Xin Huang, Qiongqiong Ren, Yiquan Wang, Sebastian M Shimeld, Guang Li
{"title":"Amphioxus <i>Gli</i> knockout disrupts the development of left-right asymmetry but has limited impact on neural patterning.","authors":"Xin Huang, Qiongqiong Ren, Yiquan Wang, Sebastian M Shimeld, Guang Li","doi":"10.1007/s42995-023-00195-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42995-023-00195-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Gli transcription factors are the primary mediators of Hedgehog (Hh) signaling. Vertebrate genomes contain multiple <i>Gli</i> paralogues with different functions downstream of Hh signal receipt, in part explaining the complexity of cellular responses to Hh that allow concentration-dependent target gene activation. Amphioxus is a chordate that split from the vertebrate lineage early in the evolution of chordates, before the genome duplications that occurred in early vertebrate evolution. It has a single <i>Gli</i> gene whose transcripts can be alternately spliced to yield two protein isoforms called GliS and GliL. We generated two knockout mutations in amphioxus <i>Gli</i>, one that affects the whole gene and a second that only affects GliL. Both knockouts showed major morphological and molecular defects in the development of left-right asymmetry, a phenotype that is similar but not identical to that previously found in Hh mutants. Hh signaling also patterns the amphioxus neural tube. Here, however, knockout of <i>GliL</i> showed no identifiable phenotype, while knockout of the full gene showed only small changes to the expression of one gene family, <i>Olig</i>. Other genes that were prominently affected by Hh knockout were not altered in expression in either knockout. Reasons for the differences between <i>Hh</i> and <i>Gli</i> knockouts in the pharynx and neural tube are discussed in the context of the likely different functions of amphioxus Gli isoforms.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s42995-023-00195-w.</p>","PeriodicalId":53218,"journal":{"name":"Marine Life Science & Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10689630/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138479279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Branko Glamuzina, Lorenzo Vilizzi, Marina Piria, Ante Žuljević, Ana Bratoš Cetinić, Ana Pešić, Branko Dragičević, Lovrenc Lipej, Marijana Pećarević, Vlasta Bartulović, Sanja Grđan, Ivan Cvitković, Tatjana Dobroslavić, Ana Fortič, Luka Glamuzina, Borut Mavrič, Jovana Tomanić, Marija Despalatović, Domen Trkov, Marina Brailo Šćepanović, Zoran Vidović, Predrag Simonović, Sanja Matić-Skoko, Pero Tutman
{"title":"Global warming scenarios for the Eastern Adriatic Sea indicate a higher risk of invasiveness of non-native marine organisms relative to current climate conditions","authors":"Branko Glamuzina, Lorenzo Vilizzi, Marina Piria, Ante Žuljević, Ana Bratoš Cetinić, Ana Pešić, Branko Dragičević, Lovrenc Lipej, Marijana Pećarević, Vlasta Bartulović, Sanja Grđan, Ivan Cvitković, Tatjana Dobroslavić, Ana Fortič, Luka Glamuzina, Borut Mavrič, Jovana Tomanić, Marija Despalatović, Domen Trkov, Marina Brailo Šćepanović, Zoran Vidović, Predrag Simonović, Sanja Matić-Skoko, Pero Tutman","doi":"10.1007/s42995-023-00196-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42995-023-00196-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53218,"journal":{"name":"Marine Life Science & Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136282035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Genome-resolved metagenomics of Venice Lagoon surface sediment bacteria reveals high biosynthetic potential and metabolic plasticity as successful strategies in an impacted environment","authors":"Elisa Banchi, Erwan Corre, Paola Del Negro, Mauro Celussi, Francesca Malfatti","doi":"10.1007/s42995-023-00192-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42995-023-00192-z","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Bacteria living in sediments play essential roles in marine ecosystems and deeper insights into the ecology and biogeochemistry of these largely unexplored organisms can be obtained from ‘omics’ approaches. Here, we characterized metagenome-assembled-genomes (MAGs) from the surface sediment microbes of the Venice Lagoon (northern Adriatic Sea) in distinct sub-basins exposed to various natural