Genome Evolution in Yeasts (Dujon et al., 2004)

What are Yeasts

Yeast vs. Yeasts

Ascomycetes

Unicellular growth form

Overview

Saccharomyces cerevisiae

 

Non-coding RNA genes

Ribosomal RNA

Transfer RNA

Other non-coding

Protein families and genome redundancy

Classification of proteins, sequence conservation

Genome redundancy

Phyletic patterns of redundancy

Divergence between orthologs and paralogs

Expansion and contraction within universal protein families

Genetic map organization

Tandem gene duplications

A few dozen tandem duplications, mostly of 2-3 copies in C. glabrata, K. lactis, and Y. lipolytica

Many more tandem arrays in D. hansenii

Blocks of ancestral duplications

Conservation of synteny

Gene dynamics and sequence conservation

Methods


Dujon, B., et al. 2004. Genome evolution in yeasts. Nature 430: 35-44.

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