Evolution of the actin gene family in testate lobose amoebae (Arcellinida) is characterized by two distinct clades of paralogs and recent independent expansions

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 223-236

  Lahr, Daniel J G ^a   Nguyen, Truc B ^b   Barbero, Erika ^b   Katz, Laura A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

actin gene family; Amoebozoa; Arcella; codon usage; gene duplication; purifying selection

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMOEBOZOA; ARCELLA HEMISPHAERICA; ARCELLA VULGARIS; ARTICLE; CLONAL SPECIES; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; GENE DOSAGE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENEALOGY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARALOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ACTINS; AMOEBA; ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RIBOSOME SUBUNITS, SMALL;

AMOEBA (GENUS); AMOEBOZOA; ARCELLA; ARCELLA HEMISPHAERICA; ARCELLA VULGARIS; ARCELLINIDA; DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; EUKARYOTA; LOBOSEA;

EID: 78650467109     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq200     Document Type: Article

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