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Natural history and evolutionary principles of gene duplication in fungi

Wapinski, Ilan, Pfeffer, Avi, Friedman, Nir, Regev, Aviv·2007·Nature
DOI 10.1038/nature06107
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Gene duplication and loss is a powerful source of functional innovation. However, the general principles that govern this process are still largely unknown. With the growing number of sequenced genomes, it is now possible to examine these events in a comprehensive and unbiased manner. Here, we develop a procedure that resolves the evolutionary history of all genes in a large group of species. We apply our procedure to seventeen fungal genomes to create a genome-wide catalogue of gene trees that determine precise orthology and paralogy relations across these species. We show that gene duplication and loss is highly constrained by the functional properties and interacting partners of genes. In particular, stress-related genes exhibit many duplications and losses, whereas growth-related genes show selection against such changes. Whole-genome duplication circumvents this constraint and relaxes the dichotomy, resulting in an expanded functional scope of gene duplication. By characterizing the functional fate of duplicate genes we show that duplicated genes rarely diverge with respect to biochemical function, but typically diverge with respect to regulatory control. Surprisingly, paralogous modules of genes rarely arise, even after whole-genome duplication. Rather, gene duplication may drive the modularization of functional networks through specialization, thereby disentangling cellular systems.

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Authors
Wapinski, I., Pfeffer, A., Friedman, N., & Regev, A.
Affiliations
  • Broad Institute (US)
  • Harvard University (US)
  • Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL)
Corresponding author
Regev, Aviv
ORCID
Venue
Nature
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2007-09
Volume
449
Issue
7158
Pages
54-61
ISSN
  • 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
  • 1476-4687
DOI
10.1038/nature06107
OpenAlex
W1992140809
Cited by
614
References
59
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FWCI
23.70
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations
  • Nature (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Fungal and yeast genetics research
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Keywords
gene duplication, gene loss, fungi, Ascomycota, whole-genome duplication, orthology, paralogy, gene tree inference, functional innovation, stress-related genes, growth-related genes, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Schizosaccharomyces pombe
MeSH terms
Algorithms, Ascomycota, Genes, Fungal, Phylogeny, Genome, Fungal, Gene Deletion, Gene Dosage, Evolution, Molecular, Genes, Duplicate, Gene Duplication

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