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

{"title":"Sperm storage by females across the animal phyla: A survey on the occurrence and biomolecules involved in sperm storage","authors":"Goutham Shankar,&nbsp;Thumbala A. Gagan,&nbsp;Titus R. S. Kumari,&nbsp;Gopal K. Marathe","doi":"10.1002/jez.b.23189","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jez.b.23189","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Long-term sperm storage by females in various regions of the oviduct is documented across many invertebrate and vertebrate species. Although, many reports emphasize on the histology, histochemistry and ultrastructural features of sperm storage, very little is known about the mechanisms underlying the sperm storage. The current review documents the occurrence of sperm storage by females in a wide array of invertebrate and vertebrate species. This review also provides an insight on the presence of various molecular factors of the sperm storage tubules presumably responsible for the prolonged sperm storage with an emphasis on a model reptile, the Indian garden lizard, <i>Calotes versicolor</i> which contains a unique approximately 55-kDa protein in its utero-vaginal lavage and found to inhibit washed epididymal sperm motility in a concentration and time-dependent manner in a reversible fashion.</p>","PeriodicalId":15682,"journal":{"name":"Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution","volume":"340 4","pages":"283-297"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9631991","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":"Evaluation of scale development and its regeneration potency in the desert killifish under laboratory conditions","authors":"Mina Motamedi,&nbsp;Azad Teimori,&nbsp;Mohammad Reza Esmaeili,&nbsp;Hossein Mostafavi","doi":"10.1002/jez.b.23185","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jez.b.23185","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Scale development and its regeneration potency were evaluated in a desert killifish <i>Aphaniops hormuzensis</i> (family Aphaniidae) in laboratory conditions by using light and scanning electron microscopy. Scale development in <i>A. hormuzensis</i> took 156 days at room temperature. Four specific regions of scale formation were detected. The first scale development began 13 days post-hatching (dph) (total length [TL] = 8.5 mm) at the caudal peduncle region and is extended anteriorly 26 dph (TL = 13.6 mm) at the area below the dorsal fin. Scales began forming independently in the head region at 33 dph (TL = 21.7 mm), and in the abdominal region, began at 41 dph (TL = 25.8 mm). Additional points of scale origin were detected on the sides of the operculum or behind and below the eyes. Scale regeneration in the caudal peduncle started 6 days after removal (dar). In 16 dar, the microstructural features appeared and the growth circles, a wide and oblong focus (focus length = 0.6 ± 0.05 µm), and lepidonts were also formed. In 36 dar, the scale shape was gradually changed from circular to a polygon, and radii were distinguishable in the anterior field. The pattern of scale formation could be useful in enhancing the understanding of systematics and phylogeny, functional morphology, and habitat use. It could also be useful in helping to define the Larval/juvenile transition period.</p>","PeriodicalId":15682,"journal":{"name":"Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution","volume":"340 4","pages":"329-336"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9682546","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":"Laura Nuño de la Rosa","doi":"10.1002/jez.b.23187","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jez.b.23187","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15682,"journal":{"name":"Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution","volume":"340 6","pages":"389-391"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10403585","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":"Interacting effects of environmental enrichment across multiple generations on early life phenotypes in zebrafish","authors":"Michael R. Green,&nbsp;William T. Swaney","doi":"10.1002/jez.b.23184","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jez.b.23184","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The environment plays an important role in an individual's development during early life, however, parents may also influence offspring development through so called “parental effects.” We examined the effects of environmental enrichment in zebrafish (<i>Danio rerio</i>) across two generations through the paternal lineage. Fathers and grandfathers were exposed to either standard or high levels of housing enrichment for 4-weeks during adulthood. First-generation (F1) and second-generation (F2) offspring were obtained from controlled breeding and tested as larvae for changes in morphology at hatching stage (72hpf), and in locomotor activity at larval stage (120hpf) in both generations. We found paternal experience of enrichment resulted in changes in trunk length of F1 offspring and changes in spine curvature and dorsal length of F2 offspring, while changes in snout morphology of F2 offspring seemed to be driven by whether grandpaternal and paternal experience of the environment was matched or not. We found that while paternal enrichment increased the frequency of spontaneous movement in F1 and F2 offspring, interacting effects of paternal and grandpaternal enrichment on movement distance were seen in F2 offspring, and that spontaneous movement and the distance that larvae swam are thus distinct phenotypes that were differentially affected by the experiences of previous paternal generations. Taken together, these findings suggest that the parental and grandparental environment influence zebrafish behavior and morphology. The nature of these effects and the design of this study mean that these phenotypes were likely the result of nongenetic transmission through the paternal germline.