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Multi-genome comparisons reveal gain-and-loss evolution of the anti-Mullerian hormone receptor type 2 gene, an old master sex determining gene, in Percidae
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  • Heiner Kuhl,
  • Peter Euclide,
  • Christophe Klopp,
  • Cédric Cabau,
  • Margot Zahm,
  • Celine Roques,
  • Carole Iampietro,
  • Claire Kuchly,
  • Cécile Donnadieu,
  • Romain Feron,
  • Hugues Parrinello,
  • Charles Poncet,
  • Lydia Jaffrelo,
  • Carole Confolent,
  • Ming Wen,
  • Amaury Herpin,
  • Elodie Jouanno,
  • Anastasia Bestin,
  • Pierrick Haffray,
  • Romain Morvezen,
  • Taina Rocha de Almeida,
  • Thomas Lecocq,
  • Berenice Schaerlinger,
  • Dominique Chardard,
  • Daniel ŻARSKI,
  • Wes Larson,
  • John H Postlethwait,
  • Serik Timirkhanov,
  • Werner Kloas,
  • Swen Wuertz,
  • Matthias Stöck,
  • Yann Guiguen
Heiner Kuhl
IGB
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Peter Euclide
Purdue University
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Christophe Klopp
INRAE
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Cédric Cabau
INRAE
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Margot Zahm
INRAE
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Celine Roques
INRAE
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Carole Iampietro
INRAE
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Claire Kuchly
INRAE
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Cécile Donnadieu
INRAE
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Romain Feron
University of Lausanne
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Hugues Parrinello
CNRS
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Charles Poncet
INRAE
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Lydia Jaffrelo
INRAE
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Carole Confolent
INRAE
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Ming Wen
Hunan Normal University
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Amaury Herpin
INRAE
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Elodie Jouanno
INRAE
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Anastasia Bestin
SYSAAF
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Pierrick Haffray
SYSAAF
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Romain Morvezen
SYSAAF
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Taina Rocha de Almeida
University of Lorraine
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Thomas Lecocq
University of Lorraine
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Berenice Schaerlinger
University of Lorraine
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Dominique Chardard
University of Lorraine
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Daniel ŻARSKI
Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research PAS
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Wes Larson
NOAA
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John H Postlethwait
University of Oregon
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Serik Timirkhanov
Sea biology LLP
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Werner Kloas
IGB
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Swen Wuertz
IGB
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Matthias Stöck
IGB
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Yann Guiguen
INRAE

Corresponding Author:yann.guiguen@inrae.fr

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Abstract

The Percidae family comprises many fish species of major importance for aquaculture and fisheries. Based on three new chromosome-scale assemblies in Perca fluviatilis, Perca schrenkii and Sander vitreus along with additional percid fish reference genomes, we provide an evolutionary and comparative genomic analysis of their sex-determination systems. We explored the fate of a duplicated anti-Mullerian hormone receptor type-2 gene (amhr2bY), previously suggested to be the master sex determining (MSD) gene in P. flavescens. Phylogenetically related and structurally similar amhr2 duplications (amhr2b) were found in P. schrenkii and Sander lucioperca, potentially dating this duplication event to their last common ancestor around 19-27 Mya. In P. fluviatilis and S. vitreus, this amhr2b duplicate has been lost while it was subject to amplification in S. lucioperca. Analyses of the amhr2b locus in P. schrenkii suggest that this duplication could be also male-specific as it is in P. flavescens. In P. fluviatilis, a relatively small (100 kb) non-recombinant sex-determining region (SDR) was characterized on chromosome-18 using population-genomics approaches. This SDR is characterized by many male-specific single-nucleotide variants (SNVs) and no large duplication/insertion event, suggesting that P. fluviatilis has a male heterogametic sex determination system (XX/XY), generated by allelic diversification. This SDR contains six annotated genes, including three (c18h1orf198, hsdl1, tbc1d32) with higher expression in testis than ovary. Together, our results provide a new example of the highly dynamic sex chromosome turnover in teleosts and provide new genomic resources for Percidae, including sex-genotyping tools for all three known Perca species.