Number of distinct genome duplication events early in vertebrate evolution

Value 2 genome duplication events
Organism Vertebrates
Reference Dehal P, Boore JL. Two rounds of whole genome duplication in the ancestral vertebrate. PLoS Biol. 2005 Oct3(10):e314 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030314 abstractPubMed ID16128622
Method Abstract: "[Investigators] reconstructed the evolutionary relationships of all gene families from the complete gene sets of a tunicate, fish, mouse, and human, and then determined when each gene duplicated relative to the evolutionary tree of the organisms."
Comments Abstract: "However, when [investigators] plotted the genomic map positions of only the subset of paralogous genes that were duplicated prior to the fish-tetrapod split, their global physical organization provides unmistakable evidence of two distinct genome duplication events early in vertebrate evolution indicated by clear patterns of four-way paralogous regions covering a large part of the human genome."
Entered by Uri M
ID 116989