Nature Communications (Dec 2018)
Transcription factor DUO1 generated by neo-functionalization is associated with evolution of sperm differentiation in plants
- Asuka Higo,
- Tomokazu Kawashima,
- Michael Borg,
- Mingmin Zhao,
- Irene López-Vidriero,
- Hidetoshi Sakayama,
- Sean A. Montgomery,
- Hiroyuki Sekimoto,
- Dieter Hackenberg,
- Masaki Shimamura,
- Tomoaki Nishiyama,
- Keiko Sakakibara,
- Yuki Tomita,
- Taisuke Togawa,
- Kan Kunimoto,
- Akihisa Osakabe,
- Yutaka Suzuki,
- Katsuyuki T. Yamato,
- Kimitsune Ishizaki,
- Ryuichi Nishihama,
- Takayuki Kohchi,
- José M. Franco-Zorrilla,
- David Twell,
- Frédéric Berger,
- Takashi Araki
Affiliations
- Asuka Higo
- Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University
- Tomokazu Kawashima
- Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter (VBC)
- Michael Borg
- Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter (VBC)
- Mingmin Zhao
- Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester
- Irene López-Vidriero
- Unidad de Genómica, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, CNB-CSIC
- Hidetoshi Sakayama
- Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University
- Sean A. Montgomery
- Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter (VBC)
- Hiroyuki Sekimoto
- Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Japan Women’s University
- Dieter Hackenberg
- Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester
- Masaki Shimamura
- Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University
- Tomoaki Nishiyama
- Advanced Science Research Center, Kanazawa University
- Keiko Sakakibara
- Department of Life Science, College of Science, Rikkyo University
- Yuki Tomita
- Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University
- Taisuke Togawa
- Faculty of Biology-Oriented Science and Technology, Kindai University
- Kan Kunimoto
- Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University
- Akihisa Osakabe
- Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter (VBC)
- Yutaka Suzuki
- Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo
- Katsuyuki T. Yamato
- Faculty of Biology-Oriented Science and Technology, Kindai University
- Kimitsune Ishizaki
- Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University
- Ryuichi Nishihama
- Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University
- Takayuki Kohchi
- Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University
- José M. Franco-Zorrilla
- Unidad de Genómica, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, CNB-CSIC
- David Twell
- Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester
- Frédéric Berger
- Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter (VBC)
- Takashi Araki
- Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07728-3
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 9,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 13
Abstract
The evolutionary mechanisms leading to the development of sperm are poorly understood. Here, the authors infer that neofunctionalisation and expression changes of the orthologue of DUO1 in algal ancestors of land plants were key events for sperm differentiation and sexual reproduction in this lineage.
