ArticleBMC biology2020
The round goby genome provides insights into mechanisms that may facilitate biological invasions.
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- Copy number variation and population-specific immune genes in the model vertebrate zebrafish.eLife · 2024Article
- Whole-Genome Survey Analyses of Five Goby Species Provide Insights into Their Genetic Evolution and Invasion-Related Genes.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Round gobies (Neogobius melanostomus) in the River Rhine: Population genetic support for invasion via two different routes.PloS one · 2024Article
- Astyanax mexicanus surface and cavefish chromosome-scale assemblies for trait variation discovery.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Environmental DNA reveals the genetic diversity and population structure of an invasive species in the Laurentian Great Lakes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Ten years of marine evolutionary biology-Challenges and achievements of a multidisciplinary research initiative.Evolutionary applications · 2023Article
- Genomic data is missing for many highly invasive species, restricting our preparedness for escalating incursion rates.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Recurrent expansions of B30.2-associated immune receptor families in fish.Immunogenetics · 2022Article
- Contrasting population differentiation in two sympatricFrontiers in genetics · 2022Article
- The genome of walking catfish Clarias magur (Hamilton, 1822) unveils the genetic basis that may have facilitated the development of environmental and terrestrial adaptation systems in air-breathing catfishes.DNA research : an international journal for rapid publication of reports on genes and genomes · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe invasive benthic round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) is the most successful temperate invasive fish and has spread in aquatic ecosystems on both sides of the Atlantic. Invasive species constitute powerful in situ experimental systems to study fast adaptation and directional selection on short ecological timescales and present promising case studies to understand factors involved the impressive ability of some species to colonize novel environments. We seize the unique opportunity presented by the round goby invasion to study genomic substrates potentially involved in colonization success.
resultsWe report a highly contiguous long-read-based genome and analyze gene families that we hypothesize to relate to the ability of these fish to deal with novel environments. The analyses provide novel insights from the large evolutionary scale to the small species-specific scale. We describe expansions in specific cytochrome P450 enzymes, a remarkably diverse innate immune system, an ancient duplication in red light vision accompanied by red skin fluorescence, evolutionary patterns of epigenetic regulators, and the presence of osmoregulatory genes that may have contributed to the round goby's capacity to invade cold and salty waters. A recurring theme across all analyzed gene families is gene expansions.
conclusionsThe expanded innate immune system of round goby may potentially contribute to its ability to colonize novel areas. Since other gene families also feature copy number expansions in the round goby, and since other Gobiidae also feature fascinating environmental adaptations and are excellent colonizers, further long-read genome approaches across the goby family may reveal whether gene copy number expansions are more generally related to the ability to conquer new habitats in Gobiidae or in fish.
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