Background: The merging of two divergent genomes during hybridization can result in the remodeling of parental gene expression in hybrids. A molecular basis underling expression change in hybrid is regulatory divergence, which may change with the parental genetic divergence. However, there still no unanimous conclusion for this hypothesis.
Results : Three species of Camellia with a range of genetic divergence and their F 1 hybrids were used to study the effect of parental genetic divergence on gene expression and regulatory patterns in hybrids by RNA-sequencing and allele-specific gene expression analysis. We found that though the proportion of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between the hybrids and their parents did not increase, a greater proportion of DEGs would be non-additively (especially transgressively) expressed in the hybrids as genomes between the parents become more divergent . In addition, the proportion of genes with significant evidence of cis -regulatory divergence increased , whereas with trans -regulatory divergence decreased with parental genetic divergence.
Conclusions : The discordance within hybrid would intensify as the parents become more divergent, manifesting as more DEGs would be non-additively expressed. Trans -regulatory divergence contributed more to the additively inherited genes than cis , however, its contribution to expression difference would be weakened as cis mutations accumulated over time; and this might be an important reason for that the more divergent the parents are, the greater proportion of DEGs would be non-additively expressed in hybrid.

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On 17 Oct, 2019
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On 16 Oct, 2019
Posted 17 Sep, 2019
On 04 Oct, 2019
Received 04 Oct, 2019
Received 04 Oct, 2019
Received 29 Sep, 2019
On 19 Sep, 2019
On 18 Sep, 2019
On 16 Sep, 2019
Invitations sent on 13 Sep, 2019
On 12 Sep, 2019
On 09 Sep, 2019
On 08 Sep, 2019
On 06 Sep, 2019
Background: The merging of two divergent genomes during hybridization can result in the remodeling of parental gene expression in hybrids. A molecular basis underling expression change in hybrid is regulatory divergence, which may change with the parental genetic divergence. However, there still no unanimous conclusion for this hypothesis.
Results : Three species of Camellia with a range of genetic divergence and their F 1 hybrids were used to study the effect of parental genetic divergence on gene expression and regulatory patterns in hybrids by RNA-sequencing and allele-specific gene expression analysis. We found that though the proportion of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between the hybrids and their parents did not increase, a greater proportion of DEGs would be non-additively (especially transgressively) expressed in the hybrids as genomes between the parents become more divergent . In addition, the proportion of genes with significant evidence of cis -regulatory divergence increased , whereas with trans -regulatory divergence decreased with parental genetic divergence.
Conclusions : The discordance within hybrid would intensify as the parents become more divergent, manifesting as more DEGs would be non-additively expressed. Trans -regulatory divergence contributed more to the additively inherited genes than cis , however, its contribution to expression difference would be weakened as cis mutations accumulated over time; and this might be an important reason for that the more divergent the parents are, the greater proportion of DEGs would be non-additively expressed in hybrid.

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