Omics and cytokine discovery in fish: Presenting the Yellowtail kingfish (Seriola lalandi) as a case study

Omics and cytokine discovery in fish: Presenting the Yellowtail kingfish (Seriola lalandi) as a case study

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Accepted Manuscript Omics and cytokine discovery in fish: Presenting the yellowtail kingfish (Seriola lalandi) as a case study Gregory Jacobson, Simon Muncaster, Koen Mensink, Maria Forlenza, Nick Elliot, Grant Broomfield, Beth Signal, Steve Bird PII:

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Developmental and Comparative Immunology

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Please cite this article as: Jacobson, G., Muncaster, S., Mensink, K., Forlenza, M., Elliot, N., Broomfield, G., Signal, B., Bird, S., Omics and cytokine discovery in fish: Presenting the yellowtail kingfish (Seriola lalandi) as a case study, Developmental and Comparative Immunology (2017), doi: 10.1016/ j.dci.2017.04.001. This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain.

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Omics and cytokine discovery in fish: Presenting the Yellowtail kingfish (Seriola

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lalandi) as a case study.

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Gregory Jacobson1, Simon Muncaster2, Koen Mensink3, Maria Forlenza3, Nick Elliot1,

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Grant Broomfield1, Beth Signal1, Steve Bird1

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• The ability to sequence genomes and transcriptomes has accelerated cytokine discovery within fish, allowing informative studies to be carried out in organisms where no genetic information existed previously.

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• Undertaking RNA-Seq on selected tissues of S. lalandi has identified a large number of cytokine and receptor genes within this species, which have been deposited within genbank.

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• The cytokine and receptor genes discovered using transcriptomic approaches can be used in future studies, to allow the effective monitoring of fish immunity with changes to its environment or in response to disease.

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Abstract A continued programme of research is essential to overcome production

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bottlenecks in any aquacultured fish species. Since the introduction of genetic and

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molecular techniques, the quality of immune research undertaken in fish has greatly

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improved. Thousands of species specific cytokine genes have been discovered,

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which can be used to conduct more sensitive studies to understand how fish

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physiology is affected by aquaculture environments or disease. Newly available

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transcriptomic technologies, make it increasingly easier to study the immunogenetics

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of farmed species for which little data exists. This paper reviews how the application

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of transcriptomic procedures such as RNA Sequencing (RNA-Seq) can advance fish

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research. As a case study, we present some preliminary findings using RNA-Seq to

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identify cytokine related genes in Seriola lalandi. These will allow in-depth

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investigations to understand the immune responses of these fish in response to

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environmental change or disease and help in the development of therapeutic

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1. Introduction

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Both innate and adaptive immune responses utilise regulatory proteins called

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cytokines, which are groups of small proteins (~5–20 kDa) important in cell signalling

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and modulation of an organism’s immunity. Cytokines are produced by a broad

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range of cells and each cytokine can be produced by more than one cell type, where

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they can enhance or inhibit the action of other cytokines in complex ways. They are

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important in health and disease and are important in immune responses to bacterial,

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viral, or parasitic pathogens (Barrett, 1996; Vilček, 2003). Cells of the immune

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system (macrophages, granulocytes, dendritic cells, B-cells, T-cells and mast cells)

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and endothelial cells, fibroblasts and various stromal cells secrete cytokines that bind

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to specific cellular receptors through autocrine or paracrine mechanisms. They effect

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the behaviour of the cells around them, helping to modulate the balance between

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humoral and cell-based immune responses and the maturation, growth, and

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responsiveness of particular cell populations. In mammals, there are over 100

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separate genes coding for cytokine-like activities, many with overlapping functions

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and many still needing more study. Today, the term “cytokine” encompasses

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interferons (IFN’s), the interleukins (IL’s), the tumour necrosis factor family (TNF’s),

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the transforming growth factor family (TGF’s), the colony stimulating factor family

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(CSF’s) and the chemokine family.

