Distinct genomic architectures but the same gene underlie the convergent evolution of a plant supergene
Giacomo Potente, Narjes Yousefi, Rimjhim Roy Choudhury, Stefan Grob, Irina A. Gavrilina, Barbara Keller, Emiliano Mora-Carrera, Péter Szövényi, Rebecca L. Stubbs, Hanna Weiss-Schneeweiss, Eva M. Temsch, Gerald M. Schneeweiss, Matthias H. Hoffmann, Giulio Formenti, Ann M. McCartney, Alice Mouton, Henrique G. Leitão, Genevieve Diedericks, Hannes Svardal, Maria Angela Diroma, Chiara Natali, Claudio Ciofi, Étienne Léveillé-Bourret, Elena Conti · 2026
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Giacomo Potente and a large team compare flower supergenes across the primrose family in this 2026 study. Some primroses grow two flower forms with swapped male and female heights, a system Charles Darwin made famous, controlled by a locked cluster of genes.
Studying ten full genomes, seven of them newly built, the team found the cluster arose separately several times within the family. Each time, the same gene had been copied and put to the job, yet the surrounding layouts differed widely. That variety challenges the view that such clusters must sit on only one chromosome copy. Similar flowers, it turns out, can be built by unlike genomic routes.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Giacomo Potente, Narjes Yousefi, Rimjhim Roy Choudhury, Stefan Grob, Irina A. Gavrilina, Barbara Keller, Emiliano Mora-Carrera, Péter Szövényi, Rebecca L. Stubbs, Hanna Weiss-Schneeweiss, Eva M. Temsch, Gerald M. Schneeweiss, Matthias H. Hoffmann, Giulio Formenti, Ann M. McCartney, Alice Mouton, Henrique G. Leitão, Genevieve Diedericks, Hannes Svardal, Maria Angela Diroma, Chiara Natali, Claudio Ciofi, Étienne Léveillé-Bourret, Elena Conti |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 84398 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |