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Gerwin J, Torres-Dowdall J, Brown TF, Meyer A. Expansion and Functional Diversification of Long-Wavelength-Sensitive Opsin in Anabantoid Fishes. J Mol Evol 2024; 92:432-448. [PMID: 38861038 PMCID: PMC11291592 DOI: 10.1007/s00239-024-10181-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2023] [Accepted: 05/25/2024] [Indexed: 06/12/2024]
Abstract
Gene duplication is one of the most important sources of novel genotypic diversity and the subsequent evolution of phenotypic diversity. Determining the evolutionary history and functional changes of duplicated genes is crucial for a comprehensive understanding of adaptive evolution. The evolutionary history of visual opsin genes is very dynamic, with repeated duplication events followed by sub- or neofunctionalization. While duplication of the green-sensitive opsins rh2 is common in teleost fish, fewer cases of multiple duplication events of the red-sensitive opsin lws are known. In this study, we investigate the visual opsin gene repertoire of the anabantoid fishes, focusing on the five lws opsin genes found in the genus Betta. We determine the evolutionary history of the lws opsin gene by taking advantage of whole-genome sequences of nine anabantoid species, including the newly assembled genome of Betta imbellis. Our results show that at least two independent duplications of lws occurred in the Betta lineage. The analysis of amino acid sequences of the lws paralogs of Betta revealed high levels of diversification in four of the seven transmembrane regions of the lws protein. Amino acid substitutions at two key-tuning sites are predicted to lead to differentiation of absorption maxima (λmax) between the paralogs within Betta. Finally, eye transcriptomics of B. splendens at different developmental stages revealed expression shifts between paralogs for all cone opsin classes. The lws genes are expressed according to their relative position in the lws opsin cluster throughout ontogeny. We conclude that temporal collinearity of lws expression might have facilitated subfunctionalization of lws in Betta and teleost opsins in general.
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- Jan Gerwin
- Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Division Signaling and Functional Genomics and Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA.
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cellular Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
- Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany
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- Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.
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Wei S, Yang Y, Zong Y, Yang Y, Guo M, Zhang Z, Zhang R, Ru S, Zhang X. Long-term exposure to prometryn damages the visual system and changes color preference of female zebrafish (Danio rerio). CHEMOSPHERE 2024; 363:142835. [PMID: 38996981 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2024.142835] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2024] [Revised: 07/09/2024] [Accepted: 07/10/2024] [Indexed: 07/14/2024]
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Color vision, initiated from the cone photoreceptors, is essential for fish to obtain environmental information. Although the visual impairment of triazine herbicide prometryn has been reported, data on the effect of herbicide such as prometryn on natural color sensitivity of fish is scarce. Here, zebrafish were exposed to prometryn (0, 1, 10, and 100 μg/L) from 2 h post-fertilization to 160 days post-fertilization, to explore the effect and underlying mechanism of prometryn on color perception. The results indicated that 10 and 100 μg/L prometryn shortened the height of red-green cone cells, and down-regulated expression of genes involved in light transduction pathways (arr3a, pde6h) and visual cycle (lrata, rpe65a); meanwhile, 1 μg/L prometryn increased all-trans-retinoic acid levels in zebrafish eyes, and up-regulated the expression of genes involved in retinoid metabolism (rdh10b, aldh1a2, cyp26a1), finally leading to weakened red and green color perception of female zebrafish. This study first clarified how herbicide such as prometryn affected color vision of a freshwater fish after a long-term exposure from both morphological and functional disruption, and its hazard on color vision mediated-ecologically relevant tasks should not be ignored.
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- Shuhui Wei
- Marine Life Science College, Ocean University of China, 5 Yushan Road, Qingdao, 266003, Shandong province, China
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- Marine Life Science College, Ocean University of China, 5 Yushan Road, Qingdao, 266003, Shandong province, China
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- Department of Ophthalmology, the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China
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- Marine Life Science College, Ocean University of China, 5 Yushan Road, Qingdao, 266003, Shandong province, China
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- Marine Life Science College, Ocean University of China, 5 Yushan Road, Qingdao, 266003, Shandong province, China
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- Marine Life Science College, Ocean University of China, 5 Yushan Road, Qingdao, 266003, Shandong province, China
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- Marine Life Science College, Ocean University of China, 5 Yushan Road, Qingdao, 266003, Shandong province, China
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- Marine Life Science College, Ocean University of China, 5 Yushan Road, Qingdao, 266003, Shandong province, China.
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- Marine Life Science College, Ocean University of China, 5 Yushan Road, Qingdao, 266003, Shandong province, China.
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Lin JJ, Wang FY, Chung WY, Wang TY. The genomic evolution of visual opsin genes in amphibians. Vision Res 2024; 222:108447. [PMID: 38906036 DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2024.108447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2023] [Revised: 05/15/2024] [Accepted: 05/16/2024] [Indexed: 06/23/2024]
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Among tetrapod (terrestrial) vertebrates, amphibians remain more closely tied to an amphibious lifestyle than amniotes, and their visual opsin genes may be adapted to this lifestyle. Previous studies have discussed physiological, morphological, and molecular changes in the evolution of amphibian vision. We predicted the locations of the visual opsin genes, their neighboring genes, and the tuning sites of the visual opsins, in 39 amphibian genomes. We found that all of the examined genomes lacked the Rh2 gene. The caecilian genomes have further lost the SWS1 and SWS2 genes; only the Rh1 and LWS genes were retained. The loss of the SWS1 and SWS2 genes in caecilians may be correlated with their cryptic lifestyles. The opsin gene syntenies were predicted to be highly similar to those of other bony vertebrates. Moreover, dual syntenies were identified in allotetraploid Xenopus laevis and X. borealis. Tuning site analysis showed that only some Caudata species might have UV vision. In addition, the S164A that occurred several times in LWS evolution might either functionally compensate for the Rh2 gene loss or fine-tuning visual adaptation. Our study provides the first genomic evidence for a caecilian LWS gene and a genomic viewpoint of visual opsin genes by reviewing the gains and losses of visual opsin genes, the rearrangement of syntenies, and the alteration of spectral tuning in the course of amphibians' evolution.
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- Jinn-Jy Lin
- National Center for High-performance Computing, National Applied Research Laboratories, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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- Taiwan Ocean Research Institute, National Applied Research Laboratories, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
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Bertinetti C, Härer A, Karagic N, Meyer A, Torres-Dowdall J. Repeated Divergence in Opsin Gene Expression Mirrors Photic Habitat Changes in Rapidly Evolving Crater Lake Cichlid Fishes. Am Nat 2024; 203:604-617. [PMID: 38635367 DOI: 10.1086/729420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/20/2024]
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AbstractSelection pressures differ along environmental gradients, and traits tightly linked to fitness (e.g., the visual system) are expected to track such variation. Along gradients, adaptation to local conditions might be due to heritable and nonheritable environmentally induced variation. Disentangling these sources of phenotypic variation requires studying closely related populations in nature and in the laboratory. The Nicaraguan lakes represent an environmental gradient in photic conditions from clear crater lakes to very turbid great lakes. From two old, turbid great lakes, Midas cichlid fish (Amphilophus cf. citrinellus) independently colonized seven isolated crater lakes of varying light conditions, resulting in a small adaptive radiation. We estimated variation in visual sensitivities along this photic gradient by measuring cone opsin gene expression among lake populations. Visual sensitivities observed in all seven derived crater lake populations shifted predictably in direction and magnitude, repeatedly mirroring changes in photic conditions. Comparing wild-caught and laboratory-reared fish revealed that 48% of this phenotypic variation is genetically determined and evolved rapidly. Decreasing intrapopulation variation as environments become spectrally narrower suggests that different selective landscapes operate along the gradient. We conclude that the power to predict phenotypic evolution along gradients depends on both the magnitude of environmental change and the selective landscape shape.
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Morel M, Zhukova A, Lemoine F, Gascuel O. Accurate Detection of Convergent Mutations in Large Protein Alignments With ConDor. Genome Biol Evol 2024; 16:evae040. [PMID: 38451738 PMCID: PMC10986858 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evae040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2023] [Revised: 01/30/2024] [Accepted: 02/22/2024] [Indexed: 03/09/2024] Open
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Evolutionary convergences are observed at all levels, from phenotype to DNA and protein sequences, and changes at these different levels tend to be correlated. Notably, convergent mutations can lead to convergent changes in phenotype, such as changes in metabolism, drug resistance, and other adaptations to changing environments. We propose a two-component approach to detect mutations subject to convergent evolution in protein alignments. The "Emergence" component selects mutations that emerge more often than expected, while the "Correlation" component selects mutations that correlate with the convergent phenotype under study. With regard to Emergence, a phylogeny deduced from the alignment is provided by the user and is used to simulate the evolution of each alignment position. These simulations allow us to estimate the expected number of mutations in a neutral model, which is compared to the observed number of mutations in the data studied. In Correlation, a comparative phylogenetic approach, is used to measure whether the presence of each of the observed mutations is correlated with the convergent phenotype. Each component can be used on its own, for example Emergence when no phenotype is available. Our method is implemented in a standalone workflow and a webserver, called ConDor. We evaluate the properties of ConDor using simulated data, and we apply it to three real datasets: sedge PEPC proteins, HIV reverse transcriptase, and fish rhodopsin. The results show that the two components of ConDor complement each other, with an overall accuracy that compares favorably to other available tools, especially on large datasets.
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- Marie Morel
- Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Unité Bioinformatique Evolutive, Paris, France
- Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, LBBE, UMR 5558, CNRS, VAS, Villeurbanne, 69100, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Unité Bioinformatique Evolutive, Paris, France
- Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Hub, Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Unité Bioinformatique Evolutive, Paris, France
- Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Hub, Paris, France
- Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNR Virus Des Infections Respiratoires, Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Unité Bioinformatique Evolutive, Paris, France
- Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (UMR 7205—CNRS, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, SU, EPHE, UA), Paris, France
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Schott RK, Fujita MK, Streicher JW, Gower DJ, Thomas KN, Loew ER, Bamba Kaya AG, Bittencourt-Silva GB, Guillherme Becker C, Cisneros-Heredia D, Clulow S, Davila M, Firneno TJ, Haddad CFB, Janssenswillen S, Labisko J, Maddock ST, Mahony M, Martins RA, Michaels CJ, Mitchell NJ, Portik DM, Prates I, Roelants K, Roelke C, Tobi E, Woolfolk M, Bell RC. Diversity and Evolution of Frog Visual Opsins: Spectral Tuning and Adaptation to Distinct Light Environments. Mol Biol Evol 2024; 41:msae049. [PMID: 38573520 PMCID: PMC10994157 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msae049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2023] [Revised: 02/07/2024] [Accepted: 02/26/2024] [Indexed: 04/05/2024] Open
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Visual systems adapt to different light environments through several avenues including optical changes to the eye and neurological changes in how light signals are processed and interpreted. Spectral sensitivity can evolve via changes to visual pigments housed in the retinal photoreceptors through gene duplication and loss, differential and coexpression, and sequence evolution. Frogs provide an excellent, yet understudied, system for visual evolution research due to their diversity of ecologies (including biphasic aquatic-terrestrial life cycles) that we hypothesize imposed different selective pressures leading to adaptive evolution of the visual system, notably the opsins that encode the protein component of the visual pigments responsible for the first step in visual perception. Here, we analyze the diversity and evolution of visual opsin genes from 93 new eye transcriptomes plus published data for a combined dataset spanning 122 frog species and 34 families. We find that most species express the four visual opsins previously identified in frogs but show evidence for gene loss in two lineages. Further, we present evidence of positive selection in three opsins and shifts in selective pressures associated with differences in habitat and life history, but not activity pattern. We identify substantial novel variation in the visual opsins and, using microspectrophotometry, find highly variable spectral sensitivities, expanding known ranges for all frog visual pigments. Mutations at spectral-tuning sites only partially account for this variation, suggesting that frogs have used tuning pathways that are unique among vertebrates. These results support the hypothesis of adaptive evolution in photoreceptor physiology across the frog tree of life in response to varying environmental and ecological factors and further our growing understanding of vertebrate visual evolution.
