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Nucleic Acids Research, 1984, Vol. 12, No. 22 8595-8609
© 1984

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Evolution of vitellogeain genes: comparative analysis of the nucleotide sequences downstream of the transcription initiation site of four Xenopus laevis and one chicken gene

Jacques-Edouard Germond, Philippe Walker, Béatrice ten Heggeler, Marianne Brown-Luedi, Eric de Bony and Walter Wahli

Institut de Biologie animale, Université de Lausanne Båtiment de Biologic, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

Received September 6, 1984. Revised October 24, 1984. Accepted October 24, 1984.

Electron microscopic analysis of heteroduplexes between the most distantly related Xenopus vitellogenin genes (A genes x B genes) has revealed the distribution of homologous regions that have been preferentially conserved after the duplication events that gave rise to the multigene family in Xenopus laevis. DNA sequence analysis was limited to the region downstream of the transcription initiation site of the Xenopus genes A1, B1 and B2 and a comparison with the Xenopus A2 and the major chicken vitellogenin gene is presented. Within the coding regions of the first three exons, nucleotide substitutions resulting in amino acid changes accumulate at a rate similar to that observed in globin genes. This suggests that the duplication event which led to the formation of the A and B ancestral genes in Xenopus laevis occurred about 150 million years ago. Homologous exons of the A1-A2 and B1-B2 gene pairs, which formed about 30 million years ago, show a quite similar sequence divergence. In contrast, A1-A2 homologous introns seem to have evolved much faster than their B1-B2 counterparts.


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