Genomic diversifications of five Gossypium allopolyploid species and their impact on cotton improvement.

ABSTRACT: Polyploidy is an evolutionary innovation for many animals and all flowering plants, but its impact on selection and domestication remains elusive. Here we analyze genome evolution and diversification for all five allopolyploid cotton species, including economically important Upland and Pima cottons. Although these polyploid genomes are conserved in gene content and synteny, they have diversified by subgenomic transposon exchanges that equilibrate genome size, evolutionary rate heterogeneities and positive selection between homoeologs within and among lineages. These differential evolutionary trajectories are accompanied by gene-family diversification and homoeolog expression divergence among polyploid lineages. Selection and domestication drive parallel gene expression similarities in fibe

SUBMITTER: Chen ZJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7203012 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature