Evolution of gene duplication in plants

N Panchy, M Lehti-Shiu, SH Shiu - Plant physiology, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Ancient duplication events and a high rate of retention of extant pairs of duplicate genes
have contributed to an abundance of duplicate genes in plant genomes. These duplicates …

Whole-genome duplication and plant macroevolution

JW Clark, PCJ Donoghue - Trends in plant science, 2018 - cell.com
Whole-genome duplication (WGD) is characteristic of almost all fundamental lineages of
land plants. Unfortunately, the timings of WGD events are loosely constrained and …

The multiple fates of gene duplications: deletion, hypofunctionalization, subfunctionalization, neofunctionalization, dosage balance constraints, and neutral variation

JA Birchler, H Yang - The Plant Cell, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Gene duplications have long been recognized as a contributor to the evolution of genes with
new functions. Multiple copies of genes can result from tandem duplication, from …

[HTML][HTML] Origin and evolution of the octoploid strawberry genome

PP Edger, TJ Poorten, R VanBuren, MA Hardigan… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Cultivated strawberry emerged from the hybridization of two wild octoploid species, both
descendants from the merger of four diploid progenitor species into a single nucleus more …

[HTML][HTML] Nuclear phylotranscriptomics and phylogenomics support numerous polyploidization events and hypotheses for the evolution of rhizobial nitrogen-fixing …

Y Zhao, R Zhang, KW Jiang, J Qi, Y Hu, J Guo, R Zhu… - Molecular plant, 2021 - cell.com
Fabaceae are the third largest angiosperm family, with 765 genera and∼ 19 500 species.
They are important both economically and ecologically, and global Fabaceae crops are …

Whole-genome duplication in teleost fishes and its evolutionary consequences

SMK Glasauer, SCF Neuhauss - Molecular genetics and genomics, 2014 - Springer
Whole-genome duplication (WGD) events have shaped the history of many evolutionary
lineages. One such duplication has been implicated in the evolution of teleost fishes, by far …

Gene retention, fractionation and subgenome differences in polyploid plants

F Cheng, J Wu, X Cai, J Liang, M Freeling, X Wang - Nature plants, 2018 - nature.com
All natural plant species are evolved from ancient polyploids. Polyloidization plays an
important role in plant genome evolution, species divergence and crop domestication. We …

The butterfly plant arms-race escalated by gene and genome duplications

PP Edger, HM Heidel-Fischer… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Coevolutionary interactions are thought to have spurred the evolution of key innovations and
driven the diversification of much of life on Earth. However, the genetic and evolutionary …

[HTML][HTML] Karyotype stability and unbiased fractionation in the paleo-allotetraploid Cucurbita genomes

H Sun, S Wu, G Zhang, C Jiao, S Guo, Y Ren, J Zhang… - Molecular plant, 2017 - cell.com
The Cucurbita genus contains several economically important species in the Cucurbitaceae
family. Here, we report high-quality genome sequences of C. maxima and C. moschata and …

[HTML][HTML] The Medicago genome provides insight into the evolution of rhizobial symbioses

ND Young, F Debellé, GED Oldroyd, R Geurts… - nature, 2011 - nature.com
Abstract Legumes (Fabaceae or Leguminosae) are unique among cultivated plants for their
ability to carry out endosymbiotic nitrogen fixation with rhizobial bacteria, a process that …