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Mol Biol Evol ; 33(6): 1419-34, 2016 06.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26861137

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Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is a potent toxicant interfering with oxidative phosphorylation in mitochondria and creating extreme environmental conditions in aquatic ecosystems. The mechanistic basis of adaptation to perpetual exposure to H2S remains poorly understood. We investigated evolutionarily independent lineages of livebearing fishes that have colonized and adapted to springs rich in H2S and compared their genome-wide gene expression patterns with closely related lineages from adjacent, nonsulfidic streams. Significant differences in gene expression were uncovered between all sulfidic and nonsulfidic population pairs. Variation in the number of differentially expressed genes among population pairs corresponded to differences in divergence times and rates of gene flow, which is consistent with neutral drift driving a substantial portion of gene expression variation among populations. Accordingly, there was little evidence for convergent evolution shaping large-scale gene expression patterns among independent sulfide spring populations. Nonetheless, we identified a small number of genes that was consistently differentially expressed in the same direction in all sulfidic and nonsulfidic population pairs. Functional annotation of shared differentially expressed genes indicated upregulation of genes associated with enzymatic H2S detoxification and transport of oxidized sulfur species, oxidative phosphorylation, energy metabolism, and pathways involved in responses to oxidative stress. Overall, our results suggest that modification of processes associated with H2S detoxification and toxicity likely complement each other to mediate elevated H2S tolerance in sulfide spring fishes. Our analyses allow for the development of novel hypotheses about biochemical and physiological mechanisms of adaptation to extreme environments.


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Adaptação Fisiológica/fisiologia , Sulfeto de Hidrogênio/metabolismo , Poecilia/fisiologia , Aclimatação/genética , Aclimatação/fisiologia , Adaptação Fisiológica/genética , Animais , Evolução Biológica , Ecossistema , Meio Ambiente , Evolução Molecular , Fluxo Gênico , Genética Populacional/métodos , Genoma , Poecilia/genética , Poecilia/metabolismo , Seleção Genética , Alinhamento de Sequência/métodos , Análise de Sequência de RNA/métodos , Transcriptoma
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