Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution最新文献

{"title":"The evolutionary and developmental morphology of domestication in birds and mammals","authors":"Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra","doi":"10.1002/jez.b.23181","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jez.b.23181","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15682,"journal":{"name":"Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jez.b.23181","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10398415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"In the Spotlight—Postdoc","authors":"Joseph J. Hanly","doi":"10.1002/jez.b.23180","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jez.b.23180","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15682,"journal":{"name":"Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9320024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"In the Spotlight—Early career researcher","authors":"Felipe Aguilera","doi":"10.1002/jez.b.23179","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jez.b.23179","url":null,"abstract":"<p></p><p>Felipe Aguilera was a BECAS CHILE–CONICYT recipient in 2010 to conduct his PhD studies in Australia. He is the current President-elect of the International Society of Invertebrate Morphology (ISIM).</p><p>Felipe is an Editor of Biochemical Genetics and in 2022 has joined the Editorial Board of JEZ-B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution.</p><p>Google Scholar page: https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=fUYk__wAAAAJ</p><p><b><i>With whom and where did you study?</i></b></p><p>After finishing my Bachelor's in Marine Biology at the University of Valparaiso (Chile), I earned my PhD degree under the supervision of Bernie Degnan from the University of Queensland (Australia). After that, I stayed as a postdoc in Bernie's lab for almost 2 years then I moved to Norway for another postdoc with Andreas Hejnol at the Sars Centre.</p><p><b><i>What got you interested in biology? When did you know evodevo was for you?</i></b></p><p>I grew up in a coastal city in the Central region of Chile, and thus went to the beach quite often. I loved (and still do) walking on the beach and rocky places looking for anything and everything animal. I think this curiosity triggers my interest in biology and pursue me to follow a scientific career. During college, I got fascinated by biochemistry and genetics, and during my PhD I learned about evolution, molecular biology, and bioinformatics to understand how molecular repertoires change over time to construct different kinds of molluscan shells. With very little experience in developmental biology but strong skills in bioinformatics, my focus was first restricted to comparative genomics/transcriptomics, but this changed during my time in Bernie's lab where I had the chance of working and seeing marine embryos of mollusks, ascidians, and sponges, but more profoundly in Andi's lab, during which I got immersed in embryonic development of several marine groups and comparative approaches. From then on, my goal has been to combine developmental biology, evolution, and bioinformatics to answer EvoDevo questions, using comparative approaches and different marine model systems.</p><p><b><i>What is your experience with setting up and running an evodevo lab?</i></b></p><p>It was a big change coming from overseas to setting up a lab in Chile. The step of building up a lab and managing a whole team has been a huge leap, with mentoring being the most challenging part of the job. I started my lab in March 2018, and at that time I spent a considerable piece of time writing grants to secure lab funding. Once I got research funds, I did not realize that it was to be difficult to get students to join the lab; then I got students, but the COVID-19 pandemic arrived, and everything got worse. In that specific grant, I had to perform most of the experiments by myself due to COVID-19. Nowadays things are going smoother with secure lab funding and several students in the lab. Therefore, I am more focused on writing scientific papers ba","PeriodicalId":15682,"journal":{"name":"Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jez.b.23179","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9682101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Chondrocranial variation in chicken domestication","authors":"Daniel Núñez-León,&nbsp;Hiroshi Nagashima,&nbsp;Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra","doi":"10.1002/jez.b.23177","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jez.b.23177","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The chondrocranium is a key structure of the skull, but our knowledge of its embryonic development is based mostly on investigations of few stages across taxa. Variation of chondrocranial features is known across species, but little is known about intraspecific variation, or its evolution in the context of domestication. Here, we investigated two specific structures of the chondrocranium in three windows of embryonic development. The anatomy of one of these structures was also compared among adult skulls of chickens and their wild ancestor (red junglefowl [RJF]). The proccesus tectalis and the prenasal process, along with the surrounding area of the orbitonasal foramina, presented variation throughout the ontogeny and in the adults. The processus tectalis showed distinct variation from the earliest stage studied to the adult. The numbers of orbitonasal foramina were also found to be variable in the ancestor and breeds studied. Furthermore, during early embryonic development, the prenasal process is similar across breeds and RJF, but later in embryonic development this structure presents variable states. The embryonic and adult variation found herein could be an example of intraspecific variation under domestication, resulting from different types of tissue interrelationship during development.