Ectopic Gene Conversions Increase the G + C Content of Duplicated Yeast and Arabidopsis Genes | Zendy

David Benovoy | Zendy; Robert T. Morris | Zendy; Antoine Morin | Zendy; Guy Drouin | Zendy

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Ectopic Gene Conversions Increase the G + C Content of Duplicated Yeast and Arabidopsis Genes

Author(s) -

David Benovoy,

Robert T. Morris,

Antoine Morin,

Guy Drouin

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

molecular biology and evolution

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 6.637

H-Index - 218

eISSN - 1537-1719

pISSN - 0737-4038

DOI - 10.1093/molbev/msi176

Subject(s) - biology , arabidopsis , gene , genetics , gc content , genome , yeast , recombination , allele , ectopic recombination , gene family , ectopic expression , genetic recombination , mutant

Allelic recombination has previously been shown to increase the GC-content of the sequences of a wide variety of eukaryotic species. Ectopic recombination between clustered tandemly repeated genes has also been shown to increase their GC-content. Here we show that gene conversions between the dispersed genes found in the duplicated regions of the yeast and Arabidopsis genomes also increase their GC-content when these genes are more than 88% similar.

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