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Tissue-Specific Transcriptome For Poeciliopsis Prolifica Reveals Evidence For Genetic Adaptation Related To The Evolution Of A Placental Fish, Nathaniel K. Jue, Robert J. Foley, David N. Reznick, Rachel J. O'Neill, Michael J. O'Neill
Tissue-Specific Transcriptome For Poeciliopsis Prolifica Reveals Evidence For Genetic Adaptation Related To The Evolution Of A Placental Fish, Nathaniel K. Jue, Robert J. Foley, David N. Reznick, Rachel J. O'Neill, Michael J. O'Neill
Nathaniel Jue
The evolution of the placenta is an excellent model to examine the evolutionary processes underlying adaptive complexity due to the recent, independent derivation of placentation in divergent animal lineages. In fishes, the family Poeciliidae offers the opportunity to study placental evolution with respect to variation in degree of post-fertilization maternal provisioning among closely related sister species. In this study, we present a detailed examination of a new reference transcriptome sequence for the live-bearing, matrotrophic fish, Poeciliopsis prolifica, from multiple-tissue RNA-seq data. We describe the genetic components active in liver, brain, late-stage embryo, and the maternal placental/ovarian complex, as well as …