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Widespread positive selection in the photosynthetic Rubisco enzyme

BACKGROUND: Rubisco enzyme catalyzes the first step in net photosynthetic CO(2 )assimilation and photorespiratory carbon oxidation and is responsible for almost all carbon fixation on Earth. The large subunit of Rubisco is encoded by the chloroplast rbcL gene, which is widely used for reconstruction...

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Autores principales: Kapralov, Maxim V, Filatov, Dmitry A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1884142/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17498284
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-7-73

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