Coevolution of the Tlx homeobox gene with medusa development (Cnidaria: Medusozoa)

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Travert MatthewORCID,Boohar ReedORCID,Sanders Steven M.ORCID,Nicotra Matthew L.ORCID,Leclère LucasORCID,Steele Robert E.ORCID,Cartwright PaulynORCID

Abstract

AbstractThe jellyfish, or medusa, is a life cycle stage characteristic of the cnidarian subphylum Medusozoa. By contrast, the other cnidarian subphyla Anthozoa and Endocnidozoa lack a medusa stage. Of the medusozoan classes, Hydrozoa is the most diverse in terms of species number and life cycle variation. A notable pattern in hydrozoan evolution is that the medusa stage has been lost or reduced several times independently. Although this loss of the jellyfish stage is thought to be due to heterochrony, the precise developmental mechanisms underlying this complex pattern of medusa evolution are unknown. We found that the presence of the homeobox gene Tlx in cnidarian genomes is correlated with those medusozoans that have a medusa stage as part of their life cycle. Although Tlx is conserved in Bilateria and Cnidaria, it is missing in the genomes of anthozoans, endocnidozoans, and those hydrozoans that have lost the medusa stage. Selection analyses of Tlx across medusozoans revealed that hydrozoans undergo relatively relaxed selection compared to the other medusozoan classes, which may in part explain the pattern of multiple medusa losses. Differential expression analyses on three distantly related medusozoan representatives indicate an upregulation of Tlx during medusa development. In addition, Tlx expression is spatially restricted to regions of active development in medusae of the hydrozoan Podocoryna carnea. Our results suggest that Tlx plays a key role in medusa development and that the loss of this gene is likely linked to the repeated loss of the medusa life cycle stage.

Publisher

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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