Ancient gene duplicates in Gossypium (cotton) exhibit near-complete expression divergence.

ABSTRACT: Whole genome duplication (WGD) is widespread in flowering plants and is a driving force in angiosperm diversification. The redundancy introduced by WGD allows the evolution of novel gene interactions and functions, although the patterns and processes of diversification are poorly understood. We identified ∼ 2,000 pairs of paralogous genes in Gossypium raimondii (cotton) resulting from an approximately 60 My old 5- to 6-fold ploidy increase. Gene expression analyses revealed that, in G. raimondii, 99.4% of the gene pairs exhibit differential expression in at least one of the three tissues (petal, leaf, and seed), with 93% to 94% exhibiting differential expression on a per-tissue basis. For 1,666 (85%) pairs, differential expression was observed in all tissues. These observations were mirror

SUBMITTER: Renny-Byfield S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3971588 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature