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Cyclostomata
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TL;DR: Fundamental conservation of microRNA expression patterns among lamprey, hagfish, and gnathostome organs, implying that the role of microRNAs within specific organs is coincident with their appearance within the genome and is conserved through time, support the monophyletic of cyclostomes and suggest that the last common ancestor of all living vertebrates was a more complex organism than conventionally accepted.
Abstract: Hagfish and lampreys are the only living representatives of the jawless vertebrates (agnathans), and compared with jawed vertebrates (gnathostomes), they provide insight into the embryology, genomics, and body plan of the ancestral vertebrate. However, this insight has been obscured by controversy over their interrelationships. Morphological cladistic analyses have identified lampreys and gnathostomes as closest relatives, whereas molecular phylogenetic studies recover a monophyletic Cyclostomata (hagfish and lampreys as closest relatives). Here, we show through deep sequencing of small RNA libraries, coupled with genomic surveys, that Cyclostomata is monophyletic: hagfish and lampreys share 4 unique microRNA families, 15 unique paralogues of more primitive microRNA families, and 22 unique substitutions to the mature gene products. Reanalysis of morphological data reveals that support for cyclostome paraphyly was based largely on incorrect character coding, and a revised dataset is not decisive on the mono- vs. paraphyly of cyclostomes. Furthermore, we show fundamental conservation of microRNA expression patterns among lamprey, hagfish, and gnathostome organs, implying that the role of microRNAs within specific organs is coincident with their appearance within the genome and is conserved through time. Together, these data support the monophyly of cyclostomes and suggest that the last common ancestor of all living vertebrates was a more complex organism than conventionally accepted by comparative morphologists and developmental biologists.
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TL;DR: The evolutionary configuration indicates that Myxiniformes and Petromyzoniformes diverged shortly after the common ancestor of cyclostomes split from the future gnathostome lineage.
Abstract: The Cyclostomata consists of the two orders Myxiniformes (hagfishes) and Petromyzoniformes (lampreys), and its monophyly has been unequivocally supported by recent molecular phylogenetic studies. Under this updated vertebrate phylogeny, we performed in silico evolutionary analyses using currently available cDNA sequences of cyclostomes. We first calculated the GC-content at four-fold degenerate sites (GC4), which revealed that an extremely high GC-content is shared by all the lamprey species we surveyed, whereas no striking pattern in GC-content was observed in any of the hagfish species surveyed. We then estimated the timing of diversification in cyclostome evolution using nucleotide and amino acid sequences. We obtained divergence times of 470–390 million years ago (Mya) in the Ordovician–Silurian–Devonian Periods for the interordinal split between Myxiniformes and Petromyzoniformes; 90–60 Mya in the Cretaceous–Tertiary Periods for the split between the two hagfish subfamilies, Myxininae and Eptatretinae; 280–220 Mya in the Permian–Triassic Periods for the split between the two lamprey subfamilies, Geotriinae and Petromyzoninae; and 30–10 Mya in the Tertiary Period for the split between the two lamprey genera, Petromyzon and Lethenteron. This evolutionary configuration indicates that Myxiniformes and Petromyzoniformes diverged shortly after the common ancestor of cyclostomes split from the future gnathostome lineage. Our results also suggest that intra-subfamilial diversification in hagfish and lamprey lineages (especially those distributed in the northern hemisphere) occurred in the Cretaceous or Tertiary Periods.
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TL;DR: New sequences of the protein-coding genes of the mitochondrial DNA molecule of the hagfish are used to explore agnathan and gnathostome relationships and portray a hitherto unrecognized polarity in the evolution of bony fishes.
Abstract: The vertebrates are traditionally classified into two distinct groups, Agnatha (jawless vertebrates) and Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates). Extant agnathans are represented by hagfishes (Myxiniformes) and lampreys (Petromyzontiformes), frequently grouped together within the Cyclostomata. Whereas the recognition of the Gnathostomata as a clade is commonly acknowledged, a consensus has not been reached regarding whether or not Cyclostomata represents a clade. In the present study we have used newly established sequences of the protein-coding genes of the mitochondrial DNA molecule of the hagfish to explore agnathan and gnathostome relationships. The phylogenetic analysis of Pisces, using echinoderms as outgroup, placed the hagfish as a sister group of Vertebrata sensu stricto, i.e., the lamprey and the gnathostomes. The phylogenetic analysis of the Gnathostomata identified a basal divergence between gnathostome fishes and a branch leading to birds and mammals, i.e., between “Anamnia” and Amniota. The lungfish has a basal position among gnathostome fishes with the teleosts as the most recently evolving lineage. The findings portray a hitherto unrecognized polarity in the evolution of bony fishes. The presently established relationships are incompatible with previous molecular studies.
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