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Science：sRNA介导金鱼草的花色变异

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2024-08-22 17:42

小RNA（sRNA）在动植物中调控基因的表达。本文显示在金鱼草群体之间花色的差异是由一段能够产生sRNA的插入重复引起的。转录本的复杂性和大小揭示了这段重复作为microRNA进化通路上的中间环节。sRNA抑制了一个色素生物合成的基因，从而导致金鱼草花部位的黄色高亮。在自然的杂合带这段插入重复的等位基因频率存在急剧变化的群体，表明该等位基因受到了选择

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因此，选择对于近期演化出的sRNA调控互作起作用，进而导致了表型多样性的进化。

Evolution of flower color pattern through selection on regulatory small RNAs

First author:Desmond Bradley;Affiliations: John Innes Centre(约翰英纳斯中心), Norwich, UK

Corresponding author:Enrico Coen

Small RNAs (sRNAs) regulate genes in plants and animals. Here, we show that population-wide differences in color patterns in snapdragon (金鱼草) flowers are caused by an inverted duplication that generates sRNAs. The complexity and size of the trans indicate that the duplication represents an intermediate on the pathway to microRNA evolution. The sRNAs repress a pigment (色素) biosynthesis gene, creating a yellow highlight at the site of pollinator entry. The inverted duplication exhibits steep (急剧升降的) clines (渐变群) in allele frequency in a natural hybrid zone, showing that the allele is under selection. Thus, regulatory interactions of evolutionarily recent sRNAs can be acted upon by selection and contribute to the evolution of phenotypic diversity.

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Enrico Coen教授简介

Prof Enrico Coen Project Leader

研究方向：利用模式植物金鱼草、狸藻及拟南芥研究花和叶的生长。实验室主页：http://rico-coen.jic.ac.uk/index.php/Main_Page

Cell and Developmental Biology

Enrico’s research investigates how complex shapes and patterns are produced in plants through genetic and developmental control.

Enrico uses the model plants Antirrhinum, Utricularia and Arabidopsis to investigate flower and leaf growth.

Enrico is interested in shape and pattern, from the cellular to evolutionary level, and uses microscopy, genomics and mathematical modelling techniques to generate broadly applicable mechanisms of development, adaptation and speciation in Antirrhinum.

Control of plant growth to provide complex patterns and shapes

Genetic and developmental control of plant development

Experimental and theoretical approaches to understanding plant fitness and evolution

How do small groups of cells in microscopic buds turn themselves into the diverse flower and leaf shapes we see around us?

To answer this question we need to know how genes and growth interact to create tissue shapes during development, and how this process varies to produce such a remarkable range of forms.

Enrico's group use a highly integrative approach that combines molecular, genetic, imaging, population, ecological and computational approaches to address this problem, applying them to model systems such as Arabidopsis and Antirrhinum.

Through collaborations with Andrew Bangham, Veronica Grieneisen and Stan Marée, they have been able to arrive at mechanistic models for how complex tissue shapes may be generated through combinatorial interactions between genes, polarity and local growth properties.

The group also collaborate with population geneticist Nick Barton to understand the evolution of complex traits in natural populations and species of Antirrhinum.

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