Evolutionary maintenance of selfish homing endonuclease genes in the absence of horizontal transfer

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 44, 2009, Pages 18861-18866

  Yahara, Koji ^a,b   Fukuyo, Masaki ^c   Sasaki, Akira ^d,e,f   Kobayashi, Ichizo ^c  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^e JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^f INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Haploid diploid cycle; Horizontal gene transfer; Meiosis; Selfish gene; VDE

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICS; ZYGOTE;

ALLELES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENDONUCLEASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MODELS, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 73249132200     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0908404106     Document Type: Article

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