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Convergent evolution of gene expression in two high-toothed stickleback populations

FILONE TECNOLOGICO	TEMA
trasformazione e commercializzazione

RIASSUNTO

Changes in developmental gene regulatory networks enable evolved changes in morphology. These changes can be in cis regulatory elements that act in an allele-specific manner, or changes to the overall trans regulatory environment that interacts with cis regulatory sequences. Here we address several questions about the evolution of gene expression accompanying a convergently evolved constructive morphological trait, increases in tooth number in two independently derived freshwater populations of threespine stickleback fish (Gasterosteus aculeatus). Are convergently evolved cis and/or trans changes in gene expression associated with convergently evolved morphological evolution? Do cis or trans regulatory changes contribute more to gene expression changes accompanying an evolved morphological gain trait? Transcriptome data from dental tissue of ancestral low-toothed and two independently derived high-toothed stickleback populations revealed significantly shared gene expression changes that have convergently evolved in the two high-toothed populations. Comparing cis and trans regulatory changes using phased gene expression data from F1 hybrids, we found that trans regulatory changes were predominant and more likely to be shared among both high-toothed populations. In contrast, while cis regulatory changes have evolved in both high-toothed populations, overall these changes were distinct and not shared among high-toothed populations. Together these data suggest that a convergently evolved trait can occur through genetically distinct regulatory changes that converge on similar trans regulatory environments.

DATA

Data di pubblicazione: 13/06/2018

AUTORI

HART JAMES C
ELLIS NICHOLAS A
EISEN MICHAEL B
MILLER CRAIG T

ENTE DI AFFERENZA

DEPT MOLECULAR & CELL BIOLOGY UNIV CALIFORNIA BERKELEY CA USA
HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INST UNIV CALIFORNIA BERKELEY CA USA
UNIV ILLINOIS US

RIVISTA

PLoS Genetics, 14(6), e1007443

IMPACT FACTOR

5,030

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