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- Ryan K Schott
- Department of Biology and Centre for Vision Research, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Biology, Amphibian and Reptile Diversity Research Center, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA
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- Department of Biology, Amphibian and Reptile Diversity Research Center, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA
- Natural History Museum, London, UK
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Department of Biology and One Health Microbiome Center, Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
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- Laboratorio de Zoología Terrestre, Instituto de Biodiversidad Tropical IBIOTROP, Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador
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- Centre for Conservation Ecology and Genomics, Institute for Applied Ecology, University of Canberra, Bruce, ACT, Australia
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- Laboratorio de Zoología Terrestre, Instituto de Biodiversidad Tropical IBIOTROP, Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Denver, Denver, USA
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- Department of Biodiversity and Center of Aquaculture—CAUNESP, I.B., São Paulo State University, Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Amphibian Evolution Lab, Biology Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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- Natural History Museum, London, UK
- Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, UK
- Island Biodiversity and Conservation Centre, University of Seychelles, Mahé, Seychelles
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- Natural History Museum, London, UK
- Island Biodiversity and Conservation Centre, University of Seychelles, Mahé, Seychelles
- School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
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- Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Newcastle, Newcastle 2308, Australia
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- Programa de Pós-graduação em Conservação da Fauna, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, Brazil
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
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- Department of Herpetology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Amphibian Evolution Lab, Biology Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Biology, Amphibian and Reptile Diversity Research Center, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA
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- Gabon Biodiversity Program, Center for Conservation and Sustainability, Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, Gamba, Gabon
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- Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
- Department of Herpetology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, USA
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Kojima K, Yanagawa M, Imamoto Y, Yamano Y, Wada A, Shichida Y, Yamashita T. Convergent mechanism underlying the acquisition of vertebrate scotopic vision. J Biol Chem 2024; 300:107175. [PMID: 38499150 PMCID: PMC11007431 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2024.107175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2024] [Revised: 03/10/2024] [Accepted: 03/13/2024] [Indexed: 03/20/2024] Open
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High sensitivity of scotopic vision (vision in dim light conditions) is achieved by the rods' low background noise, which is attributed to a much lower thermal activation rate (kth) of rhodopsin compared with cone pigments. Frogs and nocturnal geckos uniquely possess atypical rods containing noncanonical cone pigments that exhibit low kth, mimicking rhodopsin. Here, we investigated the convergent mechanism underlying the low kth of rhodopsins and noncanonical cone pigments. Our biochemical analysis revealed that the kth of canonical cone pigments depends on their absorption maximum (λmax). However, rhodopsin and noncanonical cone pigments showed a substantially lower kth than predicted from the λmax dependency. Given that the λmax is inversely proportional to the activation energy of the pigments in the Hinshelwood distribution-based model, our findings suggest that rhodopsin and noncanonical cone pigments have convergently acquired low frequency of spontaneous-activation attempts, including thermal fluctuations of the protein moiety, in the molecular evolutionary processes from canonical cone pigments, which contributes to highly sensitive scotopic vision.
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- Keiichi Kojima
- Department of Biophysics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
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- Cellular Informatics Laboratory, RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, Wako, Japan; Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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- Department of Biophysics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Comprehensive Education and Research Center, Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Kobe, Japan
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- Laboratory of Organic Chemistry for Life Science, Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Kobe, Japan
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- Department of Biophysics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; Research Organization for Science and Technology, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan
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- Department of Biophysics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
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Stieb SM, Cortesi F, Mitchell L, Jardim de Queiroz L, Marshall NJ, Seehausen O. Short-wavelength-sensitive 1 ( SWS1) opsin gene duplications and parallel visual pigment tuning support ultraviolet communication in damselfishes (Pomacentridae). Ecol Evol 2024; 14:e11186. [PMID: 38628922 PMCID: PMC11019301 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.11186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2023] [Revised: 03/05/2024] [Accepted: 03/12/2024] [Indexed: 04/19/2024] Open
Abstract
Damselfishes (Pomacentridae) are one of the most behaviourally diverse, colourful and species-rich reef fish families. One remarkable characteristic of damselfishes is their communication in ultraviolet (UV) light. Not only are they sensitive to UV, they are also prone to have UV-reflective colours and patterns enabling social signalling. Using more than 50 species, we aimed to uncover the evolutionary history of UV colour and UV vision in damselfishes. All damselfishes had UV-transmitting lenses, expressed the UV-sensitive SWS1 opsin gene, and most displayed UV-reflective patterns and colours. We find evidence for several tuning events across the radiation, and while SWS1 gene duplications are generally very rare among teleosts, our phylogenetic reconstructions uncovered two independent duplication events: one close to the base of the most species-rich clade in the subfamily Pomacentrinae, and one in a single Chromis species. Using amino acid comparisons, we found that known spectral tuning sites were altered several times in parallel across the damselfish radiation (through sequence change and duplication followed by sequence change), causing repeated shifts in peak spectral absorbance of around 10 nm. Pomacentrinae damselfishes expressed either one or both copies of SWS1, likely to further finetune UV-signal detection and differentiation. This highly advanced and modified UV vision among damselfishes, in particular the duplication of SWS1 among Pomacentrinae, might be seen as a key evolutionary innovation that facilitated the evolution of the exuberant variety of UV-reflectance traits and the diversification of this coral reef fish lineage.
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- Sara M. Stieb
- Center for Ecology, Evolution and BiogeochemistryEAWAG Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and TechnologyKastanienbaumSwitzerland
- Institute for Ecology and EvolutionUniversity of BernBernSwitzerland
- Queensland Brain InstituteThe University of QueenslandBrisbaneQueenslandAustralia
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- Queensland Brain InstituteThe University of QueenslandBrisbaneQueenslandAustralia
- School of the EnvironmentThe University of QueenslandBrisbaneAustralia
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- Queensland Brain InstituteThe University of QueenslandBrisbaneQueenslandAustralia
- Marine Eco‐Evo‐Devo UnitOkinawa Institute of Science and TechnologyOnna sonOkinawaJapan
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- Center for Ecology, Evolution and BiogeochemistryEAWAG Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and TechnologyKastanienbaumSwitzerland
- Institute for Ecology and EvolutionUniversity of BernBernSwitzerland
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- Queensland Brain InstituteThe University of QueenslandBrisbaneQueenslandAustralia
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- Center for Ecology, Evolution and BiogeochemistryEAWAG Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and TechnologyKastanienbaumSwitzerland
- Institute for Ecology and EvolutionUniversity of BernBernSwitzerland
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Sato K, Ohuchi H. Molecular Property, Manipulation, and Potential Use of Opn5 and Its Homologs. J Mol Biol 2024; 436:168319. [PMID: 37865286 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2023.168319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2023] [Revised: 10/08/2023] [Accepted: 10/16/2023] [Indexed: 10/23/2023]
Abstract
Animal opsin is a G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) and binds retinal as a chromophore to form a photopigment. The Opsin 5 (Opn5) group within the animal opsin family comprises a diverse array of related proteins, such as Opn5m, a protein conserved across all vertebrate lineages including mammals, and other members like Opn5L1 and Opn5L2 found in non-mammalian vertebrate genomes, and Opn6 found in non-therian vertebrate genomes, along with Opn5 homologs present in invertebrates. Although these proteins collectively constitute a single clade within the molecular phylogenetic tree of animal opsins, they exhibit markedly distinct molecular characteristics in areas such as retinal binding properties, photoreaction, and G-protein coupling specificity. Based on their molecular features, they are believed to play a significant role in physiological functions. However, our understanding of their precise physiological functions and molecular characteristics is still developing and only partially realized. Furthermore, their unique molecular characteristics of Opn5-related proteins suggest a high potential for their use as optogenetic tools through more specialized manipulations. This review intends to encapsulate our current understanding of Opn5, discuss potential manipulations of its molecular attributes, and delve into its prospective utility in the burgeoning field of animal opsin optogenetics.
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- Keita Sato
- Department of Cytology and Histology, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama City, Okayama 700-8558, Japan.
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- Department of Cytology and Histology, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama City, Okayama 700-8558, Japan
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Wang YY, Liang XF, Lu K. Knockout of SWS2 in zebrafish (Danio rerio) reveals its roles in feeding and phototactic behaviors. Gene 2024; 897:148059. [PMID: 38043833 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2023.148059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2023] [Revised: 10/30/2023] [Accepted: 11/30/2023] [Indexed: 12/05/2023]
Abstract
Common ancestor of vertebrates had four cone opsin subfamilies to obtain color vision: ultraviolet-sensitive (SWS1), blue-sensitive (SWS2), middle wavelength sensitive (RH2) and long wavelength sensitive (LWS). Nevertheless, eutherian mammals had lost the SWS2 and RH2 opsins during their nocturnal lifestyle. Many studies had demonstrated the role of SWS1 and LWS cones in feeding, mate choice and skin pigment cell formation. However, the role of SWS2 and RH2 cones remain elusive. In the present study, we used an ideal model visual system, zebrafish, which still have the four cone opsins, to generate a SWS2 knockout zebrafish line. Through various behavioral test, we found that sws2-/- zebrafish larvae exhibited increased food intake compared with WT. Additionally, there were significantly increased the gene expression of phototransduction pathways in sws2-/- zebrafish larvae. Compared to WT, mutant zebrafish showed weaker phototaxis of red light and changed sensitivity of yellow, red and blue lights. But both mutant and WT zebrafish preferred the red light than other wavelengths of light. Taken together, we proposed that SWS2 cone is not necessary for feeding and phototaxis in zebrafish.
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- Yu-Ye Wang
- College of Fisheries, Chinese Perch Research Center, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China; Engineering Research Center of Green development for Conventional Aquatic Biological Industry in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430070, China
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- College of Fisheries, Chinese Perch Research Center, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China; Engineering Research Center of Green development for Conventional Aquatic Biological Industry in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430070, China.
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- College of Fisheries, Chinese Perch Research Center, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China; Engineering Research Center of Green development for Conventional Aquatic Biological Industry in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430070, China
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Cai H, Zhang Y, Xiong Y, Liu Y, Sun F, Zhou Q, Wu Y, Ma H, Sun Y. Preference of juvenile tiger puffer for light spectrum and tank colours based on different body size and breeding background. Animal 2023; 17:101021. [PMID: 38061178 DOI: 10.1016/j.animal.2023.101021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2023] [Revised: 10/13/2023] [Accepted: 10/17/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023] Open
Abstract
As important environmental factors, the light spectra and tank colours have not received sufficient attention. Most fishes have the ability to perceive environment, distinguish colours, and exhibit preferences or aversions towards different environments, which can provide a reference for the design of their rearing environment. Tiger puffer (Takifugu rubripes) is an important mariculture species in China and East Asia, but its preference for illumination spectra and tank colours is unclear. This study focuses on the preferences of juvenile tiger puffers for different spectra and tank background colours in different rearing backgrounds and body sizes. The experiments were conducted in a preference testing device, and the behavioural videos were recorded and analysed using a motion behaviour tracking system (EthoVision XT 12). The results show that the puffers showed preference for short-wavelength lights ((i.e., cyan, green, etc.), avoidance of long-wavelength light (i.e., red) and less stay time in the full light spectrum and dark. For tank colours, the puffers showed a preference for light background colours (i.e., white), and avoidance of deep background colours (i.e., dark, red, etc.). Fish body sizes and original breeding environment could significantly affect the selective preference of juvenile puffer (P < 0.05). Large puffers preferred green tank colour than small ones, while small ones preferred grey and red. The puffers reared in green light and grey tank for 3 months preferred green light spectrum and green tank colour compared with those reared in full spectrum and grey tank, while the fish reared in full spectrum preferred grey tank colour and area without light. It was also found that the movement rate of juvenile puffers was affected by the light spectra and tank colours and was positively correlated with light wavelength (P < 0.05). Therefore, for tiger puffer breeding, short-wavelength light spectrums (cyan, green, etc.) and light-coloured tank backgrounds (white) are recommended. Long-wavelength Light-emitting diodes and dark tank colours should be avoided in breeding. This study would provide a reference basis for fish light spectra and background colour preference studies, as well as for the improvement of breeding welfare and production efficiency of juvenile tiger puffer.
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- Haowei Cai
- College of Fisheries and Life Science, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian 116023, China; Key Laboratory of Environment Controlled Aquaculture, Ministry of Education, Dalian 116023, China
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- College of Marine Science, Technology and Environment, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian 116023, China; Key Laboratory of Environment Controlled Aquaculture, Ministry of Education, Dalian 116023, China
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- College of Marine Science, Technology and Environment, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian 116023, China; Key Laboratory of Environment Controlled Aquaculture, Ministry of Education, Dalian 116023, China
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- Key Laboratory of Environment Controlled Aquaculture, Ministry of Education, Dalian 116023, China; College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- College of Marine Science, Technology and Environment, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian 116023, China; Key Laboratory of Environment Controlled Aquaculture, Ministry of Education, Dalian 116023, China
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- Key Laboratory of Environment Controlled Aquaculture, Ministry of Education, Dalian 116023, China; College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- College of Marine Science, Technology and Environment, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian 116023, China; Key Laboratory of Environment Controlled Aquaculture, Ministry of Education, Dalian 116023, China
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- College of Marine Science, Technology and Environment, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian 116023, China; Key Laboratory of Environment Controlled Aquaculture, Ministry of Education, Dalian 116023, China.
