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ArticleThe Plant cell2006

Comparative genomics of Brassica oleracea and Arabidopsis thaliana reveal gene loss, fragmentation, and dispersal after polyploidy.

Christopher D Town, Foo Cheung, Rama Maiti, Jonathan Crabtree, Brian J Haas, Jennifer R Wortman, Erin E Hine, Ryan Althoff, Tamara S Arbogast, Luke J Tallon and 3 more

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Article in The Plant cell, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 232 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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13 authors.

Christopher D TownThe Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland 20850, USA.
Foo Cheung
Rama Maiti
Jonathan Crabtree
Brian J Haas
Jennifer R Wortman
Erin E Hine
Ryan Althoff
Tamara S Arbogast
Luke J Tallon
Marielle Vigouroux
Martin Trick
Ian Bancroft

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We sequenced 2.2 Mb representing triplicated genome segments of Brassica oleracea, which are each paralogous with one another and homologous with a segmentally duplicated region of the Arabidopsis thaliana genome. Sequence annotation identified 177 conserved collinear genes in the B. oleracea genome segments. Analysis of synonymous base substitution rates indicated that the triplicated Brassica genome segments diverged from a common ancestor soon after divergence of the Arabidopsis and Brassica lineages. This conclusion was corroborated by phylogenetic analysis of protein families. Using A. thaliana as an outgroup, 35% of the genes inferred to be present when genome triplication occurred in the Brassica lineage have been lost, most likely via a deletion mechanism, in an interspersed pattern. Genes encoding proteins involved in signal transduction or transcription were not found to be significantly more extensively retained than those encoding proteins classified with other functions, but putative proteins predicted in the A. thaliana genome were underrepresented in B. oleracea. We identified one example of gene loss from the Arabidopsis lineage. We found evidence for the frequent insertion of gene fragments of nuclear genomic origin and identified four apparently intact genes in noncollinear positions in the B. oleracea and A. thaliana genomes.

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GenomicsPolyploidyArabidopsisBrassicaConserved SequenceContig MappingDNA Transposable ElementsGene DeletionGene DuplicationGenes, PlantGenome, PlantOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisPhylogenySequence AlignmentDNA Transposable Elements

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PMID16632643
PMCPMC1475499

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