Genomic evidence for adaptation by gene duplication.
Genomic evidence for adaptation by gene duplication.
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DOI:
10.1101/gr.172098.114
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2014-08
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7
通讯作者:
Zhang J
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作者:
Qian W;Zhang J
Gene duplication is widely believed to facilitate adaptation, but unambiguous evidence for this hypothesis has been found in only a small number of cases. Although gene duplication may increase the fitness of the involved organisms by doubling gene dosage or neofunctionalization, it may also result in a simple division of ancestral functions into daughter genes, which need not promote adaptation. Hence, the general validity of the adaptation by gene duplication hypothesis remains uncertain. Indeed, a genome-scale experiment found similar fitness effects of deleting pairs of duplicate genes and deleting individual singleton genes from the yeast genome, leading to the conclusion that duplication rarely results in adaptation. Here we contend that the above comparison is unfair because of a known duplication bias among genes with different fitness contributions. To rectify this problem, we compare homologous genes from the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. We discover that simultaneously deleting a duplicate gene pair in S. cerevisiae reduces fitness significantly more than deleting their singleton counterpart in S. pombe, revealing post-duplication adaptation. The duplicates–singleton difference in fitness effect is not attributable to a potential increase in gene dose after duplication, suggesting that the adaptation is owing to neofunctionalization, which we find to be explicable by acquisitions of binary protein–protein interactions rather than gene expression changes. These results provide genomic evidence for the role of gene duplication in organismal adaptation and are important for understanding the genetic mechanisms of evolutionary innovation.
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Frost A;Elgort MG;Brandman O;Ives C;Collins SR;Miller-Vedam L;Weibezahn J;Hein MY;Poser I;Mann M;Hyman AA;Weissman JS
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Weissman JS
DOI:
10.1038/nrg2487
发表时间:
2009-01
期刊:
Nature reviews. Genetics
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