution in G. przewalskii, which broadly expressed across kidney, gill, liver, spleen, brain and muscle tissues. Moreover, we found putative evidence of ion transport under selection was interacted by co-expression in G. przewalskii adaptation to high salinity and alkalinity environment of Lake Qinghai. Taken together, our comparative genomics study identified a set of rapidly evolving ion transport genes and transcriptomic signatures in Schizothoracine fish adaptation to saline and alkaline environment on the Tibetan Plateau. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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