Heart development in the lizards (Varanidae) with the greatest extent of ventricular septation

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Hanemaaijer Jermo,Gregorovicova Martina,Nielsen Jan M.,Moorman Antoon FM,Wang Tobias,Planken R. Nils,Christoffels Vincent M,Sedmera David,Jensen BjarkeORCID

Abstract

AbstractAmong lizards, only monitor lizards (Varanidae) have a functionally divided cardiac ventricle. This enables them to sustain higher systemic blood pressures and higher metabolic rates than other reptiles of similar size. The division results from the concerted action of three partial septa, which may have homology to the full ventricular septum of mammals and archosaurs. Homology, however has only been inferred from anatomical comparisons of hearts of adult monitors whereas gene expression during heart development has not been studied. We show in developing monitors that the partial septa that separate the left and right ventricle, the ‘muscular ridge’ and ‘bulbuslamelle’, express the evolutionary conserved transcription factors Tbx5, Irx1 and Irx2, orthologues of which mark the full ventricular septum. Compaction of embryonic trabeculae contributes to the formation of these septa. The septa are positioned, however, to the right of the atrioventricular junction and they do not partake in the separation of incoming atrial blood streams. Instead, the ‘vertical septum’ within the left ventricle separates the atrial blood streams. It expresses Tbx3 and Tbx5, which orchestrate the formation of the electrical conduction axis of the full ventricular septum. These patterns of expression are more pronounced in monitors than in other lizards, and are associated with a deep electrical activation near the vertical septum, contrasting the primitive base-to-apex activation of other lizards. We conclude that current concepts of ventricular septum formation apply well to the monitor septa and that there is evolutionary conservation of ventricular septum formation among amniote vertebrates.

Publisher

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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