Extensive gene content variation in the Brachypodium distachyon pan-genome correlates with population structure

The role of differential gene content in the evolution and function of eukaryotic genomes remains poorly explored. Here the authors assemble and annotate the Brachypodium distachyon pan-genome consisting of 54 diverse lines and reveal the differential present genes as a major driver of phenotypic va...

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Main Authors: Sean P. Gordon, Bruno Contreras-Moreira, Daniel P. Woods, David L. Des Marais, Diane Burgess, Shengqiang Shu, Christoph Stritt, Anne C. Roulin, Wendy Schackwitz, Ludmila Tyler, Joel Martin, Anna Lipzen, Niklas Dochy, Jeremy Phillips, Kerrie Barry, Koen Geuten, Hikmet Budak, Thomas E. Juenger, Richard Amasino, Ana L. Caicedo, David Goodstein, Patrick Davidson, Luis A. J. Mur, Melania Figueroa, Michael Freeling, Pilar Catalan, John P. Vogel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02292-8
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Summary:The role of differential gene content in the evolution and function of eukaryotic genomes remains poorly explored. Here the authors assemble and annotate the Brachypodium distachyon pan-genome consisting of 54 diverse lines and reveal the differential present genes as a major driver of phenotypic variation.
ISSN:2041-1723