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Schnitzler CE, Chang ES, Waletich J, Quiroga-Artigas G, Wong WY, Nguyen AD, Barreira SN, Doonan LB, Gonzalez P, Koren S, Gahan JM, Sanders SM, Bradshaw B, DuBuc TQ, Febrimarsa, de Jong D, Nawrocki EP, Larson A, Klasfeld S, Gornik SG, Moreland RT, Wolfsberg TG, Phillippy AM, Mullikin JC, Simakov O, Cartwright P, Nicotra M, Frank U, Baxevanis AD. The genome of the colonial hydroid Hydractinia reveals that their stem cells use a toolkit of evolutionarily shared genes with all animals. Genome Res 2024; 34:498-513. [PMID: 38508693 PMCID: PMC11067881 DOI: 10.1101/gr.278382.123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2023] [Accepted: 03/07/2024] [Indexed: 03/22/2024]
Abstract
Hydractinia is a colonial marine hydroid that shows remarkable biological properties, including the capacity to regenerate its entire body throughout its lifetime, a process made possible by its adult migratory stem cells, known as i-cells. Here, we provide an in-depth characterization of the genomic structure and gene content of two Hydractinia species, Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus and Hydractinia echinata, placing them in a comparative evolutionary framework with other cnidarian genomes. We also generated and annotated a single-cell transcriptomic atlas for adult male H. symbiolongicarpus and identified cell-type markers for all major cell types, including key i-cell markers. Orthology analyses based on the markers revealed that Hydractinia's i-cells are highly enriched in genes that are widely shared amongst animals, a striking finding given that Hydractinia has a higher proportion of phylum-specific genes than any of the other 41 animals in our orthology analysis. These results indicate that Hydractinia's stem cells and early progenitor cells may use a toolkit shared with all animals, making it a promising model organism for future exploration of stem cell biology and regenerative medicine. The genomic and transcriptomic resources for Hydractinia presented here will enable further studies of their regenerative capacity, colonial morphology, and ability to distinguish self from nonself.
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- Christine E Schnitzler
- Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida, St. Augustine, Florida 32080, USA
- Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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- Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida, St. Augustine, Florida 32080, USA
- Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida, St. Augustine, Florida 32080, USA
- Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
- Centre de Recherche en Biologie cellulaire de Montpellier (CRBM), Université de Montpellier, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 34293 Montpellier CEDEX 05, France
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- Department for Neurosciences and Developmental Biology, University of Vienna, 1030 Vienna, Austria
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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- Centre for Chromosome Biology, College of Science and Engineering, University of Galway, Galway H91 W2TY, Ireland
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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- Centre for Chromosome Biology, College of Science and Engineering, University of Galway, Galway H91 W2TY, Ireland
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QU, United Kingdom
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- Department of Surgery, Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA
- Pittsburgh Center for Evolutionary Biology and Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA
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- Centre for Chromosome Biology, College of Science and Engineering, University of Galway, Galway H91 W2TY, Ireland
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- Centre for Chromosome Biology, College of Science and Engineering, University of Galway, Galway H91 W2TY, Ireland
- Department of Biology, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081, USA
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- Centre for Chromosome Biology, College of Science and Engineering, University of Galway, Galway H91 W2TY, Ireland
- Pharmaceutical Biology Laboratory, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta, Jawa Tengah 57169, Indonesia
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- Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida, St. Augustine, Florida 32080, USA
- Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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- Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida, St. Augustine, Florida 32080, USA
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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- Centre for Chromosome Biology, College of Science and Engineering, University of Galway, Galway H91 W2TY, Ireland
- Center for Organismal Studies, University of Heidelberg, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
- NIH Intramural Sequencing Center, Rockville, Maryland 20852, USA
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- Department for Neurosciences and Developmental Biology, University of Vienna, 1030 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA
- Pittsburgh Center for Evolutionary Biology and Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA
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- Centre for Chromosome Biology, College of Science and Engineering, University of Galway, Galway H91 W2TY, Ireland
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA;
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Schnitzler CE, Chang ES, Waletich J, Quiroga-Artigas G, Wong WY, Nguyen AD, Barreira SN, Doonan L, Gonzalez P, Koren S, Gahan JM, Sanders SM, Bradshaw B, DuBuc TQ, Febrimarsa, de Jong D, Nawrocki EP, Larson A, Klasfeld S, Gornik SG, Moreland RT, Wolfsberg TG, Phillippy AM, Mullikin JC, Simakov O, Cartwright P, Nicotra M, Frank U, Baxevanis AD. The genome of the colonial hydroid Hydractinia reveals their stem cells utilize a toolkit of evolutionarily shared genes with all animals. bioRxiv 2023:2023.08.25.554815. [PMID: 37786714 PMCID: PMC10541594 DOI: 10.1101/2023.08.25.554815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/04/2023]
Abstract
Hydractinia is a colonial marine hydroid that exhibits remarkable biological properties, including the capacity to regenerate its entire body throughout its lifetime, a process made possible by its adult migratory stem cells, known as i-cells. Here, we provide an in-depth characterization of the genomic structure and gene content of two Hydractinia species, H. symbiolongicarpus and H. echinata, placing them in a comparative evolutionary framework with other cnidarian genomes. We also generated and annotated a single-cell transcriptomic atlas for adult male H. symbiolongicarpus and identified cell type markers for all major cell types, including key i-cell markers. Orthology analyses based on the markers revealed that Hydractinia's i-cells are highly enriched in genes that are widely shared amongst animals, a striking finding given that Hydractinia has a higher proportion of phylum-specific genes than any of the other 41 animals in our orthology analysis. These results indicate that Hydractinia's stem cells and early progenitor cells may use a toolkit shared with all animals, making it a promising model organism for future exploration of stem cell biology and regenerative medicine. The genomic and transcriptomic resources for Hydractinia presented here will enable further studies of their regenerative capacity, colonial morphology, and ability to distinguish self from non-self.
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- Christine E Schnitzler
- Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida, St. Augustine, FL 32080, USA
- Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida, St. Augustine, FL 32080, USA
- Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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- Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida, St. Augustine, FL 32080, USA
- Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
- Centre de Recherche en Biologie cellulaire de Montpellier (CRBM), Université de Montpellier, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 34293 Montpellier CEDEX 05, France
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- Department of Molecular Evolution and Development, Faculty of Life Science, University of Vienna, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Centre for Chromosome Biology, College of Science and Engineering, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Centre for Chromosome Biology, College of Science and Engineering, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Surgery, Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
- Pittsburgh Center for Evolutionary Biology and Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
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- Centre for Chromosome Biology, College of Science and Engineering, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Centre for Chromosome Biology, College of Science and Engineering, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
- Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 19081, USA
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- Centre for Chromosome Biology, College of Science and Engineering, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida, St. Augustine, FL 32080, USA
- Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida, St. Augustine, FL 32080, USA
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Centre for Chromosome Biology, College of Science and Engineering, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
- Centre for Organismal Studies, University of Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
- NIH Intramural Sequencing Center, Rockville, MD 20852, USA
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- Department of Molecular Evolution and Development, Faculty of Life Science, University of Vienna, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
- Pittsburgh Center for Evolutionary Biology and Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
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- Centre for Chromosome Biology, College of Science and Engineering, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Gahan JM, Cartwright P, Nicotra ML, Schnitzler CE, Steinmetz PRH, Juliano CE. Cnidofest 2022: hot topics in cnidarian research. EvoDevo 2023; 14:13. [PMID: 37620964 PMCID: PMC10463417 DOI: 10.1186/s13227-023-00217-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2023] [Accepted: 08/08/2023] [Indexed: 08/26/2023] Open
Abstract
The second annual Cnidarian Model Systems Meeting, aka "Cnidofest", took place in Davis, California from 7 to 10th of September, 2022. The meeting brought together scientists using cnidarians to study molecular and cellular biology, development and regeneration, evo-devo, neurobiology, symbiosis, physiology, and comparative genomics. The diversity of topics and species represented in presentations highlighted the importance and versatility of cnidarians in addressing a wide variety of biological questions. In keeping with the spirit of the first meeting (and its predecessor, Hydroidfest), almost 75% of oral presentations were given by early career researchers (i.e., graduate students and postdocs). In this review, we present research highlights from the meeting.
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- James M Gahan
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3QU, UK
- Michael Sars Centre, University of Bergen, Thormøhlensgt. 55, 5008, Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 66045, USA
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- Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15261, USA
- Center for Evolutionary Biology and Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15261, USA
- Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA
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- Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience and Department of Biology, University of Florida, St. Augustine, FL, 32080, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, CA, 95616, USA.
