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The origins of novel protein interactions during animal opsin evolution.
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- Evolutionary Constraint on Visual and Nonvisual Mammalian Opsins.Journal of biological rhythms · 2021Article
- Decoupling behavioral and transcriptional responses to color in an eyeless cnidarian.BMC genomics · 2020Article
- A Novel Approach to Investigate the Effect of Tree Reconstruction Artifacts in Single-Gene Analysis Clarifies Opsin Evolution in Nonbilaterian Metazoans.Genome biology and evolution · 2020Article
- Molecular evolution and expression of opsin genes in Hydra vulgaris.BMC genomics · 2019Article
- Evolution of Phototransduction Genes in Lepidoptera.Genome biology and evolution · 2019Article
- Transcriptome-wide analysis of differential gene expression in response to light:dark cycles in a model cnidarian.Comparative biochemistry and physiology. Part D, Genomics & proteomics · 2018Article
- The role of transposable elements in functional evolution of amphioxus genome: the case of opsin gene family.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Co-expression of xenopsin and rhabdomeric opsin in photoreceptors bearing microvilli and cilia.eLife · 2017Article
- The nervous and visual systems of onychophorans and tardigrades: learning about arthropod evolution from their closest relatives.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2017Review
- Semiconducting polymers are light nanotransducers in eyeless animals.Science advances · 2017Article
- The Last Common Ancestor of Most Bilaterian Animals Possessed at Least Nine Opsins.Genome biology and evolution · 2016Article
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Abstract
backgroundBiologists are gaining an increased understanding of the genetic bases of phenotypic change during evolution. Nevertheless, the origins of phenotypes mediated by novel protein-protein interactions remain largely undocumented. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPLE
findingsHere we analyze the evolution of opsin visual pigment proteins from the genomes of early branching animals, including a new class of opsins from Cnidaria. We combine these data with existing knowledge of the molecular basis of opsin function in a rigorous phylogenetic framework. We identify adaptive amino acid substitutions in duplicated opsin genes that correlate with a diversification of physiological pathways mediated by different protein-protein interactions. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: This study documents how gene duplication events early in the history of animals followed by adaptive structural mutations increased organismal complexity by adding novel protein-protein interactions that underlie different physiological pathways. These pathways are central to vision and other photo-reactive phenotypes in most extant animals. Similar evolutionary processes may have been at work in generating other metazoan sensory systems and other physiological processes mediated by signal transduction.
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