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The activity of cytokines have been known of and studied in mammals since 1957,

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where interferon-alpha (IFN-α) was fist investigated (Lindenmann et al., 1957).

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However, it was not until the early 1980’s that the molecular cloning of the first

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cytokines (IFNα, IL-1, IL-2 and TNFα) was achieved (Dinarello, 2007). Studies into

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the regulation of fish immunity, began in the early 1990’s (Balm et al., 1995; Jang et

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al., 1994; 1995; Verburg-van Kemenade et al., 1995) due to the importance of fish

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within the aquaculture industry and the need to understand the regulation of

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immunity, due to problems with disease. The first cytokine to be cloned in fish was

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TGF-β (Sumathy et al., 1997; Hardie et al., 1998), followed closely by IL-1β (Zou et

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al., 1999a; 1999b) and a few years later by TNF-α (Laing et al., 2001). Both of these

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were discovered using a homology-based cloning approach, where known

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particularly conserved sequence. These regions were then used to design

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degenerate oligonucleotides to enable amplification of the gene from a targeted fish

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species. This approach was limited and only worked well when the genes being

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targeted had not diverged too far during evolution. However, additional approaches

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that became available shortly after such as subtractive hybridization (Sangrador-

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Vegas et al., 2001) and expressed sequence tags (Altmann et al., 2003) also

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contributed to the discovery of cytokines in fish, helping to identify homologues of IL-

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These early approaches of cytokine discovery eventually fell out of favour with the availability of expressed sequence tag (EST) sequence processing (Lindlöf, 2003)

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and the subsequent ability to sequence genomes which has become easier through

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the development of next generation sequencing (NGS) technology (van Dijk et al.,

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2014). One of the first fish genomes sequenced was from Takifugu rubripes

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(Aparicio et al., 2002) and opened up the ability to search for cytokines in fish that

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shared very little homology to their mammalian homologues. IL-2, IL-21 and IL-6

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were some of the first cytokines to be discovered (Bird et al., 2005a; 2005b), where

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conservation of synteny was found between the mammalian and fish genomes,

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allowing their discovery. More recently, the development of technologies such as

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RNA-Seq and the ability to sequence transcriptomes has transformed immune gene

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discovery and provides the ability to profile immune gene expression in organisms

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The availability of genomes and transciptomics has revolutionised cytokine

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discovery and research in fish (Figure 1). This review will look at how the application

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of new genetic technologies is aiding fish cytokine discovery and research, will use

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the Yellowtail kingfish (Seriola lalandi) as a case study to demonstrate the power of

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RNA-Seq when studying a new fish species where no cytokine genes have been

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characterised and finish by looking at the types of investigations into the roles of

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cytokines in fish immunity that are now possible in fish.

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Having information at the genetic level available within a fish species, allows

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researchers to carry out more precise investigations into the physiology of an

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organism. Recent advances within the areas of genomics and transcriptomics are

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making these types of studies more accessible to fish research, in species where no

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genetic information has been collected (Dheilly et al., 2014). Currently, there are a

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select number of fish species, where a large amount of genetic data has been

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accumulated, however this has been the result of many years of research, where the

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identification of genes took a significant amount of time (Zou et al., 2010; Secombes

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et al., 2011; Bird et al., 2015; Secombes et al., 2015; 2016). However, new

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sequencing technologies, capable of sequencing thousands to hundreds of millions

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of short DNA strands (not specifically targeting a single sequence) without a prior

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bacterial cloning and plasmid DNA isolation step, have enabled progress in the field

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of gene identification to be accelerated greatly. This began in 2005 with the invention

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of ‘massively parallel’ sequencing technologies (Mardis, 2011), with technological

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progress initially driven by projects such as the Human Genome Project, HapMap

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Since the emergence of these next-generation sequencing platforms, new

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technology continues to develop at a fast pace, that improves on previous

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methodology or a new approach is developed, enabling increases in sequencing

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efficiency and lower costs. There is fierce competition between companies

