Creating sense from non-sense DNA: de novo genesis and evolutionary history of antifreeze glycoprotein gene in northern cod fishes (gadidae)

• Main Author: Zhuang, Xuan
• Other Authors: Cheng, Chi-Hing C., DeVries, Arthur L., Olsen, Gary J., Kwast, Kurt E.
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: new gene evolution; de novo gene origination; antifreeze glycoproteins; gadids; Arctic; Indel’; atlantic cod; Boreogadus saida; Gadus morhua; polar cod
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/46946

Gadids (cod fishes) are ecologically prominent and important species of the north polar marine fauna. Seven gadid species are known to have evolved antifreeze glycoproteins (AFGPs) that enable their survival from inoculative freezing by environmental ice in frigid Arctic and sub-Arctic waters. AFGPs...