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- Title
New Genes Interacted With Recent Whole-Genome Duplicates in the Fast Stem Growth of Bamboos.
- Authors
Jin, Guihua; Ma, Peng-Fei; Wu, Xiaopei; Gu, Lianfeng; Long, Manyuan; Zhang, Chengjun; Li, De-Zhu
- Abstract
As drivers of evolutionary innovations, new genes allow organisms to explore new niches. However, clear examples of this process remain scarce. Bamboos, the unique grass lineage diversifying into the forest, have evolved with a key innovation of fast growth of woody stem, reaching up to 1 m/day. Here, we identify 1,622 bamboo-specific orphan genes that appeared in recent 46 million years, and 19 of them evolved from noncoding ancestral sequences with entire de novo origination process reconstructed. The new genes evolved gradually in exon−intron structure, protein length, expression specificity, and evolutionary constraint. These new genes, whether or not from de novo origination, are dominantly expressed in the rapidly developing shoots, and make transcriptomes of shoots the youngest among various bamboo tissues, rather than reproductive tissue in other plants. Additionally, the particularity of bamboo shoots has also been shaped by recent whole-genome duplicates (WGDs), which evolved divergent expression patterns from ancestral states. New genes and WGDs have been evolutionarily recruited into coexpression networks to underline fast-growing trait of bamboo shoot. Our study highlights the importance of interactions between new genes and genome duplicates in generating morphological innovation.
- Subjects
BAMBOO; STEM cells; GENE expression; CONVERGENT evolution; PROTEIN structure
- Publication
Molecular Biology & Evolution, 2021, Vol 38, Issue 12, p5752
- ISSN
0737-4038
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/molbev/msab288