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Gaudry, M.J.* ; Jastroch, M. ; Treberg, J.R.* ; Hofreiter, M.* ; Paijmans, J.L.A.* ; Starrett, J.* ; Wales, N.* ; Signore, A.V.* ; Springer, M.S.* ; Campbell, K.L.*

Inactivation of thermogenic UCP1 as a historical contingency in multiple placental mammal clades.

Sci. Adv. 3:e1602878 (2017)

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Mitochondrial uncoupling protein 1 (UCP1) is essential for nonshivering thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue and is widely accepted to have played a key thermoregulatory role in small-bodied and neonatal placental mammals that enabled the exploitation of cold environments. We map ucp1 sequences from 133 mammals onto a species tree constructed from a similar to 51-kb sequence alignment and show that inactivating mutations have occurred in at least 8 of the 18 traditional placental orders, thereby challenging the physiological importance of UCP1 across Placentalia. Selection and timetree analyses further reveal that ucp1 inactivations temporally correspond with strong secondary reductions in metabolic intensity in xenarthrans and pangolins, or in six other lineages coincided with a similar to 30 million-year episode of global cooling in the Paleogene that promoted sharp increases in body mass and cladogenesis evident in the fossil record. Our findings also demonstrate that members of various lineages (for example, cetaceans, horses, woolly mammoths, Steller's sea cows) evolved extreme cold hardiness in the absence of UCP1-mediated thermogenesis. Finally, we identify ucp1 inactivation as a historical contingency that is linked to the current low species diversity of clades lacking functional UCP1, thus providing the first evidence for species selection related to the presence or absence of a single gene product.

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Publication type Article: Journal article

Document type Scientific Article

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Keywords Brown-adipose-tissue; Adaptive Nonshivering Thermogenesis; Body-size; Uncoupling Protein-1; Late Eocene; Thermoregulatory Strategy; Phylogenetic Position; Convergent Evolution; Cranial Remains; Fossil Evidence

ISSN (print) / ISBN 2375-2548

e-ISSN 2375-2548

Journal Science Advances

Quellenangaben Volume: 3, Issue: 7, Article Number: e1602878

Publisher American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Publishing Place Washington, DC [u.a.]

Non-patent literature Publications

Reviewing status Peer reviewed

Institute(s) Institute of Diabetes and Obesity (IDO)