Hox, homology, and parsimony: An organismal perspective

Hox基因 生物 进化生物学 最近的共同祖先 同源(生物学) 系统发育学 基因 遗传学 基因组 谱系(遗传) 进化发育生物学 基因表达
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Andreas Wanninger
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期刊:Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology [Elsevier BV]
卷期号:152-153: 16-23 被引量:11
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DOI:10.1016/j.semcdb.2023.01.007
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Hox genes are important regulators in animal development. They often show a mosaic of conserved (e.g., longitudinal axis patterning) and lineage-specific novel functions (e.g., development of skeletal, sensory, or locomotory systems). Despite extensive research over the past decades, it remains controversial at which node in the animal tree of life the Hox cluster evolved. Its presence already in the last common metazoan ancestor has been proposed, although the genomes of both putative earliest extant metazoan offshoots, the ctenophores and the poriferans, are devoid of Hox sequences. The lack of Hox genes in the supposedly "simple"-built poriferans and their low number in cnidarians and the basally branching bilaterians, the xenacoelomorphs, seems to support the classical notion that the number of Hox genes is correlated with the degree of animal complexity. However, the 4-fold increase of the Hox cluster in xiphosurans, a basally branching chelicerate clade, as well as the situation in some teleost fishes that show a multitude of Hox genes compared to, e.g., human, demonstrates, that there is no per se direct correlation between organismal complexity and Hox number. Traditional approaches have tried to base homology on the morphological level on shared expression profiles of individual genes, but recent data have shown that, in particular with respect to Hox and other regulatory genes, complex gene-gene interactions rather than expression signatures of individual genes alone are responsible for shaping morphological traits during ontogeny. Accordingly, for sound homology assessments and reconstructions of character evolution on organ system level, additional independent datasets (e.g., morphological, developmental) need to be included in any such analyses. If supported by solid data, proposed structural homology should be regarded as valid and not be rejected solely on the grounds of non-parsimonious distribution of the character over a given phylogenetic topology.
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