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- College of Marine Science, Technology and Environment, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian 116023, China; Key Laboratory of Environment Controlled Aquaculture, Ministry of Education, Dalian 116023, China
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Kleinau G, Ali AH, Wiechert F, Szczepek M, Schmidt A, Spahn CMT, Liebscher I, Schöneberg T, Scheerer P. Intramolecular activity regulation of adhesion GPCRs in light of recent structural and evolutionary information. Pharmacol Res 2023; 197:106971. [PMID: 38032292 DOI: 10.1016/j.phrs.2023.106971] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2023] [Revised: 10/25/2023] [Accepted: 10/25/2023] [Indexed: 12/01/2023]
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The class B2 of GPCRs known as adhesion G protein-coupled receptors (aGPCRs) has come under increasing academic and nonacademic research focus over the past decade due to their physiological importance as mechano-sensors in cell-cell and cell-matrix contexts. A major advance in understanding signal transduction of aGPCRs was achieved by the identification of the so-called Stachel sequence, which acts as an intramolecular agonist at the interface between the N terminus (Nt) and the seven-transmembrane helix domain (7TMD). Distinct extracellular signals received by the Nt are integrated at the Stachel into structural changes of the 7TMD towards an active state conformation. Until recently, little information was available on how the activation process of aGPCRs is realized at the molecular level. In the past three years several structures of the 7TMD plus the Stachel in complex with G proteins have been determined, which provide new insights into the architecture and molecular function of this receptor class. Herein, we review this structural information to extract common and distinct aGPCR features with particular focus on the Stachel binding site within the 7TMD. Our analysis extends the current view of aGPCR activation and exposes similarities and differences not only between diverse aGPCR members, but also compared to other GPCR classes.
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- Gunnar Kleinau
- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute of Medical Physics and Biophysics, Group Structural Biology of Cellular Signaling, Charitéplatz 1, D-10117 Berlin, Germany
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- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute of Medical Physics and Biophysics, Group Structural Biology of Cellular Signaling, Charitéplatz 1, D-10117 Berlin, Germany
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- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute of Medical Physics and Biophysics, Berlin, Germany
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- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute of Medical Physics and Biophysics, Group Structural Biology of Cellular Signaling, Charitéplatz 1, D-10117 Berlin, Germany
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- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute of Medical Physics and Biophysics, Group Structural Biology of Cellular Signaling, Charitéplatz 1, D-10117 Berlin, Germany
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- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute of Medical Physics and Biophysics, Berlin, Germany
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- Rudolf Schönheimer Institute of Biochemistry, Molecular Biochemistry, Medical Faculty, Johannisallee 30, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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- Rudolf Schönheimer Institute of Biochemistry, Molecular Biochemistry, Medical Faculty, Johannisallee 30, 04103 Leipzig, Germany; School of Medicine, University of Global Health Equity (UGHE), Kigali, Rwanda.
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- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute of Medical Physics and Biophysics, Group Structural Biology of Cellular Signaling, Charitéplatz 1, D-10117 Berlin, Germany; DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), Partner Site Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
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Springer MS, Emerling CA, Gatesy J. Three Blind Moles: Molecular Evolutionary Insights on the Tempo and Mode of Convergent Eye Degeneration in Notoryctes typhlops (Southern Marsupial Mole) and Two Chrysochlorids (Golden Moles). Genes (Basel) 2023; 14:2018. [PMID: 38002961 PMCID: PMC10671557 DOI: 10.3390/genes14112018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2023] [Revised: 10/20/2023] [Accepted: 10/25/2023] [Indexed: 11/26/2023] Open
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Golden moles (Chrysochloridae) and marsupial moles (Notoryctidae) are textbook examples of convergent evolution. Both taxa are highly adapted to subterranean lifestyles and have powerful limbs for digging through the soil/sand, ears that are adapted for low-frequency hearing, vestigial eyes that are covered by skin and fur, and the absence of optic nerve connections between the eyes and the brain. The eyes of marsupial moles also lack a lens as well as retinal rods and cones. Two hypotheses have been proposed to account for the greater degeneracy of the eyes of marsupial moles than golden moles. First, marsupial moles may have had more time to adapt to their underground habitat than other moles. Second, the eyes of marsupial moles may have been rapidly and recently vestigialized to (1) reduce the injurious effects of sand getting into the eyes and (2) accommodate the enlargement of lacrimal glands that keep the nasal cavity moist and prevent the entry of sand into the nasal passages during burrowing. Here, we employ molecular evolutionary methods on DNA sequences for 38 eye genes, most of which are eye-specific, to investigate the timing of relaxed selection (=neutral evolution) for different groups of eye-specific genes that serve as proxies for distinct functional components of the eye (rod phototransduction, cone phototransduction, lens/cornea). Our taxon sampling included 12 afrothere species, of which two are golden moles (Amblysomus hottentotus, Chrysochloris asiatica), and 28 marsupial species including two individuals of the southern marsupial mole (Notoryctes typhlops). Most of the sequences were mined from databases, but we also provide new genome data for A. hottentotus and one of the two N. typhlops individuals. Even though the eyes of golden moles are less degenerate than the eyes of marsupial moles, there are more inactivating mutations (e.g., frameshift indels, premature stop codons) in their cone phototransduction and lens/cornea genes than in orthologous genes of the marsupial mole. We estimate that cone phototransduction recovery genes were inactivated first in each group, followed by lens/cornea genes and then cone phototransduction activation genes. All three groups of genes were inactivated earlier in golden moles than in marsupial moles. For the latter, we estimate that lens/cornea genes were inactivated ~17.8 million years ago (MYA) when stem notoryctids were burrowing in the soft soils of Australian rainforests. Selection on phototransduction activation genes was relaxed much later (5.38 MYA), during the early stages of Australia's aridification that produced coastal sand plains and eventually sand dunes. Unlike cone phototransduction activation genes, rod phototransduction activation genes are intact in both golden moles and one of the two individuals of N. typhlops. A second marsupial mole individual has just a single inactivating mutation in one of the rod phototransduction activation genes (PDE6B). One explanation for this result is that some rod phototransduction activation genes are pleiotropic and are expressed in extraocular tissues, possibly in conjunction with sperm thermotaxis.
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- Mark S. Springer
- Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
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- Division of Vertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024, USA;
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Pan D, Wang Z, Chen Y, Cao J. Melanopsin-mediated optical entrainment regulates circadian rhythms in vertebrates. Commun Biol 2023; 6:1054. [PMID: 37853054 PMCID: PMC10584931 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-023-05432-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2023] [Accepted: 10/09/2023] [Indexed: 10/20/2023] Open
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Melanopsin (OPN4) is a light-sensitive protein that plays a vital role in the regulation of circadian rhythms and other nonvisual functions. Current research on OPN4 has focused on mammals; more evidence is needed from non-mammalian vertebrates to fully assess the significance of the non-visual photosensitization of OPN4 for circadian rhythm regulation. There are species differences in the regulatory mechanisms of OPN4 for vertebrate circadian rhythms, which may be due to the differences in the cutting variants, tissue localization, and photosensitive activation pathway of OPN4. We here summarize the distribution of OPN4 in mammals, birds, and teleost fish, and the classical excitation mode for the non-visual photosensitive function of OPN4 in mammals is discussed. In addition, the role of OPN4-expressing cells in regulating circadian rhythm in different vertebrates is highlighted, and the potential rhythmic regulatory effects of various neuropeptides or neurotransmitters expressed in mammalian OPN4-expressing ganglion cells are summarized among them.
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- Deng Pan
- Laboratory of Anatomy of Domestic Animals, National Key Laboratory of Veterinary Public Health and Safety, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Haidian, 100193, Beijing, China
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- Laboratory of Anatomy of Domestic Animals, National Key Laboratory of Veterinary Public Health and Safety, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Haidian, 100193, Beijing, China
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- Laboratory of Anatomy of Domestic Animals, National Key Laboratory of Veterinary Public Health and Safety, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Haidian, 100193, Beijing, China
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- Laboratory of Anatomy of Domestic Animals, National Key Laboratory of Veterinary Public Health and Safety, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Haidian, 100193, Beijing, China.
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Lu K, Liang XF, Tang SL, Wu J, Zhang L, Wang Y, Chai F. Role of short-wave-sensitive 1 (sws1) in cone development and first feeding in larval zebrafish. FISH PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY 2023; 49:801-813. [PMID: 37495865 DOI: 10.1007/s10695-023-01213-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2022] [Accepted: 06/22/2023] [Indexed: 07/28/2023]
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Color vision is mediated by the expression of different major visual pigment proteins (opsins) on retinal photoreceptors. Vertebrates have four classes of cone opsins that are most sensitive to different wavelengths of light: short wavelength sensitive 1 (SWS1), short wavelength sensitive 2 (SWS2), medium wavelength sensitive (RH2), and long wavelength sensitive (LWS). UV wavelengths play important roles in foraging and communication. However, direct evidence provide links between sws1 and first feeding is lacking. Here, CRISPR/Cas9 technology was performed to generate mutant zebrafish lines with sws1 deletion. sws1 mutant zebrafish larvae exhibited decreased sws1, rh2-2, and lws1 expression, and increased rod gene (rho and gnat1) expression. Furthermore, the sws1-deficient larvae exhibited significantly reduced food intake, and the orexigenic genes npy and agrp signaling were upregulated at 6 days postfertilization (dpf). The transcription expression of sws1 and rh2-3 genes decreased in sws1-/- adults compared to wild type. Surprisingly, the results of feeding at the adult stage were not the same with larvae. sws1 deficiency did not affect food intake and appetite gene expression at adult stages. These results reveal a role for sws1 in normal cone development and first feeding in larval zebrafish.
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- Ke Lu
- College of Fisheries, Chinese Perch Research Center, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
- Engineering Research Center of Green Development for Conventional Aquatic Biological Industry in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, Ministry of Education, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- College of Fisheries, Chinese Perch Research Center, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China.
- Engineering Research Center of Green Development for Conventional Aquatic Biological Industry in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, Ministry of Education, Wuhan, 430070, China.
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- College of Fisheries, Chinese Perch Research Center, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
- Engineering Research Center of Green Development for Conventional Aquatic Biological Industry in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, Ministry of Education, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- College of Fisheries, Chinese Perch Research Center, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
- Engineering Research Center of Green Development for Conventional Aquatic Biological Industry in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, Ministry of Education, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- College of Fisheries, Chinese Perch Research Center, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
- Engineering Research Center of Green Development for Conventional Aquatic Biological Industry in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, Ministry of Education, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- College of Fisheries, Chinese Perch Research Center, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
- Engineering Research Center of Green Development for Conventional Aquatic Biological Industry in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, Ministry of Education, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- College of Fisheries, Chinese Perch Research Center, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
- Engineering Research Center of Green Development for Conventional Aquatic Biological Industry in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, Ministry of Education, Wuhan, 430070, China
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Ricci V, Ronco F, Boileau N, Salzburger W. Visual opsin gene expression evolution in the adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes of Lake Tanganyika. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2023; 9:eadg6568. [PMID: 37672578 PMCID: PMC10482347 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adg6568] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2023] [Accepted: 08/07/2023] [Indexed: 09/08/2023]
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Tuning the visual sensory system to the ambient light is essential for survival in many animal species. This is often achieved through duplication, functional diversification, and/or differential expression of visual opsin genes. Here, we examined 753 new retinal transcriptomes from 112 species of cichlid fishes from Lake Tanganyika to unravel adaptive changes in gene expression at the macro-evolutionary and ecosystem level of one of the largest vertebrate adaptive radiations. We found that, across the radiation, all seven cone opsins-but not the rhodopsin-rank among the most differentially expressed genes in the retina, together with other vision-, circadian rhythm-, and hemoglobin-related genes. We propose two visual palettes characteristic of very shallow- and deep-water living species, respectively, and show that visual system adaptations along two major ecological axes, macro-habitat and diet, occur primarily via gene expression variation in a subset of cone opsin genes.
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- Virginie Ricci
- Zoological Institute, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Zoological Institute, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Zoological Institute, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Zoological Institute, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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Schweikert LE, Bagge LE, Naughton LF, Bolin JR, Wheeler BR, Grace MS, Bracken-Grissom HD, Johnsen S. Dynamic light filtering over dermal opsin as a sensory feedback system in fish color change. Nat Commun 2023; 14:4642. [PMID: 37607908 PMCID: PMC10444757 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-40166-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2023] [Accepted: 07/14/2023] [Indexed: 08/24/2023] Open
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Dynamic color change has evolved multiple times, with a physiological basis that has been repeatedly linked to dermal photoreception via the study of excised skin preparations. Despite the widespread prevalence of dermal photoreception, both its physiology and its function in regulating color change remain poorly understood. By examining the morphology, physiology, and optics of dermal photoreception in hogfish (Lachnolaimus maximus), we describe a cellular mechanism in which chromatophore pigment activity (i.e., dispersion and aggregation) alters the transmitted light striking SWS1 receptors in the skin. When dispersed, chromatophore pigment selectively absorbs the short-wavelength light required to activate the skin's SWS1 opsin, which we localized to a morphologically specialized population of putative dermal photoreceptors. As SWS1 is nested beneath chromatophores and thus subject to light changes from pigment activity, one possible function of dermal photoreception in hogfish is to monitor chromatophores to detect information about color change performance. This framework of sensory feedback provides insight into the significance of dermal photoreception among color-changing animals.
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- Lorian E Schweikert
- Institute of the Environment, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, North Miami, FL, 33181, USA.
- Biology Department, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA.
- Department of Biology and Marine Biology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, 28403, USA.
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- Torch Technologies, Shalimar, FL, 32579, USA
- Air Force Research Laboratory/RWTCA, Eglin Air Force Base, FL, 32542, USA
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- Department of Biology and Marine Biology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, 28403, USA
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- Department of Biology and Marine Biology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, 28403, USA
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- College of Engineering and Science, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, 32901, USA
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- Institute of the Environment, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, North Miami, FL, 33181, USA
- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 20560, USA
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- Biology Department, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA
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Richardson R, Feigin CY, Bano-Otalora B, Johnson MR, Allen AE, Park J, McDowell RJ, Mereby SA, Lin IH, Lucas RJ, Mallarino R. The genomic basis of temporal niche evolution in a diurnal rodent. Curr Biol 2023; 33:3289-3298.e6. [PMID: 37480852 PMCID: PMC10529858 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.06.068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2022] [Revised: 05/05/2023] [Accepted: 06/26/2023] [Indexed: 07/24/2023]
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Patterns of diel activity-how animals allocate their activity throughout the 24-h daily cycle-play key roles in shaping the internal physiology of an animal and its relationship with the external environment.1,2,3,4,5 Although shifts in diel activity patterns have occurred numerous times over the course of vertebrate evolution,6 the genomic correlates of such transitions remain unknown. Here, we use the African striped mouse (Rhabdomys pumilio), a species that transitioned from the ancestrally nocturnal diel niche of its close relatives to a diurnal one,7,8,9,10,11 to define patterns of naturally occurring molecular variation in diel niche traits. First, to facilitate genomic analyses, we generate a chromosome-level genome assembly of the striped mouse. Next, using transcriptomics, we show that the switch to daytime activity in this species is associated with a realignment of daily rhythms in peripheral tissues with respect to the light:dark cycle and the central circadian clock. To uncover selection pressures associated with this temporal niche shift, we perform comparative genomic analyses with closely related rodent species and find evidence of relaxation of purifying selection on striped mouse genes in the rod phototransduction pathway. In agreement with this, electroretinogram measurements demonstrate that striped mice have functional differences in dim-light visual responses compared with nocturnal rodents. Taken together, our results show that striped mice have undergone a drastic change in circadian organization and provide evidence that the visual system has been a major target of selection as this species transitioned to a novel temporal niche.
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- Rose Richardson
- Centre for Biological Timing, Faculty of Biology Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK; Division of Neuroscience, Faculty of Biology Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA; School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
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- Centre for Biological Timing, Faculty of Biology Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK; Division of Neuroscience, Faculty of Biology Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK; Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, & Gastroenterology, Faculty of Biology Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
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- Centre for Biological Timing, Faculty of Biology Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK; Division of Neuroscience, Faculty of Biology Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
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- Centre for Biological Timing, Faculty of Biology Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK; Division of Neuroscience, Faculty of Biology Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
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- Bioinformatics Core Facility, Faculty of Biology Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
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- Centre for Biological Timing, Faculty of Biology Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK; Division of Neuroscience, Faculty of Biology Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK.
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA.
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Lu K, Wu J, Tang S, Jia X, Liang XF. Knockout of sws2a and sws2b in Medaka ( Oryzias latipes) Reveals Their Roles in Regulating Vision-Guided Behavior and Eye Development. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:ijms24108786. [PMID: 37240129 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24108786] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2023] [Revised: 04/20/2023] [Accepted: 04/28/2023] [Indexed: 05/28/2023] Open
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The medaka (Oryzias latipes) is an excellent vertebrate model for studying the development of the retina. Its genome database is complete, and the number of opsin genes is relatively small compared to zebrafish. Short wavelength sensitive 2 (sws2), a G-protein-coupled receptor expressed in the retina, has been lost in mammals, but its role in eye development in fish is still poorly understood. In this study, we established a sws2a and sws2b knockout medaka model by CRISPR/Cas9 technology. We discovered that medaka sws2a and sws2b are mainly expressed in the eyes and may be regulated by growth differentiation factor 6a (gdf6a). Compared with the WT, sws2a-/- and sws2b-/- mutant larvae displayed an increase in swimming speed during the changes from light to dark. We also observed that sws2a-/- and sws2b-/- larvae both swam faster than WT in the first 10 s of the 2 min light period. The enhanced vision-guided behavior in sws2a-/- and sws2b-/- medaka larvae may be related to the upregulation of phototransduction-related genes. Additionally, we also found that sws2b affects the expression of eye development genes, while sws2a is unaffected. Together, these findings indicate that sws2a and sws2b knockouts increase vision-guided behavior and phototransduction, but on the other hand, sws2b plays an important role in regulating eye development genes. This study provides data for further understanding of the role of sws2a and sws2b in medaka retina development.
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- Ke Lu
- College of Fisheries, Chinese Perch Research Center, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
- Engineering Research Center of Green Development for Conventional Aquatic Biological Industry in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430070, China
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- College of Fisheries, Chinese Perch Research Center, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
- Engineering Research Center of Green Development for Conventional Aquatic Biological Industry in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430070, China
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- College of Fisheries, Chinese Perch Research Center, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
- Engineering Research Center of Green Development for Conventional Aquatic Biological Industry in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430070, China
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- College of Fisheries, Chinese Perch Research Center, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
- Engineering Research Center of Green Development for Conventional Aquatic Biological Industry in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430070, China
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- College of Fisheries, Chinese Perch Research Center, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
- Engineering Research Center of Green Development for Conventional Aquatic Biological Industry in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430070, China
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Stieb SM, Cortesi F, de Queiroz LJ, Carleton KL, Seehausen O, Marshall NJ. Long-wavelength-sensitive (lws) opsin gene expression, foraging and visual communication in coral reef fishes. Mol Ecol 2023; 32:1656-1672. [PMID: 36560895 PMCID: PMC10065935 DOI: 10.1111/mec.16831] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2022] [Revised: 11/25/2022] [Accepted: 12/15/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Coral reef fishes are diverse in ecology and behaviour and show remarkable colour variability. Investigating the visual pigment gene (opsin) expression in these fishes makes it possible to associate their visual genotype and phenotype (spectral sensitivities) to visual tasks, such as feeding strategy or conspecific detection. By studying all major damselfish clades (Pomacentridae) and representatives from five other coral reef fish families, we show that the long-wavelength-sensitive (lws) opsin is highly expressed in algivorous and less or not expressed in zooplanktivorous species. Lws is also upregulated in species with orange/red colours (reflectance >520 nm) and expression is highest in orange/red-coloured algivores. Visual models from the perspective of a typical damselfish indicate that sensitivity to longer wavelengths does enhance the ability to detect the red to far-red component of algae and orange/red-coloured conspecifics, possibly enabling social signalling. Character state reconstructions indicate that in the early evolutionary history of damselfishes, there was no lws expression and no orange/red coloration. Omnivory was most often the dominant state. Although herbivory was sometimes dominant, zooplanktivory was never dominant. Sensitivity to long wavelength (increased lws expression) only emerged in association with algivory but never with zooplanktivory. Higher lws expression is also exploited by social signalling in orange/red, which emerged after the transition to algivory. Although the relative timing of traits may deviate by different reconstructions and alternative explanations are possible, our results are consistent with sensory bias whereby social signals evolve as a correlated response to natural selection on sensory system properties in other contexts.
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- Sara M. Stieb
- Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Biogeochemistry (CEEB), EAWAG Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland
- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Switzerland
- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Biogeochemistry (CEEB), EAWAG Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland
- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Biogeochemistry (CEEB), EAWAG Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland
- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Switzerland
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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Thyroid Hormone Signaling Is Required for Dynamic Variation in Opsins in the Retina during Metamorphosis of the Japanese Flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus). BIOLOGY 2023; 12:biology12030397. [PMID: 36979089 PMCID: PMC10044895 DOI: 10.3390/biology12030397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2023] [Revised: 02/20/2023] [Accepted: 02/27/2023] [Indexed: 03/06/2023]
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In the present study, we investigated the function of thyroid hormones (TH) in visual remodeling during Japanese flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus) metamorphosis through cellular molecular biology experiments. Our results showed that the expression of the five opsin genes of the flounder were highest in eye tissue and varied with the metamorphosis process. The expression of rh1, sws2aβ and lws was positively regulated by exogenous TH, but inhibited by thiourea (TU) compared to the control group. In addition, there was a significant increase in sws2aβ and lws in the rescue experiments performed with TU-treated larvae (p < 0.05). Meanwhile, T3 levels in flounder larvae were increased by TH and decreased by TU. Based on the differences in the expression of the three isoforms of the thyroid hormone receptor (TR) (Trαa, Trαb and Trβ), we further hypothesized that T3 may directly or indirectly regulate the expression of sws2aβ through Trαa. This study demonstrates the regulatory role of TH in opsins during flounder metamorphosis and provides a basis for further investigation on the molecular mechanisms underlying the development of the retinal photoreceptor system in flounders.
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Musilova Z, Cortesi F. The evolution of the green-light-sensitive visual opsin genes (RH2) in teleost fishes. Vision Res 2023; 206:108204. [PMID: 36868011 DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2023.108204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2022] [Revised: 01/14/2023] [Accepted: 02/09/2023] [Indexed: 03/05/2023]
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Vertebrates have four visual cone opsin classes that mediate sensitivity from ultraviolet to red wavelengths of light. The rhodopsin-like 2 (RH2) opsin is sensitive to the central mostly green part of the spectrum. While lost in some terrestrial vertebrates (mammals), the RH2 opsin gene has proliferated during the evolution of teleost fishes. Here, we investigated the genomes of 132 extant teleosts and found between zero and eight RH2 gene copies per species. The RH2 gene shows a dynamic evolutionary history with repeated gene duplications, gene losses, and gene conversions affecting entire orders, families, and species. At least four ancestral duplications provided the substrate for today's RH2 diversity, with duplications occurring in the common ancestors of Clupeocephala (twice), Neoteleostei, and likely Acanthopterygii as well. Despite these evolutionary dynamics, we identified conserved RH2 synteny in two main gene clusters; the slc6A13/synpr cluster is highly conserved within Percomorpha and also present across most teleosts, including Otomorpha, Euteleostei and in parts in tarpons (Elopomorpha), and the mutSH5 cluster, which is specific for Otomorpha. When comparing the number of visual opsin genes (SWS1, SWS2, RH2, LWS, and total cone opsins) with habitat depth, we found that deeper-dwelling species had less (or none) long-wavelength-sensitive opsins. Using retinal/eye transcriptomes in a phylogenetic representative dataset of 32 species, we show that if present in the genome, RH2 is expressed in most fishes except for some species within the tarpons, characins, and gobies (and Osteoglossomorpha and some other characin species have lost the gene). Those species instead express a green-shifted long-wavelength-sensitive LWS opsin. Our study applies modern genomic and transcriptomic tools within a comparative framework to elucidate the evolutionary history of the visual sensory system in teleost fishes.
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- Zuzana Musilova
- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Vinicna, 7, 12844 Prague, Czech Republic.
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- School of Biological Sciences and Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia.
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Hofmann KP, Lamb TD. Rhodopsin, light-sensor of vision. Prog Retin Eye Res 2023; 93:101116. [PMID: 36273969 DOI: 10.1016/j.preteyeres.2022.101116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2022] [Revised: 08/20/2022] [Accepted: 08/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The light sensor of vertebrate scotopic (low-light) vision, rhodopsin, is a G-protein-coupled receptor comprising a polypeptide chain with bound chromophore, 11-cis-retinal, that exhibits remarkable physicochemical properties. This photopigment is extremely stable in the dark, yet its chromophore isomerises upon photon absorption with 70% efficiency, enabling the activation of its G-protein, transducin, with high efficiency. Rhodopsin's photochemical and biochemical activities occur over very different time-scales: the energy of retinaldehyde's excited state is stored in <1 ps in retinal-protein interactions, but it takes milliseconds for the catalytically active state to form, and many tens of minutes for the resting state to be restored. In this review, we describe the properties of rhodopsin and its role in rod phototransduction. We first introduce rhodopsin's gross structural features, its evolution, and the basic mechanisms of its activation. We then discuss light absorption and spectral sensitivity, photoreceptor electrical responses that result from the activity of individual rhodopsin molecules, and recovery of rhodopsin and the visual system from intense bleaching exposures. We then provide a detailed examination of rhodopsin's molecular structure and function, first in its dark state, and then in the active Meta states that govern its interactions with transducin, rhodopsin kinase and arrestin. While it is clear that rhodopsin's molecular properties are exquisitely honed for phototransduction, from starlight to dawn/dusk intensity levels, our understanding of how its molecular interactions determine the properties of scotopic vision remains incomplete. We describe potential future directions of research, and outline several major problems that remain to be solved.
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- Klaus Peter Hofmann
- Institut für Medizinische Physik und Biophysik (CC2), Charité, and, Zentrum für Biophysik und Bioinformatik, Humboldt-Unversität zu Berlin, Berlin, 10117, Germany.
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- Eccles Institute of Neuroscience, John Curtin School of Medical Research, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia.
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Kojima K, Sudo Y. Convergent evolution of animal and microbial rhodopsins. RSC Adv 2023; 13:5367-5381. [PMID: 36793294 PMCID: PMC9923458 DOI: 10.1039/d2ra07073a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2022] [Accepted: 02/05/2023] [Indexed: 02/15/2023] Open
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Rhodopsins, a family of photoreceptive membrane proteins, contain retinal as a chromophore and were firstly identified as reddish pigments from frog retina in 1876. Since then, rhodopsin-like proteins have been identified mainly from animal eyes. In 1971, a rhodopsin-like pigment was discovered from the archaeon Halobacterium salinarum and named bacteriorhodopsin. While it was believed that rhodopsin- and bacteriorhodopsin-like proteins were expressed only in animal eyes and archaea, respectively, before the 1990s, a variety of rhodopsin-like proteins (called animal rhodopsins or opsins) and bacteriorhodopsin-like proteins (called microbial rhodopsins) have been progressively identified from various tissues of animals and microorganisms, respectively. Here, we comprehensively introduce the research conducted on animal and microbial rhodopsins. Recent analysis has revealed that the two rhodopsin families have common molecular properties, such as the protein structure (i.e., 7-transmembrane structure), retinal structure (i.e., binding ability to cis- and trans-retinal), color sensitivity (i.e., UV- and visible-light sensitivities), and photoreaction (i.e., triggering structural changes by light and heat), more than what was expected at the early stages of rhodopsin research. Contrastingly, their molecular functions are distinctively different (e.g., G protein-coupled receptors and photoisomerases for animal rhodopsins and ion transporters and phototaxis sensors for microbial rhodopsins). Therefore, based on their similarities and dissimilarities, we propose that animal and microbial rhodopsins have convergently evolved from their distinctive origins as multi-colored retinal-binding membrane proteins whose activities are regulated by light and heat but independently evolved for different molecular and physiological functions in the cognate organism.
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- Keiichi Kojima
- Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University Japan
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- Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University Japan
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Shen C, Cai Y, Li J, He C, Zuo Z. Mepanipyrim induces visual developmental toxicity and vision-guided behavioral alteration in zebrafish larvae. J Environ Sci (China) 2023; 124:76-88. [PMID: 36182181 DOI: 10.1016/j.jes.2021.11.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2021] [Revised: 11/08/2021] [Accepted: 11/08/2021] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Mepanipyrim, an anilinopyrimidine fungicide, has been extensively used to prevent fungal diseases in fruit culture. Currently, research on mepanipyrim-induced toxicity in organisms is still very scarce, especially visual developmental toxicity. Here, zebrafish larvae were employed to investigate mepanipyrim-induced visual developmental toxicity. Intense light and monochromatic light stimuli-evoked escape experiments were used to investigate vision-guided behaviors. Meanwhile, transcriptomic sequencing and real-time quantitative PCR assays were applied to assess the potential mechanisms of mepanipyrim-induced visual developmental toxicity and vision-guided behavioral alteration. Our results showed that mepanipyrim exposure could induce retinal impairment and vision-guided behavioral alteration in larval zebrafish. In addition, the grk1b gene of the phototransduction signaling pathway was found to be a potential aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR)-regulated gene. Mepanipyrim-induced visual developmental toxicity was potentially related to the AhR signaling pathway. Furthermore, mepanipyrim-induced behavioral alteration was guided by the visual function, and the effects of mepanipyrim on long and middle wavelength light-sensitive opsins may be the main cause of vision-guided behavioral alteration. Our results provide insights into understanding the relationship between visual development and vision-guided behaviors induced by mepanipyrim exposure.
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- Chao Shen
- State Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China; State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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Hagen JFD, Roberts NS, Johnston RJ. The evolutionary history and spectral tuning of vertebrate visual opsins. Dev Biol 2023; 493:40-66. [PMID: 36370769 PMCID: PMC9729497 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2022.10.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2021] [Revised: 10/27/2022] [Accepted: 10/31/2022] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Many animals depend on the sense of vision for survival. In eumetazoans, vision requires specialized, light-sensitive cells called photoreceptors. Light reaches the photoreceptors and triggers the excitation of light-detecting proteins called opsins. Here, we describe the story of visual opsin evolution from the ancestral bilaterian to the extant vertebrate lineages. We explain the mechanisms determining color vision of extant vertebrates, focusing on opsin gene losses, duplications, and the expression regulation of vertebrate opsins. We describe the sequence variation both within and between species that has tweaked the sensitivities of opsin proteins towards different wavelengths of light. We provide an extensive resource of wavelength sensitivities and mutations that have diverged light sensitivity in many vertebrate species and predict how these mutations were accumulated in each lineage based on parsimony. We suggest possible natural and sexual selection mechanisms underlying these spectral differences. Understanding how molecular changes allow for functional adaptation of animals to different environments is a major goal in the field, and therefore identifying mutations affecting vision and their relationship to photic selection pressures is imperative. The goal of this review is to provide a comprehensive overview of our current understanding of opsin evolution in vertebrates.
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- Joanna F D Hagen
- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA
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- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA
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- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA.
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Qiu L, Wei S, Yang Y, Zhang R, Ru S, Zhang X. Mechanism of bisphenol S exposure on color sensitivity of zebrafish larvae. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2023; 316:120670. [PMID: 36395908 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.120670] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2022] [Revised: 11/03/2022] [Accepted: 11/13/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Color vision, initiated from cone cells, is vitally essential for identifying environmental information in vertebrate. Although the retinotoxicity of bisphenol S (BPS) has been reported, data on the influence of BPS treatment on cone cells are scarce. In the present study, transgenic zebrafish (Danio rerio) labeling red and ultraviolet (UV) cones were exposed to BPS (0, 1, 10, and 100 μg/L) during the early stages of retinal development, to elucidate the mechanism underlying its retinal cone toxicity of BPS. The results showed that 10 and 100 μg/L BPS induced oxidative DNA damage, structural damage (decreased number of ribbon synapses), mosaic patterning disorder, and altered expression of genes involved in the phototransduction pathway in red and UV cones. Furthermore, BPS exposure also caused abnormal development of key neurons (retinal ganglion cells, optic nerve, and hypothalamus), responsible for transmitting the light-electrical signal to brain, and thereby resulted in inhibition of light-electrical signal transduction, finally diminishing the spectral sensitivity of zebrafish larvae to long- and short-type light signal at 5 day post fertilization. This study highlights the cone-toxicity of environmental relevant concentrations of BPS, and clarifies the mechanism of color vision impairment induced by BPS at the cellular level, updating the understanding of visual behavior driven by environmental factors.
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- Liguo Qiu
- College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China.
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- College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China
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- College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China
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- College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China
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- College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China
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- College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China.
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Corredor VH, Hauzman E, Gonçalves ADS, Ventura DF. Genetic characterization of the visual pigments of the red-eared turtle (Trachemys scripta elegans) and computational predictions of the spectral sensitivity. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jpap.2022.100141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Lupše N, Kłodawska M, Truhlářová V, Košátko P, Kašpar V, Bitja Nyom AR, Musilova Z. Developmental changes of opsin gene expression in ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii). Proc Biol Sci 2022; 289:20221855. [DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.1855] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Fish often change their habitat and trophic preferences during development. Dramatic functional differences between embryos, larvae, juveniles and adults also concern sensory systems, including vision. Here, we focus on the photoreceptors (rod and cone cells) in the retina and their gene expression profiles during development. Using comparative transcriptomics on 63 species, belonging to 23 actinopterygian orders, we report general developmental patterns of opsin expression, mostly suggesting an increased importance of the rod opsin (
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) gene and the long-wavelength-sensitive cone opsin, and a decreasing importance of the shorter wavelength-sensitive cone opsin throughout development. Furthermore, we investigate in detail ontogenetic changes in 14 selected species (from Polypteriformes, Acipenseriformes, Cypriniformes, Aulopiformes and Cichliformes), and we report examples of expanded cone opsin repertoires, cone opsin switches (mostly within
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- Nik Lupše
- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Vinicna 7, 12844 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Vinicna 7, 12844 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Vinicna 7, 12844 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Vinicna 7, 12844 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters, South Bohemian Research Center of Aquaculture and Biodiversity of Hydrocenoses, Research Institute of Fish Culture and Hydrobiology, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Zátiší 728/II, 389 25 Vodňany, Czech Republic
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- Department of Management of Fisheries and Aquatic Ecosystems, University of Douala, Douala P.O. Box 7236, Cameroon
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Ngaoundéré, Ngaoundéré P.O. Box 454, Cameroon
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- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Vinicna 7, 12844 Prague, Czech Republic
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Bolstad K, Novales Flamarique I. Chromatic organization of retinal photoreceptors during eye migration of Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus). J Comp Neurol 2022; 531:256-280. [PMID: 36217253 DOI: 10.1002/cne.25423] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2022] [Revised: 09/14/2022] [Accepted: 09/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The retinas of fishes often have single and double cone photoreceptors that are organized in lattice-like mosaics. In flatfishes experiencing eye migration (i.e., the metamorphic process whereby one eye migrates to the other side of the head), the hexagonal lattice of single cones present in the larva undergoes major restructuring resulting in a dominant square mosaic postmetamorphosis consisting of four double cones surrounding each single cone. The expression of different opsin types during eye migration has not been examined despite its importance in understanding photoreceptor plasticity and whether cell fate (in terms of spectral phenotype) could influence square mosaic formation. Here, we probed the retina of Atlantic halibut undergoing eye migration for opsin expression using two antibodies, AHblue and AB5407, that labeled short wavelength sensitive 2 (SWS2) opsin and longer wavelength (predominantly middle wavelength sensitive, RH2) opsins, respectively. Throughout the retina, double and triple cones labeled with AB5407 exclusively, whereas the vast majority of single cones labeled with AHblue. A minority (<5%) of single cones in the square mosaic of the centroventral retina labeled with AB5407. In regions of mosaic transition and near peripheral growth zones, some single cones co-expressed at least two opsins as they labeled with both antibodies. Short wavelength (SWS2 expressing, or S) cones formed a nonrandom mosaic gradient from central to dorsal retina in a region dominated by the larval single cone mosaic. Our results demonstrate the expression of at least two opsins throughout the postmetamorphic retina and suggest opsin switching as a mechanism to create new cone spectral phenotypes. In addition, the S cone gradient at the onset of eye migration may underlie a plastic, cell induction mechanism by which a cone's phenotype determines that of its neighbors and the formation of the square mosaic.
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- Kennedy Bolstad
- Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.,Department of Biology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Eilertsen M, Davies WIL, Patel D, Barnes JE, Karlsen R, Mountford JK, Stenkamp DL, Patel JS, Helvik JV. An EvoDevo Study of Salmonid Visual Opsin Dynamics and Photopigment Spectral Sensitivity. Front Neuroanat 2022; 16:945344. [PMID: 35899127 PMCID: PMC9309310 DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2022.945344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2022] [Accepted: 06/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Salmonids are ideal models as many species follow a distinct developmental program from demersal eggs and a large yolk sac to hatching at an advanced developmental stage. Further, these economically important teleosts inhabit both marine- and freshwaters and experience diverse light environments during their life histories. At a genome level, salmonids have undergone a salmonid-specific fourth whole genome duplication event (Ss4R) compared to other teleosts that are already more genetically diverse compared to many non-teleost vertebrates. Thus, salmonids display phenotypically plastic visual systems that appear to be closely related to their anadromous migration patterns. This is most likely due to a complex interplay between their larger, more gene-rich genomes and broad spectrally enriched habitats; however, the molecular basis and functional consequences for such diversity is not fully understood. This study used advances in genome sequencing to identify the repertoire and genome organization of visual opsin genes (those primarily expressed in retinal photoreceptors) from six different salmonids [Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), brown trout (Salmo trutta), Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytcha), coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch), rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), and sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)] compared to the northern pike (Esox lucius), a closely related non-salmonid species. Results identified multiple orthologues for all five visual opsin classes, except for presence of a single short-wavelength-sensitive-2 opsin gene. Several visual opsin genes were not retained after the Ss4R duplication event, which is consistent with the concept of salmonid rediploidization. Developmentally, transcriptomic analyzes of Atlantic salmon revealed differential expression within each opsin class, with two of the long-wavelength-sensitive opsins not being expressed before first feeding. Also, early opsin expression in the retina was located centrally, expanding dorsally and ventrally as eye development progressed, with rod opsin being the dominant visual opsin post-hatching. Modeling by spectral tuning analysis and atomistic molecular simulation, predicted the greatest variation in the spectral peak of absorbance to be within the Rh2 class, with a ∼40 nm difference in λ max values between the four medium-wavelength-sensitive photopigments. Overall, it appears that opsin duplication and expression, and their respective spectral tuning profiles, evolved to maximize specialist color vision throughout an anadromous lifecycle, with some visual opsin genes being lost to tailor marine-based vision.
