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Teleost metamorphosis: the role of thyroid hormone

dc.contributor.authorCampinho, Marco António
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-04T14:14:40Z
dc.date.available2020-08-04T14:14:40Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractIn most teleosts, metamorphosis encompasses a dramatic post-natal developmental process where the free-swimming larvae undergo a series of morphological, cellular and physiological changes that enable the larvae to become a fully formed, albeit sexually immature, juvenile fish. In all teleosts studied to date thyroid hormones (TH) drive metamorphosis, being the necessary and sufficient factors behind this developmental transition. During metamorphosis, negative regulation of thyrotropin by thyroxine (T4) is relaxed allowing higher whole-body levels of T4 that enable specific responses at the tissue/cellular level. Higher local thyroid cellular signaling leads to cell-specific responses that bring about localized developmental events. TH orchestrate in a spatial-temporal manner all local developmental changes so that in the end a fully functional organism arises. In bilateral teleost species, the most evident metamorphic morphological change underlies a transition to a more streamlined body. In the pleuronectiform lineage (flatfishes), these metamorphic morphological changes are more dramatic. The most evident is the migration of one eye to the opposite side of the head and the symmetric pelagic larva development into an asymmetric benthic juvenile. This transition encompasses a dramatic loss of the embryonic derived dorsal-ventral and left-right axis. The embryonic dorsal-ventral axis becomes the left-right axis, whereas the embryonic left-right axis becomes, irrespectively, the dorsal-ventral axis of the juvenile animal. This event is an unparalleled morphological change in vertebrate development and a remarkable display of the capacity of TH-signaling in shaping adaptation and evolution in teleosts. Notwithstanding all this knowledge, there are still fundamental questions in teleost metamorphosis left unanswered: how the central regulation of metamorphosis is achieved and the neuroendocrine network involved is unclear; the detailed cellular and molecular events that give rise to the developmental processes occurring during teleost metamorphosis are still mostly unknown. Also in flatfish, comparatively little is still known about the developmental processes behind asymmetric development. This review summarizes the current knowledge on teleost metamorphosis and explores the gaps that still need to be challenged.pt_PT
dc.description.sponsorshipPortuguese Foundation for Science and Technology: (IF/01274/2014) UID/Multi/04326/2016 (CCMAR)pt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.3389/fendo.2019.00383pt_PT
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/14600
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherFrontiers Mediapt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectThyroid hormonespt_PT
dc.subjectMetamorphosispt_PT
dc.subjectTeleostpt_PT
dc.subjectMorphogenesispt_PT
dc.subjectAsymmetrypt_PT
dc.titleTeleost metamorphosis: the role of thyroid hormonept_PT
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.startPage383pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleFrontiers in Endocrinologypt_PT
oaire.citation.volume10pt_PT
person.familyNameCampinho
person.givenNameMarco António
person.identifier.ciencia-id0E18-2560-6EC1
person.identifier.orcid0000-0002-5238-0506
person.identifier.ridD-8833-2013
person.identifier.scopus-author-id8938999600
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspt_PT
rcaap.typearticlept_PT
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