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A chromosome‐level genome assembly enables the identification of the follicule stimulating hormone receptor as the master sex‐determining gene in the flatfish Solea senegalensis

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dc.contributor.author de la Herrán, Roberto
dc.contributor.author Gómez-Garrido, Jèssica
dc.contributor.author Cruz, Fernando
dc.contributor.author Alioto, Tyler S
dc.contributor.author Martínez, Paulino
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-20T07:23:59Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-20T07:23:59Z
dc.date.issued 2023
dc.identifier.citation de la Herrán R, Hermida M, Rubiolo JA, Gómez‐Garrido J, Cruz F, Robles F, et al. A chromosome‐level genome assembly enables the identification of the follicule stimulating hormone receptor as the master sex‐determining gene in the flatfish Solea senegalensis. Molecular Ecology Resources. 2023 May;23(4):886-904. DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13750
dc.identifier.issn 1755-098X
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/56273
dc.description Includes supplementary materials for the online appendix.
dc.description.abstract Sex determination (SD) shows huge variation among fish and a high evolutionary rate, as illustrated by the Pleuronectiformes (flatfishes). This order is characterized by its adaptation to demersal life, compact genomes and diversity of SD mechanisms. Here, we assembled the Solea senegalensis genome, a flatfish of great commercial value, into 82 contigs (614 Mb) combining long- and short-read sequencing, which were next scaffolded using a highly dense genetic map (28,838 markers, 21 linkage groups), representing 98.9% of the assembly. Further, we established the correspondence between the assembly and the 21 chromosomes by using BAC-FISH. Whole genome resequencing of six males and six females enabled the identification of 41 single nucleotide polymorphism variants in the follicle stimulating hormone receptor (fshr) consistent with an XX/XY SD system. The observed sex association was validated in a broader independent sample, providing a novel molecular sexing tool. The fshr gene displayed differential expression between male and female gonads from 86 days post-fertilization, when the gonad is still an undifferentiated primordium, concomitant with the activation of amh and cyp19a1a, testis and ovary marker genes, respectively, in males and females. The Y-linked fshr allele, which included 24 nonsynonymous variants and showed a highly divergent 3D protein structure, was overexpressed in males compared to the X-linked allele at all stages of gonadal differentiation. We hypothesize a mechanism hampering the action of the follicle stimulating hormone driving the undifferentiated gonad toward testis.
dc.description.sponsorship This study was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, FEDER Grants (RTI2018-096847-B-C21, RTI2018-096847-B-C22 and RTI2018-097110-B-C21), Junta de Andalucía-FEDER Grant (P20-00938) and the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 817923 (AQUA-FAANG). We thank Geneaqua SL for their participation and financial support of sequencing. We acknowledge the bioinformatic support of the Centro de Supercomputación de Galicia (CESGA).
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dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher Wiley
dc.relation.ispartof Molecular Ecology Resources. 2023 May;23(4):886-904
dc.rights © 2023 The Authors. Molecular Ecology Resources published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.title A chromosome‐level genome assembly enables the identification of the follicule stimulating hormone receptor as the master sex‐determining gene in the flatfish Solea senegalensis
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13750
dc.subject.keyword Follicule stimulating hormone receptor
dc.subject.keyword Genetic map
dc.subject.keyword Senegalese sole
dc.subject.keyword Sex determination
dc.subject.keyword Whole genome sequencing
dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/817923
dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/RTI2018-096847-B-C21
dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/RTI2018-096847-B-C22
dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/RTI2018-097110-B-C21
dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.type.version info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

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