</p>","PeriodicalId":15682,"journal":{"name":"Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution","volume":"340 5","pages":"354-365"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jez.b.23184","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9631982","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":"Ganoin and acrodin formation on scales and teeth in spotted gar: A vital role of enamelin in the unique process of enamel mineralization","authors":"Kazuhiko Kawasaki,&nbsp;Ichiro Sasagawa,&nbsp;Masato Mikami,&nbsp;Mitsushiro Nakatomi,&nbsp;Mikio Ishiyama","doi":"10.1002/jez.b.23183","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jez.b.23183","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Gars and bichirs develop scales and teeth with ancient actinopterygian characteristics. Their scale surface and tooth collar are covered with enamel, also known as ganoin, whereas the tooth cap is equipped with an enamel-like tissue, acrodin. Here, we investigated the formation and mineralization of the ganoin and acrodin matrices in spotted gar, and the evolution of the <i>scpp5</i>, ameloblastin (<i>ambn</i>), and enamelin (<i>enam</i>) genes, which encode matrix proteins of ganoin. Results suggest that, in bichirs and gars, all these genes retain structural characteristics of their orthologs in stem actinopterygians, presumably reflecting the presence of ganoin on scales and teeth. During scale formation, Scpp5 and Enam were initially found in the incipient ganoin matrix and the underlying collagen matrix, whereas Ambn was detected mostly in a surface region of the well-developed ganoin matrix. Although collagen is the principal acrodin matrix protein, Scpp5 was detected within the matrix. Similarities in timings of mineralization and the secretion of Scpp5 suggest that acrodin evolved by the loss of the matrix secretory stage of ganoin formation: dentin formation is immediately followed by the maturation stage. The late onset of Ambn secretion during ganoin formation implies that Ambn is not essential for mineral ribbon formation, the hallmark of the enamel matrix. Furthermore, Scpp5 resembles amelogenin that is not important for the initial formation of mineral ribbons in mammals. It is thus likely that the evolution of <i>ENAM</i> was vital to the origin of the unique mineralization process of the enamel matrix.</p>","PeriodicalId":15682,"journal":{"name":"Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution","volume":"340 7","pages":"455-468"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jez.b.23183","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9570429","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":"On the hormonal control of posterior regeneration in the annelid Platynereis dumerilii","authors":"Patricia Álvarez-Campos,&nbsp;Anabelle Planques,&nbsp;Loïc Bideau,&nbsp;Michel Vervoort,&nbsp;Eve Gazave","doi":"10.1002/jez.b.23182","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jez.b.23182","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Regeneration is the process by which many animals are able to restore lost or injured body parts. After amputation of the posterior part of its body, the annelid <i>Platynereis dumerilii</i> is able to regenerate the pygidium, the posteriormost part of its body that bears the anus, and a subterminal growth zone containing stem cells that allows the subsequent addition of new segments. The ability to regenerate their posterior part (posterior regeneration) is promoted, in juvenile worms, by a hormone produced by the brain and is lost when this hormonal activity becomes low at the time the worms undergo their sexual maturation. By characterizing posterior regeneration at the morphological and molecular levels in worms that have been decapitated, we show that the presence of the head is essential for multiple aspects of posterior regeneration, as well as for the subsequent production of new segments. We also show that methylfarnesoate, the molecule proposed to be the brain hormone, can partially rescue the posterior regeneration defects observed in decapitated worms. Our results are therefore consistent with a key role of brain hormonal activity in the control of regeneration and growth in <i>P. dumerilii</i>, and support the hypothesis of the involvement of methylfarnesoate in this control.</p>","PeriodicalId":15682,"journal":{"name":"Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution","volume":"340 4","pages":"298-315"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10002816","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":"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":"338 8","pages":"445-446"},"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":"340 3","pages":"229-230"},"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":"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Felipe is an Editor of Biochemical Genetics and in 2022 has joined the Editorial Board of JEZ-B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Google Scholar page: https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=fUYk__wAAAAJ&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;With whom and where did you study?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;What got you interested in biology? When did you know evodevo was for you?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;What is your experience with setting up and running an evodevo lab?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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":"340 5","pages":"341"},"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":"338 8","pages":"505-515"},"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}