Publication Date:
2022-10-27
Description:
© The Author(s), 2019. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Ritschard, E. A., Whitelaw, B., Albertin, C. B., Cooke, I. R., Strugnell, J. M., & Simakov, O. Coupled genomic evolutionary histories as signatures of organismal innovations in cephalopods: co-evolutionary signatures across levels of genome organization may shed light on functional linkage and origin of cephalopod novelties. BioEssays, 41, (2019): 1900073, doi: 10.1002/bies.201900073.
Description:
How genomic innovation translates into organismal organization remains largely unanswered. Possessing the largest invertebrate nervous system, in conjunction with many species‐specific organs, coleoid cephalopods (octopuses, squids, cuttlefishes) provide exciting model systems to investigate how organismal novelties evolve. However, dissecting these processes requires novel approaches that enable deeper interrogation of genome evolution. Here, the existence of specific sets of genomic co‐evolutionary signatures between expanded gene families, genome reorganization, and novel genes is posited. It is reasoned that their co‐evolution has contributed to the complex organization of cephalopod nervous systems and the emergence of ecologically unique organs. In the course of reviewing this field, how the first cephalopod genomic studies have begun to shed light on the molecular underpinnings of morphological novelty is illustrated and their impact on directing future research is described. It is argued that the application and evolutionary profiling of evolutionary signatures from these studies will help identify and dissect the organismal principles of cephalopod innovations. By providing specific examples, the implications of this approach both within and beyond cephalopod biology are discussed.
Description:
E.A.R. and O.S. are supported by the Austrian Science Fund (Grant No. P30686‐B29). E.A.R. is supported by Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn (Naples, Italy) PhD Program. The authors wish to thank Graziano Fiorito (SZN, Italy), Hannah Schmidbaur (University of Vienna, Austria), Thomas Hummel (University of Vienna, Austria) for many insightful comments and reading of the draft manuscript. The authors would like to apologize to all colleagues whose work has been omitted due to space constraints.
Keywords:
Cephalopod
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Gene duplication
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Genome rearrangement
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Novel gene
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Organismal innovation
Repository Name:
Woods Hole Open Access Server
Type:
Article
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