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GENOME BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
Volume 13, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evab190
Keywords
polyploidy; genome stability; genome architecture; allopolyploidy; fractionation; fish
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- University at Buffalo
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The study on the genome of the Chinese sucker revealed a catostomid-specific whole-genome duplication event, with strong conserved synteny and approximately even distribution of gene content and repetitive elements across homeologous chromosomes. This duplication event provides an independent example of genome evolution following WGD in animals, showing extreme end of conserved genome architecture over at least 25.2 million years.
Fishes of the family Catostomidae (suckers; Teleostei: Cypriniformes) are hypothesized to have undergone an allopolyploidy event approximately 60 Ma. However, genomic evidence has previously been unavailable to assess this hypothesis. We sequenced and assembled the first chromosome-level catostomid genome, Chinese sucker (Myxocyprinus asiaticus), and present clear evidence of a catostomid-specific whole-genome duplication (WGD) event (Cat-4R). Our results reveal remarkably strong, conserved synteny since this duplication event, as well as between Myxocyprinus and an unduplicated outgroup, zebrafish (Danio rerio). Gene content and repetitive elements are also approximately evenly distributed across homeologous chromosomes, suggesting that both subgenomes retain some function, with no obvious bias in gene fractionation or subgenome dominance. The Cat-4R duplication provides another independent example of genome evolution following WGD in animals, in this case at the extreme end of conserved genome architecture over at least 25.2 Myr since the duplication. The M. asiaticus genome is a useful resource for researchers interested in understanding genome evolution following WGD in animals.
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