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ArticleJournal of molecular evolution2020

Spiralian Genomes Reveal Gene Family Expansions Associated with Adaptation to Freshwater.

Kevin M Horn, Frank E Anderson

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Article in Journal of molecular evolution, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Prioritising research on endocrine disruption in the marine environment: a global perspective.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026
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  2. Benchmarking Oxford Nanopore read assemblers for high-quality molluscan genomes.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021
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Kevin M HornDivision of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Kentucky Wesleyan College, Owensboro, KY, 42301, USA. kevin.horn@kwc.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-0003-9282
Frank E AndersonSchool of Biological Sciences, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, 62901, USA.

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National Science Foundation DEB-1036516
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The colonization of freshwater habitats by marine-adapted organisms represents a major transition that has only occurred a few times in the evolution of animals. Only around half of the extant animal phyla have representatives in both marine and freshwater environments and even within those phyla some major clades are restricted to marine environments. Moving from marine to freshwater environments can create severe osmotic and ionic stresses and the mechanisms that animals have used to adapt to those stresses are still not well understood. In this study, we downloaded amino acid sequence data from 11 spiralian animal genomes (four freshwater taxa representing four different phyla as well as 7 marine taxa) and identified a number of gene family expansions that have occurred exclusively in the freshwater lineages. Further investigation of these gene families and the timing and nature of their expansions will illuminate one of the major evolutionary transitions in the history of life on Earth.

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Biological EvolutionEcosystemFresh WaterAdaptation, PhysiologicalAnimalsGenomeInvertebratesMultigene FamilyPhylogeny

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