Article
The cytonuclear dimension of allopolyploid evolution: an example from cotton using rubisco.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Oct 2012
Gong Lei, Salmon Armel, Yoo Mi-Jeong, Grupp Kara K, Wang Zining, Paterson Andrew H, Wendel Jonathan F
Abstract excerpt
During allopolyploid speciation, two divergent nuclear genomes merge, yet only one (usually the maternal) of the two sets of progenitor organellar genomes is maintained. Rubisco (1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase) is composed of nuclear-encoded small subunits (SSUs) and plastome-encoded large subunits (LSUs), providing an ideal system to explore the evolutionary process of cytonuclear accommodation. Here, we...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Amino Acid Substitution
- Base Sequence
- Cell Nucleus
- Crosses, Genetic
- DNA, Complementary
- Diploidy
- Evolution, Molecular
- Gene Conversion
- Gene Expression Regulation, Plant