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developing this technology and incentives, such as the Archon Genomics XPRIZE,

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which had a goal of sequencing 100 human genomes in 30 days for less than

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USD$1000 per genome (Kedes & Liu, 2010), have helped to push this forward. This

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progress has allowed significant advances in the area of genomics and has led to

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genome sequencing being achievable in a wider range of organisms of scientific or

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commercial interest, which includes a number of fish species. Currently, there are

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twelve fish with their entire genomes sequenced that are being assembled and

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annotated and are publically available , that includes Japanese Pufferfish, Takifugu

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rubripes (Aparicio et al., 2002), Green Spotted Puffer, Tetradon nigoviridis (Jaillon et

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aculeatus (Jones et al., 2012), Zebrafish, Danio rerio (Howe et al., 2013), African

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coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae (Amemiya et al., 2013), Southern platyfish,

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Xiphophorus maculatus (Schartl et al., 2013), Mexican cavefish, Astyanax

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mexicanus (McGaugh et al., 2014), Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus (Brawand et

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number of species for which the genome has or is been sequenced, but is still in

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draft form or incomplete. This includes fish such as Atlantic Salmon (Davidson et al.,

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2010), rainbow trout (Berthelot et al., 2016), channel catfish (Liu et al, 2016), large

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yellow croaker (Ao et al., 2015), Northern snakehead (Xu et al., 2017), Chinese

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clearhead icefish (Liu et al., 2017), common carp (Petit et al., 2017), Asian arowana

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transcriptome of a cell is dynamic and is continually changing, due to the differences

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in gene expression and the levels at which they are expressed. Techniques in this

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area are less targeted and allow the study of 1000’s of genes simultaneously,

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encoded by the genome from a specific cell, tissue or organism at a specific time or

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under a specific set of conditions. Early studies used DNA microarrays, which is a

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large collection of identified microscopic DNA spots attached to a solid surface, that

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have initially been isolated from the species of interest. These spots will hybridize to

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genes that are expressed in the sample and are detected using fluorescence,

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allowing the relative abundance of nucleic acid sequences in the sample to be

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determined. This approach has been very informative when investigating an

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immunological response of a fish and how they are affected by changes to their

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environment or disease (Tacchi et al., 2011; Tacchi et al., 2012; Pooley et al., 2013;

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Mommens et al., 2014; Trumbic et al., 2015; Cho et al., 2016) and has led to the

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understanding of actual biological pathways in the organism, rather than just

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produce the microarray and it is quite a costly and technically difficult approach to

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transcriptomics and there are newly available technologies, such as RNA

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sequencing (RNA-Seq), that are able to directly sequence the majority of RNA from

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a cell or tissue sample to study all the genes being expressed at a particular point in

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time (Wang et al., 2009; Costa, 2010). The advantage of this is it does not rely on or

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knowing the identity of all the transcripts to be analysed prior to analysis. Along with

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cytokine discovery, this method is extremely useful for quantifying levels of gene

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expression in a sample, and can be used for comparative transcriptomics, having the

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(Xiang et al., 2010) and the small yellow croaker (Mu et al., 2010). The next section

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3. Yellowtail kingfish (Seriola lalandi) transcriptomic approach

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3.1 Current state of kingfish aquaculture

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Over the last 15 years, there has been acquisition of genetic information in a

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variety of farmed fish species, allowing the implementation of new genetic

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technologies within aquaculture (Bostock et al., 2010; Cerdà et al., 2010; Forné et al.,

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2010; Johansen et al., 2009; Thakur et al., 2008). Before this type of information was

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available, the monitoring of fish immune responses to changes in their environments

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was very arbitrary and normally measured by physiological parameters or fish

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mortalities. With the development of genetic approaches, more focussed studies can

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now be achieved, which have allowed researchers to look in more detail and attempt

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to solve some of the important bottlenecks there are in successful production of a

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particular fish species. In some cases, findings from this research, have then been

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passed down to the fish farmers themselves, who can translate them into good

