Evolutionary history of the ancient cutinase family in five filamentous Ascomycetes reveals differential gene duplications and losses and in Magnaporthe grisea shows evidence of sub- and neo-functionalization

New Phytologist

Volumn 180, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 711-721

  Skamnioti, Pari ^a   Furlong, Rebecca F ^a   Gurr, Sarah J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ascomycetes; Duplication; Evolution; Expression analysis; Gene family; Magnaporthe; Neofunctionalization; Subfunctionalization

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLESTERASE; CUTINASE;

ANCESTRY; CUTICLE; ENZYME; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; PROKARYOTE; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CLASSIFICATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; EXON; FUNGAL GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; INTRON; MAGNAPORTHE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; PLANT DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ASCOMYCOTA; BASE COMPOSITION; CARBOXYLIC ESTER HYDROLASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, FUNGAL; INTRONS; MAGNAPORTHE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT COMPONENTS; PLANT DISEASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

ASCOMYCOTA; BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI; GIBBERELLA ZEAE; MAGNAPORTHE; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 54049100397     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2008.02598.x     Document Type: Article

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