title: Ectopic gene conversions increase the G + C content of duplicated yeast and Arabidopsis genes.
abstract: Allelic recombination has previously been shown to increase the GC-content of the sequences of a wide variety of eukaryotic species. Ectopic recombination between clustered tandemly repeated genes has also been shown to increase their GC-content. Here we show that gene conversions between the dispersed genes found in the duplicated regions of the yeast and Arabidopsis genomes also increase their GC-content when these genes are more than 88% similar.
authors.affiliation: Département de biologie, Université d'Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Benovoy
authors.forename: Robert T
authors.initials: RT
authors.lastname: Morris
authors.forename: Antoine
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Morin
authors.forename: Guy
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Drouin
mesh_terms: D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000235:genetics*; D001482:Base Composition / Q000235:genetics*; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D005785:Gene Conversion / Q000235:genetics*; D020131:Genes, Duplicate; D005800:Genes, Fungal; D017343:Genes, Plant; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D005810:Multigene Family; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics*; D012641:Selection, Genetic