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S. lalandi are widely distributed throughout the warm–temperate waters of the

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southern hemisphere. In the wild they reach 1.7 m in length and weigh 56 kg and are

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a highly prized game fish, having excellent flesh quality for a range of product

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options (such as whole fillets, sushi and the highly valued sashimi), giving it

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significant domestic and international market opportunities. Successful aquaculture

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of this species in New Zealand would provide a reliable and controlled production of

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kingfish to an ever growing market. Culture of S. lalandi is already underway in

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Australia where fingerlings are hatched and grown to maturity in sea cages (Primary

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Industries and Resources South Australia, 2011). Already in Japan there is a very

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close related species farmed, the Japanese Yellowtail (Seriola quinqueradiata),

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which forms the basis of a major aquaculture industry in Japan, where wild caught

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juveniles are grown out in sea cages. Despite an increase in demand of these

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farmed species, there is a general lack of scientific and farming knowledge and

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significant problems exist with diseases (Stephens and Savage, 2010; Burger et al.,

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2008; Kawanishi et al., 2005; 2006; Tubbs et al., 2004; Kobayashi, 2010; Mansell et

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these problems will improve the current husbandry of S. lalandi and provide

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countries such as New Zealand interested in its aquaculture with the ability to

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successfully introduce this species.

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genetics of S. lalandi which would provide invaluable insights into the physiology of

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this fish and allow the determination of the optimum conditions for its culture. Work

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has begun within S. quinqueradiata, where there are 2936 EST sequences from the

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spleen and kidney, available from a study into its immune response and a cDNA

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microarray has been constructed using 1001 selected EST sequences to allow

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immune gene profiling (Darawiroj et al., 2008). Currently, there are very few S.

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lalandi nucleotide sequences deposited within the National Center for Biotechnology

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Information (NCBI) nucleotide database, which include a limited number of genes for

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this species (Supplementary Table 1). Previous research into the immune

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responses of S. lalandi has relied on physiological analysis such as studying mucus

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and serum (Leef & Lee, 2008) or the concentration of blood lactate and plasma

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osmolality (Mansell et al., 2005). A greater understanding is desperately required for

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the immune system of Seriola sp. and NGS technology provides the data needed for

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a comprehensive study of these species. Using this approach will allow the

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characterization of important immune components, such as cytokines, which will

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then allow informative future studies to be carried out.

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3.2 S. lalandi transcriptomic library

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transcriptomics, obtaining genetic information from a new fish species is now faster

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and cheaper. There are a number of different next generation sequencing platforms

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available (Quail et al., 2012) that can be used to produce a transcriptomic database

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using RNA-Seq. However, factors such as the size of the transcriptome to be

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sequenced, how much money is available and read length are important

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considerations that will help determine which one is most suitable to use. In this

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Merriman et al., 2012). This approach relies on the detection of hydrogen ions

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released when a complementary nucleotide is incorporated into a strand of DNA,

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the more recent approaches available and its main advantage over other NGS

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Wild yellowtail kingfish, S. lalandi were caught near Gannet Island, off the coast

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from Kawhia, New Zealand and the pituitary, gonad and spleen were collected and

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used to produce an RNA-Seq library (Muncaster et al., 2017). The raw IonTorrent

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transcriptome sequence libraries had 3,147,845 spleen (Supplementary Figure 1)

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and 3,646,264 gonad/pituitary (Supplementary Figure 2) reads. After undergoing

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de novo assembly using Trinity (Grabherr et al., 2011) 50,570 contigs (length range

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200 to 16046 bp) for the spleen and 13178 contigs (length range 200 to 10497 bp)

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for the gonad/pituitary were constructed. The assembled contigs were submitted to

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the webtool 'FastAnnotator' (Chen et al., 2012), where tBLASTn (Gertz et al., 2006)

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to search the NCBI's non-redundant protein database. Each identified protein was

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then submitted into Blast2GO (Götz et al., 2008) for the GO term annotation. The

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BLAST search was able to align 32,383 of the spleen contigs and 7898 of the

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pituitary/gonad contigs to known proteins in the non-redundant protein database.

