非编码元素的进化变化与Caenorhabditis线虫中性模式的过渡有关
Katsunori Tamagawa1, Mehmet Dayi2, Simo Sun3
1Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Japan.
Science advances
|September 13, 2024
概括
保存的非编码元件 (CNEs) 在线虫中雌性异性生殖的进化中发挥了关键作用. 在性特征基因附近的CNE突变影响了精子生成期间的基因表达.
科学领域:
- 进化生物学是进化的生物学.
- 遗传学 遗传学是一种遗传学.
- 发育生物学是发展生物学.
背景情况:
- 性繁殖策略,包括androdioecy (雄性和自我受精的雌雄),已经在*Caenorhabditis*线虫中多次演变.
- 遗传基础的演变的雌雄性,特别是变化在非编码的调节元素,仍然在很大程度上未被探索.
研究的目的:
- 调查保存的非编码元素 (CNEs) 在 *Caenorhabditis* 线虫中雌性异性进化的作用.
- 为了识别涉及从gonokhorism (dioecy) 转变为androdioecy.转变中的CNE和相关基因.
主要方法:
- 在androdioecious线虫中保存的非编码元素 (CNEs) 的全基因组分析.
- 比较基因组学以确定与性特征相关的基因附近快速演变的CNE.
- 基因表达分析以评估精子生成中的CNE功能.
- 基因组编辑以实验验证特定CNE的监管作用.
主要成果:
- 突变被发现迅速积累在CNE邻近与性特征相关的基因在androdioecious线虫.
- 已识别的CNE涉及到雌雄性体的精子生成,并显示与转变为androdioecy相关的改变表达模式.
- 在*laf-1*基因附近的CNE的基因编辑证明了它对正在发育的性腺中的基因表达的影响.
结论:
- 保存的非编码元件 (CNEs) 是关键的调节元件,涉及到 *Caenorhabditis* 中的双性恋的进化.
- 在CNE中发生的变化有助于基因表达的修改,这在基因表达的基础上形成了雌雄性特征,特别是精子生成.
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