Evolution. Response to Comment on "A promiscuous intermediate underlies the evolution of LEAFY DNA binding specificity"

Samuel F Brockington; Edwige Moyroud; Camille Sayou; Marie Monniaux; Max H Nanao; Emmanuel Thévenon; Hicham Chahtane; Norman Warthmann; Michael Melkonian; Yong Zhang; Gane Ka-Shu Wong; Detlef Weigel; Renaud Dumas; François Parcy

doi:10.1126/science.1256011

Evolution. Response to Comment on "A promiscuous intermediate underlies the evolution of LEAFY DNA binding specificity"

Science. 2015 Feb 6;347(6222):621. doi: 10.1126/science.1256011.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, UK.
² Wellcome Trust Center for Cell Biology, Michael Swann Building 5.1, King's Buildings. Edinburgh, EH9 3JR, UK.
³ Department of Comparative Development and Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Carl-von-Linne Weg 10, 50829, Köln, Germany.
⁴ European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), 6 Rue Jules Horowitz, BP 181, 38042 Grenoble, France. Unit of Virus Host-Cell Interactions, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), EMBL, UMI 3265, 6 Rue Jules Horowitz, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France. [email protected] [email protected].
⁵ CNRS, Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire et Végétale (LPCV), UMR 5168, 38054 Grenoble, France. UGA, LPCV, F-38054 Grenoble, France. Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Recherches en Technologies et Sciences pour le Vivant, LPCV, F-38054 Grenoble, France. Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, LPCV, F-38054 Grenoble, France.
⁶ Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Acton, ACT 0200, Australia.
⁷ Botanisches Institut, Lehrstuhl I, Universität zu Köln, Biozentrum Köln, Zülpicher Strasse 47b, 50674 Köln, Germany.
⁸ Beijing Genomics Institute, Shenzhen, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, Shenzhen 518083, China.
⁹ Beijing Genomics Institute, Shenzhen, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, Shenzhen 518083, China Department of Biological Sciences, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, T6G 2E9, Canada.
¹⁰ Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.
¹¹ CNRS, Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire et Végétale (LPCV), UMR 5168, 38054 Grenoble, France. UGA, LPCV, F-38054 Grenoble, France. Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Recherches en Technologies et Sciences pour le Vivant, LPCV, F-38054 Grenoble, France. Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, LPCV, F-38054 Grenoble, France. [email protected] [email protected].

PMID: 25657241
DOI: 10.1126/science.1256011

Abstract

Brunkard et al. propose that the identification of novel LEAFY sequences contradicts our model of evolution through promiscuous intermediates. Based on the debate surrounding land plant phylogeny and on our analysis of these interesting novel sequences, we explain why there is no solid evidence to disprove our model.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Comment

MeSH terms

DNA, Plant / chemistry*
DNA-Binding Proteins / chemistry*
DNA-Binding Proteins / genetics*
Evolution, Molecular*
Plant Proteins / chemistry*
Plant Proteins / genetics*

Substances

DNA, Plant
DNA-Binding Proteins
Plant Proteins