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The GO enrichment analysis from the spleen (Figure 2) and the gonad/pituitary

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(Figure 3) transcripts identified a number involved within immune system processes.

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During the last 20 years many of the immune genes known in mammalian

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organisms have been identified in teleost fish, particularly in those fish that are

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important for aquaculture, such as trout and salmon. Teleosts have been found to

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within mammals (Zhu, et al., 2013). This includes important receptors, involved in

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initiating innate responses such as Toll-like receptors (TLR’s) and includes members

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such as TLR-1, TLR-2, TLR-3, TLR-4, TLR-5, TLR-7, TLR-8 and TLR-9 (Pietretti &

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Wiegertjes, 2014). Important cellular markers critical for adaptive responses, such as

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histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I and II (Zhu, et al., 2013). In addition, a

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large number of the molecules important in regulating immunity, the cytokines have

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also been characterised and include many of the members of the interleukin (IL)

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family (Secombes et al., 2016), interferon (IFN) family (Zou et al., 2016), tumor

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necrosis factor (TNF) family (Secombes et al., 2016), chemokine family (Bird &

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Tafalla, 2015), colony stimulating factor family (Santos et al., 2006; Wang et al.,

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2008), fibroblast growth factor family (Itoh, 2007) and transforming growth factor

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family (Bobe et al., 2009) . Lastly, there have also been a number of cytokines

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discovered, that are novel to fish, with no known mammalian homologue (Husain et

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al., 2012; Hong et al., 2013; Angosto et al., 2013) and the roles of which remain to

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partial mRNA sequences for ACKR3, CXCR4, CXCR7, IL-8, IFN-γ genes and

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complete mRNA sequences for IL-1β and TNF-α genes (Supplementary Table 1).

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This lack of information available for cytokine genes means that many previous

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studies that have investigated the effects of stress or pathogens in Seriola species

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have had to use mortality or pathological traits such as serum and mucus production,

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blood glucose and lactate concentrations, muscle pH and lactate concentrations and

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plasma osmolality to determine the physiology of the fish (Mansell et al., 2005; Leef

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& Lee, 2009; Moran et al., 2008). While this provides useful information about the

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effects of disease and stress on S. lalandi, using actual cytokine gene expression

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studies would allow a more in depth analysis of these effects at the molecular level,

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disease, vaccinations, stress and general fish health (Darawiroj et al., 2008).

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throughout the whole body (Bronte & Pittet, 2013). The pituitary and gonad

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transcriptome was available as it had been used for a study into sex differentiation.

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can mediate development, mature function, and cellular organization of the anterior

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pituitary and also directly regulate specific pituitary trophic hormone gene expression

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(Ray & Melmed, 1997). In addition, studies in fish have shown cytokine expression

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does occur in the gonads (Chaves-Pozo et al, 2008). Using the S. lalandi spleen and

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pituitary/gonad transcriptomic databases that were generated and subsequently

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searched, a significant number of cytokine genes and receptors were discovered

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(Table 1) important in both the innate and adaptive immune responses. Most of

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these assembled sequences represent partial mRNA’s that can be translated to

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provide a partial amino acid sequence, however in some cases they can code for the

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full amino acid sequence. For example, using the transcriptomic libraries it was

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possible to assemble the full open reading frame for S. lalandi TNFSF13B, also

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known as B cell activating factor belonging to the TNF family (BAFF). This is an

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important member of the TNF ligand superfamily (Schneider, 2005) and is critical for

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the survival/maturation and proliferation for peripheral B cells, (Rolink & Melchers,

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2002; Stein et al., 2002; Mackay et al., 2003; Mackay and Leung, 2006). BAFF is a

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type II transmembrane protein and is found either anchored to the cell surface or

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released in a soluble form after cleavage by a furin-like protease, with both forms

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having biological activity (Moore et al., 1999; Schneider et al., 1999). TNFSF13B has

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been characterised in a number of fish species, including zebrafish (Liang et al.,

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2010), mefugu (Ai et al., 2011), Japanese sea perch (Cui et al., 2012); grass carp

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(Pandit et al., 2013), yellow grouper (Xiao et al., 2014), miiuy coaker (Meng et al.,

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2015) and tongue sole (Sun & Sun, 2015). Multiple alignment of the predicted S.

