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Series GSE136775 Query DataSets for GSE136775
Status Public on Sep 30, 2019
Title Attenuated FGF signaling underlies the forelimb heterochrony in the emu Dromaius novaehollandiae (ATAC-seq data)
Organisms Dromaius novaehollandiae; Gallus gallus
Experiment type Genome binding/occupancy profiling by high throughput sequencing
Summary The evolutionary origin of powered flight was fundamental to the establishment and radiation of the avian clade, and it remains a salient feature of modern birds. However, flight has been lost multiple times throughout the evolution of the avian lineage. Ratites (flightless palaeognaths, including the emu, ostrich and other well-known groups) are perhaps the most notable flightless birds, and their convergent losses of flight often coincide with adaptations to a cursorial lifestyle, including robust legs, digit loss, and reduced wings. Although there is a wealth of comparative anatomical knowledge for several ratites, the underlying genetic mechanisms producing these changes remain debated. Here we use a multidisciplinary approach employing embryological, genetic, and genomic techniques to interrogate the mechanisms underlying the delay in forelimb development contributing to the diminution of the forelimb in emu embryos. We show that the epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) in the lateral plate mesoderm (LPM) and muscle precursor migration, the initiating events of limb formation, occur at equivalent stages in the emu and chick. However, the early emu forelimb fails to proliferate at HH18. The unique emu forelimb expression of Nkx2.5, previously associated with diminished wing development, does not initiate until after this stage, concomitant with migration of myoblasts into the limb bud, and hence would not appear to be the proximal cause of limb reduction in this species. In contrast, RNA-sequencing of HH18 limb tissues reveals significantly lower Fgf10 expression in the emu forelimb. Artificially increasing mesenchymal Fgf10 expression to the nascent emu wing induces ectodermal Fgf8 expression and results in a proliferative limb bud. Analyzing open chromatin reveals differentially active regulatory elements near Fgf10 and Sall-1 in the emu wing compared to emu hindlimb and both chicken limbs. Additionally, we show that the Sall-1 enhancer activity is dependent on an Ets transcription factor-binding site likely mediated by Fgf-signaling. Taken together, our results support a model where regulatory changes result in lower expression of Fgf10 and a concomitant failure to induce the genes required for limb proliferation in the early emu wing bud at HH18.
 
Overall design Bulk ATAC-seq from three tissues (HH18 forelimb somatopleure, HH18 flank somatopleure, and HH18 hindlimb somatopleure) from emu and chicken embryos. Three biological replicates were generated for each tissue and species.
 
Contributor(s) Grayson P
Citation(s) 31668620
Submission date Sep 03, 2019
Last update date Dec 30, 2019
Contact name John Young
E-mail(s) jyoung@genetics.med.harvard.edu
Organization name Harvard Medical School
Department Genetics
Lab Tabin
Street address 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur
City Boston
State/province MA
ZIP/Postal code 02115
Country USA
 
Platforms (2)
GPL19787 Illumina NextSeq 500 (Gallus gallus)
GPL27417 Illumina NextSeq 500 (Dromaius novaehollandiae)
Samples (18)
GSM4057718 Chick_HH18_flank_rep1
GSM4057719 Chick_HH18_flank_rep2
GSM4057720 Chick_HH18_flank_rep3
This SubSeries is part of SuperSeries:
GSE136776 Attenuated FGF signaling underlies the forelimb heterochrony in the emu Dromaius novaehollandiae
Relations
BioProject PRJNA563641
SRA SRP220134

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Supplementary file Size Download File type/resource
GSE136775_Chick_HH18_flank_pool.bedGraph.gz 455.5 Mb (ftp)(http) BEDGRAPH
GSE136775_Chick_HH18_forelimb_pool.bedGraph.gz 398.0 Mb (ftp)(http) BEDGRAPH
GSE136775_Chick_HH18_hindlimb_pool.bedGraph.gz 318.5 Mb (ftp)(http) BEDGRAPH
GSE136775_Emu_HH18_flank_pool.bedGraph.gz 508.2 Mb (ftp)(http) BEDGRAPH
GSE136775_Emu_HH18_forelimb_pool.bedGraph.gz 341.1 Mb (ftp)(http) BEDGRAPH
GSE136775_Emu_HH18_hindlimb_pool.bedGraph.gz 296.0 Mb (ftp)(http) BEDGRAPH
GSE136775_RAW.tar 2.4 Gb (http)(custom) TAR (of BED, BEDGRAPH)
GSE136775_Young_Grayson_2019_ATAC-seq_Matrix.txt.gz 6.5 Mb (ftp)(http) TXT
GSE136775_calls.Master.csv.gz 7.3 Gb (ftp)(http) CSV
GSE136775_strict_C_FL.bed.gz 2.0 Mb (ftp)(http) BED
GSE136775_strict_C_HL.bed.gz 1.9 Mb (ftp)(http) BED
GSE136775_strict_C_flank.bed.gz 2.0 Mb (ftp)(http) BED
GSE136775_strict_E_FL.bed.gz 1.1 Mb (ftp)(http) BED
GSE136775_strict_E_FL_liftover.bed.gz 370.4 Kb (ftp)(http) BED
GSE136775_strict_E_HL.bed.gz 1.5 Mb (ftp)(http) BED
GSE136775_strict_E_HL_liftover.bed.gz 574.7 Kb (ftp)(http) BED
GSE136775_strict_E_flank.bed.gz 1011.9 Kb (ftp)(http) BED
GSE136775_strict_E_flank_liftover.bed.gz 323.6 Kb (ftp)(http) BED
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