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The Amphioxus Hox Cluster: Characterization, Comparative Genomics, and Evolution
Chris T. Amemiya, Sonja J. Prohaska, Alicia Hill-Force, April Cooke, Jessica Wasserscheid, David E. K. Ferrier, Juan Pacual Anaya, Jordi Garcia-Fernàndez, Ken Dewar, Peter F. Stadler
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J.Exp.Zool.MDE 310B: 465-477 (2008)
Abstract
The amphioxus <i>Hox</i> cluster is often viewed as ``archetypal'' for the
chordate lineage. Here we present a descriptive account of the <i>448</i>kb
region spanning the <i>Hox</i> cluster of the amphioxus <i>Branchiostoma
floridae</i> from <i>Hox14</i> to <i>Hox1</i>. We provide complete coding
sequences of all 14 previously described amphioxus sequences and describe a
detailed analysis of the conserved non-coding regulatory sequence
elements. We find that the posterior part of the <i>Hox</i> cluster is so
highly derived that even the complete genomic sequence is insufficient to
decide whether the posterior <i>Hox</i> genes arose by independent
duplications or whether they are true orthologs of the corresponding
gnathostome paralog groups. In contrast, the anterior region is much better
conserved. The amphioxus \emph{Hox} cluster strongly excludes repetitive
elements with the exception of two repeat islands in the posterior region.
Repeat exclusion is also observed in gnathostomes, but not protostome
\emph{Hox} clusters. We thus hypothesize that the much shorter vertebrate
\emph{Hox} clusters are the result of extensive resolution of the
redundancy of regulatory DNA following the genome duplications rather than
the consequence of a selection pressure to remove non-functional sequence
from the cluster.
Keywords
Hox cluster, Branchiostoma floridae
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DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.21213