Prochnik, Simon E. and Umen, James and Nedelcu, Aurora M. and Hallmann, Armin and Miller, Stephen M. and Nishii, Ichiro and Ferris, Patrick and Kuo, Alan and Mitros, Therese and Fritz-Laylin, Lillian K. and Hellsten, Uffe and Chapman, Jarrod and Simakov, Oleg and Rensing, Stefan A. and Terry, Astrid and Pangilinan, Jasmyn and Kapitonov, Vladimir and Jurka, Jerzy and Salamov, Asaf and Shapiro, Harris and Schmutz, Jeremy and Grimwood, Jane and Lindquist, Erika and Lucas, Susan and Grigoriev, Igor V. and Schmitt, Ruediger and Kirk, David and Rokhsar, Daniel S. (2010) Genomic Analysis of Organismal Complexity in the Multicellular Green Alga Volvox carteri. SCIENCE, 329 (5988). pp. 223-226. ISSN 0036-8075,
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The multicellular green alga Volvox carteri and its morphologically diverse close relatives (the volvocine algae) are well suited for the investigation of the evolution of multicellularity and development. We sequenced the 138-mega-base pair genome of V. carteri and compared its similar to 14,500 predicted proteins to those of its unicellular relative Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Despite fundamental differences in organismal complexity and life history, the two species have similar protein-coding potentials and few species-specific protein-coding gene predictions. Volvox is enriched in volvocine-algal-specific proteins, including those associated with an expanded and highly compartmentalized extracellular matrix. Our analysis shows that increases in organismal complexity can be associated with modifications of lineage-specific proteins rather than large-scale invention of protein-coding capacity.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | CYTOPLASMIC BRIDGE SYSTEM; CHLAMYDOMONAS-REINHARDTII; EXTRACELLULAR-MATRIX; EVOLUTION; DIVISION; MORPHOGENESIS; EUKARYOTES; REVEALS; PROTEIN; ORIGIN; |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 570 Life sciences |
| Divisions: | Biology, Preclinical Medicine > Institut für Biochemie, Genetik und Mikrobiologie |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Jul 2020 10:37 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Jul 2020 10:37 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/24465 |
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