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Ziermann JM, Clement AM, Ericsson R, Olsson L. Cephalic muscle development in the Australian lungfish,Neoceratodus forsteri. J Morphol 2017; 279:494-516. [DOI: 10.1002/jmor.20784] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2017] [Revised: 10/29/2017] [Accepted: 11/20/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- Janine M. Ziermann
- Department of Anatomy; Howard University College of Medicine; Washington DC 20059
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- Department of Organismal Biology; Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18A; Uppsala 752 36 Sweden
- School of Biological Sciences, College of Science and Engineering; Flinders University; Adelaide South Australia 5042 Australia
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- Laboratory for the Study of Craniofacial Evolution & Development, Vinicna 7; Charles University in Prague; Prague 128 44 Czech Republic
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- Institut für Zoologie und Evolutionsforschung; Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena; Jena Germany
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Biscotti MA, Gerdol M, Canapa A, Forconi M, Olmo E, Pallavicini A, Barucca M, Schartl M. The Lungfish Transcriptome: A Glimpse into Molecular Evolution Events at the Transition from Water to Land. Sci Rep 2016; 6:21571. [PMID: 26908371 PMCID: PMC4764851 DOI: 10.1038/srep21571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2015] [Accepted: 01/20/2016] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Lungfish and coelacanths are the only living sarcopterygian fish. The phylogenetic relationship of lungfish to the last common ancestor of tetrapods and their close morphological similarity to their fossil ancestors make this species uniquely interesting. However their genome size, the largest among vertebrates, is hampering the generation of a whole genome sequence. To provide a partial solution to the problem, a high-coverage lungfish reference transcriptome was generated and assembled. The present findings indicate that lungfish, not coelacanths, are the closest relatives to land-adapted vertebrates. Whereas protein-coding genes evolve at a very slow rate, possibly reflecting a “living fossil” status, transposable elements appear to be active and show high diversity, suggesting a role for them in the remarkable expansion of the lungfish genome. Analyses of single genes and gene families documented changes connected to the water to land transition and demonstrated the value of the lungfish reference transcriptome for comparative studies of vertebrate evolution.
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- Maria Assunta Biscotti
- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell'Ambiente, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche, 60131, Ancona, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste, Via Licio Giorgeri 5, 34127, Trieste, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell'Ambiente, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche, 60131, Ancona, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell'Ambiente, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche, 60131, Ancona, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell'Ambiente, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche, 60131, Ancona, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste, Via Licio Giorgeri 5, 34127, Trieste, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell'Ambiente, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche, 60131, Ancona, Italy
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- Department Physiological Chemistry, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, 97074 Würzburg and Comprehensive Cancer Center Mainfranken, University Clinic Würzburg, 97078 Würzburg, Germany
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Morescalchi MA, Stingo V, Capriglione T. Cytogenetic analysis in Polypterus ornatipinnis (Actinopterygii, Cladistia, Polypteridae) and 5S rDNA. Mar Genomics 2011; 4:25-31. [PMID: 21429462 DOI: 10.1016/j.margen.2010.12.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2010] [Revised: 12/05/2010] [Accepted: 12/09/2010] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Polypteridae is a family of archaic freshwater African fish that constitute an interesting subject for the study of the karyological evolution in vertebrates, on account of their primitive morphological characters and peculiar relationships with lower Osteichthyans. In this paper, a cytogenetic analysis on twenty specimens of both sexes of Polypterus ornatipinnis the ornate "bichir", coming from the Congo River basin, was performed by using both classical and molecular techniques. The karyotypic formula (2n=36; FN=72) was composed of 26 M+10 SM. The Alu I banding, performed to characterize heterochromatin in this species, was mainly centromeric. Both the chromosome location of the ribosomal 5S and 18S rRNA genes were examined by using Ag-NOR, classical C-banding, CMA(3) staining and FISH. CMA(3) marked all centromerical regions and showed the presence of two GC rich regions on the p arm of the chromosome pair n°1 and on the q arm of the pair n°14. Staining with Ag-NOR marked the only telomeric region of the chromosome n°1 p arm. After PCR, the 5S rDNA in this species was cloned, sequenced and analyzed. In the 665bp 5S rDNA sequence of P.ornatipinnis, a conserved 120bp gene region for the 5S rDNA was identified, followed by a non-transcribed variable spacer (NTS) which included simple repeats, microsatellites and a fragment of a non-LTR retrotransposon R-TEX. FISH with 5S rDNA marked the subtelomeric region of the q arm of the chromosome pair n°14, previously marked by CMA(3). FISH with 18S rDNA marked the telomeric region of the p arm of the pair n°1, previously marked both by Ag-NOR and CMA(3). The (GATA)(7) repeats marked the telomeric regions of all chromosome pairs, with the exclusion of the n°1, n°3 and n°14; hybridization with telomeric probes (TTAGGG)(n) showed signals at the end of all chromosomes. Karyotype evolution in Polypterus genus was finally discussed, including the new data obtained.
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- Maria Alessandra Morescalchi
- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, via Vivaldi 43, 81100 Caserta, Italy.
