Coming of age: orphan genes in plants

ZW Arendsee, L Li, ES Wurtele - Trends in plant science, 2014 - cell.com
Sizable minorities of protein-coding genes from every sequenced eukaryotic and prokaryotic
genome are unique to the species. These so-called 'orphan genes' may evolve de novo from …

Defining the role of omics in assessing ecosystem health: perspectives from the Canadian environmental monitoring program

PA Bahamonde, A Feswick, MA Isaacs… - Environmental …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Scientific reviews and studies continue to describe omics technologies as the next
generation of tools for environmental monitoring, while cautioning that there are limitations …

[HTML][HTML] Divergent transcription: a driving force for new gene origination?

X Wu, PA Sharp - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
The mammalian genome is extensively transcribed, a large fraction of which is divergent
transcription from promoters and enhancers that is tightly coupled with active gene …

Do novel genes drive morphological novelty? An investigation of the nematosomes in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis

LS Babonis, MQ Martindale, JF Ryan - BMC evolutionary biology, 2016 - Springer
Background The evolution of novel genes is thought to be a critical component of
morphological innovation but few studies have explicitly examined the contribution of novel …

A chromosome-level genome for the nudibranch gastropod Berghia stephanieae helps parse clade-specific gene expression in novel and conserved phenotypes

JA Goodheart, RA Rio, NF Taraporevala, RA Fiorenza… - BMC biology, 2024 - Springer
Background How novel phenotypes originate from conserved genes, processes, and tissues
remains a major question in biology. Research that sets out to answer this question often …

Identification of orphan genes in unbalanced datasets based on ensemble learning

Q Gao, X **, E **a, X Wu, L Gu, H Yan, Y **a… - Frontiers in genetics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Orphan genes are associated with regulatory patterns, but experimental methods for
identifying orphan genes are both time-consuming and expensive. Designing an accurate …

Are orphan genes protein-coding, prediction artifacts, or non-coding RNAs?

N Prabh, C Rödelsperger - BMC bioinformatics, 2016 - Springer
Background Current genome sequencing projects reveal substantial numbers of
taxonomically restricted, so called orphan genes that lack homology with genes from other …

Identification, characterization and expression analysis of lineage-specific genes within mangrove species Aegiceras corniculatum

D Ma, Q Ding, Z Guo, Z Zhao, L Wei, Y Li… - Molecular Genetics and …, 2021 - Springer
Lineage-specific genes (LSGs) are the genes that have no recognizable homology to any
sequences in other species, which are important drivers for the generation of new functions …

The genome of a mangrove plant, Avicennia marina, provides insights into adaptation to coastal intertidal habitats

D Ma, Q Ding, Z Guo, C Xu, P Liang, Z Zhao, S Song… - Planta, 2022 - Springer
Main conclusion Whole-genome duplication, gene family and lineage-specific genes
analysis based on high-quality genome reveal the adaptation mechanisms of Avicennia …

Linking species habitat and past palaeoclimatic events to evolution of the teleost innate immune system

MH Solbakken, KL Voje… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Host-intrinsic factors as well as environmental changes are known to be strong evolutionary
drivers defining the genetic foundation of immunity. Using a novel set of teleost genomes …