Differential selection within the Drosophila retinal determination network and evidence for functional divergence between paralog pairs

Evolution and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 58-71

  Datta, Rhea R ^a   Cruickshank, Tami ^a   Kumar, Justin P ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN;

DIVERGENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLY; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PROTEIN; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPOUND EYE; DROSOPHILA; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; COMPOUND EYE, ARTHROPOD; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENES, INSECT; GENETIC VARIATION; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 78650930588     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2010.00456.x     Document Type: Article

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