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Travert M, Boohar R, Sanders SM, Boosten M, Leclère L, Steele RE, Cartwright P. Coevolution of the Tlx homeobox gene with medusa development (Cnidaria: Medusozoa). Commun Biol 2023; 6:709. [PMID: 37433830 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-023-05077-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2022] [Accepted: 06/27/2023] [Indexed: 07/13/2023] Open
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Cnidarians display a wide diversity of life cycles. Among the main cnidarian clades, only Medusozoa possesses a swimming life cycle stage called the medusa, alternating with a benthic polyp stage. The medusa stage was repeatedly lost during medusozoan evolution, notably in the most diverse medusozoan class, Hydrozoa. Here, we show that the presence of the homeobox gene Tlx in Cnidaria is correlated with the presence of the medusa stage, the gene having been lost in clades that ancestrally lack a medusa (anthozoans, endocnidozoans) and in medusozoans that secondarily lost the medusa stage. Our characterization of Tlx expression indicate an upregulation of Tlx during medusa development in three distantly related medusozoans, and spatially restricted expression patterns in developing medusae in two distantly related species, the hydrozoan Podocoryna carnea and the scyphozoan Pelagia noctiluca. These results suggest that Tlx plays a key role in medusa development and that the loss of this gene is likely linked to the repeated loss of the medusa life cycle stage in the evolution of Hydrozoa.
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- Matthew Travert
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA.
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire de Biologie du Développement de Villefranche-sur-Mer (LBDV), Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire de Biologie du Développement de Villefranche-sur-Mer (LBDV), Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Biologie Intégrative des Organismes Marins, BIOM, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA
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Kon-Nanjo K, Kon T, Horkan HR, Steele RE, Cartwright P, Frank U, Simakov O. Chromosome-level genome assembly of Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus. G3 (Bethesda) 2023; 13:jkad107. [PMID: 37294738 PMCID: PMC10411563 DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkad107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2023] [Accepted: 05/08/2023] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus is a pioneering model organism for stem cell biology, being one of only a few animals with adult pluripotent stem cells (known as i-cells). However, the unavailability of a chromosome-level genome assembly has hindered a comprehensive understanding of global gene regulatory mechanisms underlying the function and evolution of i-cells. Here, we report the first chromosome-level genome assembly of H. symbiolongicarpus (HSymV2.0) using PacBio HiFi long-read sequencing and Hi-C scaffolding. The final assembly is 483 Mb in total length with 15 chromosomes representing 99.8% of the assembly. Repetitive sequences were found to account for 296 Mb (61%) of the total genome; we provide evidence for at least two periods of repeat expansion in the past. A total of 25,825 protein-coding genes were predicted in this assembly, which include 93.1% of the metazoan Benchmarking Universal Single-Copy Orthologs (BUSCO) gene set. 92.8% (23,971 genes) of the predicted proteins were functionally annotated. The H. symbiolongicarpus genome showed a high degree of macrosynteny conservation with the Hydra vulgaris genome. This chromosome-level genome assembly of H. symbiolongicarpus will be an invaluable resource for the research community that enhances broad biological studies on this unique model organism.
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- Koto Kon-Nanjo
- Department of Neurosciences and Developmental Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna 1030, Austria
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- Department of Neurosciences and Developmental Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna 1030, Austria
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- Centre for Chromosome Biology, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, University of Galway, Galway H91W2TY, Ireland
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-1700, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
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- Centre for Chromosome Biology, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, University of Galway, Galway H91W2TY, Ireland
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- Department of Neurosciences and Developmental Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna 1030, Austria
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Klompen AML, Travert MK, Cartwright P. Localization of Multiple Jellyfish Toxins Shows Specificity for Functionally Distinct Polyps and Nematocyst Types in a Colonial Hydrozoan. Toxins (Basel) 2023; 15:149. [PMID: 36828463 PMCID: PMC9959030 DOI: 10.3390/toxins15020149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2023] [Revised: 02/07/2023] [Accepted: 02/11/2023] [Indexed: 02/16/2023] Open
Abstract
Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus is a colonial hydrozoan that displays a division of labor through morphologically distinct and functionally specialized polyp types. As with all cnidarians, their venoms are housed in nematocysts, which are scattered across an individual. Here, we investigate the spatial distribution of a specific protein family, jellyfish toxins, in which multiple paralogs are differentially expressed across the functionally specialized polyps. Jellyfish toxins (JFTs) are known pore-forming toxins in the venoms of medically relevant species such as box jellyfish (class Cubozoa), but their role in other medusozoan venoms is less clear. Utilizing a publicly available single-cell dataset, we confirmed that four distinct H. symbiolongicarpus JFT paralogs are expressed in nematocyst-associated clusters, supporting these as true venom components in H. symbiolongicarpus. In situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry were used to localize the expression of these JFTs across the colony. These expression patterns, in conjunction with known nematocyst type distributions, suggest that two of these JFTs, HsymJFT1c-I and HsymJFT1c-II, are localized to specific types of nematocysts. We further interpret JFT expression patterns in the context of known regions of nematogenesis and differential rates of nematocyst turnover. Overall, we show that JFT expression patterns in H. symbiolongicarpus are consistent with the subfunctionalization of JFT paralogs across a partitioned venom system within the colony, such that each JFT is expressed within a specific set of functionally distinct polyp types and, in some cases, specific nematocyst types.
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- Anna M. L. Klompen
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
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Novosolov M, Yahalomi D, Chang ES, Fiala I, Cartwright P, Huchon D. The Phylogenetic Position of the Enigmatic, Polypodium hydriforme (Cnidaria, Polypodiozoa): Insights from Mitochondrial Genomes. Genome Biol Evol 2022; 14:6648524. [PMID: 35867352 PMCID: PMC9380995 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evac112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/13/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Polypodium hydriforme is an enigmatic parasite that belongs to the phylum Cnidaria. Its taxonomic position has been debated: whereas it was previously suggested to be part of Medusozoa, recent phylogenomic analyses based on nuclear genes support the view that P. hydriforme and Myxozoa form a clade called Endocnidozoa. Medusozoans have linear mitochondrial (mt) chromosomes, whereas myxozoans, as most metazoan species, have circular chromosomes. In this work, we determined the structure of the mt genome of P. hydriforme, using Illumina and Oxford Nanopore Technologies reads, and showed that it is circular. This suggests that P. hydriforme is not nested within Medusozoa, as this would entail linearization followed by recirculation. Instead, our results support the view that P. hydriforme is a sister clade to Myxozoa, and mt linearization in the lineage leading to medusozoans occurred after the divergence of Myxozoa + P. hydriforme. Detailed analyses of the assembled P. hydriforme mt genome show that: (1) it is encoded on a single circular chromosome with an estimated size of ∼93,000 base pairs, making it one of the largest metazoan mt genomes; (2) around 78% of the genome encompasses a noncoding region composed of several repeat types; (3) similar to Myxozoa, no mt tRNAs were identified; (4) the codon TGA is a stop codon and does not encode for tryptophan as in other cnidarians; (5) similar to myxozoan mt genomes, it is extremely fast evolving.
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- Maria Novosolov
- School of Zoology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel
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- School of Zoology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, 1200 Sunnyside Avenue, Haworth Hall, Lawrence, KS, 66045, USA.,Computational and Statistical Genomics Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Branišovská 31, 370 05 České Budĕjovice, Czech Republic.,Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská 31, 370 05 České Budĕjovice, Czech Republic
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, 1200 Sunnyside Avenue, Haworth Hall, Lawrence, KS, 66045, USA
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- School of Zoology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel.,The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History and National Research Center, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel
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Klompen AML, Kayal E, Collins AG, Cartwright P. Phylogenetic and Selection Analysis of an Expanded Family of Putatively Pore-Forming Jellyfish Toxins (Cnidaria: Medusozoa). Genome Biol Evol 2021; 13:6248095. [PMID: 33892512 PMCID: PMC8214413 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evab081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
Abstract
Many jellyfish species are known to cause a painful sting, but box jellyfish (class Cubozoa) are a well-known danger to humans due to exceptionally potent venoms. Cubozoan toxicity has been attributed to the presence and abundance of cnidarian-specific pore-forming toxins called jellyfish toxins (JFTs), which are highly hemolytic and cardiotoxic. However, JFTs have also been found in other cnidarians outside of Cubozoa, and no comprehensive analysis of their phylogenetic distribution has been conducted to date. Here, we present a thorough annotation of JFTs from 147 cnidarian transcriptomes and document 111 novel putative JFTs from over 20 species within Medusozoa. Phylogenetic analyses show that JFTs form two distinct clades, which we call JFT-1 and JFT-2. JFT-1 includes all known potent cubozoan toxins, as well as hydrozoan and scyphozoan representatives, some of which were derived from medically relevant species. JFT-2 contains primarily uncharacterized JFTs. Although our analyses detected broad purifying selection across JFTs, we found that a subset of cubozoan JFT-1 sequences are influenced by gene-wide episodic positive selection compared with homologous toxins from other taxonomic groups. This suggests that duplication followed by neofunctionalization or subfunctionalization as a potential mechanism for the highly potent venom in cubozoans. Additionally, published RNA-seq data from several medusozoan species indicate that JFTs are differentially expressed, spatially and temporally, between functionally distinct tissues. Overall, our findings suggest a complex evolutionary history of JFTs involving duplication and selection that may have led to functional diversification, including variability in toxin potency and specificity.
