Extensive gene conversion drives the concerted evolution of paralogous copies of the SRY gene in European rabbits

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2437-2440

  Geraldes, Armando ^a,b,c   Rambo, Teri ^c   Wing, Rod A ^c   Ferrand, Nuno ^a,b   Nachman, Michael W ^c  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

gene conversion; Oryctolagus cuniculus; SRY; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

PALINDROMIC DNA;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; GENE CONVERSION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PARALOGY; RABBIT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SRY GENE; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EUROPE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, SRY; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; NUCLEOTIDES; RABBITS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

MAMMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 77958130032     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq139     Document Type: Article

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