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Iftikar FI, Patel M, Ip YK, Wood CM. The influence of feeding on aerial and aquatic oxygen consumption, nitrogenous waste excretion, and metabolic fuel usage in the African lungfish, Protopterus annectens. CAN J ZOOL 2008. [DOI: 10.1139/z08-052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We studied the utilization of air versus water as a respiratory medium for O2consumption (Mo2) in the bimodally breathing African lungfish, Protopterus annectens (Owen, 1839), (151.2 ± 3.7 g) at 26–28 °C. We also investigated the impact of a single meal on this respiratory allocation and nitrogenous waste excretion in lungfish entrained to a 48 h feeding cycle. Correction for the “microbial blank” was found to be critically important in assessing the aquatic component of Mo2. After correction, total Mo2was low (~1000 μmol·kg–1·h–1), and lungfish took about 40% of Mo2from water and 60% from air. Following a meal of chironomid larvae (3.3% of body mass), Mo2values from both air and water increased in proportion over the first 3 h and continued to increase to a peak at 5–8 h postfeeding, at which point total Mo2(still 40% from water) was approximately 2.5-fold greater than the prefeeding level. When the same fish, entrained to the same 48 h feeding regime, were fasted, Mo2declined then later increased prior to the next anticipated feeding. In fed fish, the elevation in Mo2relative to fasted values was approximately 3-fold at 0–3 h and 9-fold at 5–8 h. This specific dynamic action (SDA) effect lasted until 23–26 h and amounted to only 9.5% of the oxycalorific content of the ingested meal. N-waste efflux was only slightly elevated after feeding, where there was a tendency for greater urea–N excretion (significant at 42–48 h); however, the lungfish remained ammoniotelic overall during the 48 h postfeeding period.
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- F. I. Iftikar
- Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada
- Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 117543, Republic of Singapore
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- Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada
- Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 117543, Republic of Singapore
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- Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada
- Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 117543, Republic of Singapore
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- Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada
- Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 117543, Republic of Singapore
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Morescalchi MA, Liguori I, Rocco L, Archimandritis A, Stingo V. Karyotypic characterization and genomic organization of the 5S rDNA in Polypterus senegalus (Osteichthyes, Polypteridae). Genetica 2007; 132:179-86. [PMID: 17587184 DOI: 10.1007/s10709-007-9160-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2006] [Accepted: 05/29/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Polypteridae (Cladistia) is a family of archaic fishes, confined to African freshwaters. On account of their primitiveness in anatomical and morphological characters and mosaic relationships among lower Osteichthyans fishes, they constitute an important subject for the study of evolution in vertebrates. Very little is known about the karyological structure of these species. In this article, a cytogenetic analysis on twenty specimens of Polypterus senegalus (Cuvier, 1829) was performed using both classical and molecular techniques. Karyotype (2n=36; FN=72), chromosome location of telomeric sequences (TTAGGG)(n), (GATA)(7) repeats and ribosomal 5S and 18S rRNA genes were examined by using Ag-NOR, classical C-banding, CMA(3) staining and FISH. Staining with Ag-NOR showed the presence of two GC rich NORs on the p arm of the chromosome pair no. 1. CMA(3) marked all centromerical and some (no. 1 and no. 14) telomeric regions. FISH with 5S rDNA marked the subtelomeric region of the q arm of the chromosome pair no. 14. FISH with 18S rDNA marked the telomeric region of the p arm of the chromosome pair no. 1, previously marked by Ag-NOR. (GATA)(7) repeats marked the subtelomeric regions of all chromosome pairs, with the exclusion of the no. 1, 3 and 14. Hybridization with telomeric probes (TTAGGG)(n) showed bright signals at the end of all chromosomes. After cloning, the 5SrDNA alignment revealed an organization of sequences made up of two different classes of tandem arrays (5S type I and 5S type II) of different lengths.
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- Maria Alessandra Morescalchi
- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Via Vivaldi 43, 81100 Caserta, Italy.
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Morescalchi MA, Liguori I, Rocco L, Stingo V. Karyotypic characterization and genomic organization of the 5S rDNA in Erpetoichthys calabaricus (Osteichthyes, Polypteridae). Genetica 2006; 131:209-16. [PMID: 17136578 DOI: 10.1007/s10709-006-9119-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2006] [Accepted: 10/20/2006] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Polypterids are a group of Osteichthyan fish whose evolutionary relationships with closer basal ray-finned and lobe-finned fish have been disputed since their discovery. Very little is known about the evolutive karyology in the whole Polypteriformes group. In order to fill this gap, a cytogenetic analysis of Erpetoichthys calabaricus species was performed, using both classical and molecular techniques. Karyotype structure (2n = 36; FN = 72), chromosome location of telomeric sequences (TTAGGG)n and ribosomal 5S and 18S rRNA genes were examined in twenty specimens of E. calabaricus by using Ag-NOR, classical C-banding, sequential CMA3/4',6-diaminidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) staining and fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH). CMA3 marked all centromerical and some (no. 1 and no. 15) telomeric regions. Staining with Ag-NOR and CMA3 showed the presence of two NORs on the p arm of the chromosome pair no. 1. Hybridization with telomeric probes (TTAGGG)n showed signals at the end of all chromosomes. 5S rDNA was cloned and sequenced. After the alignment, the 5S rRNA sequences revealed an organization made up of two different classes of tandem arrays (type I and type II). FISH with 5S rDNA marked the telomeric regions of the small chromosome pair no. 15, while FISH with 18S rDNA marked the telomeric region of the pair no. 1. The results obtained were compared with cariological data on closer species now available in literature.
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- Maria Alessandra Morescalchi
- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Via Vivaldi 43, 81100, Caserta, Italy.
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Rocco L, Costagliola D, Morescalchi MA, Stingo V. A molecular approach to systematics of Polypteriformes among Osteichthyes. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004. [DOI: 10.1080/11250000409356594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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