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- Anna M L Klompen
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.,Sorbonne Université, CNRS, FR2424, Station Biologique de Roscoff, Place Georges Teissier, 29680, Roscoff, France
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.,National Systematics Laboratory of NOAA's Fisheries Service, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA
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Cartwright P, Travert MK, Sanders SM. The evolution and development of coloniality in hydrozoans. J Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol 2020; 336:293-299. [PMID: 32798274 DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.22996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2019] [Revised: 07/13/2020] [Accepted: 07/16/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Hydrozoan colonies display a variety of shapes and sizes including encrusting, upright, and pelagic forms. Phylogenetic patterns reveal a complex evolutionary history of these distinct colony forms, as well as colony loss. Within a species, phenotypic variation in colonies as a response to changing environmental cues and resources has been documented. The patterns of branching of colony specific tissue, called stolons in encrusting colonies and stalks in upright colonies, are likely under the control of signaling mechanisms whose changing expression in evolution and development are responsible for the diversity of hydrozoan colony forms. Although mechanisms of polyp development have been well studied, little research has focused on colony development and patterning. In the few studies that investigated mechanisms governing colony patterning, the Wnt signaling pathway has been implicated. The diversity of colony form, evolutionary patterns, and mechanisms of colony variation in Hydrozoa are reviewed here.
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- Paulyn Cartwright
- Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
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- Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
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- Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
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Sanders SM, Travert MK, Cartwright P. Frizzled3 expression and colony development in hydractiniid hydrozoans. J Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol 2020; 334:311-317. [PMID: 32638544 DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.22980] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2020] [Revised: 06/16/2020] [Accepted: 06/18/2020] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Hydractiniid hydrozoan colonies are comprised of individual polyps connected by tube-like stolons or a sheet-like mat. Mat and stolons function to integrate the colony through continuous epithelia and shared gastrovascular cavity. Although mechanisms of hydrozoan polyp development have been well studied, little is known about the signaling processes governing the patterning of colonies. Here we investigate the Wnt receptor family Frizzled. Phylogenetic analysis reveals that hydrozoans possess four Frizzled orthologs. We find that one of these genes, Frizzled3, shows a spatially restricted expression pattern in colony-specific tissue in two hydractiniid hydrozoans, Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus and Podocoryna carnea, in a manner that corresponds to their distinct colony forms (stolonal mat in Hydractinia and free stolons in Podocoryna). Interestingly, Frizzled3 was lost in the genome of Hydra, which is a solitary polyp and thus lacks colony-specific tissue. Current evidence suggests that the Wnt signaling pathway plays a key role in the evolution of colony diversity and colony loss in Hydrozoa.
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- Steven M Sanders
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.,Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute and Center for Evolutionary Biology and Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
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Wong WY, Simakov O, Bridge DM, Cartwright P, Bellantuono AJ, Kuhn A, Holstein TW, David CN, Steele RE, Martínez DE. Expansion of a single transposable element family is associated with genome-size increase and radiation in the genus Hydra. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2019; 116:22915-22917. [PMID: 31659034 PMCID: PMC6859323 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1910106116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Transposable elements are one of the major contributors to genome-size differences in metazoans. Despite this, relatively little is known about the evolutionary patterns of element expansions and the element families involved. Here we report a broad genomic sampling within the genus Hydra, a freshwater cnidarian at the focal point of diverse research in regeneration, symbiosis, biogeography, and aging. We find that the genome of Hydra is the result of an expansion event involving long interspersed nuclear elements and in particular a single family of the chicken repeat 1 (CR1) class. This expansion is unique to a subgroup of the genus Hydra, the brown hydras, and is absent in the green hydra, which has a repeat landscape similar to that of other cnidarians. These features of the genome make Hydra attractive for studies of transposon-driven genome expansions and speciation.
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- Wai Yee Wong
- Department of Molecular Evolution and Development, University of Vienna, 1010 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Molecular Evolution and Development, University of Vienna, 1010 Vienna, Austria;
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- Department of Biology, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA 17022
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199
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- Centre for Organismal Biology, Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Centre for Organismal Biology, Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Faculty of Biology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, 80539 Munich, Germany
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, CA 92617
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Blackstone N, Bridge D, Cartwright P, Hadrys H, Schierwater B. Germline evo-devo - a history in two steps. Nature 2019; 573:34. [PMID: 31481783 DOI: 10.1038/d41586-019-02609-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Lau G, Anderson R, Cartwright P, Wallis MC, Schaeffer A, Oottamasathien S, Snow B. Unilateral open extravesical ureteral reimplanation with contralateral dextronomer/hyaluronic acid injection performed as an outpatient therapy. J Pediatr Urol 2018; 14:566.e1-566.e5. [PMID: 30126744 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpurol.2018.07.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2018] [Accepted: 07/19/2018] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Historically, patients with unilateral high-grade vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) and contralateral low-grade or resolved VUR have been treated with bilateral intravesical ureteral reimplantation, which requires postoperative admission. If the high-grade VUR side is treated alone, then the contralateral side is at risk of developing recurrent or worsening VUR. Bilateral subureteric injection of dextronomer/hyaluronic acid (DHA) is another option that can be performed as an outpatient therapy, but a single injection is less effective for high-grade VUR. OBJECTIVE The safety and efficacy of an outpatient combination of open extravesical ureteral reimplantation (EVUR) and contralateral DHA injection were investigated. STUDY DESIGN A retrospective review of children who had concomitant EVUR and subureteric injection of DHA between January 2005 and December 2015 was performed. Exclusion criteria were diagnosis other than VUR, repeat procedures, and patients with no follow-up. Patient characteristics, postsurgical complications, and follow-up imaging were evaluated. Febrile urinary tract infection (fUTI) was defined as ≥50,000 Colony Forming Units (CFU) of an organism from clean-catch or catheterized urine and temperature ≥ 101.5 F. Clinical success is defined as no fUTI for 1 year after the initial operation. Univariate analyses were used to identify risk factors for treatment failure. RESULTS A total of 117 patients met inclusion criteria. Mean age at surgery was 6.0 years, and 85% were female. The mean pre-operative grade of VUR was 3.3 on the EVUR side and 0.6 on the contralateral side (42% resolved before treatment). Median follow-up was 12.2 months (interquartile range, 3.1-25.4). Sixteen patients (14%) had documented fUTI within 1 year, with a clinical success rate of 86%. Of these, five had a postoperative imaging showing resolution of VUR, increasing overall success to 91%. Postoperative fUTI was more common in patients with pre-operative bowel and bladder dysfunction (BBD) (P = 0.003), but this was not associated with a higher reoperation rate (P = 0.168). There were 11 total complications, with three grade 3 complications. DISCUSSION This study is the first to report safety and outcomes of EVUR and contralateral DHA injection for patients with high-grade VUR with contralateral low-grade or resolved VUR. It was shown that it is an effective and safe treatment that can be performed as an outpatient therapy. Limitations to this study include the retrospective design and the clinical definition of success that is used in a cohort of patients from across the mountain west region without routine postoperative voiding cystourethrogram. CONCLUSION Extravesical ureteral reimplantation and contralateral DHA injection can safely be performed as an outpatient therapy and are effective in the treatment of higher grade VUR with contralateral low-grade or resolved VUR. Treatment failure is more likely in patients with BBD.
