Mandarin Fish (Sinipercidae) Genomes Provide Insights into Innate Predatory Feeding

Overview

Journal Commun Biol

Specialty Biology

Date 2020 Jul 11

PMID 32647268

Citations 17

Authors

Shan He

Ling Li

Li-Yuan Lv

Wen-Jing Cai

Ya-Qi Dou

Jiao Li

Shu-Lin Tang

Xu Chen

Zhen Zhang

Jing Xu

Yan-Peng Zhang

Zhan Yin

Sven Wuertz

Ya-Xiong Tao

Heiner Kuhl

Xu-Fang Liang

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Abstract

Mandarin fishes (Sinipercidae) are piscivores that feed solely on live fry. Unlike higher vertebrates, teleosts exhibit feeding behavior driven mainly by genetic responses, with no modification by learning from parents. Mandarin fishes could serve as excellent model organisms for studying feeding behavior. We report a long-read, chromosomal-scale genome assembly for Siniperca chuatsi and genome assemblies for Siniperca kneri, Siniperca scherzeri and Coreoperca whiteheadi. Positive selection analysis revealed rapid adaptive evolution of genes related to predatory feeding/aggression, growth, pyloric caeca and euryhalinity. Very few gill rakers are observed in mandarin fishes; analogously, we found that zebrafish deficient in edar had a gill raker loss phenotype and a more predatory habit, with reduced intake of zooplankton but increased intake of prey fish. Higher expression of bmp4, which could inhibit edar expression and gill raker development through binding of a Xvent-1 site upstream of edar, may cause predatory feeding in Siniperca.

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