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Record W4417266179 · doi:10.1016/j.diff.2025.100930

Odd-skipped family members have conserved roles in segmentation, appendage, excretory system and gut development in bilaterian animals

2025· article· en· W4417266179 on OpenAlex
Vasikar Murugapoopathy, Claire E. Ramsay, Ehab Abouheif, Indra R. Gupta

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Bibliographic record

VenueDifferentiation · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicDevelopmental Biology and Gene Regulation
Canadian institutionsMcGill UniversityMcGill University Health Centre
FundersFonds de Recherche du Québec - SantéNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsTranscription factorGeneTBX1VertebrateZinc fingerGene duplicationProtein familyMost recent common ancestorGene familyTranscription (linguistics)

Abstract

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The odd-skipped related family of proteins are evolutionarily conserved zinc finger transcription factors in bilaterian animals with essential roles in body segmentation, as well as gut, excretory system and appendage development. Although they are prognostic biomarkers in several cancers, their molecular function is poorly understood. To gain a deeper understanding of how this family of transcription factors is implicated in human disorders and cancer, we explore the functions of Odd-skipped related transcription factors as well as their invertebrate homologs during development. We found that vertebrate Osr1 binds to DNA targets within the WNT, BMP, HH, TGFβ, Notch and retinoic acid signaling pathways, suggesting that Osr genes coordinate and integrate multiple pathways during development, potentially by binding to heterochromatin as pioneer transcription factors. From a protein tree analysis of odd-skipped family orthologs and paralogs, it appears that vertebrate, nematode, and insect paralogues have arisen via independent gene duplication events, and that their common ancestor likely had a single odd-family gene. We hypothesize that the ancestral odd-family protein was required for gut and gut-derived structures and was subsequently co-opted to perform additional functions in other tissues as part of the evolution of organisms. These observations posit new uncharacterized functions for Osr genes in the development of bilaterian animals and in cancer models.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.341
Threshold uncertainty score0.542

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.236
Teacher spread0.229 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it