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- G Lau
- University of Utah/Primary Children's Hospital, 100 N Capecchi Dr #2200, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- University of Utah/Primary Children's Hospital, 100 N Capecchi Dr #2200, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
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- University of Utah/Primary Children's Hospital, 100 N Capecchi Dr #2200, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- University of Utah/Primary Children's Hospital, 100 N Capecchi Dr #2200, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- University of Utah/Primary Children's Hospital, 100 N Capecchi Dr #2200, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- University of Utah/Primary Children's Hospital, 100 N Capecchi Dr #2200, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- University of Utah/Primary Children's Hospital, 100 N Capecchi Dr #2200, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Fromm A, Atkinson SD, Alama-Bermejo G, Cartwright P, Bartholomew JL, Huchon D. A new mitochondrial gene order in the banded cusk-eel Raneya brasiliensis (Actinopterygii, Ophidiiformes). Mitochondrial DNA B Resour 2018; 4:1-4. [PMID: 33365395 PMCID: PMC7510595 DOI: 10.1080/23802359.2018.1532824] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2018] [Accepted: 08/31/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The complete mitochondrial genome of the banded cusk-eel, Raneya brasilensis (Kaup, 1856), was obtained using next-generation sequencing approaches. The genome sequence was 16,881 bp and exhibited a novel gene order for a vertebrate. Specifically, the WANCY and the nd6 – D-loop regions were re-ordered, supporting the hypothesis that these two regions are hotspots for gene rearrangements in Actinopterygii. Phylogenetic reconstructions confirmed that R. brasiliensis is nested within Ophidiiformes. Mitochondrial genomes are required from additional ophidiins to determine whether the gene rearrangements that we observed are specific to the genus Raneya or to the subfamily Ophidiinae.
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- Amir Fromm
- School of Zoology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Center for Applied Research and Technology Transference in Marine Resources Almirante Storni (CIMAS-CCT CONICET-CENPAT), San Antonio Oeste, Argentina
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA
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- School of Zoology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.,The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History and National Research Center, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Shpirer E, Diamant A, Cartwright P, Huchon D. A genome wide survey reveals multiple nematocyst-specific genes in Myxozoa. BMC Evol Biol 2018; 18:138. [PMID: 30208843 PMCID: PMC6134521 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-018-1253-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2017] [Accepted: 08/22/2018] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Background Myxozoa represents a diverse group of microscopic endoparasites whose life cycle involves two hosts: a vertebrate (usually a fish) and an invertebrate (usually an annelid worm). Despite lacking nearly all distinguishing animal characteristics, given that each life cycle stage consists of no more than a few cells, molecular phylogenetic studies have revealed that myxozoans belong to the phylum Cnidaria, which includes corals, sea anemones, and jellyfish. Myxozoa, however, do possess a polar capsule; an organelle that is homologous to the stinging structure unique to Cnidaria: the nematocyst. Previous studies have identified in Myxozoa a number of protein-coding genes that are specific to nematocytes (the cells producing nematocysts) and thus restricted to Cnidaria. Determining which other genes are also homologous with the myxozoan polar capsule genes could provide insight into both the conservation and changes that occurred during nematocyst evolution in the transition to endoparasitism. Results Previous studies have examined the phylogeny of two cnidarian-restricted gene families: minicollagens and nematogalectins. Here we identify and characterize seven additional cnidarian-restricted genes in myxozoan genomes using a phylogenetic approach. Four of the seven had never previously been identified as cnidarian-specific and none have been studied in a phylogenetic context. A majority of the proteins appear to be involved in the structure of the nematocyst capsule and tubule. No venom proteins were identified among the cnidarian-restricted genes shared by myxozoans. Conclusions Given the highly divergent forms that comprise Cnidaria, obtaining insight into the processes underlying their ancient diversification remains challenging. In their evolutionary transition to microscopic endoparasites, myxozoans lost nearly all traces of their cnidarian ancestry, with the one prominent exception being their nematocysts (or polar capsules). Thus nematocysts, and the genes that code for their structure, serve as rich sources of information to support the cnidarian origin of Myxozoa. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12862-018-1253-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Erez Shpirer
- School of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- National Center for Mariculture, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Eilat, Israel
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA.
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- School of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. .,The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History and National Research Center, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Chang ES, Orive ME, Cartwright P. Nonclonal coloniality: Genetically chimeric colonies through fusion of sexually produced polyps in the hydrozoan Ectopleura larynx. Evol Lett 2018; 2:442-455. [PMID: 30283694 PMCID: PMC6121865 DOI: 10.1002/evl3.68] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2017] [Accepted: 06/18/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Hydrozoans typically develop colonies through asexual budding of polyps. Although colonies of Ectopleura are similar to other hydrozoans in that they consist of multiple polyps physically connected through continuous epithelia and shared gastrovascular cavity, Ectopleura larynx does not asexually bud polyps indeterminately. Instead, after an initial phase of limited budding in a young colony, E. larynx achieves its large colony size through the aggregation and fusion of sexually (nonclonally) produced polyps. The apparent chimerism within a physiologically integrated colony presents a potential source of conflict between distinct genetic lineages, which may vary in their ability to access the germline. To determine the extent to which the potential for genetic conflict exists, we characterized the types of genetic relationships between polyps within colonies, using a RAD‐Seq approach. Our results indicate that E. larynx colonies are indeed comprised of polyps that are clones and sexually reproduced siblings and offspring, consistent with their life history. In addition, we found that colonies also contain polyps that are genetically unrelated, and that estimates of genome‐wide relatedness suggests a potential for conflict within a colony. Taken together, our data suggest that there are distinct categories of relationships in colonies of E. larynx, likely achieved through a range of processes including budding, regeneration, and fusion of progeny and unrelated polyps, with the possibility for a genetic conflict resolution mechanism. Together these processes contribute to the reevolution of the ecologically important trait of coloniality in E. larynx.
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- E Sally Chang
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Kansas Lawrence Kansas 66045
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Kansas Lawrence Kansas 66045
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Kansas Lawrence Kansas 66045
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Lewis Ames C, Ryan JF, Bely AE, Cartwright P, Collins AG. Erratum to: A new transcriptome and transcriptome profiling of adult and larval tissue in the box jellyfish Alatina alata: an emerging model for studying venom, vision and sex. BMC Genomics 2016; 17:980. [PMID: 27894263 PMCID: PMC5126857 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-016-3305-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2016] [Accepted: 11/16/2016] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Kayal E, Bentlage B, Cartwright P, Yanagihara AA, Lindsay DJ, Hopcroft RR, Collins AG. Phylogenetic analysis of higher-level relationships within Hydroidolina (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) using mitochondrial genome data and insight into their mitochondrial transcription. PeerJ 2015; 3:e1403. [PMID: 26618080 PMCID: PMC4655093 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2015] [Accepted: 10/23/2015] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Hydrozoans display the most morphological diversity within the phylum Cnidaria. While recent molecular studies have provided some insights into their evolutionary history, sister group relationships remain mostly unresolved, particularly at mid-taxonomic levels. Specifically, within Hydroidolina, the most speciose hydrozoan subclass, the relationships and sometimes integrity of orders are highly unsettled. Here we obtained the near complete mitochondrial sequence of twenty-six hydroidolinan hydrozoan species from a range of sources (DNA and RNA-seq data, long-range PCR). Our analyses confirm previous inference of the evolution of mtDNA in Hydrozoa while introducing a novel genome organization. Using RNA-seq data, we propose a mechanism for the expression of mitochondrial mRNA in Hydroidolina that can be extrapolated to the other medusozoan taxa. Phylogenetic analyses using the full set of mitochondrial gene sequences provide some insights into the order-level relationships within Hydroidolina, including siphonophores as the first diverging clade, a well-supported clade comprised of Leptothecata-Filifera III-IV, and a second clade comprised of Aplanulata-Capitata s.s.-Filifera I-II. Finally, we describe our relatively inexpensive and accessible multiplexing strategy to sequence long-range PCR amplicons that can be adapted to most high-throughput sequencing platforms.
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- Ehsan Kayal
- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA
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- Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Japan
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- Institute of Marine Science, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
- National Systematics Laboratory of NOAA’s Fisheries Service, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA
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Sanders SM, Cartwright P. Patterns of Wnt signaling in the life cycle of Podocoryna carnea and its implications for medusae evolution in Hydrozoa (Cnidaria). Evol Dev 2015; 17:325-36. [PMID: 26487183 DOI: 10.1111/ede.12165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Hydrozoans are known for their complex life cycles, alternating between benthic, asexually reproducing polyps and pelagic, sexually reproducing medusae. Although patterning in hydrozoan polyps has been well studied, little is known about the signaling mechanisms governing medusa development. In order to investigate the role of Wnt signaling in medusa development, we use RNA-Seq data collected from three discrete life cycle stages of Podocoryna carnea to assemble, annotate, and assess enrichment and differential expression (DE) of Wnt pathway elements in P. carnea's transcriptome. Enrichment analyses revealed a statistically significant enrichment of DE Wnt signaling transcripts in the transcriptome of P. carnea, of which, the vast majority of these were significantly up-regulated in developing and adult medusae stages. Whole mount in situ hybridization (ISH) reveals co-expression of the Wnt ligand, Wnt3, and a membrane bound Wnt receptor, frizzled3, at the distal and oral ends of the developmental axes of medusae and polyps in P. carnea. DE and ISH results presented here reveal expression of Wnt signaling components consistent with it playing a role in medusa development. Specifically, Wnt ligand expression in the oral region suggests that the Wnt pathway may play a role in medusa patterning, similar to that of polyps. Previous Wnt expression studies in hydrozoan taxa with reduced medusa have failed to detect co-expression of Wnt3 and a frizzled receptor at their truncated developmental axes, suggesting that down regulation of Wnt pathway elements may play a key role in the loss of the medusa life cycle stage in hydrozoan evolution.
