The Evolutionary-developmental Analysis of Plant MicroRNAs

Overview

Journal Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci

Specialty Biology

Date 2010 Jan 6

PMID 20047873

Citations 8

Authors

Sophie Jasinski

Aurelie C M Vialette-Guiraud

Charles P Scutt

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Abstract

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) control many important aspects of plant development, suggesting these molecules may also have played key roles in the evolution of developmental processes in plants. However, evolutionary-developmental (evo-devo) studies of miRNAs have been held back by technical difficulties in gene identification. To help solve this problem, we have developed a two-step procedure for the efficient identification of miRNA genes in any plant species. As a test case, we have studied the evolution of the MIR164 family in the angiosperms. We have identified novel MIR164 genes in three species occupying key phylogenetic positions and used these, together with published sequence data, to partially reconstruct the evolution of the MIR164 family since the last common ancestor of the extant flowering plants. We use our evolutionary reconstruction to discuss potential roles for MIR164 genes in the evolution of leaf shape and carpel closure in the angiosperms. The techniques we describe may be applied to any miRNA family and should thus enable plant evo-devo to begin to investigate the contributions miRNAs have made to the evolution of plant development.

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