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Duplicate genes are believed to be a major source of new gene functions over evolutionary time. In order to evaluate the evolutionary dynamics of rice duplicate genes, formed principally by paleoployploidization prior to the speciation of the Poaceae family, we have employed a public microarray dataset including 155 gene expression omnibus sample plates and bioinformatics tools. At least 57.4% of old ~70 million years ago (MYA) duplicate gene pairs exhibit divergences in expression over the given experimental set, whereas at least 50.9% of young ~7.7-MYA duplicate gene pairs were shown to be divergent. When grouping the rice duplicate genes according to functional categories, we noted a striking and significant enrichment of divergent duplicate metabolism-associated genes, as compared to that observed in non-divergent duplicate genes. While both non-synonymous substitution (Ka) and synonymous substitution (Ks) values between non- and divergent duplicate gene pairs evidenced significant differences, the Ka/Ks values between them exhibited no significant differences. Interestingly, the average numbers of conserved motifs of the duplicate gene pairs revealed a pattern of decline along with an increase in expression diversity, partially supporting the subfunctionalization model with degenerative complementation in regulatory motifs. Duplicate gene pairs with high local similarity (HLS) segments, which might be formed via conversion between rice paleologs, evidenced higher expression correlations than were observed in the gene pairs without the HLS segments; this probably resulted in an increased likelihood of gene conversion in promoters of the gene pairs harboring HLS segments. More than 60% of the rice gene families exhibited similar high expression diversity between members as compared to that of randomly selected gene pairs. These findings are likely reflective of the evolutionary dynamics of rice duplicate genes for gene retention.
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This work was supported by a grant from the BioGreen21 Program (no. 20080401034015), Rural Development Administration, Republic of Korea.
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Yim, W.C., Lee, BM. & Jang, C.S. Expression diversity and evolutionary dynamics of rice duplicate genes. Mol Genet Genomics 281, 483–493 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00438-009-0425-y
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