Plant and Cell Physiology Advance Access published online on November 28, 2006
Plant and Cell Physiology, doi:10.1093/pcp/pcl044
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Evolutional processes during the formation of the plant-specific Dof transcription factor family
Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Yayoi 1-1-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
*Corresponding author: E-mail, asyanagi{at}mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp; Fax, +81-3-5841-8032.
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We found 19 putative genes for plant-specific Dof transcription factors in the moss Physcomitrella patens and one Dof gene in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii but no identifiable Dof gene in the red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae and the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana, suggesting that the origin of the Dof transcription factors predates the divergence of the green algae and the ancestors of terrestrial plants. The phylogenetic analyses contended that the Dof family in angiosperms formed through a series of evolutional processes, including intensive duplications of a specific ancestral gene after the divergence of the moss and the angiosperm lineages.
Keywords: Dof factor - Transcription factor - Molecular evolution - moss - Chlamydomonas
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