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Title: Genesis and evolution of the Evx and Mox genes and the extended Hox and ParaHox gene clusters
Author: Minguillón Gil, Carolina
Garcia Fernández, Jordi
Keywords: Metazous
Biologia del desenvolupament
Genètica del desenvolupament
Molecular evolution
Genes
Phylogeny
Issue Date: 2003
Publisher: BioMed Central
Abstract: Background: Hox and ParaHox gene clusters are thought to have resulted from the duplication of a ProtoHox gene cluster early in metazoan evolution. However, the origin and evolution of the other genes belonging to the extended Hox group of homeobox-containing genes, that is, Mox and Evx, remains obscure. We constructed phylogenetic trees with mouse, amphioxus and Drosophila extended Hox and other related Antennapedia-type homeobox gene sequences and analyzed the linkage data available for such genes. Results: We claim that neither Mox nor Evx is a Hox or ParaHox gene. We propose a scenario that reconciles phylogeny with linkage data, in which an Evx/Mox ancestor gene linked to a ProtoHox cluster was involved in a segmental tandem duplication event that generated an array of all Hox-like genes, referred to as the `coupled¿ cluster. A chromosomal breakage within this cluster explains the current composition of the extended Hox cluster (with Evx, Hox and Mox genes) and the ParaHox cluster. Conclusions: Most studies dealing with the origin and evolution of Hox and ParaHox clusters have not included the Hox-related genes Mox and Evx. Our phylogenetic analyses and the available linkage data in mammalian genomes support an evolutionary scenario in which an ancestor of Evx and Mox was linked to the ProtoHox cluster, and that a tandem duplication of a large genomic region early in metazoan evolution generated the Hox and ParaHox clusters, plus the cluster-neighbors Evx and Mox. The large `coupled¿ Hox-like cluster EvxHox/MoxParaHox was subsequently broken, thus grouping the Mox and Evx genes to the Hox clusters, and isolating the ParaHox cluster.
Note: Reproducció del document publicat a http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/gb-2003-4-2-r12
It is part of: Genome Biology, 2003, vol. 4, núm. 12
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/7383
Related resource: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/gb-2003-4-2-r12
ISSN: 1465-6914
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