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lalandi BAFF amino acid sequence with selected vertebrate sequences identified

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important features (Figure 4) such as a transmembrane domain, a furin protease

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cleavage site, a TNF homology domain and a conserved D-E loop (known as the

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“Flap”), which is unique to TNFSF13B and found in no other TNFSF. Interestingly,

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previous investigations had revealed that many fish species have more than one

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TNFSF13B gene present (Secombes et al., 2016), forming two very distinct groups.

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Figure 2: GO enrichment analysis of the translated spleen contigs identified using tBLASTn to search the NCBI non-redundant protein database. Vertical axis represents gene ontology categories, while horizontal axis indicates the number of genes in each ontology category.

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Figure 3: GO enrichment analysis of the translated gonad and pituitary contigs identified using tBLASTn to search the NCBI non-redundant protein database. Vertical axis represents gene ontology categories, while horizontal axis indicates the number of genes in each ontology category.

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Figure 4: Multiple sequence alignment of S. lalandi BAFF with other selected vertebrate BAFF molecules using ClustalX (Jeanmougin et al., 1998). The transmembrane domain (TMD) is in bold and potential furin cleavage sites are boxed. Conserved cysteines are labelled with an arrow. The conserved TNF homology domain (THD) is highlighted in grey, with the conserved long D-E loop, known as the “Flap” highlighted in yellow. Accession numbers for BAFF are: human, Q9Y275.1; Grass carp, AGG11791.1; Zebrafish, NP_001107062.1; Mefugu, AEB69781.1; Trout, NP_001118036.1; Japanese sea perch, AEH22106.1; Chicken, NP_989658.1; Miiuy croaker, AHL44989.1; Yellow grouper, AFN70720.1; Tongue sole, XP_008326904.1; Yellowtail kingfish, ????.

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Figure 5: Phylogenetic analysis of S. lalandi BAFF (highlighted with a red box) with selected teleost, reptile, bird, amphibian and cartilaginous fish BAFF (TNFSF13B) and APRIL (TNFSF13) amino acid sequences. Accession numbers of each sequence are included in the figure. A different colour is used to indicate the clear clustering of sequences into separate groups. Analysis was performed using the neighbour-joining method (Saitou & Nei, 1987), the tree drawn using the TreeView program v1.6.1 (Page, 1996) and confidence limits added (Felsenstein, 1985).

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Supplementary Figure 1: Graph showing the distribution of the 3,147,845 contigs obtained from the spleen RNA-Seq run. The contig lengths sequenced and their frequency are plotted. Supplementary Figure 2: Graph showing the distribution of the 3,646,264 contigs obtained from the spleen RNA-Seq run. The contig lengths sequenced and their frequency are plotted.

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Table 1: Seriola lalandi cytokine and receptor genes obtained using RNA-Seq

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CXCL9 CXCL10 CXCL14 CCL3 CCL18 CCL19 CCL20 CCL25

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Receptor IL-1Racp IL-1R Type I IL-1R Type II IL-2Rb IL-4Ra IL-5Ra IL-6Rb IL-7Ra IL-10Ra IL-12Rb2 IL-17RA IL-17RB IL-17RE IL-18Racp IL-20Ra IL-21R IL-31Ra γc (CD132) beta-c Glycoprotein 130 CXCR1 CXCR3 CXCR4 CXCR5 CCR1 CCR2 CCR3 CCR4 CCR7 CCR9 XCR1

