Claim · model-written summary
Duplications of MORC Groups I-2 and II contributed to family expansion in angiosperms.
- Taxon
- angiospermsMagnoliopsidae0
- Gene
- MORCe0
- Outcome
- expansion of MORC gene familye0
- Qualifier
- several gene duplicationse0
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Verbatim
e0“Group I-2 and Group II have undergone several gene duplications, resulting in the expansion of MORC gene family in angiosperms”
Title
MORC Domain Definition and Evolutionary Analysis of the MORC Gene Family in Green Plants
Wei Dong; Alessandro Vannozzi; Fei Chen; et al. Genome Biology and Evolution 2018. doi:10.1093/gbe/evy136
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation The analysis identified 356 MORC orthologues in 60 plant genomes.
- Observation Sequence analyses found a conserved motif composition defining the MORC domain.
- Observation The MORC domain was found in plants and animals, consistent with origin before their divergence.
- Observation Plant MORC genes separated into two major phylogenetic groups.
- Observation Green plant Group I MORC genes were further divided into Group I-1 and Group I-2.
- Observation Group I-1 contained only seed plant genes, suggesting divergence before spermatophytes emerged.
- Observation MORC expression was higher in reproductive tissues than other organs in Arabidopsis, soybean and rice.
- Observation Several MORC paralogous gene pairs had divergent expression patterns in Arabidopsis, soybean and rice.