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Evolutionary relationships among self-incompatibility RNases.


ABSTRACT: T2-type RNases are responsible for self-pollen recognition and rejection in three distantly related families of flowering plants-the Solanaceae, Scrophulariaceae, and Rosaceae. We used phylogenetic analyses of 67 T2-type RNases together with information on intron number and position to determine whether the use of RNases for self-incompatibility in these families is homologous or convergent. All methods of phylogenetic reconstruction as well as patterns of variation in intron structure find that all self-incompatibility RNases along with non-S genes from only two taxa form a monophyletic clade. Several lines of evidence suggest that the best interpretation of this pattern is homology of self-incompatibility RNases from the Scrophulariaceae, Solanaceae, and Rosaceae. Because the most recent common ancestor of these three families is the ancestor of approximately 75% of dicot families, our results indicate that RNase-based self-incompatibility was the ancestral state in the majority of dicots.

SUBMITTER: Igic B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC60842 | biostudies-literature | 2001 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Evolutionary relationships among self-incompatibility RNases.

Igic B B   Kohn J R JR  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20011101 23


T2-type RNases are responsible for self-pollen recognition and rejection in three distantly related families of flowering plants-the Solanaceae, Scrophulariaceae, and Rosaceae. We used phylogenetic analyses of 67 T2-type RNases together with information on intron number and position to determine whether the use of RNases for self-incompatibility in these families is homologous or convergent. All methods of phylogenetic reconstruction as well as patterns of variation in intron structure find that  ...[more]

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