Contribution of Functional Divergence Through Copy Number Variations to the Inter-Species and Intra-Species Diversity in Specialized Metabolites.

ABSTRACT: There is considerable diversity in the specialized metabolites within a single plant species (intra-species) and among different plant species (inter-species). The functional divergence associated with gene duplications largely contributes to the inter-species diversity in the specialized metabolites, whereas the intra-species diversity is due to gene dosage changes via gene duplications [i.e., copy number variants (CNVs)] at the intra-species level of evolution. This is because CNVs are thought to undergo associated with less functional divergence at the intra-species level of evolution. However, functional divergence caused by CNVs may induce specialized metabolite diversity at the intra-species and inter-species levels of evolution. We herein discuss the functional divergence of

SUBMITTER: Shirai K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6902010 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature