Evidence of intense chromosomal shuffling during conifer evolution

Although recent advances have been gained on genome evolution in angiosperm lineages, virtually nothing is known about karyotype evolution in the other group of seed plants, the gymnosperms. Here, we used high-density gene-based linkagemapping to compare the karyotype structure of two families of conifers (the most abundant group of gymnosperms) separated around 290 Ma Pinaceae and Cupressaceae.We propose for the first time amodel based on the fusion of 20 ancestral chromosomal blocks that may have shaped the modern karyotpes of Pinaceae (with n=12) and Cupressaceae (with n=11). The considerable difference in modern genome organization between these two lineages contrasts strongly with the remarkable level of synteny already reported within the Pinaceae. It also suggests a convergent evolutionary mechanism of chromosomal block shuffling that has shaped the genomes of the spermatophytes. ©The Author(s) 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution.

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Main Authors:	de Miguel, M., Bartholomé, J., Ehrenmann, F., Murat, F., Moriguchi, Y., Uchiyama, K., Ueno, S., Tsumura, Y., Lagraulet, H., De Maria, N., Cabezas, J. A., Cervera, M. T., Gion, J. M., Salse, J., Plomion, C.
Format:	journal article biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	2015
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12792/970
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