Claim · model-written summary
A single two-domain WRKY gene was identified in Dictyostelium discoideum.
- Taxon
- Dictyostelium discoideum
Dictyostelium discoideume0 - Gene
- WRKY genee0
- Outcome
- single copye0
- Value
- two WRKY domainse0
Verbatim
e0“A single copy of the WRKY gene encoding two WRKY domains was identified from Giardia lamblia, a primitive eukaryote, Dictyostelium discoideum”
Title
The WRKY transcription factor superfamily: its origin in eukaryotes and expansion in plants
Yuanji Zhang; Liangjiang Wang BMC Evolutionary Biology 2005. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-5-1
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Observation A single two-domain WRKY gene was identified in Giardia lamblia.
- Observation A single two-domain WRKY gene was identified in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
- Observation The ancestral WRKY gene appears to have duplicated many times in plant evolution.
- Observation Rice has over 100 WRKY gene family members.
- Association The C-terminal domain was inferred as ancestor of single-domain WRKY genes.
- Observation WRKY domains were classified phylogenetically into five groups.
- Method / resource Authors proposed a model for WRKY origins in eukaryotes and expansion in plants.