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- Mariann Eilertsen
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Umeå Centre for Molecular Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- School of Life Sciences, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Institute for Modeling Collaboration and Innovation (IMCI), University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States
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- Institute for Modeling Collaboration and Innovation (IMCI), University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- School of Life Sciences, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Lions Eye Institute, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States
- Institute for Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Studies, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States
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- Institute for Modeling Collaboration and Innovation (IMCI), University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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Tang SL, Liang XF, Li L, Wu J, Lu K. Genome-wide identification and expression patterns of opsin genes during larval development in Chinese perch (Siniperca chuatsi). Gene X 2022; 825:146434. [PMID: 35304240 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2022.146434] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2021] [Revised: 02/01/2022] [Accepted: 03/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Vision is important for fish to forage food and fishes express opsin genes to receive visual signals. Chinese perch (Siniperca chuatsi) larvae prey on other fish species larvae at firstfeeding but donoteat any zooplankton, the expression of opsin genes in S. chuatsilarvae is unknown. In this study, we conducted a whole-genome analysis and demonstrated that S. chuatsihave5cone opsin genes (sws1, sws2Aα, sws2Aβ, rh2and lws)and 2 rod opsin genes (rh1and rh1-exorh). The syntenicanalysisshowedthe flanking genes ofall opsin genes were conserved during fish evolution, but the ancestorof S. chuatsimightlost some opsin gene copies duringtheevolution.The phylogeneticanalysisshowed sws1of S. chuatsiwas closest to those of Lates calcariferwhich had a truncated sws1gene; the sws2Aα, sws2Aβ,lws,rh2,rh1 andrh1-exorh of S. chuatsihad a closer relationship with those of Percomorpha fishes.Importantly, results of in situhybridization showed the sws1 opsingene,which is related to forage zooplankton,had extremely low levelexpression in retinaat early stages.Surprisingly, the rh2 opsin gene had a high level expression at firstfeeding stage. The sws2Aα, sws2Aβand lwshad a little expression at early stages but the lwsshowed a increasing trend with larval development, rh1 opsin gene expression appeared at15 dph. In thisstudy, we found a specialpattern of visual opsin genes expression in S. chuatsi, it might influence the larval first feeding and feeding habit.
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- Shu-Lin Tang
- College of Fisheries, Chinese Perch Research Center, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China; Engineering Research Center of Green Development for Conventional Aquatic Biological Industry in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430070, China
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- College of Fisheries, Chinese Perch Research Center, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China; Engineering Research Center of Green Development for Conventional Aquatic Biological Industry in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430070, China.
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- College of Fisheries, Chinese Perch Research Center, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China; Engineering Research Center of Green Development for Conventional Aquatic Biological Industry in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430070, China
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- College of Fisheries, Chinese Perch Research Center, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China; Engineering Research Center of Green Development for Conventional Aquatic Biological Industry in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430070, China
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- College of Fisheries, Chinese Perch Research Center, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China; Engineering Research Center of Green Development for Conventional Aquatic Biological Industry in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430070, China
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Photoreceptor distributions, visual pigments and the opsin repertoire of Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus). Sci Rep 2022; 12:8062. [PMID: 35577858 PMCID: PMC9110347 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-11998-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2021] [Accepted: 05/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Fishes often have cone photoreceptors organized in lattice-like mosaic formations. In flatfishes, these lattices undergo dramatic changes during metamorphosis whereby a honeycomb mosaic of single cones in the larva is replaced by a square mosaic of single and double cones in the adult. The spatio-temporal dynamics of this transition are not well understood. Here, we describe the photoreceptors and mosaic formations that occur during the larva to juvenile transition of Atlantic halibut from the beginning of eye migration to its completion. To gauge the possibility of colour vision, visual pigments in juveniles were measured by microspectrophotometry and the opsin repertoire explored using bioinformatics. At the start of eye migration, the larva had a heterogeneous retina with honeycomb mosaic in the dorsonasal and ventrotemporal quadrants and a square mosaic in the ventronasal and dorsotemporal quadrants. By the end of metamorphosis, the square mosaic was present throughout the retina except in a centrodorsotemporal area where single, double and triple cones occurred randomly. Six cone visual pigments were found with maximum absorbance (λmax, in nm) in the short [S(431) and S(457)], middle [M(500), M(514) and M(527)], and long [L(550)] wavelengths, and a rod visual pigment with λmax at 491 nm. These pigments only partially matched the opsin repertoire detected by query of the Atlantic halibut genome. We conclude that the Atlantic halibut undergoes a complex re-organization of photoreceptors at metamorphosis resulting in a multi-mosaic retina adapted for a demersal life style.
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Smedley GD, McElroy KE, Feller KD, Serb JM. Additive and epistatic effects influence spectral tuning in molluscan retinochrome opsin. J Exp Biol 2022; 225:275511. [DOI: 10.1242/jeb.242929] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2021] [Accepted: 04/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The relationship between genotype and phenotype is nontrivial due to often complex molecular pathways that make it difficult to unambiguously relate phenotypes to specific genotypes. Photopigments, an opsin apoprotein bound to a light-absorbing chromophore, present an opportunity to directly relate the amino acid sequence to an absorbance peak phenotype (λmax). We examined this relationship by conducting a series of site-directed mutagenesis experiments of retinochrome, a non-visual opsin, from two closely related species: the common bay scallop, Argopecten irradians, and the king scallop, Pecten maximus. Using protein folding models, we identified three amino acid sites of likely functional importance and expressed mutated retinochrome proteins in vitro. Our results show that the mutation of amino acids lining the opsin binding pocket are responsible for fine spectral tuning, or small changes in the λmax of these light sensitive proteins Mutations resulted in a blue or red shift as predicted, but with dissimilar magnitudes. Shifts ranged from a 16 nm blue shift to a 12 nm red shift from the wild-type λmax. These mutations do not show an additive effect, but rather suggests the presence of epistatic interactions. This work highlights the importance of binding pocket shape in the evolution of spectral tuning and builds on our ability to relate genotypic changes to phenotypes in an emerging model for opsin functional analysis.
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- G. Dalton Smedley
- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Union College, Schenectady, New York, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
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Cheney KL, Hudson J, de Busserolles F, Luehrmann M, Shaughnessy A, van den Berg C, Green NF, Marshall NJ, Cortesi F. Seeing Picasso: an investigation into the visual system of the triggerfish Rhinecanthus aculeatus. J Exp Biol 2022; 225:jeb243907. [PMID: 35244167 PMCID: PMC9080752 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.243907] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2021] [Accepted: 02/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Vision is used by animals to find food and mates, avoid predators, defend resources and navigate through complex habitats. Behavioural experiments are essential for understanding animals' perception but are often challenging and time-consuming; therefore, using species that can be trained easily for complex tasks is advantageous. Picasso triggerfish, Rhinecanthus aculeatus, have been used in many behavioural studies investigating vision and navigation. However, little is known about the molecular and anatomical basis of their visual system. We addressed this knowledge gap here and behaviourally tested achromatic and chromatic acuity. In terms of visual opsins, R. aculeatus possessed one rod opsin gene (RH1) and at least nine cone opsins: one violet-sensitive SWS2B gene, seven duplicates of the blue-green-sensitive RH2 gene (RH2A, RH2B, RH2C1-5) and one red-sensitive LWS gene. However, only five cone opsins were expressed: SWS2B expression was consistent, while RH2A, RH2C-1 and RH2C-2 expression varied depending on whether fish were sampled from the field or aquaria. Levels of LWS expression were very low. Using fluorescence in situ hybridisation, we found SWS2B was expressed exclusively in single cones, whereas RH2A and RH2Cs were expressed in opposite double cone members. Anatomical resolution estimated from ganglion cell densities was 6.8 cycles per degree (cpd), which was significantly higher than values obtained from behavioural testing for black-and-white achromatic stimuli (3.9 cpd) and chromatic stimuli (1.7-1.8 cpd). These measures were twice as high as previously reported. This detailed information on their visual system will help inform future studies with this emerging focal species.
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- Karen L. Cheney
- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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Ricci V, Ronco F, Musilova Z, Salzburger W. Molecular evolution and depth-related adaptations of rhodopsin in the adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes in Lake Tanganyika. Mol Ecol 2022; 31:2882-2897. [PMID: 35302684 PMCID: PMC9314932 DOI: 10.1111/mec.16429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2021] [Revised: 02/11/2022] [Accepted: 03/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The visual sensory system is essential for animals to perceive their environment and is thus under strong selection. In aquatic environments, light intensity and spectrum differ primarily along a depth gradient. Rhodopsin (RH1) is the only opsin responsible for dim‐light vision in vertebrates and has been shown to evolve in response to the respective light conditions, including along a water depth gradient in fishes. In this study, we examined the diversity and sequence evolution of RH1 in virtually the entire adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes in Lake Tanganyika, focusing on adaptations to the environmental light with respect to depth. We show that Tanganyikan cichlid genomes contain a single copy of RH1. The 76 variable amino acid sites detected in RH1 across the radiation were not uniformly distributed along the protein sequence, and 31 of these variable sites show signals of positive selection. Moreover, the amino acid substitutions at 15 positively selected sites appeared to be depth‐related, including three key tuning sites that directly mediate shifts in the peak spectral sensitivity, one site involved in protein stability and 11 sites that may be functionally important on the basis of their physicochemical properties. Among the strongest candidate sites for deep‐water adaptations are two known key tuning sites (positions 292 and 299) and three newly identified variable sites (37, 104 and 290). Our study, which is the first comprehensive analysis of RH1 evolution in a massive adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes, provides novel insights into the evolution of RH1 in a freshwater environment.
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- Virginie Ricci
- Zoological Institute, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Zoological Institute, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Zoological Institute, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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Schott RK, Perez L, Kwiatkowski MA, Imhoff V, Gumm JM. Evolutionary analyses of visual opsin genes in frogs and toads: Diversity, duplication, and positive selection. Ecol Evol 2022; 12:e8595. [PMID: 35154658 PMCID: PMC8820127 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2021] [Revised: 01/07/2022] [Accepted: 01/08/2022] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Among major vertebrate groups, anurans (frogs and toads) are understudied with regard to their visual systems, and little is known about variation among species that differ in ecology. We sampled North American anurans representing diverse evolutionary and life histories that likely possess visual systems adapted to meet different ecological needs. Using standard molecular techniques, visual opsin genes, which encode the protein component of visual pigments, were obtained from anuran retinas. Additionally, we extracted the visual opsins from publicly available genome and transcriptome assemblies, further increasing the phylogenetic and ecological diversity of our dataset to 33 species in total. We found that anurans consistently express four visual opsin genes (RH1, LWS, SWS1, and SWS2, but not RH2) even though reported photoreceptor complements vary widely among species. The proteins encoded by these genes showed considerable sequence variation among species, including at sites known to shift the spectral sensitivity of visual pigments in other vertebrates and had conserved substitutions that may be related to dim-light adaptation. Using molecular evolutionary analyses of selection (dN/dS) we found significant evidence for positive selection at a subset of sites in the dim-light rod opsin gene RH1 and the long wavelength sensitive cone opsin LWS. The function of sites inferred to be under positive selection are largely unknown, but a few are likely to affect spectral sensitivity and other visual pigment functions based on proximity to previously identified sites in other vertebrates. We also found the first evidence of visual opsin duplication in an amphibian with the duplication of the LWS gene in the African bullfrog, which had distinct LWS copies on the sex chromosomes suggesting the possibility of sex-specific visual adaptation. Taken together, our results indicate that ecological factors, such as habitat and life history, as well as behavior, may be driving changes to anuran visual systems.
