Two ancient rounds of polyploidy in rice genome
- Author:
Yang ZHANG
1
;
Guo-Hua XU
;
Xing-Yi GUO
;
Long-Jiang FAN
Author Information
1. Institute of Bioinformatics/IBM Biocomputational Lab
- Keywords:
Oryza sativa;
Polyploidy;
Genome evolution;
Age distribution of duplicate genes;
Monocot-dicot divergence
- From:
Journal of Zhejiang University. Science. B
2005;6B(2):87-90
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
An ancient genome duplication (PPP 1) that predates divergence ofthe cereals has recently been recognihere another potentially older large-scale duplication (PPP2) event that predates monocot-dicot divergence in the genome of rice (Oryza sativa L.), as inferred from the age distribution of pairs of duplicate genes based on recent genome data for rice. Our results suggest that paleopolyploidy was widespread and played an important role in the evolution of rice.
