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- Kerin M. Claeson ,
- Brian L. Sidlauskas,
- Ray Troll ,
- Zabrina M. Prescott ,
- Edward B. Davis
- Kerin M. Claeson,
- Brian L. Sidlauskas,
- Ray Troll,
- Zabrina M. Prescott,
- Edward B. Davis
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The impressive †Oncorhynchus rastrosus of the Pacific Northwest’s Miocene and Pliocene eras was the largest salmonid ever to live. It sported a hypertrophied premaxilla with a pair of enlarged teeth which the original describers reconstructed as projecting ventrally into the mouth, leading them to assign the species to “Smilodonichthys,” a genus now in synonymy. Through CT reconstruction of the holotype and newly collected specimens, we demonstrate that the famed teeth projected laterally like tusks, not ventrally like sabers or fangs. We also expand the original description to characterize sexual dimorphism in mature, breeding individuals. Male and female †Oncorhynchus rastrosus differ in the form of the vomer, rostro-dermethmoid-supraethmoid, and dentary, much as do other extant species of Oncorhynchus. Male specimens possess a more elongate vomer than do females, and female vomers have concave ventral surfaces and prominent median dorsal keels. The dentary of females has no evidence of a k
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Lineage-specific rediploidization is a mechanism to explain time-lags between genome duplication and evolutionary diversification
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- Fiona M. Robertson1,
- Manu Kumar Gundappa1,
- Fabian Grammes2,
- Torgeir R. Hvidsten3,4,
- Anthony K. Redmond1,5,
- Sigbjørn Lien2,
- Samuel A. M. Martin1,
- Peter W. H. Holland6,
- Simen R. Sandve2 &
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- Daniel J. Macqueen1
Genome Biologyvolume 18, Article number: 111 (2017) Cite this article
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Background
The functional divergence of duplicate genes (ohnologues) retained from whole genome duplication (WGD) is thought to promote evolutionary diversification. However, species radiation and phenotypic diversification are often temporally separated from WGD. Salmonid fish, whose ancestor underwent WGD by autotetraploidization ~95 million years ago, fit such a ‘time-lag’ model of post-WGD radiation, which occurred alongside a major delay in the rediploidization process. Here we propose a model, ‘lineage-specific ohnologue resolution’ (LORe), to address the consequences of delayed rediploidization. Under LORe, speciation precedes rediploidization, allowing independent ohnologue divergence in sister