Biology – Quantitative Biology – Genomics
Scientific paper
2005-07-13
Bioinformatics 2003, 19(15):1889-1900
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Genomics
25 pages, 9 figures, 4 Tables
Scientific paper
We show that simple stochastic models of genome evolution lead to power law asymptotics of protein domain family size distribution. These models, called Birth, Death and Innovation Models (BDIM), represent a special class of balanced birth-and-death processes, in which domain duplication and deletion rates are asymptotically equal up to the second order. The simplest, linear BDIM shows an excellent fit to the observed distributions of domain family size in diverse prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes. However, the stochastic version of the linear BDIM explored here predicts that the actual size of large paralogous families is reached on an unrealistically long timescale. We show that introduction of non-linearity, which might be interpreted as interaction of a particular order between individual family members, allows the model to achieve genome evolution rates that are much better compatible with the current estimates of the rates of individual duplication/loss events.
Karev Georgy P.
Koonin Eugene V.
Wolf Yuri I.
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