and anthropogenic pressures. MAGs were explored for biodiversity, major marine metabolic processes, anthropogenic activity-related functions, adaptations at the microscale, and biosynthetic gene clusters. Starting from 126 MAGs, a non-redundant dataset of 58 was compiled, the majority of which (35) belonged to (Alpha- and Gamma-) Proteobacteria. Within the broad microbial metabolic repertoire (including C, N, and S metabolisms) the potential to live without oxygen emerged as one of the most important features. Mixotrophy was also found as a successful lifestyle. Cluster analysis showed that different MAGs encoded the same metabolic patterns (e.g . , C fixation, sulfate oxidation) thus suggesting metabolic redundancy. Antibiotic and toxic compounds resistance genes were coupled, a condition that could promote the spreading of these genetic traits. MAGs showed a high biosynthetic potential related to antimicrobial and biotechnological classes and to organism defense and interactions as well as adaptive strategies for micronutrient uptake and cellular detoxification. Our results highlighted that bacteria living in an impacted environment, such as the surface sediments of the Venice Lagoon, may benefit from metabolic plasticity as well as from the synthesis of a wide array of secondary metabolites, promoting ecosystem resilience and stability toward environmental pressures.","PeriodicalId":53218,"journal":{"name":"Marine Life Science & Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135818875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mucosal immune responses to Ichthyophthirius multifiliis in the ocular mucosa of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss, Walbaum), an ancient teleost fish","authors":"Weiguang Kong, Guangyi Ding, Gaofeng Cheng, Peng Yang, Zhen Xu","doi":"10.1007/s42995-023-00199-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42995-023-00199-6","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The eye, as a specialized visual organ, is directly exposed to the external environment, and, therefore, it faces constant challenges from external pathogenic organisms and toxins. In the ocular mucosa (OM) of mammals, mucosal-associated lymphoid tissues (MALTs) constitute the primary line of defense. However, the immune defense role of the OM remains unknown in aquatic vertebrates. To gain insights into the immune processes within the OM of teleost fish, we developed an infection model of rainbow trout ( Oncorhynchus mykiss ) OM using a parasite, Ichthyophthirius multifiliis (Ich). Immunofluorescence, qPCR, and H&E staining revealed that Ich successfully infiltrates the OM of rainbow trout, leading to pathological structural changes, as evidenced by A&B staining. Importantly, the qPCR results indicate an up-regulation of immune-related genes following Ich infection in the OM. Moreover, transcriptome analyses were conducted to detect immune responses and impairments in eye function within the OM of rainbow trout with Ich infection. The results of the transcriptome analysis that Ich infection can cause an extensive immune response in the OM, ultimately affecting ocular function. To the best of our knowledge, our findings represent for the first time that the teleost OM could act as an invasion site for parasites and trigger a strong mucosal immune response to parasitic infection.","PeriodicalId":53218,"journal":{"name":"Marine Life Science & Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135869927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Linking coral fluorescence phenotypes to thermal bleaching in the reef-building Galaxea fascicularis from the northern South China Sea","authors":"Sanqiang Gong, Jiayuan Liang, Gang Li, Lijia Xu, Yehui Tan, Xinqing Zheng, Xuejie Jin, Kefu Yu, Xiaomin Xia","doi":"10.1007/s42995-023-00190-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42995-023-00190-1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Coral fluorescence phenotypes have been suggested as an adaptation to a broad range of environmental conditions, yet the mechanisms linking thermal bleaching tolerance in reef-building coral populations, associated with fluorescence phenotypes due to GFP-like proteins, remains unclear. In this study, the relationship between the thermal sensitivity and phenotypic plasticity of corals was investigated