期刊
PIGMENT CELL & MELANOMA RESEARCH
卷 32, 期 4, 页码 510-527出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/pcmr.12776
关键词
camouflage; chromatophore; feeding; hormone; MCH1; MCH2; melanin-concentrating hormone; melanocyte; neuron; pigmentation
资金
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- BioTalent Canada award
Different camouflages work best with some background matching colour. Our understanding of the evolution of skin colour is based mainly on the genetics of pigmentation (background matching), with little known about the evolution of the neuroendocrine systems that facilitate background adaptation through colour phenotypic plasticity. To address the latter, we studied the evolution in vertebrates of three genes, pomc, pmch and pmchl, that code for a-MSH and two melanin-concentrating hormones (MCH and MCHL). These hormones induce either dispersion/aggregation or the synthesis of pigments. We find that a-MSH is highly conserved during evolution, as is its role in dispersing/synthesizing pigments. Also conserved is the three-exon pmch gene that encodes MCH, which participates in feeding behaviours. In contrast, pmchl (known previously as pmch), is a teleost-specific intron-less gene. Our data indicate that in zebrafish, pmchl-expressing neurons extend axons to the pituitary, supportive of an MCHL hormonal role, whereas zebrafish and Xenopus pmch+ neurons send axons dorsally in the brain. The evolution of these genes and acquisition of hormonal status for MCHL explain different mechanisms used by vertebrates to background-adapt.
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