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- Ryan K. Schott
- Department of BiologyYork UniversityTorontoOntarioCanada
- Department of Vertebrate ZoologyNational Museum of Natural HistorySmithsonian InstitutionWashingtonDistrict of ColumbiaUSA
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- Department of BiologyStephen F. Austin State UniversityNacogdochesTexasUSA
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- Southern Nevada Fish and Wildlife OfficeUS Fish and Wildlife ServiceLas VegasNevadaUSA
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- Department of BiologyStephen F. Austin State UniversityNacogdochesTexasUSA
- Ash Meadows Fish Conservation FacilityUS Fish and Wildlife ServiceAmargosa ValleyNevadaUSA
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Rhodopsins are photoreceptive membrane proteins consisting of a common heptahelical transmembrane architecture that contains a retinal chromophore. Rhodopsin was first discovered in the animal retina in 1876, but a different type of rhodopsin, bacteriorhodopsin, was reported to be present in the cell membrane of an extreme halophilic archaeon, Halobacterium salinarum, 95 years later. Although these findings were made by physiological observation of pigmented tissue and cell bodies, recent progress in genomic and metagenomic analyses has revealed that there are more than 10,000 microbial rhodopsins and 9000 animal rhodopsins with large diversity and tremendous new functionality. In this Cell Science at a Glance article and accompanying poster, we provide an overview of the diversity of functions, structures, color discrimination mechanisms and optogenetic applications of these two rhodopsin families, and will also highlight the third distinctive rhodopsin family, heliorhodopsin.
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- Takashi Nagata
- The Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, Japan.,PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
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- The Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, Japan
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Pro219 is an electrostatic color determinant in the light-driven sodium pump KR2. Commun Biol 2021; 4:1185. [PMID: 34645937 PMCID: PMC8514524 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-02684-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2021] [Accepted: 09/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Color tuning in animal and microbial rhodopsins has attracted the interest of many researchers, as the color of their common retinal chromophores is modulated by the amino acid residues forming the chromophore cavity. Critical cavity amino acid residues are often called “color switches”, as the rhodopsin color is effectively tuned through their substitution. Well-known color switches are the L/Q and A/TS switches located in the C and G helices of the microbial rhodopsin structure respectively. Recently, we reported on a third G/P switch located in the F helix of the light-driven sodium pumps of KR2 and JsNaR causing substantial spectral red-shifts in the latter with respect to the former. In order to investigate the molecular-level mechanism driving such switching function, here we present an exhaustive mutation, spectroscopic and computational investigation of the P219X mutant set of KR2. To do so, we study the changes in the absorption band of the 19 possible mutants and construct, semi-automatically, the corresponding hybrid quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics models. We found that the P219X feature a red-shifted light absorption with the only exception of P219R. The analysis of the corresponding models indicate that the G/P switch induces red-shifting variations via electrostatic interactions, while replacement-induced chromophore geometrical (steric) distortions play a minor role. However, the same analysis indicates that the P219R blue-shifted variant has a more complex origin involving both electrostatic and steric changes accompanied by protonation state and hydrogen bond networks modifications. These results make it difficult to extract simple rules or formulate theories for predicting how a switch operates without considering the atomistic details and environmental consequences of the side chain replacement. Nakajima, Pedraza-González et al. provide a comprehensive investigation of amino acid mutations at position 219 of the sodium pump rhodopsin, KR2, and their role in the color tuning of the retinal chromophore. They prepared P219X (X= A, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, L, M, N, Q, R, S, T, V, W, Y) mutants of KR2, and find that all mutants are red-shifted, except for P219R, highlighting its role as a color determinant in the light-driven pump KR2.
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Ogawa Y, Shiraki T, Fukada Y, Kojima D. Foxq2 determines blue cone identity in zebrafish. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2021; 7:eabi9784. [PMID: 34613771 PMCID: PMC8494292 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abi9784] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2021] [Accepted: 08/13/2021] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Most vertebrate lineages retain a tetrachromatic visual system, which is supported by a functional combination of spectrally distinct multiple cone photoreceptors, ultraviolet (UV), blue, green, and red cones. The blue cone identity is ensured by selective expression of blue (sws2) opsin, and the mechanism is poorly understood because sws2 gene has been lost in mammalian species such as mouse, whose visual system has been extensively studied. Here, we pursued loss-of-function studies on transcription factors expressed predominantly in zebrafish cone photoreceptors and identified Foxq2 as a blue cone–specific factor driving sws2 gene expression. Foxq2 has dual functions acting as an activator of sws2 transcription and as a suppressor of UV (sws1) opsin transcription in blue cones. A wide range of vertebrate species retain both foxq2 and sws2 genes. We propose that Foxq2-dependent sws2 expression is a prevalent regulatory mechanism that was acquired at the early stage of vertebrate evolution.
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Hauzman E, Pierotti MER, Bhattacharyya N, Tashiro JH, Yovanovich CAM, Campos PF, Ventura DF, Chang BSW. Simultaneous expression of UV and violet SWS1 opsins expands the visual palette in a group of freshwater snakes. Mol Biol Evol 2021; 38:5225-5240. [PMID: 34562092 PMCID: PMC8662652 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msab285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Snakes are known to express a rod visual opsin and two cone opsins, only (SWS1, LWS), a reduced palette resulting from their supposedly fossorial origins. Dipsadid snakes in the genus Helicops are highly visual predators that successfully invaded freshwater habitats from ancestral terrestrial-only habitats. Here, we report the first case of multiple SWS1 visual pigments in a vertebrate, simultaneously expressed in different photoreceptors and conferring both UV and violet sensitivity to Helicops snakes. Molecular analysis and in vitro expression confirmed the presence of two functional SWS1 opsins, likely the result of recent gene duplication. Evolutionary analyses indicate that each sws1 variant has undergone different evolutionary paths with strong purifying selection acting on the UV-sensitive copy and dN/dS ∼1 on the violet-sensitive copy. Site-directed mutagenesis points to the functional role of a single amino acid substitution, Phe86Val, in the large spectral shift between UV and violet opsins. In addition, higher densities of photoreceptors and SWS1 cones in the ventral retina suggest improved acuity in the upper visual field possibly correlated with visually guided behaviors. The expanded visual opsin repertoire and specialized retinal architecture are likely to improve photon uptake in underwater and terrestrial environments, and provide the neural substrate for a gain in chromatic discrimination, potentially conferring unique color vision in the UV–violet range. Our findings highlight the innovative solutions undertaken by a highly specialized lineage to tackle the challenges imposed by the invasion of novel photic environments and the extraordinary diversity of evolutionary trajectories taken by visual opsin-based perception in vertebrates.
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- Einat Hauzman
- Department of Experimental Psychology, Psychology Institute, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.,Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Zoology, Institute of Biosciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Cell & Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, Psychology Institute, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Zoology, Institute of Biosciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Toxinologia Aplicada, Center of Toxins, Immune-Response and Cell Signaling (CeTICS), Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, Psychology Institute, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.,Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Cell & Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Lupše N, Cortesi F, Freese M, Marohn L, Pohlman JD, Wysujack K, Hanel R, Musilova Z. Visual gene expression reveals a cone to rod developmental progression in deep-sea fishes. Mol Biol Evol 2021; 38:5664-5677. [PMID: 34562090 PMCID: PMC8662630 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msab281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Vertebrates use cone cells in the retina for colour vision and rod cells to see in dim light. Many deep-sea fishes have adapted to their environment to have only rod cells in the retina, while both rod and cone genes are still preserved in their genomes. As deep-sea fish larvae start their lives in the shallow, and only later submerge to the depth, they have to cope with diverse environmental conditions during ontogeny. Using a comparative transcriptomic approach in 20 deep-sea fish species from eight teleost orders, we report on a developmental cone-to-rod switch. While adults mostly rely on rod opsin (RH1) for vision in dim light, larvae almost exclusively express middle-wavelength-sensitive ("green") cone opsins (RH2) in their retinas. The phototransduction cascade genes follow a similar ontogenetic pattern of cone- followed by rod-specific gene expression in most species, except for the pearleye and sabretooth (Aulopiformes), in which the cone cascade remains dominant throughout development. By inspecting the whole genomes of five deep-sea species (four of them sequenced within this study: Idiacanthus fasciola, Chauliodus sloani; Stomiiformes; Coccorella atlantica, and Scopelarchus michaelsarsi; Aulopiformes), we found that deep-sea fish possess one or two copies of the rod RH1 opsin gene, and up to seven copies of the cone RH2 opsin genes in their genomes, while other cone opsin classes have been mostly lost. Our findings hence provide molecular evidence for a limited opsin gene repertoire and a conserved vertebrate pattern whereby cone photoreceptors develop first and rod photoreceptors are added only at later developmental stages.
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- Nik Lupše
- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Vinicna 7, 12844 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072 QLD, Australia
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- Thünen Institute of Fisheries Ecology, Herwigstraße 31, 27572, Bremerhaven, Germany
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- Thünen Institute of Fisheries Ecology, Herwigstraße 31, 27572, Bremerhaven, Germany
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- Thünen Institute of Fisheries Ecology, Herwigstraße 31, 27572, Bremerhaven, Germany
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- Thünen Institute of Fisheries Ecology, Herwigstraße 31, 27572, Bremerhaven, Germany
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- Thünen Institute of Fisheries Ecology, Herwigstraße 31, 27572, Bremerhaven, Germany
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- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Vinicna 7, 12844 Prague, Czech Republic
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Ogawa Y, Corbo JC. Partitioning of gene expression among zebrafish photoreceptor subtypes. Sci Rep 2021; 11:17340. [PMID: 34462505 PMCID: PMC8405809 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-96837-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2021] [Accepted: 08/17/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Vertebrate photoreceptors are categorized into two broad classes, rods and cones, responsible for dim- and bright-light vision, respectively. While many molecular features that distinguish rods and cones are known, gene expression differences among cone subtypes remain poorly understood. Teleost fishes are renowned for the diversity of their photoreceptor systems. Here, we used single-cell RNA-seq to profile adult photoreceptors in zebrafish, a teleost. We found that in addition to the four canonical zebrafish cone types, there exist subpopulations of green and red cones (previously shown to be located in the ventral retina) that express red-shifted opsin paralogs (opn1mw4 or opn1lw1) as well as a unique combination of cone phototransduction genes. Furthermore, the expression of many paralogous phototransduction genes is partitioned among cone subtypes, analogous to the partitioning of the phototransduction paralogs between rods and cones seen across vertebrates. The partitioned cone-gene pairs arose via the teleost-specific whole-genome duplication or later clade-specific gene duplications. We also discovered that cone subtypes express distinct transcriptional regulators, including many factors not previously implicated in photoreceptor development or differentiation. Overall, our work suggests that partitioning of paralogous gene expression via the action of differentially expressed transcriptional regulators enables diversification of cone subtypes in teleosts.
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- Yohey Ogawa
- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO, 63110-1093, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO, 63110-1093, USA.
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Musilova Z, Salzburger W, Cortesi F. The Visual Opsin Gene Repertoires of Teleost Fishes: Evolution, Ecology, and Function. Annu Rev Cell Dev Biol 2021; 37:441-468. [PMID: 34351785 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-cellbio-120219-024915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Visual opsin genes expressed in the rod and cone photoreceptor cells of the retina are core components of the visual sensory system of vertebrates. Here, we provide an overview of the dynamic evolution of visual opsin genes in the most species-rich group of vertebrates, teleost fishes. The examination of the rich genomic resources now available for this group reveals that fish genomes contain more copies of visual opsin genes than are present in the genomes of amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. The expansion of opsin genes in fishes is due primarily to a combination of ancestral and lineage-specific gene duplications. Following their duplication, the visual opsin genes of fishes repeatedly diversified at the same key spectral-tuning sites, generating arrays of visual pigments sensitive from the ultraviolet to the red spectrum of the light. Species-specific opsin gene repertoires correlate strongly with underwater light habitats, ecology, and color-based sexual selection. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology, Volume 37 is October 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.
