Concerted and birth-and-death evolution of multigene families

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 39, Issue , 2005, Pages 121-152

  Nei, Masatoshi ^a   Rooney, Alejandro P ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL UTILIZATION RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth and death evolution; Concerted evolution; Gene conversion; MHC genes; Origins of new genetic systems; Ribosomal RNA

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; RIBOSOME RNA; UBIQUITIN;

BIRTH; DEATH; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 27944477670     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.39.073003.112240     Document Type: Review

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