New Non-Bilaterian Transcriptomes Provide Novel Insights into the Evolution of Coral Skeletomes.

ABSTRACT: A general trend observed in animal skeletomes-the proteins occluded in animal skeletons-is the copresence of taxonomically widespread and lineage-specific proteins that actively regulate the biomineralization process. Among cnidarians, the skeletomes of scleractinian corals have been shown to follow this trend. However, distributions and phylogenetic analyses of biomineralization-related genes are often based on only a few species, with other anthozoan calcifiers such as octocorals (soft corals), not being fully considered. We de novo assembled the transcriptomes of four soft-coral species characterized by different calcification strategies (aragonite skeleton vs. calcitic sclerites) and data-mined published nonbilaterian transcriptome resources to construct a taxonomically comprehensive s

SUBMITTER: Conci N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6824150 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature