Choi, Jaeyoung Lee, Jong-Joon Jeon, Junhyun 2024-01-19T21:30:26Z 2024-01-19T21:30:26Z 2021-09-03 2018-12 1229-8093 https://pubs.kist.re.kr/handle/201004/120656 The rice blast fungus, Magnaporthe oryzae, is an important pathogen of rice plants. It is well known that genes encoded in the genome have different evolutionary histories that are related to their functions. Phylostratigraphy is a method that correlates the evolutionary origin of genes with evolutionary transitions. Here we applied phylostratigraphy to partition total gene content of M. oryzae into distinct classes (phylostrata), which we designated PS1 to PS7, based on estimation of their emergence time. Genes in individual phylostrata did not show significant biases in their global distribution among seven chromosomes, but at the local level, clustering of genes belonging to the same phylostratum was observed. Our phylostrata-wide analysis of genes revealed that genes in the same phylostratum tend to be similar in many physical and functional characteristics such as gene length and structure, GC contents, codon adaptation index, and level of transcription, which correlates with biological functions in evolutionary context. We also found that a significant proportion of genes in the genome are orphans, for which no orthologs can be detected in the database. Among them, we narrowed down to seven orphan genes having transcriptional and translational evidences, and showed that one of them is implicated in asexual reproduction and virulence, suggesting ongoing evolution in this fungus through lineage-specific genes. Our results provide genomic basis for linking functions of pathogenicity factors and gene emergence time. English TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD ORPHAN GENES PHI-BASE DYNAMICS PROTEOME BIOLOGY Genomic Insights into the Rice Blast Fungus through Estimation of Gene Emergence Time in Phylogenetic Context Article 10.1080/12298093.2018.1542970 1 MYCOBIOLOGY, v.46, no.4, pp.361 - 369 MYCOBIOLOGY 46 4 361 369 scie scopus kci ART002424678 000454715600008 2-s2.0-85062297196 Agronomy Mycology Agriculture Mycology Article ORPHAN GENES PHI-BASE DYNAMICS PROTEOME BIOLOGY rice blast fungus gene emergence time phylostratigraphy evolution orphan genes