OMIA:002209-7950 : Adaptation to a red-shifted light environment in Clupea harengus (Atlantic herring) |
Categories: Normal phene
Links to possible relevant human trait(s) and/or gene(s) in OMIM: 180380 (gene)
Mendelian trait/disorder: yes
Disease-related: no
Key variant known: yes
Year key variant first reported: 2019
Molecular basis: Hill et al. (2019): "Atlantic herring . . . colonized the brackish Baltic Sea within the last 10,000 y." Being less salty, the Baltic Sea contains more "dissolved organic matter [that] produces a red-shifted visual environment compared with marine waters." The authors "show that visual adaptation to the new light environment was achieved through a recent and rapid selective sweep on a [missense] mutation [Phe261Tyr] in the rhodopsin gene. Furthermore, this exact same amino acid change has occurred at least 20 separate times in fish species transitioning from marine to brackish or freshwater environments. This is a remarkable example of convergent evolution."
Associated gene:
| Symbol | Description | Species | Chr | Location | OMIA gene details page | Other Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| rho | rhodopsin | Clupea harengus | 1 | NC_045152.1 (27341367..27338909) | rho | Homologene, Ensembl , NCBI gene |
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| OMIA Variant ID | Breed(s) | Variant Phenotype | Gene | Allele | Type of Variant | Source of Genetic Variant | Reference Sequence | Chr. | g. or m. | c. or n. | p. | Verbal Description | EVA ID | Year Published | PubMed ID(s) | Acknowledgements |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1099 | Adaptation to a red-shifted light environment | rho | missense | Naturally occurring variant | p.(F261Y) | 2019 | 31451650 |
Cite this entry
Nicholas, F. W., Tammen, I., & Sydney Informatics Hub. (2019). OMIA:002209-7950: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA) [dataset]. https://omia.org/. https://doi.org/10.25910/2AMR-PV70
Reference
| 2019 | Hill, J., Enbody, E.D., Pettersson, M.E., Sprehn, C.G., Bekkevold, D., Folkvord, A., Laikre, L., Kleinau, G., Scheerer, P., Andersson, L. : |
| Recurrent convergent evolution at amino acid residue 261 in fish rhodopsin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 116:18473-18478, 2019. Pubmed reference: 31451650. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1908332116. |
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- Created by Frank Nicholas on 13 Sep 2019
- Changed by Frank Nicholas on 13 Sep 2019