Identification of universal grass genes and estimates of their monocot-/commelinid-/grass-specificity.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

Where experiments identify sets of grass genes of unknown function, e.g. underlying a QTL or co-expressed in a transcriptome, it is useful to know which of these genes are common to all grasses (universal) and whether they likely have monocot-/commelinid-/grass-specific function.

Results

A pipeline used data on 16 grass full genomes from Ensembl Plants to generate 13 312 highly conserved, universal groups of grass protein-coding genes. Validation steps showed that 98.8% of these groups also had gene matches in recently sequenced genomes from two major grass clades not used in the pipeline. Comparison with many non-grass genomes identified 4609 of these groups as likely of monocot-/commelinid-/grass-specific function. Both grouping of genes and specificity were def

SUBMITTER: Mitchell RAC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12098945 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature