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Functional Divergence Of Duplicated Genes In The Soybean Genome, Paul L. Auer, R. W. Doerge
Functional Divergence Of Duplicated Genes In The Soybean Genome, Paul L. Auer, R. W. Doerge
Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture
The soybean genome has undergone many different evolutionary changes that are observable with modern technologies. Of particular interest to scientists and plant breeders is the fact that the soybean genome exhibits features of genome duplication from millions of years ago. Genes that were copied during the duplication event have since diverged functionally. Identifying functionally divergent duplicate genes may provide insight into the evolution of soybean. To investigate functional divergence, transcripts from seven different tissue samples of pooled soybean messenger RNA were sequenced using the Solexa next-generation sequencer and analyzed for gene expression. We tested differential expression of duplicated genes within …