Slip into something more functional: Selection maintains ancient frameshifts in homopolymeric sequences

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 833-839

  Wernegreen, Jennifer J ^a   Kauppinen, Seth N ^a,b   Degnan, Patrick H ^a,c  

^a MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Endosymbiont; Homopolymer; Indel; Selection; Transcriptional slippage

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; POLYADENYLIC ACID; POLYTHYMIDYLIC ACID;

ANT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BLOCHMANNIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSYMBIONT; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INDEL MUTATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENETICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS BLOCHMANNIA; FORMICIDAE;

BASE SEQUENCE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; INDEL MUTATION; POLY A; POLY T; SELECTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77952312601     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msp290     Document Type: Article

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