Mutation, duplication, and selection in mammalian genomes
This thesis comprises comparative genomics analyses primarily focussing on the evolution of mammalian proteins. We concentrate on three species of direct relevance as model organisms, for which high quality genome sequences are available, and human. Having previously investigated protein evolution i...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis doctoral |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2013 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | CBUC, CESCA |
| Repositorio: | TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/120514 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10803/120514 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | evolution gene protein mammal human insertion deletion substitution duplication indels evolució gen proteïna mamífer humà inserció deleció substitució duplicació 575 |
| Sumario: | This thesis comprises comparative genomics analyses primarily focussing on the evolution of mammalian proteins. We concentrate on three species of direct relevance as model organisms, for which high quality genome sequences are available, and human. Having previously investigated protein evolution in terms of substitution rates, here we explored less well studied insertions and deletions (indels). We show that indel and substitution frequencies are correlated at the level of protein sequence, and that indels, and in particular insertions, are elevated in regions of low-complexity and repetitive sequence. Furthermore we observe that selection acts more strongly against the incorporation of insertions than deletions in coding sequence. We also look examine in detail the process of evolution following gene duplication in rodents. We show that in general there is a marked increase in evolutionary rate following duplication, which is restricted to the new copy. We find evidence that this increase is sometimes driven by positive selection, and often accompanied by changes in tissue expression profile. These results lead support to the role of neofuntionalisation following gene duplication. |
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