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Are all fishes ancient polyploids?

Journal of structural and functional genomics ·Vol. 3 ·No. 1-4 ·2003-00-00 ·Pages 65-73

Van de Peer Y, Taylor JS, Meyer A

Abstract

Euteleost fishes seem to have more copies of many genes than their tetrapod relatives. Three different mechanisms could explain the origin of these 'extra' fish genes. The duplicates may have been produced during a fish-specific genome duplication event. A second explanation is an increased rate of independent gene duplications in fish. A third possibility is that after gene or genome duplication events in the common ancestor of fish and tetrapods, the latter lost more genes. These three hypotheses have been tested by phylogenetic tree reconstruction. Phylogenetic analyses of sequences from human, mouse, chicken, frog (Xenopus laevis), zebrafish (Danio rerio) and pufferfish (Takifugu rubripes) suggest that ray-finned fishes are likely to have undergone a whole genome duplication event between 200 and 450 million years ago. We also comment here on the evolutionary consequences of this ancient genome duplication.

MeSH Terms
Animals Biological Evolution Fishes/genetics Gene Duplication Genome Phylogeny Polyploidy
Authors & Affiliations
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Van de Peer Yves
Department of Plant Systems Biology, Vlaams Interuniversitair Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB), Ghent University, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000 Gent, Belgium. [email protected]
Taylor John S
Meyer Axel
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Article Info
Journal
Journal of structural and functional genomics
Abbr.
J Struct Funct Genomics
ISSN
1345-711X
Email
[email protected]
Published
2003-00-00
Pages
65-73
Language
English
Region
Netherlands
NLM ID
101128185
Subset
IM
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