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Latent homology and convergent regulatory evolution underlies the repeated emergence of yeasts
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Latent homology and convergent regulatory evolution underlies the repeated emergence of yeasts |
| Names |
Nagy, Laszlo G.
(creator) Ohm, Robin A. (creator) Kovács, Gabor M. (creator) Spatafora, Joseph W. (creator) et al. (creator) |
| Date Issued | 2014-07-18 (iso8601) |
| Note | To the best of our knowledge, one or more authors of this paper were federal employees when contributing to this work. This is the publisher’s final pdf. The published article is copyrighted by Nature Publishing Group and can be found at: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/index.html. |
| Abstract | Convergent evolution is common throughout the tree of life, but the molecular mechanisms causing similar phenotypes to appear repeatedly are obscure. Yeasts have arisen in multiple fungal clades, but the genetic causes and consequences of their evolutionary origins are unknown. Here we show that the potential to develop yeast forms arose early in fungal evolution and became dominant independently in multiple clades, most likely via parallel diversification of Zn-cluster transcription factors, a fungal-specific family involved in regulating yeast–filamentous switches. Our results imply that convergent evolution can happen by the repeated deployment of a conserved genetic toolkit for the same function in distinct clades via regulatory evolution. We suggest that this mechanism might be a common source of evolutionary convergence even at large time scales. |
| Genre | Article |
| Identifier | Nagy, L. G., Ohm, R. A., Kovács, G. M., Floudas, D., Riley, R., Gácser, A., ... & Hibbett, D. S. (2014). Latent homology and convergent regulatory evolution underlies the repeated emergence of yeasts. Nature Communications, 5, 4471. doi:10.1038/ncomms5471 |
