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Complete HOX cluster characterization of the coelacanth provides further evidence for slow evolution of its genome
Chris T. Amemiya, Thomas P. Powers, Sonja J. Prohaska, Jane Grimwood, Jeremy Schmutz, Mark Dickson, Tsutomu Miyake, Michael A. Schoenborn, Richard M. Myers, Francis H. Ruddle, Peter F. Stadler
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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 107: 3622-3627 (2010)
Abstract
The living coelacanth is a lobe-finned fish that represents an early evolutionary departure from the lineage that led to land vertebrates, and is of extreme interest scientifically. It has changed very little in appearance from fossilized coelacanths of the Cretaceous (150 to 65 million years ago), and is often referred to as a “living fossil.” An important general question is whether long-term stasis in morphological evolution is associated with stasis in genome evolution. To this end we have used targeted genome sequencing for acquiring 1,612,752 bp of high quality finished sequence encompassing the four HOX clusters of the Indonesian coelacanth <em>Latimeria menadoensis</em>. Detailed analyses were carried out on genomic structure, gene and repeat contents, conserved noncoding regions, and relative rates of sequence evolution in both coding and noncoding tracts. Our results demonstrate conclusively that the coelacanth HOX clusters are evolving comparatively slowly and that this taxon should serve as a viable outgroup for interpretation of the genomes of tetrapod species.
Keywords
Latimeria, HOX cluster, evolution
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http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/02/04/0914312107