Differential evolution of the 13 Atlantic salmon Hox clusters

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Title:	Differential evolution of the 13 Atlantic salmon Hox clusters
Creators Name:	Mungpakdee, S., Seo, H.C., Angotzi, A.R., Dong, X., Akalin, A. and Chourrout, D.
Abstract:	Hox cluster organization represents a valuable marker to study the effects of recent genome duplication in salmonid fish (25-100 Mya). Using polymerase chain reaction amplification of cDNAs, BAC library screening, and genome walking, we reconstructed 13 Hox clusters in the Atlantic salmon containing 118 Hox genes including 8 pseudogenes. Hox paralogs resulting from the genome duplication preceding the radiation of ray-finned fish have been much better preserved in salmon than in other model teleosts. The last genome duplication in the salmon lineage has been followed by the loss of 1 of the 4 HoxA clusters. Four rounds of genome duplication after the vertebrate ancestor salmon Hox clusters display the main organizational features of vertebrate Hox clusters, with Hox genes exclusively that are densely packed in the same orientation. Recently, duplicated Hox clusters have engaged a process of divergence, with several cases of pseudogenization or asymmetrical evolution of Hox gene duplicates, and a marked erosion of identity in noncoding sequences. Strikingly, the level of divergence attained strongly depends on the Hox cluster pairs rather than on the Hox genes within each cluster. It is particularly high between both HoxBb clusters and both HoxDa clusters, whereas both HoxBa clusters remained virtually identical. Positive selection on the Hox protein-coding sequences could not be detected.
Keywords:	Hox Cluster, Genome Duplication, Ray-Finned Fish, Subfunctionalization, Pseudogene, Animals, Salmo salar
Source:	Molecular Biology and Evolution
ISSN:	0737-4038
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Volume:	25
Number:	7
Page Range:	1333-1343
Date:	July 2008
Official Publication:	https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msn097
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