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Nature communications
2024
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| Online Access: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39567489/ |
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- Ecological diversification of sea catfishes is accompanied by genome-wide signatures of positive selection. Rincon-Sandoval, Melissa De-Kayne, Rishi Shank, Stephen D Pirro, Stacy Ko'ou, Alfred Abueg, Linelle Tracey, Alan Mountcastle, Jackie O'Toole, Brian Balacco, Jennifer Formenti, Giulio Jarvis, Erich D Arcila, Dahiana Kosakovsky Pond, Sergei L Davis, Aaron Bloom, Devin D Betancur-R, Ricardo Animals Selection, Genetic Genome Ecosystem Phylogeny Australia Catfishes New Guinea Body Size Biological Evolution Prolactin Fresh Water Evolution, Molecular Habitat transitions have shaped the evolutionary trajectory of many clades. Sea catfishes (Ariidae) have repeatedly undergone ecological transitions, including colonizing freshwaters from marine environments, leading to an adaptive radiation in Australia and New Guinea alongside non-radiating freshwater lineages elsewhere. Here, we generate and analyze one long-read reference genome and 66 short-read whole genome assemblies, in conjunction with genomic data for 54 additional species. We investigate how three major ecological transitions have shaped genomic variation among ariids over their ~ 50 million-year evolutionary history. Our results show that relatively younger freshwater lineages exhibit a higher incidence of positive selection than their more ancient marine counterparts. They also display a larger disparity in body shapes, a trend that correlates with a heightened occurrence of positive selection on genes associated with body size and elongation. Although positive selection in the Australia and New Guinea radiation does not stand out compared to non-radiating lineages overall, selection across the prolactin gene family during the marine-to-freshwater transition suggests that strong osmoregulatory adaptations may have facilitated their colonization and radiation. Our findings underscore the significant role of selection in shaping the genome and organismal traits in response to habitat shifts across macroevolutionary scales.