Heritable gene expression differences between apomictic clone members in Taraxacum officinale: Insights into early stages of evolutionary divergence in asexual plants
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- 作者：Julie Ferreira de Carvalho ; Carla Oplaat ; Nikolaos Pappas ; Martijn Derks…
- 关键词：Apomixis ; Dandelion ; Functional divergence ; RNA ; Seq ; Taraxacum officinale ; Transposable elements
- 刊名：BMC Genomics
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：December 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：17
- 期：1
- 全文大小：930 KB
- 刊物主题：Life Sciences, general; Microarrays; Proteomics; Animal Genetics and Genomics; Microbial Genetics and Genomics; Plant Genetics & Genomics;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1471-2164
文摘
Background Asexual reproduction has the potential to enhance deleterious mutation accumulation and to constrain adaptive evolution. One source of mutations that can be especially relevant in recent asexuals is activity of transposable elements (TEs), which may have experienced selection for high transposition rates in sexual ancestor populations. Predictions of genomic divergence under asexual reproduction therefore likely include a large contribution of transposable elements but limited adaptive divergence. For plants empirical insight into genome divergence under asexual reproduction remains limited. Here, we characterize expression divergence between clone members of a single apomictic lineage of the common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) to contribute to our knowledge of genome evolution under asexuality.