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Selective maintenance of Drosophila tandemly arranged duplicated genes during evolution

Carlos Quijano1,2, Pavel Tomancak3, Jesus Lopez-Marti2, Mikita Suyama4,8, Peer Bork4, Marco Milan5, David Torrents4,6* and Miguel Manzanares1,7*

Author Affiliations

1 Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas CSIC-UAM, Arturo Duperier 4, 28029 Madrid, Spain

2 Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Jordi Girona 31, 08034 Barcelona, Spain

3 Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Pfotenhauerstrasse 108, D-01307 Dresden, Germany

4 European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany

5 ICREA and Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB), Parc Científic de Barcelona, Josep Samitier 1-5, 08028 Barcelona, Spain

6 ICREA and Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Jordi Girona 31, 08034 Barcelona, Spain

7 Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Melchor Fernandez Almagro 3, 28029 Madrid, Spain

8 Current address: Center for Genomic Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto 606-8501 Japan

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Genome Biology 2008, 9:R176 doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-12-r176

Published: 16 December 2008

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Additional data file 1:

Distribution of paralogous gene group size and distance.

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Additional data file 2:

Statistical test used to define tandemly and dispersed duplicated genes.

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Over- and underrepresented GO categories in TDGs subdivided by dS ranges, compared to dispersed duplicates.

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Over- and underrepresented GO categories in TDGs compared to dispersed duplicates.

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Over- and underrepresented GO categories in conserved TDGs compared to dispersed duplicates.

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Additional data file 6:

Number of D. melanogaster genes included in each category of selected GO terms and gene sets.

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Evolutionarily conserved TDGs are enriched in 'complex' genes.

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Groups of TDGs conserved between D. melanogaster and A. gambiae used in the embryonic co-expression analysis.

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Additional data file 9:

Groups of genes in conserved linkage between D. melanogaster and A. gambiae that are not tandem duplicates used in the embryonic co-expression analysis.

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Additional data file 10:

Stringency in the definition of conserved TDGs as used in this study.

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Additional data file 11:

Conserved TDGs that are co-expressed in the Drosophila embryo that have been previously described in the literature.

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Additional data file 12:

D. melanogaster gene sets used in this study.

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