Analysis of the genome sequence of the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana

Kaul, S., Koo, H. L., Jenkins, J., Rizzo, M., Rooney, T., Tallon, L. J., Feldblyum, T., Nierman, W., Benito, M. I., Lin, X., Town, C. D., Venter, J. C., Fraser, C. M., Tabata, S., Nakamura, Y., Kaneko, T., Sato, S., Asamizu, E., Kato, T., Kotani, H., Sasamoto, S., Ecker, J. R., Theologis, A., Federspiel, N. A., Palm, C. J., Osborne, B. I., Shinn, P., Dewar, K., Kim, C. J., Buehler, E., Dunn, P., Chao, Q., Chen, H., Vysotskaia, V. S., Lenz, C. A., Hansen, N. F., Liu, S. X., Alta, H., Sakano, H., Lam, B., Pham, P. K., Nguyen, M., Yu, G., Southwick, A., Lee, J. M., Miranda, M., Toriumi, M. J., Davis, R. W., Conway, A. B., Conn, L., Hootan, A., Wambutt, R., Murphy, G., Düsterhöft, A., Stiekema, W., Pohl, T., Entian, K. D., Terryn, N., Volckaert, G., Salanoubat, M., Choisne, N., Artiguenave, F., Weissenbach, J., Quetier, F., Rieger, M., Ansorge, W., Unseld, M., Fartmann, B., Valle, G., Wilson, R. K., Sekhon, M., Pepin, K., Murray, J., Johnson, D., Hillier, L., de la Bastide, M., Huang, E., Spiegel, L., Gnoj, L., Habermann, K., Dedhia, N., Parnell, L., Preston, R., Marra, M., McCombie, W. R., Chen, E., Martienssen, R., Mayer, K., Lemcke, K., Haas, B., Haase, D., Rudd, S., Schoof, H., Frishman, D., Morgenstern, B., Zaccaria, P., Mewes, H. W., White, O., Creasy, T. H., Bielke, C. (2000) Analysis of the genome sequence of the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Nature, 408 (6814). pp. 796-815. ISSN 00280836 (ISSN)

Abstract

The flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana is an important model system for identifying genes end determining their functions. Here we report the analysis of the genomic sequence of Arabidopsis. The sequenced regions cover 115.4 megabases of the 125-megabase genome and extend into centromeric regions. The evolution of Arabidopsis involved a whole-genome duplication, followed by subsequent gene loss and extensive local gene duplications, giving rise to a dynamic genome enriched by lateral gene transfer from a cyanobacterial-like ancestor of the plastid. The genome contains 25,498 genes encoding proteins from 11,000 families, similar to the functional diversity of Drosophila and Caenorhabditis elegans - the other sequenced multicellular eukaryotes. Arabidopsis has many families of new proteins but also lacks several common protein families, indicating that the sets of common proteins have undergone differential expansion and contraction in the three multicellular eukaryotes. This is the first complete genome sequence of a plant and provides the foundations for more comprehensive comparison of conserved processes in all eukaryotes, identifying a wide range of plant-specific gene functions and establishing rapid systematic ways to identify genes for crop improvement.

Item Type: Paper
Uncontrolled Keywords: Arabidopsis article crop eukaryote evolution gene duplication gene function gene loss gene sequence gene transfer genetic analysis genetic code genome priority journal protein expression Animals Biological Transport Cell Membrane Cell Nucleus Centromere Chloroplasts Chromosome Mapping DNA Repair DNA Transposable Elements DNA, Plant DNA, Ribosomal Gene Expression Regulation, Plant Genome, Plant Humans Light Mitochondria Photosynthesis Plant Diseases Proteome Recombination, Genetic Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid Sequence Analysis, DNA Signal Transduction Species Specificity Telomere
Subjects: organism description > plant > Arabidopsis
bioinformatics
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > genomes
organism description > plant
CSHL Authors:
Communities: CSHL labs > Martienssen lab
CSHL labs > McCombie lab
Depositing User: Matt Covey
Date: 2000
Date Deposited: 25 Apr 2013 20:07
Last Modified: 25 Apr 2013 20:07
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URI: https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/28192

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