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- Title
Comparative evolutionary genomics of medaka and three-spined stickleback fabp2a and fabp2b genes with fabp2 of zebrafish.
- Authors
Parmar, Manoj B.; Wright, Jonathan M.; Bell, J.
- Abstract
Here we describe the evolutionary relationship of the duplicated intestinal fatty acid binding protein genes fabp2a and fabp2b from medaka and three-spined stickleback by comparing them to the well-studied fabp2 gene from zebrafish. The duplicated fabp2 genes from medaka and three-spined stickleback consist of four exons separated by three introns, which code for a polypeptide of 132 amino acids. Fabp2a and Fabp2b of medaka and three-spined stickleback share highest sequence identity with zebrafish Fabp2. All Fabp2/FABP2 sequences from vertebrates form a distinct clade in a neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree with a robust 100% bootstrap value, which indicates that the medaka and three-spined stickleback fabp2a and fabp2b are orthologs of zebrafish fabp2. The syntenic genes of fabp2a and fabp2b from medaka and three-spined stickleback were shown to be conserved with the syntenic genes of fabp2/ FABP2 from zebrafish and human, evidence that the duplicated fabp2 genes from medaka and three-spined stickleback most likely arose from the teleost-specific whole-genome duplication. The tissue-specific distribution of medaka and three-spined stickleback fabp2a and fabp2b transcripts, and zebrafish fabp2 transcripts, assayed by RT-qPCR suggests the acquisition of new function(s) by the medaka fabp2a, and the distinct evolution of fabp2b compared with fabp2a in the medaka and three-spined stickleback genomes.
- Subjects
ORYZIAS latipes; BIOLOGICAL evolution; THREESPINE stickleback; FISH genetics; ZEBRA danio; COMPARATIVE studies; FATTY acids
- Publication
Genome, 2013, Vol 56, Issue 1, p27
- ISSN
0831-2796
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1139/gen-2012-0140