papers about fish evolution

1. The Evolutionary Fate and Consequences of Duplicate Genes, Science 10 November 2000:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/290/5494/1151

2. Genome evolution and biodiversity in teleost fish, Heredity (2005) 94, 280–294.
http://www.nature.com/hdy/journal/v94/n3/full/6800635a.html

a review from J-N Volff

3. Functional Divergence of Two Zebrafish Midkine Growth Factors Following Fish-Specific Gene Duplication, Genome Res. 13:1067-1081, 2003
http://www.genome.org/cgi/content/full/13/6a/1067

Instance about "mdka and mdkb underwent functional divergence after duplication".

4. Comparative genomics of ParaHox clusters of teleost fishes: gene cluster breakup and the retention of gene sets following whole genome duplications, BMC Genomics 2007, 8:312
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/8/312

new paper from Axel Meyer's group. Could be kind of explanation to GRB evolution.

diversity of Pcdh genes among teleosts

• In mammals, the protocadherins are encoded by three closely-linked clusters (α, β and γ) of tandem genes and are hypothesized to provide a molecular code for specifying the remarkably-diverse neural connections in the central nervous system.
• Like mammals, the coelacanth, a lobe-finned fish, contains a single protocadherin locus, also arranged into α, β and γ clusters.
• Zebrafish, however, possesses two protocadherin loci that contain more than twice the number of genes as the coelacanth, but arranged only into α and γ clusters.
• Fugu contains two unlinked protocadherin loci, Pcdh1 and Pcdh2, that collectively consist of at least 77 genes. The fugu Pcdh1 locus has been subject to extensive degeneration, resulting in the complete loss of Pcdh1γ cluster.The fugu Pcdh genes have undergone lineage-specific regional gene conversion processes that have resulted in a remarkable regional sequence homogenization among paralogs in the same subcluster.
• Besides the 'fish-specific' whole genome duplication, the evolution of protocadherin genes in teleost fishes is influenced by lineage-specific gene losses, tandem gene duplications and regional sequence homogenization.

Comparison of the fugu (FrPcdh1 and FrPcdh2), zebrafish (DrPcdh1 and DrPcdh2)and coelacanth (LmPcdh) protocadherin clusters. Variable exons in each paralog group are shown in different colors. Orthologs between fugu and zebrafish as well as the inter-locus paralogs between the two Pcdh loci in fugu or zebrafish are shown in the same colors. 'Teleost Pcdh1' and 'Teleost Pcdh2' are the Pcdh clusters predicted in the common ancestor of fugu and zebrafish, and 'Fish Pcdh ancestor' is the single Pcdh cluster predicted in the ray-finned fish prior to the 'fish-specific' whole genome duplication. The corresponding exons in the 'Fish Pcdh ancestor' and the inter-locus paralogs between 'Teleost Pcdh1' and 'Teleost Pcdh2' are shown in the same color except the 'αIV', which represents a common ancestor for fugu FrPcdh2α8–25 and zebrafish DrPcdh2α8–25. Among the exons predicted in the 'Fish Pcdh ancestor', those present in the Pcdh loci of both fugu and zebrafish are labeled with an asterisk.