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Adaptive Threonine Increase in Transmembrane Regions of Mitochondrial Proteins in Higher Primates

BACKGROUND: The mitochondrial (mt) gene tree of placental mammals reveals a very strong acceleration of the amino acid (AA) replacement rate and a change in AA compositional bias in the lineage leading to the higher primates (simians), in contrast to the nuclear gene tree. Whether this acceleration...

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Autores principales: Kitazoe, Yasuhiro, Kishino, Hirohisa, Hasegawa, Masami, Nakajima, Noriaki, Thorne, Jeffrey L., Tanaka, Masashi
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2553178/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18836526
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003343