</p>","PeriodicalId":15682,"journal":{"name":"Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10456565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Genome-wide comparison of DNA methylation patterns between yak and three cattle strains and their potential association with mRNA transcription","authors":"Jin-Wei Xin,&nbsp;Zhi-Xin Chai,&nbsp;Hui Jiang,&nbsp;Han-Wen Cao,&nbsp;Xiao-Ying Chen,&nbsp;Cheng-Fu Zhang,&nbsp;Yong Zhu,&nbsp;Qiang Zhang,&nbsp;Qiu-Mei Ji","doi":"10.1002/jez.b.23174","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jez.b.23174","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Yak has evolved specific adaptative mechanisms to high-altitude environment. Up to date, only a few studies reported the DNA methylation in yak. In the present study, genome-wide DNA methylome and transcriptome profiles in lung, mammary, and biceps brachii muscle tissues were compared between yak and three cattle breeds (Tibetan cattle, Sanjiang cattle, and Holstein cattle). The association between differentially expressed genes (DEGs) and differentially methylated regions (DMRs) was analyzed, and the biological functions of DEGs potentially driven by DMRs were explored by KEGG enrichment analysis. Finally, we found that yak-specific DMRs-driven DEGs were mainly involved in neuromodulation, respiration, lung development, blood pressure regulation, cardiovascular protection, energy metabolism, DNA repair, and immune functions. The higher levels of the key genes associated with these functions were observed in yak than in cattle, suggesting that DNA methylation might regulate these genes. Overall, the present study contributes basic data at the DNA methylation level to further understand the physiological metabolism in yak.</p>","PeriodicalId":15682,"journal":{"name":"Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jez.b.23174","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9628854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"In the Spotlight: Early career researcher","authors":"Patricia Álvarez-Campos","doi":"10.1002/jez.b.23178","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jez.b.23178","url":null,"abstract":"<p></p><p>Patricia Álvarez-Campos was a PhD Fellow of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and a Postdoctoral Fellow of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). She also received Awards from the Society of Systematic Biologists and from the Systematics Association of the Linnean Society of London and, more recently, she has received the Young Research Doctors Award from the Spanish Regional Program of Research and Technological Innovation</p><p>Patricia is an Associate Editor of JEZ-B.</p><p>Google scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=7kIZdj0AAAAJ</p><p><b><i>With whom and where did you study?</i></b></p><p>I earned my BS in Biology at UAM (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) working with Guillermo San Martín in taxonomy and systematics of Syllidae marine annelids. I then continued working at UAM with these organisms, completing my PhD thesis in speciation and gene expression patterns with my wonderful advisor Ana Riesgo. Gonzalo Giribet (Harvard University) and Greg Rouse (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) were also very important mentors during my PhD years since they gave me the opportunity to learn a lot at their labs and to develop part of my thesis goals with them. As a postdoctoral researcher, I began studying the cellular and molecular aspects of annelid regeneration at the Institut Jacques Monod (CNRS, París) with Eve Gazave and Michel Vervoort. Once I got the EMBO fellowship I switched to work on single-cell transcriptomics techniques at Oxford Brookes University, mentored by Jordi Solana. Now as an Assistant Professor at UAM, I work on syllids biodiversity and on EvoDevo of different annelid species, specifically on the control of reproduction and regeneration.</p><p><b><i>What got you interested in biology? when did you know evodevo was for you?</i></b></p><p>Honestly, I discovered very late that I wanted to be a marine biologist. What I really knew when I was a child was that I wanted to be a professor working in some field related to nature because I loved animals. But since I also loved math, I decided to spend my first year of university studying forestry engineering. A couple of months later, there was enough to realize that my place would not be working on (or teaching about) how to manage natural resources, but instead, it would be learning about the fascinating world of organismic diversity and evolution. Thus, I changed to pursuing a degree in Biology and during my last year, I fell in love with marine invertebrates, specifically mollusks and annelids. Then, I had the opportunity to do my PhD on syllids. I started researching this amazing family of marine worms, that presented (and still present) many unsolved evolutionary questions. My passion for EvoDevo arose very soon, when I began studying the striking type of sexual reproduction that these animals exhibit and when I understood that EvoDevo would be essential to fully comprehend not only reproduction but also other interesting devel","PeriodicalId":15682,"journal":{"name":"Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/c8/f9/JEZ-338-393.PMC9825854.