Distinct and shared endothermic strategies in the heat producing tissues of tuna and other teleosts

Wu, Baosheng; Gao, Xueli; Hu, Mingling; Hu, Jing; Lan, Tianming; Xue, Tingfeng; Xu, Wenjie; Zhu, Chenglong; Yuan, Yuan; Zheng, Jiangmin; Qin, Tao; Xin, Peidong; Li, Ye; Gong, Li; Feng, Chenguang; He, Shunping; Liu, Huan; Li, Haimeng; Wang, Qing; Ma, Zhenhua; Qiu, Qiang; Wang, Kun

doi:10.1007/s11427-022-2312-1

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“…Using the reindeer genome as a reference, whole-genome alignments were generated for these 16 species. The methods in detail are the same as in previous studies ( Frith & Ni, 2023 ; Huang et al, 2023 ; Wang et al, 2023 ; Wu et al, 2021 , 2023 ); LASTZ ( Nahar et al, 2021 ) was first used for alignments with maf format, and MULTIZ ( waterman & bell, 1984 ) was used to integrate the alignments for different species. Then, those noncoding sequences remained in other 15 vertebrates with over 80% similarity, but lost in reindeer genome, may be the reindeer-specific missing conserved noncoding elements (CNEs).…”

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“…As we did above to identify reindeer-specific CNEs following our previous study ( Wu et al, 2021 , 2023 ), 16 vertebrate protein sets were used to identify reindeer-specific amino acid (AA) substitutions. We first constructed a protein set for the one-to-one homologous gene of these species using the reciprocal best hit (RBH) approach and scanned each AA site for each homologous gene.…”

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Resequencing of reindeer genomes provides clues to their docile habits

Wu,

Ren,

Yan

et al. 2024

Evolution Letters

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Reindeer have long been served as vital subsistence resources for inhabitants of Arctic and subarctic regions owing to their domestication. However, the evolutionary relationships and divergence times among different reindeer populations, genetic traits that distinguish domesticated reindeer, and factors that contribute to their relative docility compared with that of other Cervidae specie, remain unclear. In this study, we sequenced the genomes of 32 individuals from wild and domestic reindeer populations that inhabit Arctic and subarctic regions. We found that reindeer experienced 2 or more independent domestication events characterized by weak artificial selection pressure and limited significant differences in genomic parameters between wild and domestic populations. Alterations in conserved noncoding elements in the reindeer genomes, particularly those associated with nervous system development, may have contributed to their domestication by rendering the nervous system less responsive. Together, our results suggest that inherent species-specific traits, rather than intense artificial selection, may have played a significant role in the relatively docile behavior of reindeer and offer valuable insights into the domestication process of these animals.

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