Models for the retention of duplicate genes and their biological underpinnings

R Assis, G Conant, B Holland, DA Liberles… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Gene content in genomes changes through several different processes, with gene
duplication being an important contributor to such changes. Gene duplication occurs over a …

Cytonuclear Interactions and Subgenome Dominance Shape the Evolution of Organelle-Targeted Genes in the Brassica Triangle of U

S Kan, X Liao, L Lan, J Kong, J Wang… - Molecular biology …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The interaction and coevolution between nuclear and cytoplasmic genomes are one of the
fundamental hallmarks of eukaryotic genome evolution and, 2 billion yr later, are still major …

Sinapis genomes provide insights into whole‐genome triplication and divergence patterns within tribe Brassiceae

T Yang, B Cai, Z Jia, Y Wang, J Wang… - The Plant …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Sinapis alba and Sinapis arvensis are mustard crops within the Brassiceae tribe of the
Brassicaceae family, and represent an important genetic resource for crop improvement. We …

Doubling down on polyploid discoveries: Global advances in genomics and ecological impacts of polyploidy

MS Barker, Y Jiao, KL Glennon - American Journal of Botany, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
All flowering plants are now recognized as diploidized paleopolyploids (Jiao et al., 2011;
One Thousand Plant Transcriptomes Initiative, 2019), and polyploid species comprise …

Genes derived from ancient polyploidy have higher genetic diversity and are associated with domestication in Brassica rapa

X Qi, H An, TE Hall, C Di, PD Blischak… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Many crops are polyploid or have a polyploid ancestry. Recent phylogenetic analyses have
found that polyploidy often preceded the domestication of crop plants. One explanation for …

Species‐tree topology impacts the inference of ancient whole‐genome duplications across the angiosperm phylogeny

MTW McKibben, G Finch… - American Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Premise The history of angiosperms is marked by repeated rounds of ancient whole‐
genome duplications (WGDs). Here we used state‐of‐the‐art methods to provide an up‐to …

Convergent evolution of polyploid genomes from across the eukaryotic tree of life

Y Hao, J Fleming, J Petterson, E Lyons, PP Edger… - G3, 2022 - academic.oup.com
By modeling the homoeologous gene losses that occurred in 50 genomes deriving from ten
distinct polyploidy events, we show that the evolutionary forces acting on polyploids are …

Tracing 100 million years of grass genome evolutionary plasticity

A Bellec, MD Sow, C Pont, P Civan, E Mardoc… - The Plant …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Grasses derive from a family of monocotyledonous plants that includes crops of major
economic importance such as wheat, rice, sorghum and barley, sharing a common ancestor …

Gene expression bias between the subgenomes of allopolyploid hybrids is an emergent property of the kinetics of expression

H An, JC Pires, GC Conant - PLOS Computational Biology, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Hybridization coupled to polyploidy, or allopolyploidy, has dramatically shaped the evolution
of flowering plants, teleost fishes, and other lineages. Studies of recently formed …

POInTbrowse: orthology prediction and synteny exploration for paleopolyploid genomes

M Siddiqui, GC Conant - BMC bioinformatics, 2023 - Springer
We describe POInTbrowse, a web portal that gives access to the orthology inferences made
for polyploid genomes with POInT, the Polyploidy Orthology Inference Tool. Ancient, or …