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ArticleGenome biology and evolution2021

A Long-Term Conserved Satellite DNA That Remains Unexpanded in Several Genomes of Characiformes Fish Is Actively Transcribed.

Rodrigo Zeni Dos Santos, Rodrigo Milan Calegari, Duílio Mazzoni Zerbinato de Andrade Silva, Francisco J Ruiz-Ruano, Silvana Melo, Claudio Oliveira, Fausto Foresti, Marcela Uliano-Silva, Fábio Porto-Foresti, Ricardo Utsunomia

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Article in Genome biology and evolution, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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Rodrigo Zeni Dos SantosDepartamento de Ciências Biológicas, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade Estadual Paulista, UNESP, Campus de Bauru, Bauru, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Rodrigo Milan CalegariDepartamento de Ciências Biológicas, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade Estadual Paulista, UNESP, Campus de Bauru, Bauru, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Duílio Mazzoni Zerbinato de Andrade SilvaDepartamento de Biologia Estrutural e Funcional, Instituto de Biociências de Botucatu, Universidade Estadual Paulista, UNESP, Botucatu, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Francisco J Ruiz-RuanoDepartment of Organismal Biology-Systematic Biology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Silvana MeloDepartamento de Biologia Estrutural e Funcional, Instituto de Biociências de Botucatu, Universidade Estadual Paulista, UNESP, Botucatu, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Claudio OliveiraDepartamento de Biologia Estrutural e Funcional, Instituto de Biociências de Botucatu, Universidade Estadual Paulista, UNESP, Botucatu, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Fausto ForestiDepartamento de Biologia Estrutural e Funcional, Instituto de Biociências de Botucatu, Universidade Estadual Paulista, UNESP, Botucatu, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Marcela Uliano-SilvaWellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Fábio Porto-ForestiDepartamento de Ciências Biológicas, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade Estadual Paulista, UNESP, Campus de Bauru, Bauru, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Ricardo UtsunomiaDepartamento de Ciências Biológicas, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade Estadual Paulista, UNESP, Campus de Bauru, Bauru, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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Abstract

Eukaryotic genomes contain large amounts of repetitive DNA sequences, such as tandemly repeated satellite DNAs (satDNAs). These sequences are highly dynamic and tend to be genus- or species-specific due to their particular evolutionary pathways, although there are few unusual cases of conserved satDNAs over long periods of time. Here, we used multiple approaches to reveal that an satDNA named CharSat01-52 originated in the last common ancestor of Characoidei fish, a superfamily within the Characiformes order, ∼140-78 Ma, whereas its nucleotide composition has remained considerably conserved in several taxa. We show that 14 distantly related species within Characoidei share the presence of this satDNA, which is highly amplified and clustered in subtelomeric regions in a single species (Characidium gomesi), while remained organized as small clusters in all the other species. Defying predictions of the molecular drive of satellite evolution, CharSat01-52 shows similar values of intra- and interspecific divergence. Although we did not provide evidence for a specific functional role of CharSat01-52, its transcriptional activity was demonstrated in different species. In addition, we identified short tandem arrays of CharSat01-52 embedded within single-molecule real-time long reads of Astyanax paranae (536 bp-3.1 kb) and A. mexicanus (501 bp-3.9 kb). Such arrays consisted of head-to-tail repeats and could be found interspersed with other sequences, inverted sequences, or neighbored by other satellites. Our results provide a detailed characterization of an old and conserved satDNA, challenging general predictions of satDNA evolution.

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GenomeAnimalsBase SequenceCharaciformesConserved SequenceDNA, SatelliteEvolution, MolecularGenetic VariationTranscription, GeneticDNA, Satelliteneotropical fishrepetitive DNAsatDNAtandem repeats

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PMCPMC8210747

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