Giant African snail genomes provide insights into molluscan whole-genome duplication and aquatic-terrestrial transition

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第一作者： Liu, Conghui

作者： Liu, Conghui;Ren, Yuwei;Li, Zaiyuan;Hu, Qi;Yin, Lijuan;Wang, Hengchao;Qiao, Xi;Zhang, Yan;Xing, Longsheng;Xi, Yu;Jiang, Fan;Wang, Sen;Huang, Cong;Liu, Bo;Liu, Hangwei;Wan, Fanghao;Qian, Wanqiang;Fan, Wei

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关键词： aquatic-terrestrial transition; giant African snails; molluscs; whole-genome duplication

期刊名称：MOLECULAR ECOLOGY RESOURCES （ 影响因子：7.09； 五年影响因子：8.745 ）

ISSN： 1755-098X

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摘要： Whole-genome duplication (WGD), contributing to evolutionary diversity and environmental adaptability, has been observed across a wide variety of eukaryotic groups, but not in molluscs. Molluscs are the second largest animal phylum in terms of species numbers, and among the organisms that have successfully adapted to the nonmarine realm through aquatic-terrestrial (A-T) transition. We assembled a chromosome-level reference genome forAchatina immaculata, a globally invasive species, and compared the genomes of two giant African snails (A. immaculataandAchatina fulica) to other available mollusc genomes. Macrosynteny, colinearity blocks, Ks peak and Hox gene clusters collectively suggested a WGD event in the two snails. The estimated WGD timing (similar to 70 million years ago) was close to the speciation age of the Sigmurethra-Orthurethra (within Stylommatophora) lineage and the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) mass extinction, indicating that the WGD may have been a common event shared by all Sigmurethra-Orthurethra species and conferred ecological adaptability allowing survival after the K-T extinction event. Furthermore, the adaptive mechanism of WGD in terrestrial ecosystems was confirmed by the presence of gene families related to the respiration, aestivation and immune defence. Several mucus-related gene families expanded early in the Stylommatophora lineage, and the haemocyanin and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase families doubled during WGD, and zinc metalloproteinase genes were highly tandemly duplicated after WGD. This evidence suggests that although WGD may not have been the direct driver of the A-T transition, it played an important part in the terrestrial adaptation of giant African snails.

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