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Potential Contributions of miR-200a/-200b and Their Target Gene–Leptin to the Sexual Size Dimorphism in Yellow Catfish

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Title
Potential Contributions of miR-200a/-200b and Their Target Gene–Leptin to the Sexual Size Dimorphism in Yellow Catfish
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Frontiers in Physiology, November 2017
DOI 10.3389/fphys.2017.00970
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Jin Zhang, Wenge Ma, Yan He, Farman U. Dawar, Shuting Xiong, Jie Mei

Abstract

Sexual size dimorphism is the consequence of differential expression of sex-biased genes related to feeding and growth. Leptin is known to regulate energy balance by regulating food intake. In order to investigate the molecular mechanism of sexual size dimorphism in yellow catfish (Pelteobagrus fulvidraco), the expression of leptin (lep) and its functional receptor (lepr) were detected during larval development. Both lep and lepr have lower expression in males than in females during 1-4 weeks post hatching. 17a-Methyltestosterone (MT) treatment resulted in decreased expression of lep and lepr in both male and female larval fish. Interestingly, the mRNA levels of lep and lepr in juvenile male were significantly decreased compared with juvenile female during short-term fasting periods. Lep was predicted to be a potential target of miR-200a and miR-200b that had an opposite expression pattern to lep in male and female larvas. The results of luciferase reporter assay suggested that lep is a target of miR-200a/-200b. Subsequently, male hormone and fasting treatment have opposite effects on the expression of miR-200a/-200b and lep between males and females. In summary, our results suggest that sexual size dimorphism in fish species is probably caused by the sexually dimorphic expression of leptin, which could be negatively regulated by miR-200a/-200b.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 38%
Researcher 2 15%
Student > Bachelor 1 8%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 1 8%
Unknown 4 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 23%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 15%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 8%
Unknown 6 46%
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