Evolution of gene duplication in plants

N Panchy, M Lehti-Shiu, SH Shiu - Plant physiology, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Ancient duplication events and a high rate of retention of extant pairs of duplicate genes
have contributed to an abundance of duplicate genes in plant genomes. These duplicates …

Gene balance hypothesis: connecting issues of dosage sensitivity across biological disciplines

JA Birchler, RA Veitia - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
We summarize, in this review, the evidence that genomic balance influences gene
expression, quantitative traits, dosage compensation, aneuploid syndromes, population …

The multiple fates of gene duplications: deletion, hypofunctionalization, subfunctionalization, neofunctionalization, dosage balance constraints, and neutral variation

JA Birchler, H Yang - The Plant Cell, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Gene duplications have long been recognized as a contributor to the evolution of genes with
new functions. Multiple copies of genes can result from tandem duplication, from …

[HTML][HTML] Genome sequencing and population genomic analyses provide insights into the adaptive landscape of silver birch

J Salojärvi, OP Smolander, K Nieminen, S Rajaraman… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Silver birch (Betula pendula) is a pioneer boreal tree that can be induced to flower within 1
year. Its rapid life cycle, small (440-Mb) genome, and advanced germplasm resources make …

Population genomics of Populus trichocarpa identifies signatures of selection and adaptive trait associations

LM Evans, GT Slavov, E Rodgers-Melnick, J Martin… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Forest trees are dominant components of terrestrial ecosystems that have global ecological
and economic importance. Despite distributions that span wide environmental gradients …

AspWood: High-Spatial-Resolution Transcriptome Profiles Reveal Uncharacterized Modularity of Wood Formation in Populus tremula

D Sundell, NR Street, M Kumar, EJ Mellerowicz… - The Plant …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Trees represent the largest terrestrial carbon sink and a renewable source of ligno-cellulose.
There is significant scope for yield and quality improvement in these largely undomesticated …

An overview of duplicated gene detection methods: Why the duplication mechanism has to be accounted for in their choice

T Lallemand, M Leduc, C Landès, C Rizzon, E Lerat - Genes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Gene duplication is an important evolutionary mechanism allowing to provide new genetic
material and thus opportunities to acquire new gene functions for an organism, with major …

Gene duplicability of core genes is highly consistent across all angiosperms

Z Li, J Defoort, S Tasdighian, S Maere… - The Plant …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Gene duplication is an important mechanism for adding to genomic novelty. Hence, which
genes undergo duplication and are preserved following duplication is an important question …

Dosage, duplication, and diploidization: clarifying the interplay of multiple models for duplicate gene evolution over time

GC Conant, JA Birchler, JC Pires - Current opinion in plant biology, 2014 - Elsevier
Highlights•Dosage balance is fluid and will change over time.•Duplicate genes are
preserved by interplay of multiple overlapping mechanisms.•Distinguishing duplicate gene …

The fate of duplicated genes in a polyploid plant genome

A Roulin, PL Auer, M Libault, J Schlueter… - The Plant …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Polyploidy is generally not tolerated in animals, but is widespread in plant genomes and
may result in extensive genetic redundancy. The fate of duplicated genes is poorly …