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Germon I, Delachanal C, Mougel F, Martinand-Mari C, Debiais-Thibaud M, Borday-Birraux V. Interference with the retinoic acid signalling pathway inhibits the initiation of teeth and caudal primary scales in the small-spotted catshark Scyliorhinus canicula. PeerJ 2023; 11:e15896. [PMID: 37692112 PMCID: PMC10492535 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.15896] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2023] [Accepted: 07/24/2023] [Indexed: 09/12/2023] Open
Abstract
The retinoic acid (RA) pathway was shown to be important for tooth development in mammals, and suspected to play a key role in tooth evolution in teleosts. The general modalities of development of tooth and "tooth-like" structures (collectively named odontodes) seem to be conserved among all jawed vertebrates, both with regard to histogenesis and genetic regulation. We investigated the putative function of RA signalling in tooth and scale initiation in a cartilaginous fish, the small-spotted catshark Scyliorhinus canicula. To address this issue, we identified the expression pattern of genes from the RA pathway during both tooth and scale development and performed functional experiments by exposing small-spotted catshark embryos to exogenous RA or an inhibitor of RA synthesis. Our results showed that inhibiting RA synthesis affects tooth but not caudal primary scale development while exposure to exogenous RA inhibited both. We also showed that the reduced number of teeth observed with RA exposure is probably due to a specific inhibition of tooth bud initiation while the observed effects of the RA synthesis inhibitor is related to a general delay in embryonic development that interacts with tooth development. This study provides data complementary to previous studies of bony vertebrates and support an involvement of the RA signalling pathway toolkit in odontode initiation in all jawed vertebrates. However, the modalities of RA signalling may vary depending on the target location along the body, and depending on the species lineage.
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Affiliation(s)
- Isabelle Germon
- Laboratoire Évolution, Génomes, Comportement, Écologie, CNRS, IRD, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Laboratoire Évolution, Génomes, Comportement, Écologie, CNRS, IRD, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Laboratoire Évolution, Génomes, Comportement, Écologie, CNRS, IRD, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Laboratoire Évolution, Génomes, Comportement, Écologie, CNRS, IRD, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
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Jandzik D, Stock DW. Differences in developmental potential predict the contrasting patterns of dental diversification in characiform and cypriniform fishes. Proc Biol Sci 2021; 288:20202205. [PMID: 33563123 PMCID: PMC7893225 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2020.2205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2020] [Accepted: 01/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Morphological diversification during adaptive radiation may depend on factors external or internal to the lineage. We provide evidence for the latter in characiform fishes (tetras and piranhas), which exhibit extensive dental diversity. Phylogenetic character mapping supported regain of lost teeth as contributing to this diversity. To test for latent potential for dentition that would facilitate its evolutionary expansion, we overexpressed a tooth initiation signal, the tumour necrosis factor pathway ligand ectodysplasin, in a model characiform, the Mexican tetra (Astyanax mexicanus). This manipulation resulted in extensive ectopic dentition, in contrast with its previously reported limited effect in the zebrafish (Danio rerio). Tooth location in the order Cypriniformes, to which the zebrafish belongs, is much more restricted than in characiforms, a pattern that may be explained by differences in the retention of ancestral developmental potential. Our results suggest that differences in evolvability between lineages may lead to contrasting patterns of diversification.
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Affiliation(s)
- David Jandzik
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
- Department of Zoology, Comenius University in Bratislava, Bratislava 84215, Slovakia
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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