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- Steven M Sanders
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 66045, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 66045, USA
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Zapata F, Goetz FE, Smith SA, Howison M, Siebert S, Church SH, Sanders SM, Ames CL, McFadden CS, France SC, Daly M, Collins AG, Haddock SHD, Dunn CW, Cartwright P. Phylogenomic Analyses Support Traditional Relationships within Cnidaria. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0139068. [PMID: 26465609 PMCID: PMC4605497 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0139068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2015] [Accepted: 09/07/2015] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
Abstract
Cnidaria, the sister group to Bilateria, is a highly diverse group of animals in terms of morphology, lifecycles, ecology, and development. How this diversity originated and evolved is not well understood because phylogenetic relationships among major cnidarian lineages are unclear, and recent studies present contrasting phylogenetic hypotheses. Here, we use transcriptome data from 15 newly-sequenced species in combination with 26 publicly available genomes and transcriptomes to assess phylogenetic relationships among major cnidarian lineages. Phylogenetic analyses using different partition schemes and models of molecular evolution, as well as topology tests for alternative phylogenetic relationships, support the monophyly of Medusozoa, Anthozoa, Octocorallia, Hydrozoa, and a clade consisting of Staurozoa, Cubozoa, and Scyphozoa. Support for the monophyly of Hexacorallia is weak due to the equivocal position of Ceriantharia. Taken together, these results further resolve deep cnidarian relationships, largely support traditional phylogenetic views on relationships, and provide a historical framework for studying the evolutionary processes involved in one of the most ancient animal radiations.
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- Felipe Zapata
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
- Computing and Information Services, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Washington District of Columbia, United States of America
- Biological Sciences Graduate Program, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana, United States of America
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- Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Washington District of Columbia, United States of America
- National Systematics Laboratory of NOAA’s Fisheries Service, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
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- Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, California, United States of America
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
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Sanders SM, Cartwright P. Interspecific Differential Expression Analysis of RNA-Seq Data Yields Insight into Life Cycle Variation in Hydractiniid Hydrozoans. Genome Biol Evol 2015; 7:2417-31. [PMID: 26251524 PMCID: PMC4558869 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evv153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Hydrozoans are known for their complex life cycles, which can alternate between an asexually reproducing polyp stage and a sexually reproducing medusa stage. Most hydrozoan species, however, lack a free-living medusa stage and instead display a developmentally truncated form, called a medusoid or sporosac, which generally remains attached to the polyp. Although evolutionary transitions in medusa truncation and loss have been investigated phylogenetically, little is known about the genes involved in the development and loss of this life cycle stage. Here, we present a new workflow for evaluating differential expression (DE) between two species using short read Illumina RNA-seq data. Through interspecific DE analyses between two hydractiniid hydrozoans, Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus and Podocoryna carnea, we identified genes potentially involved in the developmental, functional, and morphological differences between the fully developed medusa of P. carnea and reduced sporosac of H. symbiolongicarpus. A total of 10,909 putative orthologs of H. symbiolongicarpus and P. carnea were identified from de novo assemblies of short read Illumina data. DE analysis revealed 938 of these are differentially expressed between P. carnea developing and adult medusa, when compared with H. symbiolongicarpus sporosacs, the majority of which have not been previously characterized in cnidarians. In addition, several genes with no corresponding ortholog in H. symbiolongicarpus were expressed in developing medusa of P. carnea. Results presented here show interspecific DE analyses of RNA-seq data to be a sensitive and reliable method for identifying genes and gene pathways potentially involved in morphological and life cycle differences between species.
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- Steven M Sanders
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas
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Cartwright P. Comment on ‘Comparative survival of commercial probiotic formulations: tests in biorelevant gastric fluids and real-time measurements using microcalorimetry’. Benef Microbes 2015; 6:387. [DOI: 10.3920/bm2014.x004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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- P. Cartwright
- Probiotics International Ltd. (Protexin), Human Health Care, Lopen Head, Somerset TA13 5JH, United Kingdom
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Shpirer E, Chang ES, Diamant A, Rubinstein N, Cartwright P, Huchon D. Diversity and evolution of myxozoan minicollagens and nematogalectins. BMC Evol Biol 2014; 14:205. [PMID: 25262812 PMCID: PMC4195985 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-014-0205-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2014] [Accepted: 09/19/2014] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background Myxozoa are a diverse group of metazoan parasites with a very simple organization, which has for decades eluded their evolutionary origin. Their most prominent and characteristic feature is the polar capsule: a complex intracellular structure of the myxozoan spore, which plays a role in host infection. Striking morphological similarities have been found between myxozoan polar capsules and nematocysts, the stinging structures of cnidarians (corals, sea anemones and jellyfish) leading to the suggestion that Myxozoa and Cnidaria share a more recent common ancestry. This hypothesis has recently been supported by phylogenomic evidence and by the identification of a nematocyst specific minicollagen gene in the myxozoan Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae. Here we searched genomes and transcriptomes of several myxozoan taxa for the presence of additional cnidarian specific genes and characterized these genes within a phylogenetic context. Results Illumina assemblies of transcriptome or genome data of three myxozoan species (Enteromyxum leei, Kudoa iwatai, and Sphaeromyxa zaharoni) and of the enigmatic cnidarian parasite Polypodium hydriforme (Polypodiozoa) were mined using tBlastn searches with nematocyst-specific proteins as queries. Several orthologs of nematogalectins and minicollagens were identified. Our phylogenetic analyses indicate that myxozoans possess three distinct minicollagens. We found that the cnidarian repertoire of nematogalectins is more complex than previously thought and we identified additional members of the nematogalectin family. Cnidarians were found to possess four nematogalectin/ nematogalectin-related genes, while in myxozoans only three genes could be identified. Conclusions Our results demonstrate that myxozoans possess a diverse array of genes that are taxonomically restricted to Cnidaria. Characterization of these genes provide compelling evidence that polar capsules and nematocysts are homologous structures and that myxozoans are highly degenerate cnidarians. The diversity of minicollagens was higher than previously thought, with the presence of three minicollagen genes in myxozoans. Our phylogenetic results suggest that the different myxozoan sequences are the results of ancient divergences within Cnidaria and not of recent specializations of the polar capsule. For both minicollagen and nematogalectin, our results show that myxozoans possess less gene copies than their cnidarian counter parts, suggesting that the polar capsule gene repertoire was simplified with their reduced body plan. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12862-014-0205-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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Keiler L, Bitter S, Cartwright P, Wennerstrom C, Jared W, Einstein D. EBRT Versus APBI: Patient Satisfaction. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2014.05.894] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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We have studied the evolution of Wnt genes in cnidarians and the expression pattern of all Wnt ligands in the hydrozoan Hydractinia echinata. Current views favor a scenario in which 12 Wnt sub-families were jointly inherited by cnidarians and bilaterians from their last common ancestor. Our phylogenetic analyses clustered all medusozoan genes in distinct, well-supported clades, but many orthologous relationships between medusozoan Wnts and anthozoan and bilaterian Wnt genes were poorly supported. Only seven anthozoan genes, Wnt2, Wnt4, Wnt5, Wnt6, Wnt 10, Wnt11, and Wnt16 were recovered with strong support with bilaterian genes and of those, only the Wnt2, Wnt5, Wnt11, and Wnt16 clades also included medusozoan genes. Although medusozoan Wnt8 genes clustered with anthozoan and bilaterian genes, this was not well supported. In situ hybridization studies revealed poor conservation of expression patterns of putative Wnt orthologs within Cnidaria. In polyps, only Wnt1, Wnt3, and Wnt7 were expressed at the same position in the studied cnidarian models Hydra, Hydractinia, and Nematostella. Different expression patterns are consistent with divergent functions. Our data do not fully support previous assertions regarding Wnt gene homology, and suggest a more complex history of Wnt family genes than previously suggested. This includes high rates of sequence divergence and lineage-specific duplications of Wnt genes within medusozoans, followed by functional divergence over evolutionary time scales.
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- Katrin Hensel
- School of Natural Sciences and Regenerative Medicine Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
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Sanders SM, Shcheglovitova M, Cartwright P. Differential gene expression between functionally specialized polyps of the colonial hydrozoan Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus (Phylum Cnidaria). BMC Genomics 2014; 15:406. [PMID: 24884766 PMCID: PMC4072882 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2014] [Accepted: 05/20/2014] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Background A colony of the hydrozoan Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus comprises genetically identical yet morphologically distinct and functionally specialized polyp types. The main labor divisions are between feeding, reproduction and defense. In H. symbiolongicarpus, the feeding polyp (called a gastrozooid) has elongated tentacles and a mouth, which are absent in the reproductive polyp (gonozooid) and defensive polyp (dactylozooid). Instead, the dactylozooid has an extended body column with an abundance of stinging cells (nematocysts) and the gonozooid bears gonophores on its body column. Morphological differences between polyp types can be attributed to simple changes in their axial patterning during development, and it has long been hypothesized that these specialized polyps arose through evolutionary alterations in oral-aboral patterning of the ancestral gastrozooid. Results An assembly of 66,508 transcripts (>200 bp) were generated using short-read Illumina RNA-Seq libraries constructed from feeding, reproductive, and defensive polyps of H. symbiolongicarpus. Using several different annotation methods, approximately 54% of the transcripts were annotated. Differential expression analyses were conducted between these three polyp types to isolate genes that may be involved in functional, histological, and pattering differences between polyp types. Nearly 7 K transcripts were differentially expressed in a polyp-specific manner, including members of the homeodomain, myosin, toxin and BMP gene families. We report the spatial expression of a subset of these polyp-specific transcripts to validate our differential expression analyses. Conclusions While potentially originating through simple changes in patterning, polymorphic polyps in Hydractinia are the result of differentially expressed functional, structural, and patterning genes. The differentially expressed genes identified in our study provide a starting point for future investigations of the developmental patterning and functional differences that are displayed in the different polyp types that confer a division of labor within a colony of H. symbiolongicarpus. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/1471-2164-15-406) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Steven M Sanders
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA.
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Nawrocki AM, Cartwright P. Expression of Wnt pathway genes in polyps and medusa-like structures ofEctopleura larynx(Cnidaria: Hydrozoa). Evol Dev 2013; 15:373-84. [DOI: 10.1111/ede.12045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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- The University of Kansas; 1200 Sunnyside Avenue; Lawrence KS 66045 USA
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Keiler L, Cartwright P, Wennerstrom C, Einstein D. Community Hospital Experience With Accelerated Partial Breast Brachytherapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2012.07.566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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In comparative studies using model organisms, extant taxa are often referred to as basal. The term suggests that such taxa are descendants of lineages that diverged early in the history of some larger taxon. By this usage, the basal metazoans comprise just four phyla (Placozoa, Porifera, Cnidaria, and Ctenophora) and the large clade Bilateria. We advise against this practice because basal refers to a region at the base or root of a phylogenetic tree. Thus, referring to an extant taxon or species as basal, or as more basal than another, can be misleading. While much progress has been made toward understanding some of the phylogenetic relationships within these groups, the relationships among them are still largely not known with certainty. Thus, sound inferences from comparative studies of model organisms demand continued illumination of phylogeny. Hypotheses about the mechanisms underlying metazoan evolution can be drawn from the study of model organisms in Cnidaria, Ctenophora, Placozoa, and Porifera, but it is clear that these model organisms are likely to be derived in many respects. Therefore, testing these hypotheses requires the study of yet additional model organisms. The most effective tests are those that investigate model organisms with phylogenetic positions among two sister groups comprising a larger clade of interest.
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- Allen G Collins
- ITZ, Ecology & Evolution, TiHo Hannover, Bünteweg 17d, D-30559 Hannover, Germany
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Nawrocki AM, Cartwright P. A novel mode of colony formation in a hydrozoan through fusion of sexually generated individuals. Curr Biol 2012; 22:825-9. [PMID: 22521789 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.03.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2011] [Revised: 02/15/2012] [Accepted: 03/13/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Coloniality, as displayed by most hydrozoans, is thought to confer a size advantage in substrate-limited benthic marine environments and affects nearly every aspect of a species' ecology and evolution. Hydrozoan colonies normally develop through asexual budding of polyps that remain interconnected by continuous epithelia. The clade Aplanulata is unique in that it comprises mostly solitary species, including the model organism Hydra, with only a few colonial species. We reconstruct a multigene phylogeny to trace the evolution of coloniality in Aplanulata, revealing that the ancestor of Aplanulata was solitary and that coloniality was regained in the genus Ectopleura. Examination of Ectopleura larynx development reveals a unique type of colony formation never before described in Hydrozoa, in that colonies form through sexual reproduction followed by epithelial fusion of offspring polyps to adults. We characterize the expression of manacle, a gene involved in foot development in Hydra, to determine polyp-colony boundaries. Our results suggest that stalks beneath the neck do not have polyp identity and instead are specialized structures that interconnect polyps. Epithelial fusion, brooding behavior, and the presence of a skeleton were all key factors behind the evolution of this novel pathway to coloniality in Ectopleura.
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- Annalise M Nawrocki
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA.
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The diversity of hydrozoan life cycles, as manifested in the wide range of polyp, colony, and medusa morphologies, has been appreciated for centuries. Unraveling the complex history of characters involved in this diversity is critical for understanding the processes driving hydrozoan evolution. In this study, we use a phylogenetic approach to investigate the evolution of morphological characters in Hydrozoa. A molecular phylogeny is reconstructed using ribosomal DNA sequence data. Several characters involving polyp, colony, and medusa morphology are coded in the terminal taxa. These characters are mapped onto the phylogeny and then the ancestral character states are reconstructed. This study confirms the complex evolutionary history of hydrozoan morphological characters. Many of the characters involving polyp, colony, and medusa morphology appear as synapomorphies for major hydrozoan clades, yet homoplasy is commonplace.
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- Paulyn Cartwright
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, 1200 Sunnyside Ave, Lawrence KS 66045, USA.
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Evans NM, Holder MT, Barbeitos MS, Okamura B, Cartwright P. The phylogenetic position of Myxozoa: exploring conflicting signals in phylogenomic and ribosomal data sets. Mol Biol Evol 2010; 27:2733-46. [PMID: 20576761 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Myxozoans are a diverse group of microscopic endoparasites that have been the focus of much controversy regarding their phylogenetic position. Two dramatically different hypotheses have been put forward regarding the placement of Myxozoa within Metazoa. One hypothesis, supported by ribosomal DNA (rDNA) data, place Myxozoa as a sister taxon to Bilateria. The alternative hypothesis, supported by phylogenomic data and morphology, place Myxozoa within Cnidaria. Here, we investigate these conflicting hypotheses and explore the effects of missing data, model choice, and inference methods, all of which can have an effect in placing highly divergent taxa. In addition, we identify subsets of the data that most influence the placement of Myxozoa and explore their effects by removing them from the data sets. Assembling the largest taxonomic sampling of myxozoans and cnidarians to date, with a comprehensive sampling of other metazoans for 18S and 28S nuclear rDNA sequences, we recover a well-supported placement of Myxozoa as an early diverging clade of Bilateria. By conducting parametric bootstrapping, we find that the bilaterian placement of Buddenbrockia could not alone be explained by long-branch attraction. After trimming a published phylogenomic data set, to circumvent problems of missing data, we recover the myxozoan Buddenbrockia plumatellae as a medusozoan cnidarian. In further explorations of these data sets, we find that removal of just a few identified sites under a maximum likelihood criterion employing the Whelan and Goldman amino acid substitution model changes the placement of Buddenbrockia from within Cnidaria to the alternative hypothesis at the base of Bilateria. Under a Bayesian criterion employing the CAT model, the cnidarian placement is more resilient to data removal, but under one test, a well-supported early diverging bilaterian position for Buddenbrockia is recovered. Our results confirm the existence of two relatively stable placements for myxozoans and demonstrate that conflicting signal exists not only between the two types of data but also within the phylogenomic data set. These analyses underscore the importance of careful model selection, taxon and data sampling, and in-depth data exploration when investigating the phylogenetic placement of highly divergent taxa.
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- Nathaniel M Evans
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, USA
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Bentlage B, Cartwright P, Yanagihara AA, Lewis C, Richards GS, Collins AG. Evolution of box jellyfish (Cnidaria: Cubozoa), a group of highly toxic invertebrates. Proc Biol Sci 2009; 277:493-501. [PMID: 19923131 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Cubozoa (Cnidaria: Medusozoa) represents a small clade of approximately 50 described species, some of which cause serious human envenomations. Our understanding of the evolutionary history of Cubozoa has been limited by the lack of a sound phylogenetic hypothesis for the group. Here, we present a comprehensive cubozoan phylogeny based on ribosomal genes coding for near-complete nuclear 18S (small subunit) and 28S (large subunit) and partial mitochondrial 16S. We discuss the implications of this phylogeny for our understanding of cubozoan venom evolution, biogeography and life-history evolution. Our phylogenetic hypothesis suggests that: (i) the last common ancestor of Carybdeida probably possessed the mechanism(s) underlying Irukandji syndrome, (ii) deep divergences between Atlantic and Indo-Pacific clades may be explained by ancient vicariant events, and (iii) sexual dimorphism evolved a single time in concert with complex sexual behaviour. Furthermore, several cubozoan taxa are either para- or polyphyletic, and we address some of these taxonomic issues by designating a new family, Carukiidae, a new genus, Copula, and by redefining the families Tamoyidae and Tripedaliidae. Lastly, cubozoan species identities have long been misunderstood and the data presented here support many of the recent scientific descriptions of cubozoan species. However, the results of a phylogeographic analysis of Alatina moseri from Hawai'i and Alatina mordens from Australia indicate that these two nominal species represent a single species that has maintained metapopulation cohesion by natural or anthropogenic dispersal.
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- Bastian Bentlage
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Kansas, , 1200 Sunnyside Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA.
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Evans NM, Lindner A, Raikova EV, Collins AG, Cartwright P. ErratumTo: Phylogenetic placement of the enigmatic parasite, Polypodium hydriforme, within the Phylum Cnidaria. BMC Evol Biol 2009; 9:165. [PMID: 19604374 PMCID: PMC2714838 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-9-165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2009] [Accepted: 07/15/2009] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Correction to Evans, N.M., Lindner, A., Raikova, E.V., Collins, A.G. and Cartwright, P. Phylogenetic placement of the enigmatic parasite, Polypodium hydriforme, within the phylum Cnidaria. BMC Evol Biol, 2008, 8:139.
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Evans NM, Lindner A, Raikova EV, Collins AG, Cartwright P. Phylogenetic placement of the enigmatic parasite, Polypodium hydriforme, within the Phylum Cnidaria. BMC Evol Biol 2008; 8:139. [PMID: 18471296 PMCID: PMC2396633 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2007] [Accepted: 05/09/2008] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Polypodium hydriforme is a parasite with an unusual life cycle and peculiar morphology, both of which have made its systematic position uncertain. Polypodium has traditionally been considered a cnidarian because it possesses nematocysts, the stinging structures characteristic of this phylum. However, recent molecular phylogenetic studies using 18S rDNA sequence data have challenged this interpretation, and have shown that Polypodium is a close relative to myxozoans and together they share a closer affinity to bilaterians than cnidarians. Due to the variable rates of 18S rDNA sequences, these results have been suggested to be an artifact of long-branch attraction (LBA). A recent study, using multiple protein coding markers, shows that the myxozoan Buddenbrockia, is nested within cnidarians. Polypodium was not included in this study. To further investigate the phylogenetic placement of Polypodium, we have performed phylogenetic analyses of metazoans with 18S and partial 28S rDNA sequences in a large dataset that includes Polypodium and a comprehensive sampling of cnidarian taxa. RESULTS Analyses of a combined dataset of 18S and partial 28S sequences, and partial 28S alone, support the placement of Polypodium within Cnidaria. Removal of the long-branched myxozoans from the 18S dataset also results in Polypodium being nested within Cnidaria. These results suggest that previous reports showing that Polypodium and Myxozoa form a sister group to Bilateria were an artifact of long-branch attraction. CONCLUSION By including 28S rDNA sequences and a comprehensive sampling of cnidarian taxa, we demonstrate that previously conflicting hypotheses concerning the phylogenetic placement of Polypodium can be reconciled. Specifically, the data presented provide evidence that Polypodium is indeed a cnidarian and is either the sister taxon to Hydrozoa, or part of the hydrozoan clade, Leptothecata. The former hypothesis is consistent with the traditional view that Polypodium should be placed in its own cnidarian class, Polypodiozoa.
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- Nathaniel M Evans
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA
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- Institute of Cytology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- National Systematics Laboratory of NOAA Fisheries Service, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA
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Cartwright P, Halgedahl SL, Hendricks JR, Jarrard RD, Marques AC, Collins AG, Lieberman BS. Exceptionally preserved jellyfishes from the Middle Cambrian. PLoS One 2007; 2:e1121. [PMID: 17971881 PMCID: PMC2040521 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2007] [Accepted: 10/15/2007] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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Cnidarians represent an early diverging animal group and thus insight into their origin and diversification is key to understanding metazoan evolution. Further, cnidarian jellyfish comprise an important component of modern marine planktonic ecosystems. Here we report on exceptionally preserved cnidarian jellyfish fossils from the Middle Cambrian (∼505 million years old) Marjum Formation of Utah. These are the first described Cambrian jellyfish fossils to display exquisite preservation of soft part anatomy including detailed features of structures interpreted as trailing tentacles and subumbrellar and exumbrellar surfaces. If the interpretation of these preserved characters is correct, their presence is diagnostic of modern jellyfish taxa. These new discoveries may provide insight into the scope of cnidarian diversity shortly after the Cambrian radiation, and would reinforce the notion that important taxonomic components of the modern planktonic realm were in place by the Cambrian period.
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- Paulyn Cartwright
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
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- Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
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- Department of Geology, and Division of Invertebrate Paleontology, Natural History Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
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- Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- National Systematics Laboratory of NOAA Fisheries Service, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., United States of America
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- Department of Geology, and Division of Invertebrate Paleontology, Natural History Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
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Cartwright P, Collins A. Fossils and phylogenies: integrating multiple lines of evidence to investigate the origin of early major metazoan lineages. Integr Comp Biol 2007; 47:744-51. [PMID: 21669755 DOI: 10.1093/icb/icm071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Understanding the nature and timing of metazoan origins is one of the most important, yet elusive, questions in evolutionary biology. Fossil data provide the most tangible evidence for the origin of early animal lineages, although additional evidence from molecular phylogenetics, molecular clock studies, and development has contributed to our current understanding. We review several lines of evidence to explore the nature and timing of early metazoan evolution and discuss how these data, when considered together, provide a more cohesive picture of the origin of animal diversity. We discuss how trace fossils and biomarkers provide compelling evidence for the origins of Bilateria and siliceous sponges. Using a molecular phylogenetic framework for metazoans, we discuss how fossils can be used to date the origin of clades. We use these fossil dates to perform a relaxed molecular clock analysis for estimating dates of nodes when no fossils are available. We also discuss current data from developmental biology that suggest that early metazoans possessed a sophisticated molecular toolkit for building complex body plans. We conclude that the best evidence for the origin of major metazoan lineages lies in the careful interpretation of the fossil record and that these data, when considered with phylogenetic and developmental evidence, support the notion that the Cambrian radiation is a real phenomenon that marks a critically important time in the history of life.
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- Paulyn Cartwright
- *Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, 1200 Sunnyside Avenue, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA; National Systematics Laboratory of NOAA Fisheries Service, National Museum of Natural History, MRC-153, Smithsonian Institution, PO Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA
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Cartwright P, Schierwater B, Buss LW. Expression of a Gsx parahox gene, Cnox-2, in colony ontogeny in Hydractinia (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa). J Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol 2006; 306:460-9. [PMID: 16615106 DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.21106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The ontogeny of colonial animals is markedly distinct from that of solitary animals, yet no regulatory genes have thus far been implicated in colonial development. In cnidarians, colony ontogeny is characterized by the production of a nexus of vascular stolons, from which the feeding and reproductive structures, called polyps, are budded. Here we describe and characterize the Gsx parahox gene, Cnox-2, in the colonial cnidarian Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus of the class Hydrozoa. Cnox-2 is expressed in prominent components of the colony-wide patterning system; in the epithelia of distal stolon tips and polyp bud rudiments. Both are regions of active morphogenetic activity, characterized by cytologically and behaviorally distinct epithelia. Experimental induction and elimination of stolonal tips result in up- and down-regulation, respectively, of Cnox-2 expression. In the developing polyp, Cnox-2 expression remains uniformly high throughout the period of axial differentiation. The differential oral-aboral Cnox-2 expression in the epithelia of the mature polyp, previously described for this and another hydrozoan, arises after oral structures have completed development. Differential Cnox-2 expression is, thus, associated with key aspects of patterning of both the colony and the polyp, a finding that is particularly striking given that polyp and colony form are dissociable in the evolution of Hydrozoa.
