Journal article
Megabase level sequencing reveals contrasted organization and evolution patterns of the wheat gene and transposable element spaces
06/2010
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/108000
Abstract
To improve our understanding of the organization and evolution of the wheat (Triticum aestivum) genome, we sequenced and annotated 13-Mb contigs (18.2 Mb) originating from different regions of its largest chromosome, 3B (1 Gb), and produced a 2x chromosome survey by shotgun Illumina/Solexa sequencing. All regions carried genes irrespective of their chromosomal location. However, gene distribution was not random, with 75% of them clustered into small islands containing three genes on average. A twofold increase of gene density was observed toward the telomeres likely due to high tandem and interchromosomal duplication events. A total of 3222 transposable elements were identified, including 800 new families. Most of them are complete but showed a highly nested structure spread over distances as large as 200 kb. A succession of amplification waves involving different transposable element families led to contrasted sequence compositions between the proximal and distal regions. Finally, with an estimate of 50,000 genes per diploid genome, our data suggest that wheat may have a higher gene number than other cereals. Indeed, comparisons with rice (Oryza sativa) and Brachypodium revealed that a high number of additional noncollinear genes are interspersed within a highly conserved ancestral grass gene backbone, supporting the idea of an accelerated evolution in the Triticeae lineages.
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- Title
- Megabase level sequencing reveals contrasted organization and evolution patterns of the wheat gene and transposable element spaces
- Creators
- F ChouletT WickerC RustenholzE PauxJ SalseP LeroyS SchlubM C L PaslierG MagdelenatC GonthierA CoulouxH BudakJ BreenM PumphreyS LiuX KongJ JiaM GutD BrunelJ A AndersonB S GillR AppelsB KellerC Feuillet
- Academic Unit
- Crop and Soil Sciences, Department of
- Publisher
- American Society of Plant Biologists
- Identifiers
- 99900547569201842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article