Mendizábal-Castillero Marco, Merlo Manuel Alejandro, Cross Ismael, Rodríguez María Esther, Rebordinos Laureana
Área de Genética, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar y Ambientales, INMAR, Universidad de Cádiz, 11510 Cádiz, Spain.
Animals (Basel). 2022 Dec 19;12(24):3586. doi: 10.3390/ani12243586.
The Senegalese sole (, Kaup 1858), a marine flatfish, belongs to the Pleuronectiformes order. It is a commercially important species for fisheries and aquaculture. However, in aquaculture, several production bottlenecks have still to be resolved, including skeletal deformities and high mortality during the larval and juvenile phase. The study aims to characterize the gene clusters in to understand better the developmental and metamorphosis process in this species. Using a BAC library, the clones that contain genes were isolated, sequenced by NGS and used as BAC-FISH probes. Subsequently the clusters were studied by sequence analysis, comparative genomics, and cytogenetic and phylogenetic analysis. Cytogenetic analysis demonstrated the localization of four BAC clones on chromosome pairs 4, 12, 13, and 16 of the Senegalese sole cytogenomic map. Comparative and phylogenetic analysis showed a highly conserved organization in each cluster and different phylogenetic clustering in each cluster. Analysis of structural and repetitive sequences revealed accumulations of polymorphisms mediated by repetitive elements in the cluster, mainly retroelements. Therefore, a possible loss of the gene can be established in the Pleuronectiformes lineage. This work allows the organization and regulation of clusters to be understood, and is a good base for further studies of expression patterns.
塞内加尔鳎(, 考普1858年),一种海产比目鱼,属于鲽形目。它是渔业和水产养殖中具有重要商业价值的物种。然而,在水产养殖中,仍有几个生产瓶颈有待解决,包括幼体和幼鱼阶段的骨骼畸形和高死亡率。该研究旨在对 基因簇进行表征,以更好地了解该物种的发育和变态过程。利用细菌人工染色体(BAC)文库,分离出包含 基因的克隆,通过二代测序(NGS)进行测序,并用作BAC荧光原位杂交(BAC-FISH)探针。随后,通过序列分析、比较基因组学、细胞遗传学和系统发育分析对 基因簇进行了研究。细胞遗传学分析表明,四个BAC克隆定位于塞内加尔鳎细胞基因组图谱的第4、12、13和16号染色体对。比较和系统发育分析表明,每个基因簇具有高度保守的组织,每个 基因簇具有不同的系统发育聚类。对结构和重复序列的分析揭示了 基因簇中由重复元件介导的多态性积累,主要是逆转录元件。因此,可以确定在鲽形目谱系中可能存在 基因的缺失。这项工作有助于了解 基因簇的组织和调控,是进一步研究表达模式的良好基础。