Episodic evolution and rapid divergence of members of the rat multigene family encoding the salivary prohormone-like protein SMR1

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 758-766

  Courty, Yves ^a   Singer, Monique ^a   Rosinski Chupin, Isabelle ^a   Rougeon, François ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

accelerated evolution; DNA evolution; gene duplication; positive Darwinian selection; rat salivary proteins; submandibular glands

Indexed keywords

HORMONE PRECURSOR; SALIVA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MALE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; RAT; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND;

DARWINIA; PRIMATES; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RATTUS RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0029973857     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025636     Document Type: Article

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