Evolution of pigment synthesis pathways by gene and genome duplication in fish

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1 January 2007

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Published by Springer Nature in BMC Ecology and Evolution

Vol. 7 (1) , 74
https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-7-74

Abstract

Coloration and color patterning belong to the most diverse phenotypic traits in animals. Particularly, teleost fishes possess more pigment cell types than any other group of vertebrates. As the result of an ancient fish-specific genome duplication (FSGD), teleost genomes might contain more copies of genes involved in pigment cell development than tetrapods. No systematic genomic inventory allowing to test this hypothesis has been drawn up so far for pigmentation genes in fish, and almost nothing is known about the evolution of these genes in different fish lineages.

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