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ArticleBiologia futura2026

Comparative analysis of conserved non-coding elements identifies gene regulatory networks rewired during the water-to-land transition in vertebrates.

Ferenc T Kagan, Zsombor Varga, Nóra Pápai, Máté Varga

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Ferenc T KaganDepartment of Genetics, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
Zsombor VargaDepartment of Genetics, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
Nóra PápaiDepartment of Genetics, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
Máté VargaDepartment of Genetics, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. mvarga@ttk.elte.hu.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4289-1705

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The conquest of land by vertebrates has been a pivotal moment in evolutionary history. Adapting to the new habitats necessitated numerous changes in vertebrate anatomy and physiology, creating an enduring imprint on the developmental gene regulatory networks (GRNs) of tetrapods. The increase of high-quality genomic resources over the past decade has made it possible to study the genomic legacy of the water-to-land transition. While much attention has been given to the highly conserved non-coding elements (CNEs) of the genome that share high levels of similarity across evolutionarily diverged clades, recent evidence suggests that perhaps comparable attention should be given to "missing" CNE-s, conserved sequence patches present in extant stem gnathostomes and actinopterygian fishes that have become undetectable in tetrapods during the adaptation to terrestrial life, whether through true sequence loss or divergence beyond alignability. These sequences could help us reveal the relaxation of certain developmental constraints, related to the aquatic lifestyle, that made reaching new adaptive peaks in the developmental landscape possible. In this paper, we search for such CNEs and characterize them in comparison with pan-Gnathostome CNEs, using the zebrafish (Danio rerio) genome as a reference. Our results suggest that the rewiring of developmental networks related to pigmentation and muscle structure formation has left the largest genomic imprint. We also find that components of canonical Wnt and Hedgehog signalling, are enriched among CNEs retained in fish.

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cis-regulatory evolutioncomparative genomicsconserved non-coding elementsenhancer evolutionevo-devogene regulatory networksvertebrate evolutionwater-to-land transitionzebrafish

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