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Comprehensive research on hemiclonal hybrids - Demonstration of persistence and genome deletion mechanism

Research Project

Project/Area Number 21K05743
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 40030:Aquatic bioproduction science-related
Research InstitutionHokkaido University

Principal Investigator

Munehara Hiroyuki  北海道大学, 北方生物圏フィールド科学センター, 教授 (80212249)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 藤本 貴史  北海道大学, 水産科学研究院, 准教授 (10400003)
Project Period (FY) 2021-04-01 – 2024-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2023)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Keywords半クローン / 染色体不和合 / 交雑 / ゲノム削除 / ホストスイッチ / ヘテロクロマチン / アイナメ属 / 環北太平洋 / アイナメ / 配偶子形成 / 二次的遭遇 / ゲノム不和合
Outline of Research at the Start

染色体を組換えなく繁殖できる半クローンやクローンは、雌だけを産むため個体群増殖速度が速いが、遺伝的な多様性を作り出せないなどの欠点から、系統寿命は短いと考えられてきた。しかし、海産魚類のアイナメ属半クローン雑種を用いた研究から、一世代で父親ゲノムを「置換」できる半クローンの特性により、母種の雄と交配することで組換えできる子を作り出せる。そのため半クローンと組換え世代を繰り返すことで、単性生物の欠点を補い系統を永続できる。本研究では、この仮説がアイナメ属の系統進化の過程で頻繁に起きていたことを実証するとともに、半クローン配偶子が形成されるメカニズムを細胞学的に解明する。

Outline of Final Research Achievements

By changing the host species, we demonstrated that the lifespan of the strain was extended through repetition of hemiclone and recombinant generations. Hemiclone was mated with a male white-spotted greenling, which is distributed even in the coldest regions, and the resulting offspring were incubated, and the offspring were allowed to mature to create a grandchild generation. The results showed that the half-clones were able to interbreed with white-spotted greenling, all of the offspring were female, and the eggs they produced contained only the hemiclone hybrid genome. Furthermore, we investigated the process by which the paternal genome is deleted during oogenesis. At the early stage of development, the paternal genome becomes heterochromatine (inactivated) in hemiclones, and its expression is suppressed and inactivated before meiosis.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

半クローンやクローンは雌だけを産むため個体群増殖速度が速いが、遺伝的な多様性を作り出せない欠点から系統寿命は短いと考えられてきた。しかし、アイナメ属雑種は、一世代で父親ゲノムを「置換」できる半クローンの特性を使い、同種雄を含み交雑相手の種を変えることで、半クローンと組換え世代を繰り返す(ホストスイッチ仮説)ことを実証した。本研究の成果は、ホストスイッチ仮説がこれまで知られていなかった種でも可能であることを示し、アイナメ属が北太平洋でもっとも繁栄する属の一つである要因を実証したとともに、様々な種で見られる自然クローン集団の出現と、それが維持される仕組みの一端を解明した。

Report

(4 results)
  • 2023 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2022 Research-status Report
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (6 results)

All 2024 2023 2022 2021

All Journal Article (5 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 4 results,  Open Access: 1 results) Book (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] First records of 14 fish species, including 13 northernmost records, collected by SCUBA diving from Usujiri, southern Hokkaido, Japan, in 2023 during a record-breaking heat wave2024

    • Author(s)
      根来晃祐・宗原弘幸
    • Journal Title

      Ichthy, Natural History of Fishes of Japan

      Volume: 44 Issue: 0 Pages: 1-25

    • DOI

      10.34583/ichthy.44.0_1

    • ISSN
      2435-7715
    • Year and Date
      2024-05-13
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] A robust system of hybridogenesis that increases genetic variability and promotes evolutionary succession in greenlings (Teleostei: Hexagramidae, genus Hexagrammos): regeneration of a new hemiclonal lineage2024

    • Author(s)
      Suzuki S, S Yoshida, M Aratani, M R Kimura-Kawaguchi, H Munehara
    • Journal Title

      PLOS ONE

      Volume: Accepted

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Rhamphocottus nagaakii (Cottoidea: Rhamphocottidae), a new species of grunt sculpin from the Northwestern Pacific, with notes on the phylogeography of the genus Rhamphocottus.2023

    • Author(s)
      Munehara H., Togashi K, Yamada S, Higashimura T, Yamazaki A, Suzuki S, Abe T, Awata S, Koya Y, Tsuruoka O.
    • Journal Title

      Icthyological Research

      Volume: 70 Pages: 268-285

    • DOI

      10.1007/s10228-022-00885-y

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Fertilization modes and the evolution of sperm characteristics in marine fishes: Paired comparisons of externally and internally fertilizing species.2022

    • Author(s)
      Takeshi I., Morita M., Okuno S., Inaba H., Shiba K., Munehara H., Koya Y., Homma M., Awata S.
    • Journal Title

      Ecology and Evolution

      Volume: 12 Issue: 12 Pages: 1-8

    • DOI

      10.1002/ece3.9562

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] The Juveniles Collected with SCUBA Diving from Usujiri, Southern Hokkaido, Japan,Including the First Records of Four Species2021

    • Author(s)
      東大聖・宗原弘幸
    • Journal Title

      北海道大学水産科学研究彙報

      Volume: 71 Issue: 2 Pages: 51-67

    • DOI

      10.14943/bull.fish.71.2.51

    • NAID

      120007181259

    • ISSN
      2435-3353
    • Year and Date
      2021-12-23
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 北の磯魚生態図鑑2022

    • Author(s)
      佐藤長明・関勝則・宗原弘幸
    • Total Pages
      350
    • Publisher
      北海道大学出版会
    • ISBN
      9784832914117
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report

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Published: 2021-04-28   Modified: 2025-01-30  

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