In the original article, there was a mistake in Figure 1 as published. There is a mistake in the formulas in Figures 1Aa,b. The corrected Figure 1 appears below.
Figure 1
In the original article, there was an error. There is a mistake in the sigmoid formula, we wrote and the correct formula is:
A correction has been made to the section Scaling developmental rates between related species, Paragraph Number 3:
Most zygotic genes have a clear activation curve that can be well fitted with the following sigmoidal function: (Figure 1Aa; Yanai et al., 2011). Here a is the final expression level, b is the increase in level relative to the basal expression level, c is the slope of the curve, and ti is the initiation time, that is, half-rise time, the time when the expression level is half of the total increase (Figure 1Aa). The initiation times of all measured genes in each species are estimated using this function. The initiation times in one species is then plotted relative to gene initiation times in the other species. In Figure 1Ab we use published measurements of the initiation times of 22 developmental genes in the sea urchins species, Paracentrotus lividus (P. lividus) and Strongylocentrotus purpuratus (S. purpuratus) (Materna et al., 2010; Gildor and Ben-Tabou de-Leon, 2015). These two species diverged from their common ancestor about 40 million years ago and are geographically separated: S. purpuratus occupies the west coasts of the Pacific Ocean and P. lividus occupies the east coasts of the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. Yet, despite the genetic and geographic distance their embryonic body plan is highly similar. We measured gene initiation times in the two species based on their expression kinetics up to late gastrula stage [30 hpf in P. lividus and 48 hpf in S. purpuratus (Materna et al., 2010; Gildor and Ben-Tabou de-Leon, 2015)]. The trend-line gives the linear relationship between the developmental time in S. purpuratus and P. lividus: TSp = 2.42+1.037 × TPl. Here the constant, 2.42, corresponds to the shift in the maternal to zygotic transition that is about two and a half hours later in S. purpuratus compared to P. lividus. The slope, 1.037, is a little higher than 1, since the developmental rate in S. purpuratus is slower than in P. lividus, possibly due to the lower culture temperature of S. purpuratus [15 vs. 18°, (Gildor and Ben-Tabou de-Leon, 2015)].
The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.
Statements
Conflict of interest
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
References
1
GildorT.Ben-Tabou de-LeonS. (2015). Comparative study of regulatory circuits in two sea urchin species reveals tight control of timing and high conservation of expression dynamics. PLoS Genet.11:e1005435. 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005435
2
MaternaS. C.NamJ.DavidsonE. H. (2010). High accuracy, high-resolution prevalence measurement for the majority of locally expressed regulatory genes in early sea urchin development. Gene Expr. Patterns10, 177–184. 10.1016/j.gep.2010.04.002
3
YanaiI.PeshkinL.JorgensenP.KirschnerM. W. (2011). Mapping gene expression in two Xenopus species: evolutionary constraints and developmental flexibility. Dev. Cell20, 483–496. 10.1016/j.devcel.2011.03.015
Summary
Keywords
comparative developmental biology, developmental robustness and plasticity, development and evolution, gene expression kinetics, scaling & modeling, clustering algorithm
Citation
Gildor T and Ben-Tabou de-Leon S (2018) Corrigendum: Comparative Studies of Gene Expression Kinetics: Methodologies and Insights on Development and Evolution. Front. Genet. 9:631. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2018.00631
Received
08 November 2018
Accepted
26 November 2018
Published
07 December 2018
Volume
9 - 2018
Edited and reviewed by
Frédérique Peronnet, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France
Updates
Copyright
© 2018 Gildor and Ben-Tabou de-Leon.
This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
*Correspondence: Smadar Ben-Tabou de-Leon sben-tab@univ.haifa.ac.il
This article was submitted to Epigenomics and Epigenetics, a section of the journal Frontiers in Genetics
Disclaimer
All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.