Purifying selection is a prevailing motif in the evolution of ketoacyl synthase domains of polyketide synthases from lichenized fungi

Mycological Research

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 277-288

  Muggia, Lucia ^a   Schmitt, Imke ^b   Grube, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Lichens; Omega ratio; Paralogues; Polyketides; Synonymous substitutions

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE;

DETECTION METHOD; ENZYME; EVOLUTION; FUNGUS; LICHEN; PHYLOGENY; SECONDARY METABOLITE; SELECTION; TAXONOMY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; LICHENS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASCOMYCOTA; DNA, FUNGAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; LICHENS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ASCOMYCOTA; FUNGI;

EID: 39749147633     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: 14698102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mycres.2007.08.020     Document Type: Article

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