Communications Biology (Jan 2021)
Horseshoe crab genomes reveal the evolution of genes and microRNAs after three rounds of whole genome duplication
- Wenyan Nong,
- Zhe Qu,
- Yiqian Li,
- Tom Barton-Owen,
- Annette Y. P. Wong,
- Ho Yin Yip,
- Hoi Ting Lee,
- Satya Narayana,
- Tobias Baril,
- Thomas Swale,
- Jianquan Cao,
- Ting Fung Chan,
- Hoi Shan Kwan,
- Sai Ming Ngai,
- Gianni Panagiotou,
- Pei-Yuan Qian,
- Jian-Wen Qiu,
- Kevin Y. Yip,
- Noraznawati Ismail,
- Siddhartha Pati,
- Akbar John,
- Stephen S. Tobe,
- William G. Bendena,
- Siu Gin Cheung,
- Alexander Hayward,
- Jerome H. L. Hui
Affiliations
- Wenyan Nong
- School of Life Sciences, Simon F.S. Li Marine Science Laboratory, State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Zhe Qu
- School of Life Sciences, Simon F.S. Li Marine Science Laboratory, State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Yiqian Li
- School of Life Sciences, Simon F.S. Li Marine Science Laboratory, State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Tom Barton-Owen
- School of Life Sciences, Simon F.S. Li Marine Science Laboratory, State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Annette Y. P. Wong
- School of Life Sciences, Simon F.S. Li Marine Science Laboratory, State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Ho Yin Yip
- School of Life Sciences, Simon F.S. Li Marine Science Laboratory, State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Hoi Ting Lee
- School of Life Sciences, Simon F.S. Li Marine Science Laboratory, State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Satya Narayana
- School of Life Sciences, Simon F.S. Li Marine Science Laboratory, State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Tobias Baril
- Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter
- Thomas Swale
- Dovetail Genomics
- Jianquan Cao
- School of Life Sciences, Simon F.S. Li Marine Science Laboratory, State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Ting Fung Chan
- State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Hoi Shan Kwan
- School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Sai Ming Ngai
- State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Gianni Panagiotou
- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong
- Pei-Yuan Qian
- Department of Ocean Science and Hong Kong Branch of Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Jian-Wen Qiu
- Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University
- Kevin Y. Yip
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Noraznawati Ismail
- Institute of Marine Biotechnology, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu
- Siddhartha Pati
- Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Fakir Mohan University
- Akbar John
- Institute of Oceanography and Maritime Studies (INOCEM), Kulliyyah of Science, International Islamic University
- Stephen S. Tobe
- Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto
- William G. Bendena
- Department of Biology, Queen’s University
- Siu Gin Cheung
- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong
- Alexander Hayward
- Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter
- Jerome H. L. Hui
- School of Life Sciences, Simon F.S. Li Marine Science Laboratory, State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-01637-2
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 4,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 11
Abstract
Wenyan Nong, Zhe Qu, Yiqian Li, Tom Barton-Owen, Annette Wong and colleagues provide genomes and small RNA transcriptomes for the mangrove horseshoe crab and the tri-spine horseshoe crab. They show that horseshoe crabs have undergone three rounds of whole genome duplication and shed light on how gene families and microRNAS evolved following this genome duplication event.
