PUBLICATION
Evolution of duplicated reggie genes in zebrafish and goldfish
- Authors
- Málaga-Trillo, E., Laessing, U., Lang, D.M., Meyer, A., and Stürmer, C.A.O.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-020219-3
- Date
- 2002
- Source
- Journal of molecular evolution 54(2): 235-245 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Laessing, Ute, Lang, Dirk, Málaga-Trillo, Edward, Meyer, Axel, Stuermer, Claudia
- Keywords
- reggie; flotillin; gene duplication; microdomains; axon growth; axon regeneration; Carassius auratus; Danio rerio
- MeSH Terms
-
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Evolution, Molecular*
- Exons/genetics
- Gene Duplication
- Genes, Duplicate*
- Genome/genetics
- Goldfish/genetics*
- Humans
- Introns/genetics
- Membrane Proteins/chemistry
- Membrane Proteins/genetics*
- Phylogeny
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Sequence Alignment
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
- Zebrafish/genetics*
- PubMed
- 11821916 Full text @ J. Mol. Evol.
Citation
Málaga-Trillo, E., Laessing, U., Lang, D.M., Meyer, A., and Stürmer, C.A.O. (2002) Evolution of duplicated reggie genes in zebrafish and goldfish. Journal of molecular evolution. 54(2):235-245.
Abstract
Invertebrates, tetrapod vertebrates, and fish might be expected to differ in their number of gene copies, possibly due the occurrence of genome duplication events during animal evolution. Reggie (flotillin) genes code for membrane-associated proteins involved in growth signaling in developing and regenerating axons. Until now, there appeared to be only two reggie genes in fruitflies, mammals, and fish. The aim of this research was to search for additional copies of reggie genes in fishes, since a genome duplication might have increased the gene copy number in this group. We report the presence of up to four distinct reggie genes (two reggie-1 and two reggie-2 genes) in the genomes of zebrafish and goldfish. Phylogenetic analyses show that the zebrafish and goldfish sequence pairs are orthologous, and that the additional copies could have arisen through a genome duplication in a common ancestor of bony fish. The presence of novel reggie mRNAs in fish embryos indicates that the newly discovered gene copies are transcribed and possibly expressed in the developing and regenerating nervous system. The intron/exon boundaries of the new fish genes characterized here correspond with those of human genes, both in location and phase. An evolutionary scenario for the evolution of reggie intron-exon structure, where loss of introns appears to be a distinctive trait in invertebrate reggie genes, is presented.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping