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Bioinformatis and Evolutionary Genomics Genome Duplications . Genome duplications / polyploidy. Polyploid plants are very common and can arise spontaneously in nature by several mechanisms, including meiotic or mitotic failures, and fusion of unreduced (2n) or gametes . Gene duplication: trees.
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Genome duplications / polyploidy • Polyploid plants are very common and can arise spontaneously in nature by several mechanisms, including meiotic or mitotic failures, and fusion of unreduced (2n) or gametes
Gene duplication: blast • These are all duplicates but we do not know the order in which they arose
Whole Genome duplication • Synonym: Polyploidy • Proposed by Ohno (1970) to be a possible major force in genome evolution • Result of errors in meiosis (not in bacteria?)
Saccharomyces cerevisiae • Absence of triplicate regions • Limited portion of the genome mapped (50%); other genomes needed
Génolevures • Gene family size in S. cerevisiae is generally conserved in other species • Observation of small duplicated segments from strict & pairwise comparisons
Génolevures part deux Wong et al. 2002 PNAS
235Mya 125Mya 727Mya Unique amount of fungal genomes 600Mya
Comparison of two scaffolds originating from a common ancestor at the recent WGD
Representation of the successive duplications of the Paramecium genome. BRH: best reciprocal hits
Percentage identity between paralogous proteins, and comparisons with inter-species distances. Orange: human - mouse Brown: human - fish Pink: Paramecium - Tetrahymena thermophila
Detection of genome duplications • Trees • Ks/Similarity “bumps” • Synteny, indirect synteny (comparative genomics), BRH/BBH vs normal blast • Effect of WGD • Most duplicates are lost • Nevertheless thought to be important (origin of flowering plants, origin of vertebrates etc.)