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- Paulyn Cartwright
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA.
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Turner PJ, Cartwright P, Southon MJ, Oostrom AV, Manley BW. Use of a channelled image intensifier in the field-ion microscope. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2002. [DOI: 10.1088/0022-3735/2/8/332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Isaac J, Lowichik A, Cartwright P, Rohr R. Inverted papilloma of the urinary bladder in children: case report and review of prognostic significance and biological potential behavior. J Pediatr Surg 2000; 35:1514-6. [PMID: 11051166 DOI: 10.1053/jpsu.2000.16429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Inverted papilloma of the urinary bladder is rare in the pediatric population. Despite several reports in the literature the prognostic significance and biological potential behavior of this lesion remain uncertain. The authors report a case of polypoid inverted papilloma of the urinary bladder in an 11-year-old boy and review its pathology. The pediatric population with this lesion is an ideal group to provide intense, long-term follow-up to define the biological behavior and prognosis significance of this lesion.
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- J Isaac
- Department of Pathology, Health Sciences Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84312, USA
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Strunin L, Morgan M, Cartwright P. Reducing error, improving safety. Anaesthesia is different from anaesthesiology. BMJ 2000; 321:509. [PMID: 10948052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/17/2023]
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To elicit the transcriptional response following intra- or extracellular stimuli, the signals need to be transmitted to their site of action within the nucleus. The nucleocytoplasmic shuttling of transcription factors is a mechanism mediating this process. The activation and inactivation of the transcriptional response is essential for cells to progress through the cell cycle in a normal manner. The involvement of cytoplasmic and nuclear accessory molecules, and the general nuclear membrane transport components, are essential for this process. Although nuclear import and export for different transcription factor families are regulated by similar mechanisms, there are several differences that allow for the specific activation of each transcription factor. This review discusses the general import and export pathways found to be common amongst many different transcription factors, and highlights a select group of transcription factors that demonstrate the diversity displayed in their mode of activation and inactivation.
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- P Cartwright
- Department of Experimental Oncology, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy
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Marzio G, Wagener C, Gutierrez MI, Cartwright P, Helin K, Giacca M. E2F family members are differentially regulated by reversible acetylation. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:10887-92. [PMID: 10753885 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.275.15.10887] [Citation(s) in RCA: 165] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The six members of the E2F family of transcription factors play a key role in the control of cell cycle progression by regulating the expression of genes involved in DNA replication and cell proliferation. E2F-1, -2, and -3 belong to a structural and functional subfamily distinct from those of the other E2F family members. Here we report that E2F-1, -2, and -3, but not E2F-4, -5, and -6, associate with and are acetylated by p300 and cAMP-response element-binding protein acetyltransferases. Acetylation occurs at three conserved lysine residues located at the N-terminal boundary of their DNA binding domains. Acetylation of E2F-1 in vitro and in vivo markedly increases its binding affinity for a consensus E2F DNA-binding site, which is paralleled by enhanced transactivation of an E2F-responsive promoter. Acetylation of E2F-1 can be reversed by histone deacetylase-1, indicating that reversible acetylation is a mechanism for regulation also of non-histone proteins.
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- G Marzio
- Molecular Medicine Laboratory, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Area Science Park, Padriciano 99, 34012 Trieste, Italy
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Vigo E, Müller H, Prosperini E, Hateboer G, Cartwright P, Moroni MC, Helin K. CDC25A phosphatase is a target of E2F and is required for efficient E2F-induced S phase. Mol Cell Biol 1999; 19:6379-95. [PMID: 10454584 PMCID: PMC84608 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.19.9.6379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 259] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/1999] [Accepted: 06/14/1999] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Functional inactivation of the pRB pathway is a very frequent event in human cancer, resulting in deregulated activity of the E2F transcription factors. To understand the functional role of the E2Fs in cell proliferation, we have developed cell lines expressing E2F-1, E2F-2, and E2F-3 fused to the estrogen receptor ligand binding domain (ER). In this study, we demonstrated that activation of all three E2Fs could relieve the mitogen requirement for entry into S phase in Rat1 fibroblasts and that E2F activity leads to a shortening of the G(0)-G(1) phase of the cell cycle by 6 to 7 h. In contrast to the current assumption that E2F-1 is the only E2F capable of inducing apoptosis, we showed that deregulated E2F-2 and E2F-3 activities also result in apoptosis. Using the ERE2F-expressing cell lines, we demonstrated that several genes containing E2F DNA binding sites are efficiently induced by the E2Fs in the absence of protein synthesis. Furthermore, CDC25A is defined as a novel E2F target whose expression can be directly regulated by E2F-1. Data showing that CDC25A is an essential target for E2F-1, since its activity is required for efficient induction of S phase by E2F-1, are provided. Finally, our results show that expression of two E2F target genes, namely CDC25A and cyclin E, is sufficient to induce entry into S phase in quiescent fibroblasts. Taken together, our results provide an important step in defining how E2F activity leads to deregulated proliferation.
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- E Vigo
- Department of Experimental Oncology, European Institute of Oncology, 20141 Milan, Italy
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The stolonal mat is an anatomical feature correlated with increased colonial integration in several lineages of the cnidarian class Hydrozoa. Cnox-2 is a Hox gene known to be expressed in the body column of the cnidarian polyp. We report the pattern of Cnox-2 expression in both the stolonal mat and free stolons of the hydroid Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus. The gene is found to have high levels of expression in the mat similar to that found in the basal portion of the polyp, but it is not detectably expressed in those regions of free stolons where polyps are budded. These findings suggest that the stolonal mat arose via an expansion of the basal ectoderm of the polyp.
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- P Cartwright
- Department of Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
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Cartwright P, Bowsher J, Buss LW. Expression of a Hox gene, Cnox-2, and the division of labor in a colonial hydroid. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1999; 96:2183-6. [PMID: 10051615 PMCID: PMC26757 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.96.5.2183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/1998] [Accepted: 01/07/1999] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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We report the isolation and expression of the Hox gene, Cnox-2, in Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus, a hydrozoan displaying division of labor. We found different patterns of aboral-to-oral Cnox-2 expression among polyp polymorphs, and we show that experimental conversion of one polyp type to another is accompanied by concordant alteration in Cnox-2 expression. Our results are consistent with the suggestion that polyp polymorphism, characteristic of hydractiniid hydroids, arose via evolutionary modification of proportioning of head to body column.
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- P Cartwright
- Department of Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
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The E2F family of transcription factors are essential for the regulation of genes required for appropriate progression through the cell cycle. Five members of the E2F family have been previously reported, namely E2F1-5. All five are key elements in transcriptional regulation of essential genes, and they can be divided into two functional groups, those that induce S-phase progression when overexpressed in quiescent cells (E2Fs 1-3), and those that do not (E2Fs 4-5). Here, we describe the identification of a novel member of this family, which we refer to as E2F-6. E2F-6 shares significant homology with E2Fs 1-5, especially within the DNA binding, heterodimerization and marked box domains. Unlike E2Fs 1-5, E2F-6 lacks a transactivation and a pocket protein binding domain, hence, forms a unique third group within the E2F family. E2F-6 is a nuclear protein that can form heterodimers with the DP proteins (both DP-I and DP-2) in vitro and in vivo. Our results show that the complex formed between E2F-6 and the DP proteins, possesses high DNA binding activity, displaying a preference for a TTTCCCGC E2F recognition site, which is slightly different to the E2F consensus site derived from the E2 promoter (TTTCGCGC). In contrast to the other members of the E2F family, ectopic expression of E2F-6 inhibits transcription from promoters possessing E2F recognition sites rather than activating transcription. In addition, overexpression of E2F-6 suppresses the transactivational effects of coexpression of E2F-1 and DP-1. The inhibitory effect of E2F-6 is dependent on its DNA binding activity and its ability to form heterodimers with the DPs. Interestingly, ectopic expression of E2F-6 leads to accumulation of cells in S-phase. Our data suggest that E2F-6 expression delays the exit from S-phase rather than inducing S-phase, which further emphasizes the functional difference between E2F-6 and the previously known E2F family members.
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- P Cartwright
- European Institute of Oncology, Department of Experimental Oncology, Milan, Italy
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