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Leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) Monocyte chemotactic protein (MCP) MCP1 Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MMIF) MMIF Ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNF)

TNFRSF1A TNFRSF1B TNFRSF2 TNFRSF3 TNFRSF5 TNFRSF6 TNFRSF9 TNFRSF10B TNFRSF13B TNFRSF14 TNFRSF16 TNFRSF19 TNFRSF21 TNFRSF26 IFN-gR IFN-a/bR2 FGF-R1

M-CSFR G-CSFR TGF-bR3 LIFR

CNFR

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Figure 4 TMD MDDSTEREQSRLTSCLKKREEMKLKECVSILPRKESPSVRSSKDGKLLAATLLLA-LLSCCLTVVSFY ---------MKSVDCVH---VIQQKDTASSPSG--PPGAASGTTGLFSVTFLWLAMLLSSCLAAVSLY ------------------------MAAEDVGPSRGER---RRL--PWLFLVLVVAAITSSSLSVISLY ------------------------MPAEDVGPGRGER---RRL--SWLFLVLVAAAITSSSLSVISLY -------------------MASAGPNPEGGRPASRQESGGRRL--SWLVLLLTLAAVTSSSLSALSLY -----------------------MAVLAGAKPGTGQRAGEGRL--SWPVFLLTLAAVTSSSLSALSLY -----------------------MAALAGFESGTGPRTGERRL--SWPVFLLTLVAVTSSSLSALSLY -------------------MVPPMAVSAGGKSLAKQRTGKVRSSWFSPVVLLTLAAVTSSSLSALSLY -------------------MGP---VRVGLEAGSGQRAGEGSP--SWPVVLLTLVAISSSFLSAVSLY -------------------MGPAMAALAGVEAGTGQRAGEGRL--SWPVFLLTLAAVTSSSFSALSLY -------------------MGPAMAVLAGVKPGTGQQAGGGRL--SWPVFLLTLAAVTCSSLSALSVY . . * . : .. ::.:*.*

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QVAALQGDLASLRAELQG-----HHAEKLPAGAGAPKAG------LEEAPAVTAGLKIFEPPAPG HAITLKTELEALRSELIYRVRARSPLEQPPVSPGDKKAGASVSSFLQVSAAGARQENRLPGPSPA HVLALQAEVEGLRAEVVR-----KREEQSGMLEEPMNGA-------EKLTHQQEHEEIKDRIEYL HVLALKAEVEGLRAEVAR-----KREEQSGMLDEPVNEA-------EKQTHR---EEGGDSIEYL HLLALRAEVEELRSEVFR-----RREEQQ-EARHGETLQ-------QMSSRARRSSPDHP----QLMALRAEVEGLKSEVCR-----RREEGQ-DAKQASQTE-------NIGSRRNIQEPL------QLVALRAEVEGLKSEVCR-----RREEGQ-EAKHARQTE-------NIS-RRSSQEPL------QLMALRAEVEGLRSEVGR-----RREEGEFKIKCESQSE-------SINLRR------------QLLALRAEVDALRSEVGR-----TREYGQ-RAQHASQMA-------NVSSWRSSQEVRG-----QLMALRAEVEGLKSEVVR-----RREESQ-EVKHASQAD-------NMSSRRSIHEPL------QLVALRAEVEGLKSEVCR-----RREEGQ-EAKHGGQTE-------NISSRRSNQEPL------: :*: :: *::*: .

