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100 million years of multigene family evolution: origin and evolution of the avian MHC class IIB
BMC Genomics, 2017 Background Gene duplication has led to a most remarkable adaptation involved in vertebrates’ host-pathogen arms-race, the major histocompatibility complex (MHC).
Julien Goebel +8 more
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The evolution of hexapod engrailed-family genes: evidence for conservation and concerted evolution [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2006 Phylogenetic analyses imply that multiple engrailed-family gene duplications occurred during hexapod evolution, a view supported by previous reports of only a single engrailed-family gene in members of the grasshopper genusSchistocercaand in the beetleTribolium castaneum.
Andrew D, Peel +2 more
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The draft genome of Actinia tenebrosa reveals insights into toxin evolution
Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Sea anemones have a wide array of toxic compounds (peptide toxins found in their venom) which have potential uses as therapeutics. To date, the majority of studies characterizing toxins in sea anemones have been restricted to species from the superfamily,
Joachim M. Surm +4 more
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rRNA Pseudogenes in Filamentous Ascomycetes as Revealed by Genome Data
G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 2017 The nuclear ribosomal DNA (rDNA) is considered as a paradigm of concerted evolution. Components of the rDNA tandem repeats (45S) are widely used in phylogenetic studies of different organisms and the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region was recently ...
Yi Li +5 more
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BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2011 Background Previously, we described the heat shock response in dipteran species belonging to the family Stratiomyidae that develop in thermally and chemically contrasting habitats including highly aggressive ones.
Bettencourt Brian R +5 more
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Copy Correction and Concerted Evolution in the Conservation of Yeast Genes [PDF]
Genetics, 2005 Abstract The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and other members of the genus Saccharomyces are descendants of an ancient whole-genome duplication event. Although most of the duplicate genes have since been deleted, many remain, and so there are many pairs of related genes.
Saumyadipta, Pyne +2 more
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The evolutionary rate of duplicated genes under concerted evolution. [PDF]
Genetics, 2008 Abstract The effect of directional selection on the fixation process of a single mutation that spreads in a multigene family by gene conversion is investigated. A simple two-locus model with two alleles, A and a, is first considered in a random-mating diploid population with size N.
Mano S, Innan H.
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Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2011 Culex is the largest genus of Culicini and includes vectors of several arboviruses and filarial worms. Many species of Culex are morphologically similar, which makes their identification difficult, particularly when using female specimens.
Fabiana Tavares Vesgueiro +4 more
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BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2009 Background Concerted evolution occurs in multigene families and is characterized by stretches of homogeneity and higher sequence similarity between paralogues than between orthologues.
Scherer Stephen W, Carson Andrew R
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Cells, 2021 B or supernumerary chromosomes are dispensable elements that are widely present in numerous eukaryotes. Due to their non-recombining nature, there is an evident tendency for repetitive DNA accumulation in these elements.
José Henrique Forte Stornioli +9 more
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