Cyclostomes Lack Clustered Protocadherins

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Cyclostomes Lack Clustered Protocadherins
Title:
Cyclostomes Lack Clustered Protocadherins
Journal Title:
Molecular Biology and Evolution
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Publication Date:
05 November 2015
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Molecular Biology and Evolution, Volume 33, Issue 2, 1 February 2016, Pages 311–315, https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msv252
Abstract:
The brain, comprising billions of neurons and intricate neural networks, is arguably the most complex organ in vertebrates. The diversity of individual neurons is fundamental to the neuronal network complexity and the overall function of the vertebrate brain. In jawed vertebrates, clustered protocadherins provide the molecular basis for this neuronal diversity, through stochastic and combinatorial expression of their various isoforms in individual neurons. Based on analyses of transcriptomes from the Japanese lamprey brain and sea lamprey embryos, genome assemblies of the two lampreys, and brain expressed sequence tags of the inshore hagfish, we show that extant jawless vertebrates (cyclostomes) lack the clustered protocadherins. Our findings indicate that the clustered protocadherins originated from a nonclustered protocadherin in the jawed vertebrate ancestor, after the two rounds of whole-genome duplication. In the absence of clustered protocadherins, cyclostomes might have evolved novel molecules or mechanisms for generating neuronal diversity which remains to be discovered.
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0737-4038
1537-1719
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