Comparative genomic analysis of teleost fish bmal genes

• Published in: Genetica Vol. 136; no. 1; pp. 149 - 161
• Main Author: Wang, Han
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands 01.05.2009; Springer Netherlands; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Animal Genetics and Genomics; Animals; Base Sequence; Biomedical and Life Sciences; brain; circadian rhythm; Circadian Rhythm - genetics; Comparative Genomic Hybridization; Danio rerio; Drosophila; evolution; Evolution, Molecular; Evolutionary Biology; Fish; Fishes; Fishes - genetics; Freshwater; Fugu; Gene Duplication; genes; genetics; Genome; genomics; Human Genetics; Life Sciences; Marine; Microbial Genetics and Genomics; Molecular Sequence Data; nucleotide sequences; Oryzias latipes; Phylogeny; Plant Genetics and Genomics; RNA Splice Sites; Takifugu; Teleostei; Tetraodon; Japan; Conserved synteny; Differential gene loss; Ratio of nonsynonymous to synonymous substitutions and relative evolutionary rates; Genome duplication; Circadian clocks

Bmal1 (Brain and muscle ARNT like 1) gene is a key circadian clock gene. Tetrapods also have the second Bmal gene, Bmal2. Fruit fly has only one bmal1/cycle gene. Interrogation of the five teleost fish genome sequences coupled with phylogenetic and splice site analyses found that zebrafish have two...