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- Zuzana Musilova
- Department of Zoology, Charles University, Prague 128 44, Czech Republic;
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Queensland, Australia;
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Xu P, Zhao C, You X, Yang F, Chen J, Ruan Z, Gu R, Xu J, Bian C, Shi Q. Draft Genome of the Mirrorwing Flyingfish ( Hirundichthys speculiger). Front Genet 2021; 12:695700. [PMID: 34306036 PMCID: PMC8294118 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2021.695700] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2021] [Accepted: 06/03/2021] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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- Pengwei Xu
- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,Shenzhen Key Lab of Marine Genomics, Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Molecular Breeding in Marine Economic Animals, BGI Academy of Marine Sciences, BGI Marine, BGI, Shenzhen, China
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- Marine Geological Department, Marine Geological Survey Institute of Hainan Province, Haikou, China
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- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,Shenzhen Key Lab of Marine Genomics, Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Molecular Breeding in Marine Economic Animals, BGI Academy of Marine Sciences, BGI Marine, BGI, Shenzhen, China
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- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,Shenzhen Key Lab of Marine Genomics, Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Molecular Breeding in Marine Economic Animals, BGI Academy of Marine Sciences, BGI Marine, BGI, Shenzhen, China
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- Shenzhen Key Lab of Marine Genomics, Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Molecular Breeding in Marine Economic Animals, BGI Academy of Marine Sciences, BGI Marine, BGI, Shenzhen, China
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- Shenzhen Key Lab of Marine Genomics, Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Molecular Breeding in Marine Economic Animals, BGI Academy of Marine Sciences, BGI Marine, BGI, Shenzhen, China
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- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,Shenzhen Key Lab of Marine Genomics, Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Molecular Breeding in Marine Economic Animals, BGI Academy of Marine Sciences, BGI Marine, BGI, Shenzhen, China
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- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,Shenzhen Key Lab of Marine Genomics, Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Molecular Breeding in Marine Economic Animals, BGI Academy of Marine Sciences, BGI Marine, BGI, Shenzhen, China
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Milito A, Castellano I, Damiani E. From Sea to Skin: Is There a Future for Natural Photoprotectants? Mar Drugs 2021; 19:md19070379. [PMID: 34209059 PMCID: PMC8303403 DOI: 10.3390/md19070379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2021] [Revised: 06/28/2021] [Accepted: 06/28/2021] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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In the last few decades, the thinning of the ozone layer due to increased atmospheric pollution has exacerbated the negative effects of excessive exposure to solar ultraviolet radiation (UVR), and skin cancer has become a major public health concern. In order to prevent skin damage, public health advice mainly focuses on the use of sunscreens, along with wearing protective clothing and avoiding sun exposure during peak hours. Sunscreens present on the market are topical formulations that contain a number of different synthetic, organic, and inorganic UVR filters with different absorbance profiles, which, when combined, provide broad UVR spectrum protection. However, increased evidence suggests that some of these compounds cause subtle damage to marine ecosystems. One alternative may be the use of natural products that are produced in a wide range of marine species and are mainly thought to act as a defense against UVR-mediated damage. However, their potential for human photoprotection is largely under-investigated. In this review, attention has been placed on the molecular strategies adopted by marine organisms to counteract UVR-induced negative effects and we provide a broad portrayal of the recent literature concerning marine-derived natural products having potential as natural sunscreens/photoprotectants for human skin. Their chemical structure, UVR absorption properties, and their pleiotropic role as bioactive molecules are discussed. Most studies strongly suggest that these natural products could be promising for use in biocompatible sunscreens and may represent an alternative eco-friendly approach to protect humans against UV-induced skin damage.
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- Alfonsina Milito
- Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics, Department of Molecular Genetics, Cerdanyola, 08193 Barcelona, Spain;
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- Department of Molecular Medicine and Medical Biotechnology, University of Naples Federico II, Via Pansini 5, 80131 Napoli, Italy
- Department of Biology and Evolution of Marine Organisms, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, 80121 Napoli, Italy
- Correspondence: (I.C.); (E.D.)
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- Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Polytechnic University of the Marche, Via Brecce Bianche, 60131 Ancona, Italy
- Correspondence: (I.C.); (E.D.)
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Miller EC, Mesnick SL, Wiens JJ. Sexual Dichromatism Is Decoupled from Diversification over Deep Time in Fishes. Am Nat 2021; 198:232-252. [PMID: 34260865 DOI: 10.1086/715114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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AbstractSexually selected traits have long been thought to drive diversification, but support for this hypothesis has been persistently controversial. In fishes, sexually dimorphic coloration is associated with assortative mating and speciation among closely related species, as shown in classic studies. However, it is unclear whether these results can generalize to explain diversity patterns across ray-finned fishes, which contain the majority of vertebrate species and 96% of fishes. Here, we use phylogenetic approaches to test for an association between sexual dichromatism and diversification rates (speciation minus extinction) in ray-finned fishes. We assembled dichromatism data for 10,898 species, a data set of unprecedented size. We found no difference in diversification rates between monochromatic and dichromatic species when including all ray-finned fishes. However, at lower phylogenetic scales (within orders and families), some intermediate-sized clades did show an effect of dichromatism on diversification. Surprisingly, dichromatism could significantly increase or decrease diversification rates. Moreover, we found no effect in many of the clades initially used to link dichromatism to speciation in fishes (e.g., cichlids) or an effect only at shallow scales (within subclades). Overall, we show how the effects of dichromatism on diversification are highly variable in direction and restricted to certain clades and phylogenetic scales.
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Zheng S, Shao F, Tao W, Liu Z, Long J, Wang X, Zhang S, Zhao Q, Carleton KL, Kocher TD, Jin L, Wang Z, Peng Z, Wang D, Zhang Y. Chromosome-level assembly of southern catfish (silurus meridionalis) provides insights into visual adaptation to nocturnal and benthic lifestyles. Mol Ecol Resour 2021; 21:1575-1592. [PMID: 33503304 DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2020] [Revised: 01/13/2021] [Accepted: 01/22/2021] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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The Southern catfish (Silurus meridionalis) is a nocturnal and benthic freshwater fish endemic to the Yangtze River and its tributaries. In this study, we constructed a chromosome-level draft genome of S. meridionalis using 69.7-Gb Nanopore long reads and 49.5-Gb Illumina short reads. The genome assembly was 741.2 Mb in size with a contig N50 of 13.19 Mb. An additional 116.4 Gb of Bionano and 77.4 Gb of Hi-C data were applied to assemble contigs into scaffolds and further into 29 chromosomes, resulting in a 738.9-Mb genome with a scaffold N50 of 28.04 Mb. A total of 22,965 protein-coding genes were predicted from the genome with 22,519 (98.06%) genes functionally annotated. Comparative genomic and transcriptomic analyses revealed a rod-dominated visual system which was responsible for scotopic vision. The absence of cone opsins SWS1 and SWS2 resulted in the lack of ultraviolet and blue violet sensitivity. Mutations at key amino acid sites of RH1.1, RH1.2 and RH2 resulted in spectral tuning good for dim light vision and narrow colour vision. A higher expression level of rod phototransduction genes than that of cone genes and higher rod-to-cone ratio led to higher optical sensitivity under dim light conditions. In addition, analysis of the genes involved in eye morphogenesis and development revealed the loss of some conserved noncoding elements, which might be associated with the small eyes in catfish. Together, our study provides important clues for the adaptation of the catfish visual system to the nocturnal and benthic lifestyles. The draft genome of S. meridionalis represents a valuable resource for studies of the molecular mechanisms of ecological adaptation.
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- Shuqing Zheng
- Key Laboratory of Freshwater Fish Reproduction and Development (Ministry of Education), School of Life Sciences, Key Laboratory of Aquatic Science of Chongqing, Southwest University, Chongqing, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Freshwater Fish Reproduction and Development (Ministry of Education), School of Life Sciences, Key Laboratory of Aquatic Science of Chongqing, Southwest University, Chongqing, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Freshwater Fish Reproduction and Development (Ministry of Education), School of Life Sciences, Key Laboratory of Aquatic Science of Chongqing, Southwest University, Chongqing, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Freshwater Fish Reproduction and Development (Ministry of Education), School of Life Sciences, Key Laboratory of Aquatic Science of Chongqing, Southwest University, Chongqing, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Freshwater Fish Reproduction and Development (Ministry of Education), School of Life Sciences, Key Laboratory of Aquatic Science of Chongqing, Southwest University, Chongqing, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Freshwater Fish Reproduction and Development (Ministry of Education), School of Life Sciences, Key Laboratory of Aquatic Science of Chongqing, Southwest University, Chongqing, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Freshwater Fish Reproduction and Development (Ministry of Education), School of Life Sciences, Key Laboratory of Aquatic Science of Chongqing, Southwest University, Chongqing, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Freshwater Fish Reproduction and Development (Ministry of Education), School of Life Sciences, Key Laboratory of Aquatic Science of Chongqing, Southwest University, Chongqing, P. R. China
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- Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Freshwater Fish Reproduction and Development (Ministry of Education), School of Life Sciences, Key Laboratory of Aquatic Science of Chongqing, Southwest University, Chongqing, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Freshwater Fish Reproduction and Development (Ministry of Education), School of Life Sciences, Key Laboratory of Aquatic Science of Chongqing, Southwest University, Chongqing, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Freshwater Fish Reproduction and Development (Ministry of Education), School of Life Sciences, Key Laboratory of Aquatic Science of Chongqing, Southwest University, Chongqing, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Freshwater Fish Reproduction and Development (Ministry of Education), School of Life Sciences, Key Laboratory of Aquatic Science of Chongqing, Southwest University, Chongqing, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Freshwater Fish Reproduction and Development (Ministry of Education), School of Life Sciences, Key Laboratory of Aquatic Science of Chongqing, Southwest University, Chongqing, P. R. China
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Schluessel V, Rick IP, Seifert FD, Baumann C, Lee Davies WI. Not just shades of grey: life is full of colour for the ocellate river stingray (Potamotrygon motoro). J Exp Biol 2021; 224:237826. [PMID: 33771913 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.226142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2020] [Accepted: 03/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Previous studies have shown that marine stingrays have the anatomical and physiological basis for colour vision, with cone spectral sensitivity in the blue to green range of the visible spectrum. Behavioural studies on Glaucostegus typus also showed that blue and grey can be perceived and discriminated. The present study is the first to assess visual opsin genetics in the ocellate river stingray (Potamotrygon motoro) and test whether individuals perceive colour in two alternative forced choice experiments. Retinal transcriptome profiling using RNA-Seq and quantification demonstrated the presence of lws and rh2 cone opsin genes and a highly expressed single rod (rh1) opsin gene. Spectral tuning analysis predicted these vitamin A1-based visual photopigments to exhibit spectral absorbance maxima at 461 nm (rh2), 496 nm (rh1) and 555 nm (lws); suggesting the presence of dichromacy in this species. Indeed, P. motoro demonstrates the potential to be equally sensitive to wavelengths from 380 to 600 nm of the visible spectrum. Behavioural results showed that red and green plates, as well as blue and yellow plates, were readily discriminated based on colour; however, brightness differences also played a part in the discrimination of blue and yellow. Red hues of different brightness were distinguished significantly above chance level from one another. In conclusion, the genetic and behavioural results support prior data on marine stingrays. However, this study suggests that freshwater stingrays of the family Potamotrygonidae may have a visual colour system that has ecologically adapted to a riverine habitat.
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- Vera Schluessel
- Institute of Zoology, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Poppelsdorfer Schloss, Meckenheimer Allee 169, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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- Institute of Zoology, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Poppelsdorfer Schloss, Meckenheimer Allee 169, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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- Institute of Zoology, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Poppelsdorfer Schloss, Meckenheimer Allee 169, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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- Institute of Zoology, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Poppelsdorfer Schloss, Meckenheimer Allee 169, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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- Institute of Zoology, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Poppelsdorfer Schloss, Meckenheimer Allee 169, 53115 Bonn, Germany.,Umeå Centre for Molecular Medicine (UCMM), Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden.,School of Life Sciences, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Melbourne Campus, Melbourne, VIC 3086, Australia
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The Chemosensory Repertoire of the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus) Reveals Complementary Genetics of Olfactory and Vomeronasal-Type Receptors. J Mol Evol 2021; 89:313-328. [PMID: 33881604 DOI: 10.1007/s00239-021-10007-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2020] [Accepted: 03/22/2021] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Pitviper sensory perception incorporates diverse stimuli through the integration of trichromatic color vision, bifocal heat-sensing, and dual-system chemoperception. Chemoperception, or olfaction, is mediated by chemoreceptors in the olfactory bulb and the vomeronasal organ, but the true genomic complexity of the gene families and their relative contributions is unknown. A full genomic accounting of pitviper chemoperception directly complements our current understanding of their venoms by generating a more complete polyphenic representation of their predatory arsenal. To characterize the genetic repertoire of pitviper chemoperception, we analyzed a full-genome assembly for Crotalus adamanteus, the eastern diamondback rattlesnake. We identified hundreds of genes encoding both olfactory receptors (ORs; 362 full-length genes) and type-2 vomeronasal receptors (V2Rs; 430 full-length genes). Many chemoreceptor genes are organized into large tandem repeat arrays. Comparative analysis of V2R orthologs across squamates demonstrates how gene array expansion and contraction underlies the evolution of the chemoreceptor repertoire, which likely reflects shifts in life history traits. Chromosomal assignments of chemosensory genes identified sex chromosome specific chemoreceptor genes, providing gene candidates underlying observed sex-specific chemosensory-based behaviors. We detected widespread episodic evolution in the extracellular, ligand-binding domains of both ORs and V2Rs, suggesting the diversification of chemoreceptors is driven by transient periods of positive selection. We provide a robust genetic framework for studying pitviper chemosensory ecology and evolution.
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