Publication Date:
2013-05-15
Description:
It has been argued that the evolution of plant genome size is principally unidirectional and increasing owing to the varied action of whole-genome duplications (WGDs) and mobile element proliferation. However, extreme genome size reductions have been reported in the angiosperm family tree. Here we report the sequence of the 82-megabase genome of the carnivorous bladderwort plant Utricularia gibba. Despite its tiny size, the U. gibba genome accommodates a typical number of genes for a plant, with the main difference from other plant genomes arising from a drastic reduction in non-genic DNA. Unexpectedly, we identified at least three rounds of WGD in U. gibba since common ancestry with tomato (Solanum) and grape (Vitis). The compressed architecture of the U. gibba genome indicates that a small fraction of intergenic DNA, with few or no active retrotransposons, is sufficient to regulate and integrate all the processes required for the development and reproduction of a complex organism.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ibarra-Laclette, Enrique -- Lyons, Eric -- Hernandez-Guzman, Gustavo -- Perez-Torres, Claudia Anahi -- Carretero-Paulet, Lorenzo -- Chang, Tien-Hao -- Lan, Tianying -- Welch, Andreanna J -- Juarez, Maria Jazmin Abraham -- Simpson, June -- Fernandez-Cortes, Araceli -- Arteaga-Vazquez, Mario -- Gongora-Castillo, Elsa -- Acevedo-Hernandez, Gustavo -- Schuster, Stephan C -- Himmelbauer, Heinz -- Minoche, Andre E -- Xu, Sen -- Lynch, Michael -- Oropeza-Aburto, Araceli -- Cervantes-Perez, Sergio Alan -- de Jesus Ortega-Estrada, Maria -- Cervantes-Luevano, Jacob Israel -- Michael, Todd P -- Mockler, Todd -- Bryant, Douglas -- Herrera-Estrella, Alfredo -- Albert, Victor A -- Herrera-Estrella, Luis -- 4367/Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- England -- Nature. 2013 Jun 6;498(7452):94-8. doi: 10.1038/nature12132. Epub 2013 May 12.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratorio Nacional de Genomica para la Biodiversidad, Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politecnico Nacional, 36821 Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23665961" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Angiosperms/*genetics
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DNA, Intergenic/genetics
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*Evolution, Molecular
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Gene Duplication/genetics
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Genes, Plant/genetics
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Genome, Plant/*genetics
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Models, Genetic
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Solanum/genetics
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Synteny/genetics
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Vitis/genetics
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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