How is novel gene is named?

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    • November 28, 2012 at 7:23 am #17092
      saraelesawe
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      I need someone help me to answer of this question, How is gene named?
      For example: OsNAC5, OsNAC6, OsNAC7 are genes, the letters of (o) and (s) are the first letters of Oriza sativa, NAC is abbreviation of NAC protein, but what are the numbers of (5) or (6) or (7) mean?

    • November 28, 2012 at 9:38 pm #113110
      JackBean
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      the numbers mean orthologs, i.e. there are at least 7 NAC proteins in rice genome and they were numbered as they were discovered.
      (or they could be number in accordance to paralogs in other plant, e.g. Arabidopsis)

    • December 1, 2012 at 5:00 am #113148
      saraelesawe
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      Thank you very much for helping

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