Title |
Molecular evolution accompanying functional divergence of duplicated genes along the plant starch biosynthesis pathway
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Published in |
BMC Ecology and Evolution, May 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2148-14-103 |
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Authors |
Odrade Nougué, Jonathan Corbi, Steven G Ball, Domenica Manicacci, Maud I Tenaillon |
Abstract |
Starch is the main source of carbon storage in the Archaeplastida. The starch biosynthesis pathway (sbp) emerged from cytosolic glycogen metabolism shortly after plastid endosymbiosis and was redirected to the plastid stroma during the green lineage divergence. The SBP is a complex network of genes, most of which are members of large multigene families. While some gene duplications occurred in the Archaeplastida ancestor, most were generated during the sbp redirection process, and the remaining few paralogs were generated through compartmentalization or tissue specialization during the evolution of the land plants. In the present study, we tested models of duplicated gene evolution in order to understand the evolutionary forces that have led to the development of SBP in angiosperms. We combined phylogenetic analyses and tests on the rates of evolution along branches emerging from major duplication events in six gene families encoding sbp enzymes. |
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