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2016
DOI: 10.1038/srep30580
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Molecular developmental mechanism in polypterid fish provides insight into the origin of vertebrate lungs

Abstract: The lung is an important organ for air breathing in tetrapods and originated well before the terrestrialization of vertebrates. Therefore, to better understand lung evolution, we investigated lung development in the extant basal actinopterygian fish Senegal bichir (Polypterus senegalus). First, we histologically confirmed that lung development in this species is very similar to that of tetrapods. We also found that the mesenchymal expression patterns of three genes that are known to play important roles in ear… Show more

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“…These include two well-known lung development genes (Tbx4 and Tbx5) that were apparently present in the common ancestor of cartilaginous and bony fishes. It is also consistent with a previous report on an important lung-related regulatory enhancer (lung mesenchyme-specific enhancer, LME) of Tbx4, which is present in cartilaginous fishes and also exists in the bichir, bowfin, and spotted gar (Hara et al, 2018;Tatsumi et al, 2016) (Figure S5D). In situ hybridization experiments with five of these genes confirmed that they are all highly active in alveolar cells of both the mouse and the bichir but weakly expressed in the swim bladder surface of the zebrafish (Figure 5F).…”
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