ArticleThe Plant cell2010
Apomictic and sexual ovules of Boechera display heterochronic global gene expression patterns.
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- Single-cell transcriptome profiling of buffelgrass (Cenchrus ciliaris) eggs unveils apomictic parthenogenesis signatures.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- A study of the heterochronic sense/antisense RNA representation in florets of sexual and apomictic Paspalum notatum.BMC genomics · 2021Article
- The Evolution of Sex is Tempered by Costly Hybridization in Boechera (Rock Cress).The Journal of heredity · 2021Article
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- Sexual modulation in a polyploid grass: a reproductive contest between environmentally inducible sexual and genetically dominant apomictic pathways.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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- Coexpression and Transcriptome analyses identify active Apomixis-related genes in Paspalum notatum leaves.BMC genomics · 2020Article
- Characterization and discovery of miRNA and miRNA targets from apomictic and sexual genotypes of Eragrostis curvula.BMC genomics · 2019Article
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Abstract
We have compared the transcriptomic profiles of microdissected live ovules at four developmental stages between a diploid sexual and diploid apomictic Boechera. We sequenced >2 million SuperSAGE tags and identified (1) heterochronic tags (n = 595) that demonstrated significantly different patterns of expression between sexual and apomictic ovules across all developmental stages, (2) stage-specific tags (n = 577) that were found in a single developmental stage and differentially expressed between the sexual and apomictic ovules, and (3) sex-specific (n = 237) and apomixis-specific (n = 1106) tags that were found in all four developmental stages but in only one reproductive mode. Most heterochronic and stage-specific tags were significantly downregulated during early apomictic ovule development, and 110 were associated with reproduction. By contrast, most late stage-specific tags were upregulated in the apomictic ovules, likely the result of increased gene copy number in apomictic (hexaploid) versus sexual (triploid) endosperm or of parthenogenesis. Finally, we show that apomixis-specific gene expression is characterized by a significant overrepresentation of transcription factor activity. We hypothesize that apomeiosis is associated with global downregulation at the megaspore mother cell stage. As the diploid apomict analyzed here is an ancient hybrid, these data are consistent with the postulated link between hybridization and asexuality and provide a hypothesis for multiple evolutionary origins of apomixis in the genus Boechera.
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