Molecular Biology and Evolution, Vol 13, 483-493, Copyright © 1996 by Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
N Iwabe, K Kuma and T Miyata
To determine a possible relationship between organismal and molecular
evolution, the divergence patterns of gene families were examined by taking
special notice of functional difference, tissue distribution, and
intracellular localization of the members. A phylogenetic analysis of 25
different gene families revealed interesting patterns of divergence of
these families: Most gene duplications giving rise to different functions
antedate the vertebrates-arthropods separation. On the other hand, in a
group of members carrying virtually identical function to one another but
differing in tissue distribution (tissue- specific isoform), most gene
duplications have occurred independently in each of vertebrates and
arthropods after the separation of the two animal groups. In family members
encoding molecules localizing in cell compartments (compartmentalized
isoforms), the gene duplications antedate the animals-fungi separation. In
the cases of the Ca2+ pump and rab subfamilies, the compartmentalized
isoforms were shown to have diverged during the early evolution of
eukaryotes. A phylogenetic analysis of the tissue-specific isoforms from 26
different subfamilies revealed extensive gene duplications and rapid rates
of amino acid substitutions in the early evolution of chordates before the
separation of fishes and tetrapods. On the contrary, the genetic variations
are relatively low in the later period. This pattern of evolution observed
at the molecular level is correlated well with that of tissue evolution
based on fossil evidence and morphological data, and thus evolution at the
two levels may be related.
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Evolution of gene families and relationship with organismal evolution: rapid divergence of tissue-specific genes in the early evolution of chordates
Department of Biophysics, Kyoto University, Japan.
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