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Title: The genomic substrate for adaptive radiation in African cichlid fish
Author(s): Brawand, David
Wagner, Catherine E
Lee, Yang I
Malinsky, Milan
Keller, Irene
Fan, Shaohua
Simakov, Oleg
Ng, Alvin Y
Lim, Zhi Wei
Bezault, Etienne
Turner-Maier, Jason
Johnson, Jeremy
Alcazar, Rosa
Noh, Hyun Ji
Penman, David
Contact Email: d.j.penman@stir.ac.uk
Keywords: Genome evolution
Evolution
Comparative genomics
Evolutionary biology
Issue Date: Sep-2014
Date Deposited: 9-Sep-2015
Citation: Brawand D, Wagner CE, Lee YI, Malinsky M, Keller I, Fan S, Simakov O, Ng AY, Lim ZW, Bezault E, Turner-Maier J, Johnson J, Alcazar R, Noh HJ & Penman D (2014) The genomic substrate for adaptive radiation in African cichlid fish. Nature, 513 (7518), pp. 375-381. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13726
Abstract: Cichlid fishes are famous for large, diverse and replicated adaptive radiations in the Great Lakes of East Africa. To understand the molecular mechanisms underlying cichlid phenotypic diversity, we sequenced the genomes and transcriptomes of five lineages of African cichlids: the Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus), an ancestral lineage with low diversity; and four members of the East African lineage: Neolamprologus brichardi/pulcher (older radiation, Lake Tanganyika), Metriaclima zebra (recent radiation, Lake Malawi), Pundamilia nyererei (very recent radiation, Lake Victoria), and Astatotilapia burtoni (riverine species around Lake Tanganyika). We found an excess of gene duplications in the East African lineage compared to tilapia and other teleosts, an abundance of non-coding element divergence, accelerated coding sequence evolution, expression divergence associated with transposable element insertions, and regulation by novel microRNAs. In addition, we analysed sequence data from sixty individuals representing six closely related species from Lake Victoria, and show genome-wide diversifying selection on coding and regulatory variants, some of which were recruited from ancient polymorphisms. We conclude that a number of molecular mechanisms shaped East African cichlid genomes, and that amassing of standing variation during periods of relaxed purifying selection may have been important in facilitating subsequent evolutionary diversification.
DOI Link: 10.1038/nature13726
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Notes: Additional co-authors: Pamela Russell, Bronwen Aken, Jessica Alföldi, Chris Amemiya, Naoual Azzouzi, Jean-François Baroiller, Frederique Barloy-Hubler, Aaron Berlin, Ryan Bloomquist, Karen L. Carleton, Matthew A. Conte, Helena D'Cotta, Orly Eshel, Leslie Gaffney, Francis Galibert, Hugo F. Gante, Sante Gnerre, Lucie Greuter, Richard Guyon, Natalie S. Haddad, Wilfried Haerty, Rayna M. Harris, Hans A. Hofmann, Thibaut Hourlier, Gideon Hulata, David B. Jaffe, Marcia Lara, Alison P. Lee, Iain MacCallum, Salome Mwaiko, Masato Nikaido, Hidenori Nishihara, Catherine Ozouf-Costaz, Dariusz Przybylski, Michaelle Rakotomanga, Suzy C. P. Renn, Filipe J. Ribeiro, Micha Ron, Walter Salzburger, Luis Sanchez-Pulido, M. Emilia Santos, Steve Searle, Ted Sharpe, Ross Swofford, Frederick J. Tan, Louise Williams, Sarah Young, Shuangye Yin, Norihiro Okada, Thomas D. Kocher, Eric A. Miska, Eric S. Lander, Byrappa Venkatesh, Russell D. Fernald, Axel Meyer, Chris P. Ponting, J. Todd Streelman, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Ole Seehausen & Federica Di Palma
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