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Zeng L, Pederson SM, Kortschak RD, et al. Transposable elements and gene expression during the evolution of amniotes. Mob DNA. 2018;9:17doi: 10.1186/s13100-018-0124-5.
Zeng, L., Pederson, S. M., Kortschak, R. D., & Adelson, D. L. (2018). Transposable elements and gene expression during the evolution of amniotes. Mobile DNA, 917. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13100-018-0124-5
Zeng, Lu, et al. "Transposable elements and gene expression during the evolution of amniotes." Mobile DNA vol. 9 (2018): 17. doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13100-018-0124-5
Zeng L, Pederson SM, Kortschak RD, Adelson DL. Transposable elements and gene expression during the evolution of amniotes. Mob DNA. 2018 Jun 12;9:17. doi: 10.1186/s13100-018-0124-5. eCollection 2018. PMID: 29942365; PMCID: PMC5998507.
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Mob DNA. 2018 Jun 12;9:17. doi: 10.1186/s13100-018-0124-5. eCollection 2018.

Transposable elements and gene expression during the evolution of amniotes.

Mobile DNA

Lu Zeng, Stephen M Pederson, R Daniel Kortschak, David L Adelson

Affiliations

  1. 1School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, 5005 Australia.
  2. 2Bioinformatics Hub, The University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, 5005 Australia.

PMID: 29942365 PMCID: PMC5998507 DOI: 10.1186/s13100-018-0124-5

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Transposable elements (TEs) are primarily responsible for the DNA losses and gains in genome sequences that occur over time within and between species. TEs themselves evolve, with clade specific LTR/ERV, LINEs and SINEs responsible for the bulk of species-specific genomic features. Because TEs can contain regulatory motifs, they can be exapted as regulators of gene expression. While TE insertions can provide evolutionary novelty for the regulation of gene expression, their overall impact on the evolution of gene expression is unclear. Previous investigators have shown that tissue specific gene expression in amniotes is more similar across species than within species, supporting the existence of conserved developmental gene regulation. In order to understand how species-specific TE insertions might affect the evolution/conservation of gene expression, we have looked at the association of gene expression in six tissues with TE insertions in six representative amniote genomes.

RESULTS: A novel bootstrapping approach has been used to minimise the conflation of effects of repeat types on gene expression. We compared the expression of orthologs containing recent TE insertions to orthologs that contained older TE insertions, and the expression of non-orthologs containing recent TE insertions to non-orthologs with older TE insertions. Both orthologs and non-orthologs showed significant differences in gene expression associated with TE insertions. TEs were found associated with species-specific changes in gene expression, and the magnitude and direction of expression changes were noteworthy. Overall, orthologs containing species-specific TEs were associated with lower gene expression, while in non-orthologs, non-species specific TEs were associated with higher gene expression. Exceptions were SINE elements in human and chicken, which had an opposite association with gene expression compared to other species.

CONCLUSIONS: Our observed species-specific associations of TEs with gene expression support a role for TEs in speciation/response to selection by species. TEs do not exhibit consistent associations with gene expression and observed associations can vary depending on the age of TE insertions. Based on these observations, it would be prudent to refrain from extrapolating these and previously reported associations to distantly related species.

Keywords: Amniotes; Evolution; Gene expression; Retrotransposon; Transposon

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