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Positive selection and ancient duplications in the evolution of class B floral homeotic genes of orchids and grasses

BACKGROUND: Positive selection is recognized as the prevalence of nonsynonymous over synonymous substitutions in a gene. Models of the functional evolution of duplicated genes consider neofunctionalization as key to the retention of paralogues. For instance, duplicate transcription factors are speci...

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Autores principales: Mondragón-Palomino, Mariana, Hiese, Luisa, Härter, Andrea, Koch, Marcus A, Theißen, Günter
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2680841/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19383167
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-9-81