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Patterns of expansion and expression divergence in the plant polygalacturonase gene family

Joonyup Kim1, Shin-Han Shiu2, Sharon Thoma3, Wen-Hsiung Li4 and Sara E Patterson1*

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Horticulture, Cellular and Molecular Biology Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA

2 Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA

3 Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA

4 Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA

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Genome Biology 2006, 7:R87 doi:10.1186/gb-2006-7-9-r87

Published: 29 September 2006

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Additional data file 1:

Table containing PGs (except Arabidopsis proteins) sorted according to their taxa.

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Additional data file 2:

Table of assignment of PGs to duplicated blocks in Arabidopsis.

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Additional data file 3:

Figure showing a phylogeny generated with all the PGs from fungi, bacteria, metazoa, and plants.

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Figure with the matching areas for duplicated blocks containing PGs in both regions.

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Additional data file 5:

Primer pairs and conditions used to amplify PG genes.

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Additional data file 6:

Table showing summary of expression tags and list of cDNAs for Arabidopsis PGs.

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A list of PGs that are expressed in the floral organ abscission zones of Arabidopsis with their patterns of expression.

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Additional data file 8:

GH28 domain sequence alignments of rice and Arabidopsis PGs analyzed.

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