Molecular Biology and Evolution, Vol 11, 1-8, Copyright © 1994 by Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
MP Cummings, LM King and EA Kellogg
An exception to the generally conservative nature of plastid gene evolution
is the gene coding for the beta" subunit of RNA polymerase, rpoC2. Previous
work by others has shown that maize and rice have an insertion in the
coding region of rpoC2, relative to spinach and tobacco. To assess the
distribution of this extra coding sequence, we surveyed a broad
phylogenetic sample comprising 55 species from 17 angiosperm families by
using Southern hybridization. The extra coding sequence is restricted to
the grasses (Poaceae). DNA sequence analysis of 11 species from all five
subfamilies within the grass family demonstrates that the extra sequence in
the coding region of rpoC2 is a repetitive array that exhibits more than a
twofold increase in nucleotide substitution, as well as a large number of
insertion/deletion events, relative to the adjacent flanking sequences. The
structure of the array suggests that slipped-strand mispairing causes the
repeated motifs and adds to the mechanisms through which the coding
sequence of plastid genes are known to evolve. Phylogenetic analyses based
on the sequence data from grass species support several relationships
previously suggested by morphological work, but they are ambiguous about
broad relationships within the family.
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Slipped-strand mispairing in a plastid gene: rpoC2 in grasses (Poaceae)
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.
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