Birth-and-death evolution with strong purifying selection in the histone H1 multigene family and the origin of orphon H2 genes

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1992-2003

  Eirín López, José M ^a   González Tizón, Ana M ^a   Martínez, Andrés ^a   Méndez, Josefina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Birth and death evolution; Concerted evolution; Histone H1; orphon genes; Purifying selection

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; HISTONE H1; NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONVERSION; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HUMAN; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POINT MUTATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DATABASES, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGI; GENE CONVERSION; HISTONES; HUMANS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; POINT MUTATION; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 4944233486     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh213     Document Type: Article

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