Human Chicken Grass_carp Zebrafish Trout Japanese_sea_perch Yellow_grouper Tounge_sole Mefugu Miiuy_croaker Yellowtail_kingfish

EGNSSQ-------NSRNKRAVQGPEETVTQDCLQLIADSETPTIQKGS----YTFVPWLLSFKRG ESFQTEI--WDRNRNRGRRSIVNAEETVLQACLQLIADSKSDIQQKDD----SSIVPWLLSFKRG QQTEMDDTTTDRVAVSKRSLGHVSNKAESQACLQMMADNRKKTFQKEFALELCTAIPWHVGLKRG HQADMD-ITTDPSVMSKRSLSHAPNKAEPQPCLQMMADNKKKTFQKEFAFDYCTAIPWQVGLKRG HPPDPQ---PGLSFVRKRSVGTGTENSVSQPCLQMLADSNRKTFQKEFALEPYTGIPWQAGLRRG HQPESQ---HALPLIRKRRQVSVTEALVSQPCLQLLANTTRKLFRKDISSMPHIGIPWQAGLRRG HQPGTQ---DALTLTRNRRLVSGSETLVSQPCLQLLANSSRKTFRKEYKSEPHTGIPWQAGLRRG HQAEAQ---HAFSLIRKRRMVSEPQTIVSQSCLQLLANDKRETYRKEFDLEPHTGIPWQTGLERG RRPGSP---HAFLSLRRQKRLAGTDTLVSQPCLQMLANSSRTTFRKELTSGPHTGIPWKSGLRRG HQPGSP---HAFALIKKRSLASDSEASVSQPCLQLLANSSRKTFGKEFESGPHTGIPWQSGLKRG QQPESQ---HASTLLRKRRVVAGADTLVSQPCLQLLANRKRTTFSKELESTLYTGIPWQTGLRRG . : .: * ***::*: * :** .:.**

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Human Chicken Grass_carp Zebrafish Trout Japanese_sea_perch Yellow_grouper Tounge_sole Mefugu Miiuy_croaker Yellowtail_kingfish

MPETLPNNSCYSAGIAKLEEGDELQLAIPRENAQISLDGDVTFFGALKLL MPQSYPNNSCYTAGIAKLEEGDELQLTIPRRRAKISLDGDGTFFGAVRLL MNRVNHFNTCYTGGVVKLDSGDRLELLIPRTHANISLDGDSTFLGAIKLA MNRVNHYNTCYTGGVVKLDSGDKLDLLIPRANANISLEGDATFLGAIKLA MNPVYPYNTCYTGGIVKLEVGDSVELLIPRSTAKVSLDGDSTFLGAVRLA MNTDHPYNTCYTGGIVKLELGDHLELLIPRSTANVSLDGDSTFLGAVRLG MNPVHPYNTCFTGGIVKLEAGDHLELLIPRSTANVSLYGDATFLGAVKLA MNDTHPYNTCYTGGVVKLEVGDHLELLIPRSTANVSLDGDATFMGAFKLV MNPVYPFNTCYTGGIVKLKRGDHLELLIPRSTASVSLDEDSTFLGAIKLG MNPVYPYNTCYTGGIVKLEAGDHLELLIPRSTANVSLDGDATFLGAVKLA MNPVFPFNTCYTGGIVKLEVGDHLELLIPPFTANVSLDGDVTFLGAVKLA * *:*::.*:.**. ** ::* ** *.:** * **:**.:*

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ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT NORTHERN PIKE TNFSF13 XP 010868771.1 SALMON TNFSF13 NP 001135076.1 TROUT TNFSF13 NP 001118143.1 ATLANTIC HERRING TNFSF13 XP 012690225.1 GRASS CARP TNFSF13 AGO01886.1

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ZEBRAFISH TNFSF13 NP 001161936.1 XENOPUS TNFSF13 XP 004919464.1 73

HUMAN TNFSF13B BAE16556.1 GREEN ANOLE TNFSF13 XP 008120421.1

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SPOTTED GAR TNFSF13B.2 XP 006632891.1 TROUT TNFSF13B.2 ABC84584.1

FUGU TNFSF13B.2 XP 003970507.1

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PLATYFISH TNFSF13B.2 XP 005795434.1 TILAPIA TNFSF13B.2 XP 003445926.1

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GOLDFISH TNFSF13B.1 AEG47359.1 GRASS CARP TNFSF13B.1 AGG11791.1 TROUT TNFSF13B.1B CDQ92381.1

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Group I TNFSF13B

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