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Two genetic changes in cis-regulatory elements caused evolution of petal spot position in Clarkia.

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Jiang, P; Rausher, M
Published in: Nature plants
January 2018

A major premise in evolutionary developmental biology is that regulatory changes, often involving cis-regulatory elements, are responsible for much morphological evolution. This premise is supported by recent investigations of animal development, but information is just beginning to accumulate regarding whether it also applies to the evolution of plant morphology1-4. Here, we identify the genetic differences between species in the genus Clarkia that are responsible for evolutionary change in an ecologically important element of floral colour patterns: spot position. The evolutionary shift in spot position was due to two simple genetic changes that resulted in the appearance of a transcription factor binding site mutation in the R2R3 Myb gene that changes spot formation. These genetic changes caused R2R3 Myb to be activated by a different transcription factor that is expressed in a different position in the petal. These results suggest that the regulatory rewiring paradigm is as applicable to plants as it is to animals, and support the hypothesis that cis-regulatory changes may often play a role in plant morphological evolution.

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Nature plants

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2055-0278

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2055-0278

Publication Date

January 2018

Volume

4

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1

Start / End Page

14 / 22

Related Subject Headings

  • Transcription Factors
  • Species Specificity
  • Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid
  • Promoter Regions, Genetic
  • Plant Proteins
  • Phenotype
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
  • Flowers
  • Evolution, Molecular
  • Clarkia
 

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Jiang, P., & Rausher, M. (2018). Two genetic changes in cis-regulatory elements caused evolution of petal spot position in Clarkia. Nature Plants, 4(1), 14–22. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-017-0085-6
Jiang, Peng, and Mark Rausher. “Two genetic changes in cis-regulatory elements caused evolution of petal spot position in Clarkia.Nature Plants 4, no. 1 (January 2018): 14–22. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-017-0085-6.
Jiang, Peng, and Mark Rausher. “Two genetic changes in cis-regulatory elements caused evolution of petal spot position in Clarkia.Nature Plants, vol. 4, no. 1, Jan. 2018, pp. 14–22. Epmc, doi:10.1038/s41477-017-0085-6.

Published In

Nature plants

DOI

EISSN

2055-0278

ISSN

2055-0278

Publication Date

January 2018

Volume

4

Issue

1

Start / End Page

14 / 22

Related Subject Headings

  • Transcription Factors
  • Species Specificity
  • Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid
  • Promoter Regions, Genetic
  • Plant Proteins
  • Phenotype
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
  • Flowers
  • Evolution, Molecular
  • Clarkia