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ArticleMolecular biology and evolution2021

The Evolution of Sox Gene Repertoires and Regulation of Segmentation in Arachnids.

Luis Baudouin-Gonzalez, Anna Schoenauer, Amber Harper, Grace Blakeley, Michael Seiter, Saad Arif, Lauren Sumner-Rooney, Steven Russell, Prashant P Sharma, Alistair P McGregor

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Article in Molecular biology and evolution, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed, 42 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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10 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Luis Baudouin-GonzalezDepartment of Biological and Medical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Anna SchoenauerDepartment of Biological and Medical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Amber HarperDepartment of Biological and Medical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Grace BlakeleyDepartment of Biological and Medical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Michael SeiterUnit Integrative Zoology, Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Saad ArifDepartment of Biological and Medical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-0811-8604
Lauren Sumner-RooneyOxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-0196-5069
Steven RussellDepartment of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-0546-3031
Prashant P SharmaDepartment of Integrative Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2328-9084
Alistair P McGregorDepartment of Biological and Medical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-2908-2420
Oxford Brookes University · GBUniversity of Cambridge · GBUniversity of Oxford · GBUniversity of Vienna · ATUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison · US

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/N007069/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Sox family of transcription factors regulates many processes during metazoan development, including stem cell maintenance and nervous system specification. Characterizing the repertoires and roles of these genes can therefore provide important insights into animal evolution and development. We further characterized the Sox repertoires of several arachnid species with and without an ancestral whole-genome duplication and compared their expression between the spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum and the harvestman Phalangium opilio. We found that most Sox families have been retained as ohnologs after whole-genome duplication and evidence for potential subfunctionalization and/or neofunctionalization events. Our results also suggest that Sox21b-1 likely regulated segmentation ancestrally in arachnids, playing a similar role to the closely related SoxB gene, Dichaete, in insects. We previously showed that Sox21b-1 is required for the simultaneous formation of prosomal segments and sequential addition of opisthosomal segments in P. tepidariorum. We studied the expression and function of Sox21b-1 further in this spider and found that although this gene regulates the generation of both prosomal and opisthosomal segments, it plays different roles in the formation of these tagmata reflecting their contrasting modes of segmentation and deployment of gene regulatory networks with different architectures.

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Evolution, MolecularAnimalsArachnidaFemaleMaleSOX Transcription FactorsSOX Transcription FactorsarachnidsarthropodsdevelopmentevolutionsegmentationSox genesspiders

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PMID33755150
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