using two phenotypes of Galaxea fascicularis, green and brown. The results reveal that brown G. fascicularis was more susceptible to bleaching than green G. fascicularis when exposed to a higher growth temperature of 32 °C. Both phenotypes of G. fascicularis were associated with the thermotolerant Symbiodiniaceae symbiont, Durusdinium trenchii . However, the brown G. fascicularis showed a significant decrease in Symbiodiniaceae cell density and a significant increase in pathogenic bacteria abundance when the growth temperature was raised from 29 to 32 °C. The physiological traits and transcriptomic profiles of Symbiodiniaceae were not notably affected, but there were differences in the transcriptional levels of certain genes between the two phenotype hosts of G. fascicularis. Under heat stress of 32 °C, the gene encoding green fluorescent protein (GFP)-like and chromosome-associated proteins, as well as genes related to oxidative phosphorylation, cell growth and death showed lower transcriptional levels in the brown G. fascicularis compared to the green G. fascicularis. Overall, the results demonstrate that the green form of G. fascicularis is better able to tolerate ocean warming and defend against pathogenic bacteria, likely due to higher gene transcription levels and defense ability.","PeriodicalId":53218,"journal":{"name":"Marine Life Science & Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135825228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Peng Zhang, Jie Liu, Xiao-Ming Yin, Jun-Yu Zhou, Julius Lukeš, Zhao-Rong Lun, De-Hua Lai
{"title":"Towards disentangling the classification of freshwater fish trypanosomes","authors":"Peng Zhang, Jie Liu, Xiao-Ming Yin, Jun-Yu Zhou, Julius Lukeš, Zhao-Rong Lun, De-Hua Lai","doi":"10.1007/s42995-023-00191-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42995-023-00191-0","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Currently, new species of freshwater fish trypanosomes, which are economically important parasites, are being described based on subjectively selected features, i.e., their cell morphology and the host species. We have performed detailed phylogenetic and haplotype diversity analyses of all 18S rRNA genes available for freshwater fish trypanosomes, including the newly obtained sequences of Trypanosoma carassii and Trypanosoma danilewskyi . Based on a sequence similarity of 99.5%, we divide these trypanosomes into 15 operational taxonomic units, and propose three nominal scenarios for distinguishing T. carassii and other aquatic trypanosomes. We find evidences for the existence of a low number of freshwater fish trypanosomes, with T. carassii having the widest geographic and host ranges. Our analyses support the existence of an umbrella complex composed of T. carassii and two sister species.","PeriodicalId":53218,"journal":{"name":"Marine Life Science & Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135853649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shuhao Liu, Yang Liu, Katharina Teschke, Mark A. Hindell, Rachel Downey, Briannyn Woods, Bin Kang, Shuyang Ma, Chi Zhang, Jianchao Li, Zhenjiang Ye, Peng Sun, Jianfeng He, Yongjun Tian
{"title":"Correction: Incorporating mesopelagic fish into the evaluation of marine protected areas under climate change scenarios","authors":"Shuhao Liu, Yang Liu, Katharina Teschke, Mark A. Hindell, Rachel Downey, Briannyn Woods, Bin Kang, Shuyang Ma, Chi Zhang, Jianchao Li, Zhenjiang Ye, Peng Sun, Jianfeng He, Yongjun Tian","doi":"10.1007/s42995-023-00193-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42995-023-00193-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53218,"journal":{"name":"Marine Life Science & Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135855036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tongtong Lin, Jiao Pan, Colin Gregory, Yaohai Wang, Clayton Tincher, Caitlyn Rivera, Michael Lynch, Hongan Long, Yu Zhang
