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RESEARCH ARTICLE
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Global assessment of organ specific basal gene expression over a diurnal cycle with analyses of gene copies exhibiting cyclic expression patterns Yuan Lu1*, Mikki Boswell1, William Boswell1, Raquel Ybanez Salinas1,2, Markita Savage1, Jose Reyes1, Sean Walter1, Rebecca Marks1, Trevor Gonzalez1, Geraldo Medrano1, Wesley C. Warren3, Manfred Schartl1,4 and Ronald B. Walter1
Abstract Background: Studying functional divergences between paralogs that originated from genome duplication is a significant topic in investigating molecular evolution. Genes that exhibit basal level cyclic expression patterns including circadian and light responsive genes are important physiological regulators. Temporal shifts in basal gene expression patterns are important factors to be considered when studying genetic functions. However, adequate efforts have not been applied to studying basal gene expression variation on a global scale to establish transcriptional activity baselines for each organ. Furthermore, the investigation of cyclic expression pattern comparisons between genome duplication created paralogs, and potential functional divergence between them has been neglected. To address these questions, we utilized a teleost fish species, Xiphophorus maculatus, and profiled gene expression within 9 organs at 3-h intervals throughout a 24-h diurnal period. Results: Our results showed 1.3–21.9% of genes in different organs exhibited cyclic expression patterns, with eye showing the highest fraction of cycling genes while gonads yielded the lowest. A majority of the duplicated gene pairs exhibited divergences in their basal level expression patterns wherein only one paralog exhibited an oscillating expression pattern, or both paralogs exhibit oscillating expression patterns, but each gene duplicate showed a different peak expression time, and/or in different organs. Conclusions: These observations suggest cyclic genes experienced significant sub-, neo-, or non-functionalization following the teleost genome duplication event. In addition, we developed a customized, web-accessible, gene expression browser to facilitate data mining and data visualization for the scientific community. Keywords: Xiphophorus, Organ, Gene expression profiling, Profiling, Light response, Basal level gene expression, Paralog, Genome duplication, Evolution
* Correspondence: [email protected] 1 The Xiphophorus Genetic Stock Center, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas State University, 419 Centennial Hall, 601 University Drive, San Marcos, TX 78666, USA Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © The Author(s). 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third par
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