Evidence for Positive Darwinian Selection of Vip Gene in Bacillus thuringiensis

Journal of Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 649-660

  Wu, Jinyu ^a   Zhao, Fangqing ^b   Bai, Jie ^a   Deng, Gang ^a   Qin, Song ^b   Bao, Qiyu ^a  

^a WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Bacillus thuringiensis; maximum likelihood; positive selection; sliding window; Vip proteins

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIP PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BAYES THEOREM; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; GENETIC SELECTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; VIP GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; HEXAPODA;

EID: 34447512913     PISSN: 16738527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1673-8527(07)60074-5     Document Type: Article

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