{"title":"Contribution of the SOS response and the DNA repair systems to norfloxacin induced mutations in E. coli","authors":"Tongtong Lin, Jiao Pan, Colin Gregory, Yaohai Wang, Clayton Tincher, Caitlyn Rivera, Michael Lynch, Hongan Long, Yu Zhang","doi":"10.1007/s42995-023-00185-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42995-023-00185-y","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Antibiotic-resistant bacteria severely threaten human health. Besides spontaneous mutations generated by endogenous factors, the resistance might also originate from mutations induced by certain antibiotics, such as the fluoroquinolones. Such antibiotics increase the genome-wide mutation rate by introducing replication errors from the SOS response pathway or decreasing the efficiency of the DNA repair systems. However, the relative contributions of these molecular mechanisms remain unclear, hindering understanding of the generation of resistant pathogens. Here, using newly-accumulated mutations of wild-type and SOS-uninducible Escherichia coli strains, as well as those of the strains deficient for the mismatch repair (MMR) and the oxidative damage repair pathways, we find that the SOS response is the major mutagenesis contributor in mutation elevation, responsible for ~ 30–50% of the total base-pair substitution (BPS) mutation-rate elevation upon treatment with sublethal levels of norfloxacin (0 ~ 50 ng/mL). We further estimate the significance of the effects on other mutational features of these mechanisms (i.e., transversions, structural variations, and mutation spectrum) in E. coli using linear models. The SOS response plays a positive role in all three mutational features (mutation rates of BPSs, transversions, structural variations) and affects the mutational spectrum. The repair systems significantly reduce the BPS mutation rate and the transversion rate, regardless of whether antibiotics are present, while significantly increasing the structural variation rate in E. coli . Our results quantitatively disentangle the contributions of the SOS response and DNA repair systems in antibiotic-induced mutagenesis.","PeriodicalId":53218,"journal":{"name":"Marine Life Science & Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136152639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tong Wu, Ting Cheng, Xiao Cao, Yaohan Jiang, Khaled A S Al-Rasheid, Alan Warren, Zhe Wang, Borong Lu
{"title":"On four epibiotic peritrichous ciliates (Protozoa, Ciliophora) found in Lake Weishan Wetland: morphological and molecular data support the establishment of a new genus, <i>Parapiosoma</i> gen. nov., and two new species.","authors":"Tong Wu, Ting Cheng, Xiao Cao, Yaohan Jiang, Khaled A S Al-Rasheid, Alan Warren, Zhe Wang, Borong Lu","doi":"10.1007/s42995-023-00184-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42995-023-00184-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>During a study on the diversity of ciliated protists in Lake Weishan Wetland, the largest wetland in northern China, four epibiotic sessilid peritrichs were isolated from aquatic host animals. Two of them, i.e., <i>Epistylis cambari</i> Kellicott, 1885 and <i>Epistylis lwoffi</i> Fauré-Fremiet, 1943, were known species whereas the other two, i.e., <i>Parapiosoma typicum</i> gen. nov., sp. nov. and <i>Orborhabdostyla gracilis</i> sp. nov., are new to science. The new genus <i>Parapiosoma</i> gen. nov. is characterized by its branched non-contractile stalk, everted peristomial lip, obconical macronucleus and transverse silverlines. Two species are assigned to the new genus, namely <i>Parapiosoma typicum</i> sp. nov. and <i>Parapiosoma gasterostei</i> (Fauré-Fremiet, 1905) comb. nov. Morphologically, <i>P. typicum</i> sp. nov. is recognized by its goblet-shaped zooids, single-layered peristomial lip, dichotomously branched stalk, and infundibular polykinety 3 (P3) containing three equal-length rows. <i>Orborhabdostyla gracilis</i> sp. nov. is characterized by its slender zooid, curved macronucleus, and three equal-length rows in infundibular P3. Improved diagnoses and redescriptions of <i>E. cambari</i> and <i>E. lwoffi</i> are provided including, for the first time, data on the ciliature of <i>E. cambari</i>. Phylogenetic analyses based on SSU rDNA, ITS1-5.8S rDNA -ITS2, and LSU rDNA sequence data strongly support the assertion that the family Epistylididae comprises morphospecies with different evolutionary lineages and indicate that <i>Parapiosoma</i> gen. nov. may represent a new taxon at family level.</p>","PeriodicalId":53218,"journal":{"name":"Marine Life Science & Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10449748/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10164512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}