Transitions to asexuality result in excess amino acid substitutions

Science

Volumn 311, Issue 5763, 2006, Pages 990-992

  Paland, Susanne ^a   Lynch, Michael ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEINS; PURIFICATION; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS;

ASEXUAL LINEAGES; HERITABLE GENETIC MATERIAL; MICROCRUSTACEAN DAPHNIA PULEX; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACIDS;

BIOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; DAPHNIA; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SELECTION; HYPOTHESIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; DAPHNIA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MUTATION; PARTHENOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEX;

DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA PULEX;

EID: 33144483078     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1118152     Document Type: Article

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29. We thank J. K. Colbourne for helpful discussions. This research was supported by a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Hochschulsonderprogramm III doctoral fellowship to S.P. and by NSF grants DEB-0196450 and EF-0328516 and NIH grant GM36827 to M.L. Computer support was provided by the Indiana University Information Technology services, which are funded in part by the Indiana Genomics Initiative under the Lilly Endowment.