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Comparative gene retention analysis in barley, wild emmer, and bread wheat pangenome lines reveals factors affecting gene retention following gene duplication
BMC biology, Vol.21, 25
2023
PMID: 36747211
Abstract
Background:
Gene duplication is a prevalent phenomenon and a major driving force underlying genome evolution. The process leading to the fixation of gene duplicates following duplication is critical to understand how genome evolves but remains fragmentally understood. Most previous studies on gene retention are based on gene duplicate analyses in single reference genome. No population-based comparative gene retention analysis has been performed to date.
Results:
Taking advantage of recently published genomic data in Triticeae, we dissected a divergent homogentisate phytyltransferase (HPT2) lineage caught in the middle stage of gene fixation following duplication. The presence/absence of HPT2 in barley (diploid), wild emmer (tetraploid), and bread wheat (hexaploid) pangenome lines appears to be associated with gene dosage constraint and environmental adaption. Based on these observations, we adopted a phylogeny-based orthology inference approach and performed comparative gene retention analyses across barley, wild emmer, and bread wheat. This led to the identification of 326 HPT2-pattern-like genes at whole genome scale, representing a pool of gene duplicates in the middle stage of gene fixation. Majority of these HPT2-pattern-like genes were identified as small-scale duplicates, such as dispersed, tandem, and proximal duplications. Natural selection analyses showed that HPT2-pattern-like genes have experienced relaxed selection pressure, which is generally accompanied with partial positive selection and transcriptional divergence. Functional enrichment analyses showed that HPT2-pattern-like genes are over-represented with molecular-binding and defense response functions, supporting the potential role of environmental adaption during gene retention. We also observed that gene duplicates from larger gene family are more likely to be lost, implying a gene dosage constraint effect. Further comparative gene retention analysis in barley and bread wheat pangenome lines revealed combined effects of species-specific selection and gene dosage constraint.
Conclusions:
Comparative gene retention analyses at the population level support gene dosage constraint, environmental adaption, and species-specific selection as three factors that may affect gene retention following gene duplication. Our findings shed light on the evolutionary process leading to the retention of newly formed gene duplicates and will greatly improve our understanding on genome evolution via duplication.
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- Title
- Comparative gene retention analysis in barley, wild emmer, and bread wheat pangenome lines reveals factors affecting gene retention following gene duplication
- Authors/Creators
- Yong Jia - Murdoch UniversityMingrui Xu - Hangzhou Normal UniversityHaifei Hu - Murdoch UniversityBrett Chapman - Murdoch UniversityCalum Watt - Murdoch UniversityB Buerte - Zhejiang UniversityNing Han - Zhejiang UniversityMuyuan Zhu - Zhejiang UniversityHongwu Bian - Zhejiang UniversityChengdao Li - Murdoch UniversityZhanghui Zeng - Hangzhou Normal University
- Publication Details
- BMC biology, Vol.21, 25
- Grant note
- 9176507 / Grains Research and Development Corporation 113731971932 / Innovative Research Group Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Identifiers
- 991005569358707891
- Copyright
- © The Author(s) 2023
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Centre for Crop and Food Innovation
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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