期刊
MOLECULAR ECOLOGY
卷 28, 期 23, 页码 5010-5031出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/mec.15217
关键词
adaptation; cichlids; colour vision; gene duplication; opsin genes; photoreceptor
资金
- Czech Science Foundation [16-09784Y]
- European Research Council
- Basler Stiftung fur Biologische Forschung
- Basler Stiftung fur Experimentelle Zoologie
- Swiss National Science Foundation [156405, 176039, PROMYS -166550]
- European Regional Development Fund
- State Budget of the Czech Republic [CZ.1.05/4.1.00/16.0347, CZ.2.16/3.1.00/21515]
- Czech-BioImaging [LM2015062]
- Novartis Universitat Basel Excellence Scholarship for Life Sciences
In deep-water animals, the visual sensory system is often challenged by the dim-light environment. Here, we focus on the molecular mechanisms involved in rapid deep-water adaptations. We examined visual system evolution in a small-scale yet phenotypically and ecologically diverse adaptive radiation, the species flock of cichlid fishes in deep crater lake Barombi Mbo in Cameroon, West Africa. We show that rapid adaptations of the visual system to the novel deep-water habitat primarily occurred at the level of gene expression changes rather than through nucleotide mutations, which is compatible with the young age of the radiation. Based on retinal bulk RNA sequencing of all eleven species, we found that the opsin gene expression pattern was substantially different for the deep-water species. The nine shallow-water species feature an opsin palette dominated by the red-sensitive (LWS) opsin, whereas the two unrelated deep-water species lack expression of LWS and the violet-sensitive (SWS2B) opsin, thereby shifting the cone sensitivity to the centre of the light spectrum. Deep-water species further predominantly express the green-sensitive RH2A alpha over RH2A beta. We identified one amino acid substitution in the RH2A alpha opsin specific to the deep-water species. We finally performed a comparative gene expression analysis in retinal tissue of deep- vs. shallow-water species. We thus identified 46 differentially expressed genes, many of which are associated with functions in vision, hypoxia management or circadian clock regulation, with some of them being associated with human eye diseases.
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