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10499595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"In the Spotlight—Established researcher","authors":"Mark Rebeiz","doi":"10.1002/jez.b.23175","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jez.b.23175","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15682,"journal":{"name":"Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10744232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"In the Spotlight—Established Researcher","authors":"Julia Boughner","doi":"10.1002/jez.b.23176","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jez.b.23176","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15682,"journal":{"name":"Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9439538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An evaluation of the effect of hydrofluoric acid (HF) treatment on keratins","authors":"Tao Zhao,&nbsp;Yanhong Pan","doi":"10.1002/jez.b.23173","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jez.b.23173","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Hydrofluoric acid (HF) is commonly used in geological and paleontological research to extract organic fossils for morphological and chemical studies. However, during HF treatment, organic matter can also be altered, which raises concerns that HF-treated organic matter may not be representative of the original organic matter. To provide reference data for protein studies on fossils, herein, we use Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy to investigate the effect of HF (21.3 M) treatment on keratins, with treatment durations ranging from 2 to 48 h. Results show that the FTIR spectra of HF-treated samples are overall similar to that of the untreated sample, while curve fitting shows that HF treatment has led to alteration of the secondary structure in all the HF-treated samples and the effect is time-dependent. The 2- and 4-h treatment mainly reduced the content of the random coils, α-helix, and intermolecular β-sheet. From 8h onwards, the content of random coils greatly increased at the expense of other structures. Our results imply that for protein detection in fossils using FTIR spectroscopy, the negative effect of HF treatment is not substantial, as the bands characteristic of proteins, that is, amide A, amide B, amide I, amide II, and amide III, are still present after the 48-h treatment. If the target is a secondary structure, the effect of HF treatment should be considered. When HF treatment is necessary, limiting the treatment duration to less than 4h may be a choice.</p>","PeriodicalId":15682,"journal":{"name":"Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9620056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cranial shape variation in domestication: A pilot study on the case of rabbits","authors":"Madeleine Geiger,&nbsp;Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra,&nbsp;Emma Sherratt","doi":"10.1002/jez.b.23171","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jez.b.23171","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Domestication leads to phenotypic characteristics that have been described to be similar across species. However, this “domestication syndrome” has been subject to debate, related to a lack of evidence for certain characteristics in many species. Here we review diverse literature and provide new data on cranial shape changes due to domestication in the European rabbit (<i>Oryctolagus cuniculus</i>) as a preliminary case study, thus contributing novel evidence to the debate. We quantified cranial shape of 30 wild and domestic rabbits using micro-computed tomography scans and three-dimensional geometric morphometrics. The goal was to test (1) if the domesticates exhibit shorter and broader snouts, smaller teeth, and smaller braincases than their wild counterparts; (2) to what extent allometric scaling is responsible for cranial shape variation; (3) if there is evidence for more variation in the neural crest-derived parts of the cranium compared with those derived of the mesoderm, in accordance with the “neural crest hypothesis.” Our own data are consistent with older literature records, suggesting that although there is evidence for some cranial characteristics of the “domestication syndrome” in rabbits, facial length is not reduced. In accordance with the “neural crest hypothesis,” we found more shape variation in neural crest versus mesoderm-derived parts of the cranium. Within the domestic group, allometric scaling relationships of the snout, the braincase, and the teeth shed new light on ubiquitous patterns among related taxa. This study—albeit preliminary due to the limited sample size—adds to the growing evidence concerning nonuniform patterns associated with domestication.</p>","PeriodicalId":15682,"journal":{"name":"Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9804214/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10838648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}