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. 2006 May 1;580(10):2442-50.
doi: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.03.072. Epub 2006 Apr 7.

The evolution and diversification of Dicers in plants

Rogerio Margis  1 , Adriana F Fusaro, Neil A Smith, Shaun J Curtin, John M Watson, E Jean Finnegan, Peter M Waterhouse
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The evolution and diversification of Dicers in plants

Rogerio Margis et al. FEBS Lett. .
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Abstract

Most multicellular organisms regulate developmental transitions by microRNAs, which are generated by an enzyme, Dicer. Insects and fungi have two Dicer-like genes, and many animals have only one, yet the plant, Arabidopsis, has four. Examining the poplar and rice genomes revealed that they contain five and six Dicer-like genes, respectively. Analysis of these genes suggests that plants require a basic set of four Dicer types which were present before the divergence of mono- and dicotyledonous plants ( approximately 200 million years ago), but after the divergence of plants from green algae. A fifth type of Dicer seems to have evolved in monocots.

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