Evolutionary patterns of recently emerged animal duplogs

Kiyoshi Ezawa, Kazuho Ikeo, Takashi Gojobori, Naruya Saitou*

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Abstract

Duplogs, or intraspecies paralogs, constitute the important portion of eukaryote genomes and serve as a major source of functional innovation. We conducted detailed analyses of recently emerged animal duplogs. Genome data of three vertebrate species (Homo sapiens, Mus musculus, and Danio rerio), Caenorhabditis elegans, and two Drosophila species (Drosophila melanogaster and D. pseudoobscura) were used. Duplication events were divided into six age-groups according to the synonymous distance (dS) up to 0.6. Duplogs were classified into four equal-sized classes on physical distances and into three classes on relative orientations. We observed the following shared characteristics among intrachromosomal multiexon duplogs: 1) inverted duplogs account for 20-50%, and about a half of the physically most distant 25%; 2) except for C. elegans, the composition of physical distances, that of relative orientations, and the proportion of inverted duplogs in each physical distance category are more or less uniform; 3) except for C. elegans, the characteristics of the youngest (dS < 0.01) duplogs are similar to the overall characteristics of the entire set. These results suggest that intrachromosomal duplogs with fairly long physical distances were generated at once, rather than resulting from tandem duplications and subsequent genomic rearrangements. This is different from the three well-known modes of gene duplication: tandem duplication, retrotransposition, and genome duplication. We termed this new mode as "drift" duplication. The drift duplication has been producing duplicate copies at paces comparable with tandem duplications since the common ancestor of vertebrates, and it may have already operated in the common ancestor of bilateral animals.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1119-1135
Number of pages17
JournalGenome biology and evolution
Volume3
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Animals
  • Cross-sectional analysis
  • Duplog
  • Gene duplication
  • Genome-wide analysis
  • Paralog
  • Physical distance
  • Transcriptional orientation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Medicine

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