Simulating Evolution by Gene Duplication (original) (raw)
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National Institute of Genetics
, Mishima, 411 Japan
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Accepted:
11 October 1986
Published:
01 January 1987
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ABSTRACT
By considering the recent finding that unequal crossing over and other molecular interactions are contributing to the evolution of multigene families, a model of the origin of repetitive genes was studied by Monte Carlo simulations. Starting from a single gene copy, how genetic systems evolve was examined under unequal crossing over, random drift and natural selection. Both beneficial and deteriorating mutations were incorporated, and the latter were assumed to occur ten times more frequently than the former. Positive natural selection favors those chromosomes with more beneficial mutations in redundant copies than others in the population, but accumulation of deteriorating mutations (pseudogenes) have no effect on fitness so long as there remains a functional gene. The results imply the following: (1) Positive natural selection is needed in order to acquire gene families with new functions. Without it, too many pseudogenes accumulate before attaining a functional gene family. (2) There is a large fluctuation in the outcome even if parameters are the same. (3) When unequal crossing over occurs more frequently, the system evolves more rapidly. It was also shown, under realistic values of parameters, that the genetic load for acquiring a new gene is not as large as J. B. S. Haldane suggested, but not so small as in a model in which a system for selection started from already redundant genes.
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