Multiple independent recruitment of sodefrin precursor-like factors in anuran sexually dimorphic glands
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- Franky Bossuyt, Lisa M Schulte, Margo Maex, Sunita Janssenswillen, Polina Novikova (UGent) , SD Biju, Yves Van de Peer (UGent) , Severine Matthijs, Kim Roelants, An Martel (UGent) and Ines Van Bocxlaer
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- Chemical signaling in animals often plays a central role in eliciting a variety of responses during reproductive interactions between males and females. One of the best-known vertebrate courtship pheromone systems is sodefrin precursor-like factors (SPFs), a family of two-domain three-finger proteins with a female-receptivity enhancing function, currently only known from salamanders. The oldest divergence between active components in a single salamander species dates back to the Late Paleozoic, indicating that these proteins potentially gained a pheromone function earlier in amphibian evolution. Here, we combined whole transcriptome sequencing, proteomics, histology, and molecular phylogenetics in a comparative approach to investigate SPF occurrence in male breeding glands across the evolutionary tree of anurans (frogs and toads). Our study shows that multiple families of both terrestrially and aquatically reproducing frogs have substantially increased expression levels of SPFs in male breeding glands. This suggests that multiple anuran lineages make use of SPFs to complement acoustic and visual sexual signaling during courtship. Comparative analyses show that anurans independently recruited these proteins each time the gland location on the male’s body allowed efficient transmission of the secretion to the female’s nares.
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- chemical communication, Amphibia, behavioral evolution, sodefrin precursor-like factor, FEMALE RECEPTIVITY, COURTSHIP PHEROMONE, SEX-PHEROMONE, SALAMANDER, REGENERATION, ANNOTATION, GENERATION, MACROLIDES, AMPHIBIA, CHOICE
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8623324
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- Bossuyt, Franky, et al. “Multiple Independent Recruitment of Sodefrin Precursor-like Factors in Anuran Sexually Dimorphic Glands.” MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, vol. 36, no. 9, 2019, pp. 1921–30, doi:10.1093/molbev/msz115.
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- Bossuyt, F., Schulte, L. M., Maex, M., Janssenswillen, S., Novikova, P., Biju, S., … Van Bocxlaer, I. (2019). Multiple independent recruitment of sodefrin precursor-like factors in anuran sexually dimorphic glands. MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 36(9), 1921–1930. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msz115
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- Bossuyt, Franky, Lisa M Schulte, Margo Maex, Sunita Janssenswillen, Polina Novikova, SD Biju, Yves Van de Peer, et al. 2019. “Multiple Independent Recruitment of Sodefrin Precursor-like Factors in Anuran Sexually Dimorphic Glands.” MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION 36 (9): 1921–30. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msz115.
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- Bossuyt, Franky, Lisa M Schulte, Margo Maex, Sunita Janssenswillen, Polina Novikova, SD Biju, Yves Van de Peer, Severine Matthijs, Kim Roelants, An Martel, and Ines Van Bocxlaer. 2019. “Multiple Independent Recruitment of Sodefrin Precursor-like Factors in Anuran Sexually Dimorphic Glands.” MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION 36 (9): 1921–1930. doi:10.1093/molbev/msz115.
- Vancouver
- 1.Bossuyt F, Schulte LM, Maex M, Janssenswillen S, Novikova P, Biju S, et al. Multiple independent recruitment of sodefrin precursor-like factors in anuran sexually dimorphic glands. MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION. 2019;36(9):1921–30.
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- [1]F. Bossuyt et al., “Multiple independent recruitment of sodefrin precursor-like factors in anuran sexually dimorphic glands,” MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, vol. 36, no. 9, pp. 1921–1930, 2019.
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abstract = {{Chemical signaling in animals often plays a central role in eliciting a variety of responses during reproductive interactions between males and females. One of the best-known vertebrate courtship pheromone systems is sodefrin precursor-like factors (SPFs), a family of two-domain three-finger proteins with a female-receptivity enhancing function, currently only known from salamanders. The oldest divergence between active components in a single salamander species dates back to the Late Paleozoic, indicating that these proteins potentially gained a pheromone function earlier in amphibian evolution. Here, we combined whole transcriptome sequencing, proteomics, histology, and molecular phylogenetics in a comparative approach to investigate SPF occurrence in male breeding glands across the evolutionary tree of anurans (frogs and toads). Our study shows that multiple families of both terrestrially and aquatically reproducing frogs have substantially increased expression levels of SPFs in male breeding glands. This suggests that multiple anuran lineages make use of SPFs to complement acoustic and visual sexual signaling during courtship. Comparative analyses show that anurans independently recruited these proteins each time the gland location on the male’s body allowed efficient transmission of the secretion to the female’s nares.}},
author = {{Bossuyt, Franky and Schulte, Lisa M and Maex, Margo and Janssenswillen, Sunita and Novikova, Polina and Biju, SD and Van de Peer, Yves and Matthijs, Severine and Roelants, Kim and Martel, An and Van Bocxlaer, Ines}},
issn = {{0737-4038}},
journal = {{MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION}},
keywords = {{chemical communication,Amphibia,behavioral evolution,sodefrin precursor-like factor,FEMALE RECEPTIVITY,COURTSHIP PHEROMONE,SEX-PHEROMONE,SALAMANDER,REGENERATION,ANNOTATION,GENERATION,MACROLIDES,AMPHIBIA,CHOICE}},
language = {{eng}},
number = {{9}},
pages = {{1921--1930}},
title = {{Multiple independent recruitment of sodefrin precursor-like factors in anuran sexually dimorphic glands}},
url = {{http://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msz115}},
volume = {{36}},
year = {{2019}},
}
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