2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Evolutionary mechanisms of regulation of gene expression
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23570274
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Evolutionary biology
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| Research Institution | Fukuoka Women's University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 遺伝子進化 |
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| Research Abstract |
As amylase gene expression system of Drosophila melanogaster is a model system, I identified 353 candidate genes, which includes genes relating to starch and sugar metabolism, for differential gene expression using RNAseq. Some of the 353 genes were duplicated genes in genome. Interestingly, amino acid sequences of the duplicated copies were predicted to be similar, but the degree of differential gene expression was highly different between the copies.
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