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Mol Biol Evol

Title:		A Single Pheromone Receptor Gene Conserved across 400 My of Vertebrate Evolution
Author(s):		Suzuki H; Nishida H; Kondo H; Yoda R; Iwata T; Nakayama K; Enomoto T; Wu J; Moriya-Ito K; Miyazaki M; Wakabayashi Y; Kishida T; Okabe M; Suzuki Y; Ito T; Hirota J; Nikaido M;
Address:		"School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Nihon BioData Corporation, Takatsu-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan. Center for Biological Resources and Informatics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan. Department of Brain Development and Neural Regeneration, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Department of Biological Chemistry and Food Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Morioka, Iwate, Japan. Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), Tsukuba, Japan. Wildlife Research Center, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto, Japan. Department of Anatomy, The Jikei University of Medicine, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Department of Medical Genome Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan"
Journal Title:		Mol Biol Evol
Year:		2018
Volume:		35
Issue:		12
Page Number:		2928 - 2939
DOI:		10.1093/molbev/msy186
ISSN/ISBN:		1537-1719 (Electronic) 0737-4038 (Linking)
Abstract:		"Pheromones are crucial for eliciting social and sexual behaviors in diverse animal species. The vomeronasal receptor type-1 (V1R) genes, encoding members of a pheromone receptor family, are highly variable in number and repertoire among mammals due to extensive gene gain and loss. Here, we report a novel pheromone receptor gene belonging to the V1R family, named ancient V1R (ancV1R), which is shared among most Osteichthyes (bony vertebrates) from the basal lineage of ray-finned fishes to mammals. Phylogenetic and syntenic analyses of ancV1R using 115 vertebrate genomes revealed that it represents an orthologous gene conserved for >400 My of vertebrate evolution. Interestingly, the loss of ancV1R in some tetrapods is coincident with the degeneration of the vomeronasal organ in higher primates, cetaceans, and some reptiles including birds and crocodilians. In addition, ancV1R is expressed in most mature vomeronasal sensory neurons in contrast with canonical V1Rs, which are sparsely expressed in a manner that is consistent with the 'one neuron-one receptor' rule. Our results imply that a previously undescribed V1R gene inherited from an ancient Silurian ancestor may have played an important functional role in the evolution of vertebrate vomeronasal organ"
Keywords:		"Animals *Biological Evolution Humans Receptors, Pheromone/*genetics/metabolism Selection, Genetic Sensory Receptor Cells/*metabolism Sequence Homology Vertebrates/*genetics/metabolism Vomeronasal Organ/*metabolism;"
Notes:		"MedlineSuzuki, Hikoyu Nishida, Hidefumi Kondo, Hiro Yoda, Ryota Iwata, Tetsuo Nakayama, Kanako Enomoto, Takayuki Wu, Jiaqi Moriya-Ito, Keiko Miyazaki, Masao Wakabayashi, Yoshihiro Kishida, Takushi Okabe, Masataka Suzuki, Yutaka Ito, Takehiko Hirota, Junji Nikaido, Masato eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't 2018/09/27 Mol Biol Evol. 2018 Dec 1; 35(12):2928-2939. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msy186"