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A Synergistic, Cultivator Model of De Novo Gene Origination #MMPMID38748819
Lee U; Mozeika SM; Zhao L
Genome Biol Evol 2024[Jun]; 16 (6): ä PMID38748819show ga
The origin and fixation of evolutionarily young genes is a fundamental question in evolutionary biology. However, understanding the origins of newly evolved genes arising de novo from noncoding genomic sequences is challenging. This is partly due to the low likelihood that several neutral or nearly neutral mutations fix prior to the appearance of an important novel molecular function. This issue is particularly exacerbated in large effective population sizes where the effect of drift is small. To address this problem, we propose a regulation-focused, cultivator model for de novo gene evolution. This cultivator-focused model posits that each step in a novel variant's evolutionary trajectory is driven by well-defined, selectively advantageous functions for the cultivator genes, rather than solely by the de novo genes, emphasizing the critical role of genome organization in the evolution of new genes.