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<p>The genomic basis of cladogenesis and adaptive evolutionary change has intrigued biologists for decades. Here we show that the tectonics of genome evolution in clitellates, a clade composed of most freshwater and all terrestrial species of the phylum Annelida, is characterized by extensive genome-wide scrambling that resulted in a massive loss of macrosynteny between marine annelids and clitellates. These massive rearrangements included the formation of putative neocentromeres with newly acquired transposable elements and preceded a further period of genome-wide reshaping events, potentially triggered by the loss of genes involved in genome stability and homoeostasis of cell division. Notably, whereas these rearrangements broke short-range interactions observed between <i>Hox</i> genes in marine annelids, they were reformed as long-range interactions in clitellates. Our findings reveal extensive genomic reshaping in clitellates at both the linear (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) levels, suggesting that unlike in other animal lineages where synteny conservation constrains structural evolution, clitellates exhibit a remarkable tolerance for chromosomal rearrangements. Our study thus suggests that the genomic landscape of Clitellata resulted from a rare burst of genomic changes that ended a long period of stability that persists across large phylogenetic distances.</p>

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An episodic burst of massive genomic rearrangements and the origin of non-marine annelids

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    2025年6月18日

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  • Carlos Vargas-Chávez,
  • Lisandra Benítez-Álvarez,
  • Gemma I. Martínez-Redondo,
  • Lucía Álvarez-González,
  • Judit Salces-Ortiz,
  • Klara Eleftheriadi,
  • Nuria Escudero,
  • Nadège Guiglielmoni,
  • Jean-François Flot,
  • Marta Novo,
  • Aurora Ruiz-Herrera,
  • Aoife McLysaght,
  • Rosa Fernández

摘要

The genomic basis of cladogenesis and adaptive evolutionary change has intrigued biologists for decades. Here we show that the tectonics of genome evolution in clitellates, a clade composed of most freshwater and all terrestrial species of the phylum Annelida, is characterized by extensive genome-wide scrambling that resulted in a massive loss of macrosynteny between marine annelids and clitellates. These massive rearrangements included the formation of putative neocentromeres with newly acquired transposable elements and preceded a further period of genome-wide reshaping events, potentially triggered by the loss of genes involved in genome stability and homoeostasis of cell division. Notably, whereas these rearrangements broke short-range interactions observed between Hox genes in marine annelids, they were reformed as long-range interactions in clitellates. Our findings reveal extensive genomic reshaping in clitellates at both the linear (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) levels, suggesting that unlike in other animal lineages where synteny conservation constrains structural evolution, clitellates exhibit a remarkable tolerance for chromosomal rearrangements. Our study thus suggests that the genomic landscape of Clitellata resulted from a rare burst of genomic changes that ended a long period of stability that persists across large phylogenetic distances.